¹And Job continued his parable and said,

¹A Job pokračoval vo svojej umnej reči a riekol:

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

²Oj, aby som bol ako za predošlých mesiacov, ako za dní, v ktorých ma strážiac chránil Bôh!

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

³Kým svietil svojou sviecou nad mojou hlavou, keď som chodieval v jeho svetle vo tme!

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

⁴Jako som bol za dní svojej jasene, kým bola tajná rada Božia nad mojím stánom;

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

⁵kým ešte bol so mnou Všemohúci, vôkol mňa moji chlapci;

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

⁶kým sa moje kroky kúpaly v masle, a skala vylievala u mňa potoky oleja;

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

⁷keď som vychádzaval do brány, hore do mesta, a na ulici postavovával svoje sedište!

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

⁸Keď ma videli mládenci, skrývali sa a starci povstávali a stáli.

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

⁹Kniežatá zdŕžaly slovami a kládli ruku na svoje ústa;

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

¹⁰hlas vojvodov sa skrýval, a ich jazyk sa lepil na ich ďasno.

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

¹¹Keď počulo o mne ucho, blahoslavilo ma, a keď ma videlo oko, prisviedčalo mi.

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

¹²Lebo som vytrhoval biedneho, volajúceho o pomoc, i sirotu i toho, kto nemal pomocníka.

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

¹³Požehnanie hynúceho prichádzalo na mňa, a pôsobil som to, aby plesalo srdce vdovy.

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

¹⁴Obliekal som sa v spravedlivosť, a ona si obliekala mňa; jako plášť a jako turban bol môj súd.

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

¹⁵Bol som očima slepému a nohami krivému som bol ja.

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

¹⁶Býval som otcom chudobným a pravotu, ktorej som neznal, som prezkúmal.

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

¹⁷Krúšieval som črenové zuby nešľachetníka a vyrážal som lúpež z jeho zubov.

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

¹⁸A povedal som: Zomriem vo svojom hniezde a rozmnožím svoje dni, že ich bude jako piesku.

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

¹⁹Môj koreň bude mať otvorený prístup k vode, a rosa bude nocovať na mojej vetvi.

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

²⁰Moja sláva bude vše nová u mňa, a moje lučište sa bude obnovovať v mojej ruke.

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

²¹Počúvali na mňa a očakávali a mlčali na moju radu.

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

²²Po mojom slove viacej nehovorili, a moja reč príjemne pršala na nich;

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

²³očakávali na mňa jako na dážď a otvárali svoje ústa jako proti jarnému dažďu.

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

²⁴Smial som sa na nich žartujúc, neverili a nedali padnúť svetlu mojej tvári.

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

²⁵Volil som ich cestu a sedel som ako hlava a prebýval som ako kráľ vo vojsku, jako ten, kto teší zarmútených.