New English Translation

Job 29:6-16 New English Translation (NET)

6. when my steps were bathed with butterand the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!

7. When I went out to the city gateand secured my seat in the public square,

8. the young men would see me and step aside,and the old men would get up and remain standing;

9. the chief men refrained from talkingand covered their mouths with their hands;

10. the voices of the nobles fell silent,and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

11. “As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me,and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

12. for I rescued the poor who cried out for help,and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

13. the blessing of the dying man descended on me,and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;

14. I put on righteousness and it clothed me,my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;

15. I was eyes for the blindand feet for the lame;

16. I was a father to the needy,and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;