NET Bible
"If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken."
— Job 29:24, NET Bible
“If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.”
“I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down. ”
“I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.”
“If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.”
“I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.”
“If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.”
Job’s Reputation“People listened to me and waited silently; they kept silent for my advice.
After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.
They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.
If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.
I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.