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title: "Job 29 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Job relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men shewed him. Job 29 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Job 29

Job 29 is chapter 29 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men shewed him.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 29 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:
2. Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?
3. At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.
4. I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.
5. At that time, the Almighty was with me and my children surrounded me.
6. Then, I washed my feet with butter, and a boulder poured out rivers of oil for me.
7. When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.
8. The youths saw me and hid themselves, and the elders, rising up, remained standing.
9. The leaders stopped talking, and they placed a finder over their mouth.
10. The commanders subdued their voice, and their tongue adhered to their throat.
11. The ear that heard me, blessed me, and the eye that saw me, gave testimony for me.
12. This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.
13. The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.
14. I put on justice, and I clothed myself with my judgment, like a robe and a diadem.
15. I was an eye for the blind and a foot for the lame.
16. I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.
17. I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.
18. And I said, “I will die in my little nest, and like a palm tree, I will multiply my days.
19. My root has been spread beside the waters, and the dew will remain with my harvest.
20. My glory will always be restored, and my bow will be restored to my hand.”
21. Those who heard me, expected vindication, and they listened closely in silence to my counsel.
22. To my words, they dared to add nothing, and my eloquence poured over them.
23. They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for belated rains.
24. If I had ever laughed at them, they would not have believed it, and the light of my face was not cast down towards the ground.
25. If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to those who mourned.

## Job 29 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit:
2. Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos, secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me?
3. Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum, et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris:
4. sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ, quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo:
5. quando erat Omnipotens mecum, et in circuitu meo pueri mei:
6. quando lavabam pedes meos butyro, et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei:
7. quando procedebam ad portam civitatis, et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.
8. Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur: et senes assurgentes stabant.
9. Principes cessabant loqui, et digitum superponebant ori suo.
10. Vocem suam cohibebant duces, et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.
11. Auris audiens beatificabat me, et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi:
12. eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem, et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.
13. Benedictio perituri super me veniebat, et cor viduæ consolatus sum.
14. Justitia indutus sum, et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.
15. Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.
16. Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.
17. Conterebam molas iniqui, et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.
18. Dicebamque: In nidulo meo moriar, et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.
19. Radix mea aperta est secus aquas, et ros morabitur in messione mea.
20. Gloria mea semper innovabitur, et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.
21. Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam, et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.
22. Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.
23. Expectabant me sicut pluviam, et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.
24. Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant: et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.
25. Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus: cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu, eram tamen mœrentium consolator.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).