Job 16
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Then Job answered:
1Respondens autem Job, dixit:
2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
2[Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.
3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
3Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa? aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris?
4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
4Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui, atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea:
5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
5consolarer et ego vos sermonibus, et moverem caput meum super vos;
6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
6roborarem vos ore meo, et moverem labia mea, quasi parcens vobis.
7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
7Sed quid agam? Si locutus fuero, non quiescet dolor meus, et si tacuero, non recedet a me.
8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
8Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus, et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei.
9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
9Rugæ meæ testimonium dicunt contra me, et suscitatur falsiloquus adversus faciem meam, contradicens mihi.
10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
10Collegit furorem suum in me, et comminans mihi, infremuit contra me dentibus suis: hostis meus terribilibus oculis me intuitus est.
11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
11Aperuerunt super me ora sua, et exprobrantes percusserunt maxillam meam: satiati sunt pœnis meis.
12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
12Conclusit me Deus apud iniquum, et manibus impiorum me tradidit.
13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
13Ego ille quondam opulentus, repente contritus sum: tenuit cervicem meam, confregit me, et posuit me sibi quasi in signum.
14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
14Circumdedit me lanceis suis; convulneravit lumbos meos: non pepercit, et effudit in terra viscera mea.
15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
15Concidit me vulnere super vulnus: irruit in me quasi gigas.
16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
16Saccum consui super cutem meam, et operui cinere carnem meam.
17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
17Facies mea intumuit a fletu, et palpebræ meæ caligaverunt.
18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
18Hæc passus sum absque iniquitate manus meæ, cum haberem mundas ad Deum preces.
19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
19Terra, ne operias sanguinem meum, neque inveniat in te locum latendi clamor meus:
20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
20ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis.
21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
21Verbosi amici mei: ad Deum stillat oculus meus:
22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
22atque utinam sic judicaretur vir cum Deo, quomodo judicatur filius hominis cum collega suo.
no verse 23 in this text
23Ecce enim breves anni transeunt, et semitam per quam non revertar ambulo.]
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