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29:1  Moreover Iyov continued his mashal, and said,
29:2  Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when Eloah was shomer over me;
29:3  When His ner (lamp) shined upon my rosh, and when by His ohr I walked through choshech;
29:4  As I was in the days of my prime, when the Sod Eloah (friendship, counsel of G-d) was over my ohel;
29:5  When Shaddai was yet with me, when my children were around me;
29:6  When I washed my steps with khemah, and the tzur poured me out streams of shemen;
29:7  When I went out to the sha’ar through the city, when I took my moshav in the rekhov!
29:8  The ne’arim saw me, and stepped aside, and the aged arose, and stood up.
29:9  The sarim (nobles) refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
29:10  The nobles held their peace, and their leshon cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
29:11  When the ozen heard me, then it commended me; and when the ayin saw me, it did bear witness of me,
29:12  Because I delivered the oni that cried out, and the yatom that had no ozer (helper) for him.
29:13  The birkat oved (blessing of the oppressed) came upon me, and I caused the lev almanah to sing for joy.
29:14  I put on tzedek, and it clothed me; my mishpat was as a robe and a tzanif (turban).
29:15  I was eyes to the ivver, and feet was I to the pisei’ach.
29:16  I was an av to the evyonim (needy); and the cause which I knew not I investigated.
29:17  And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the prey out of his shinayim.
29:18  Then I said, I shall die in my ken (nest, house), and I shall multiply my yamim like the chol (sand).
29:19  My shoresh was spread out to the mayim, and the tal lay all night upon my branch.
29:20  My kavod was fresh with me, and my keshet was ever new in my yad.
29:21  Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my etzah (counsel).
29:22  Acharei (after) my words they spoke not again; and my speech fell upon them.
29:23  And they waited for me as for the matar; and they opened their mouth wide as for the malkosh (spring, late rain).
29:24  I smiled on them when they did not believe; and the ohr of my countenance they did not cast down.
29:25  I chose out their derech, and sat as Rosh, and dwelt as a melech with his army, as one that comforteth the avelim (mourners).