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Author:Traditional Attribution
Topic:job Chapter 29 Study
This chapter provides a foundational look at the theological themes of job, analyzed across multiple historic translations for maximum scholarly depth.
Job 29
Coverdale Bible
1So Iob proceaded and wete forth in his communicacion, sayenge:
2O yt I were as I was in the monethes by past, & in the dayes whe God preserued me:
3when his light shyned vpon my heade: whe I wente after the same light & shyne eue thorow the darcknesse.
4As it stode wt me, whe I was welthy & had ynough: whe God prospered my house:
5when the allmightie was with me: when my housholde folkes stode aboute me:
6whe my wayes ranne ouer wt butter, & when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers of oyle:
7when I wente thorow the cite vnto the gate, & whe they set me a chayre in ye strete:
8whe the yonge me (as soone as they sawe me) hyd the selues, & when the aged arose, & stode vp vnto me:
9whe the princes left of their talkinge, & laied their hade to their mouth:
10whe the mightie kepte still their voyce, and whe their tonges cleued to the rofe of their mouthes.
11When all they yt herde me, called me happie: & when all they yt sawe me, wysshed me good.
12For I delyuered ye poore whe he cried, & the fatherlesse yt wanted helpe.
13He yt shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, & ye widdowes hert praised me.
14And why? I put vpon me rightuousnes, which couered me as a garmet, & equite was my crowne.
15I was an eye vnto the blynde, & a fote to the lame.
16I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly.
17I brake the chaftes of ye vnrightuous, & plucte the spoyle out of their teth.
18Therfore, I thought verely, yt I shulde haue dyed in my nest: & yt my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see.
19For my rote was spred out by the waters syde, & the dew laye vpo my corne.
20My honor encreased more & more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande.
21Vnto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, & wt sylence they taried for my coucell.
22Yf I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge the.
23They wayted for me, as the earth doth for the rayne: & gaped vpon me, as the groude doth to receaue the latter shower.
24When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest: & this testimony of my coutenaunce pleased the nothinge at all.
25When I agreed vnto their waye, I was the chefe, & sat as a kynge amonge his seruauntes: Or as one that comforteth soch as be in heuynesse.