¹Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

¹Job nastavi svoju besjedu i reče:

²Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

²"O, da mi je prošle proživjet' mjesece, dane one kad je Bog nada mnom bdio,

³When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

³kad mi je nad glavom njegov sjao žižak a kroz mrak me svjetlo njegovo vodilo,

⁴As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

⁴kao u dane mojih zrelih jeseni kad s mojim stanom Bog prijateljevaše,

⁵When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

⁵kada uz mene još bijaše Svesilni i moji me okruživahu dječaci,

⁶When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

⁶kada mi se noge u mlijeku kupahu, a potokom ulja ključaše mi kamen!

⁷When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

⁷Kada sam na vrata gradska izlazio i svoju stolicu postavljao na trg,

⁸The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

⁸vidjevši me, sklanjali bi se mladići, starci bi ustavši stojeći ostali.

⁹The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

⁹Razgovor bi prekidali uglednici i usta bi svoja rukom zatvarali.

¹⁰The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

¹⁰Glavarima glas bi sasvim utihnuo, za nepce bi im se zalijepio jezik.

¹¹When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

¹¹Tko god me slušao, blaženim me zvao, hvalilo me oko kad bi me vidjelo.

¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

¹²Jer, izbavljah bijednog kada je kukao i sirotu ostavljenu bez pomoći.

¹³The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

¹³Na meni bješe blagoslov izgubljenih, srcu udovice ja veselje vraćah.

¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

¹⁴Pravdom se ja kao haljinom odjenuh, nepristranost bje mi plaštem i povezom.

¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

¹⁵Bjeh oči slijepcu i bjeh noge bogalju,

¹⁶I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

¹⁶otac ubogima, zastupnik strancima.

¹⁷And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

¹⁷Kršio sam zube čovjeku opaku, plijen sam čupao iz njegovih čeljusti.

¹⁸Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

¹⁸Govorah: 'U svom ću izdahnuti gnijezdu, k'o palma, bezbrojne proživjevši dane.'

¹⁹My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

¹⁹Korijenje se moje sve do vode pruža, na granama mojim odmara se rosa.

²⁰My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

²⁰Pomlađivat će se svagda slava moja i luk će mi se obnavljati u ruci.'

²¹Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

²¹Slušali su željno što ću im kazati i šutjeli da od mene savjet čuju.

²²After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

²²Na riječi mi ne bi ništa dometali i besjede su mi daždile po njima.

²³And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

²³Za mnom žudjeli su oni k'o za kišom, otvarali usta k'o za pljuskom ljetnim.

²⁴If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

²⁴Osmijeh moj bijaše njima ohrabrenje; pazili su na vedrinu moga lica.

²⁵I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

²⁵Njima ja sam izabirao putove, kao poglavar ja sam ih predvodio, kao kralj među svojim kad je četama kao onaj koji tješi ojađene.