¹Job nastavi svoju besjedu i reče:

¹And Job continued his parable and said,

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

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

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

³When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness;

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

⁴As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,

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

⁵When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;

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

⁶When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...

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

⁷When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

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

⁸The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;

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

⁹Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

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

¹⁰The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.

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

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

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

¹²For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

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

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

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

¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

¹⁵Bjeh oči slijepcu i bjeh noge bogalju,

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

¹⁶otac ubogima, zastupnik strancima.

¹⁶I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

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

¹⁷And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

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

¹⁸And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

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

¹⁹My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

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

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

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

²¹Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:

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

²²After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;

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

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

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

²⁴[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.

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

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