¹Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

¹In Job je nadaljeval govor svoj in rekel:

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

²O da bi bil še kakor v nekdanjih mesecih, kakor v dneh, ko me je Bog varoval,

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

³ko mi je svetilnica njegova sijala nad glavo in ko sem pri njegovi luči hodil po temi;

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

⁴kakor sem bil v dneh zrelosti svoje, ko je bilo prijateljstvo Božje nad šatorom mojim,

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

⁵ko je bil še Vsemogočni z menoj, otroci moji okoli mene;

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

⁶ko sem si umival noge v smetani in je skala poleg mene izlivala potoke olja!

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

⁷Ko sem šel skozi vrata v mesto, stol svoj si postavil na ulici,

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

⁸mladeniči so me videli in se skrili, in starci so se vzdignili in stali,

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

⁹knezi so zadrževali besede, položivši roko na usta svoja,

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

¹⁰plemenitnikov glas je onemel in jezik se jim je k nebesu prilepil.

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

¹¹Ker ko je uho slišalo o meni, je blagrovalo mene, in ko me je oko videlo, je pričalo zame.

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

¹²Zakaj otel sem ubožca, ki je vpil za pomoč, in siroto, ki ji ni bilo pomočnika.

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

¹³Blagoslov tistega, ki bi bil skoro poginil, je prišel nadme, in srce vdove sem spravil v radostno petje.

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

¹⁴Oblačil sem pravičnost – bila mi je v obleko, in gorečnost za pravico mi je bila kakor plašč in venec.

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

¹⁵Slepcu sem bil oko in noga hromcu.

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

¹⁶Oče sem bil potrebnim in pravdo tistega, ki ga nisem poznal, sem preiskoval.

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

¹⁷Strl sem nepravičniku kočnike in zobom njegovim sem iztrgal plen.

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

¹⁸Zato sem dejal: V gnezdu svojem bom umrl in pomnožim kakor pesek dni svoje.

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

¹⁹Korenina moja se bo raztezala kraj vode in rosa bo nočevala na mojem vejevju;

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

²⁰slava moja ostane vedno nova pri meni in lok moj se bo pomlajeval v roki moji.

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

²¹Mene so poslušali in čakali in molče na uho vlekli moj svet.

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

²²Po mojih besedah ni nihče govoril, in govorjenje moje je nanje kapljalo.

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

²³Čakali so me kakor dežja in odpirali usta svoja kakor zemlja, hrepeneč po poznem dežju.

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

²⁴Nasmehljaval sem se jim, kadar so obupavali, in svetlobe obličja mojega niso mogli omračiti.Rad sem krenil na pot k njim in sedel kot glava, in stoloval sem pri njih kakor kralj med vojsko, kot tisti, ki tolaži žalujoče.

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

²⁵Rad sem krenil na pot k njim in sedel kot glava, in stoloval sem pri njih kakor kralj med vojsko, kot tisti, ki tolaži žalujoče.