Job 21
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Then Job answered:
1Respondens autem Job, dixit:
2“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
2[Audite, quæso, sermones meos, et agite pœnitentiam.
3Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
3Sustinete me, et ego loquar: et post mea, si videbitur, verba, ridete.
4Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
4Numquid contra hominem disputatio mea est, ut merito non debeam contristari?
5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
5Attendite me et obstupescite, et superponite digitum ori vestro.
6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
6Et ego, quando recordatus fuero, pertimesco, et concutit carnem meam tremor.
7Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
7Quare ergo impii vivunt, sublevati sunt, confortatique divitiis?
8Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
8Semen eorum permanet coram eis: propinquorum turba et nepotum in conspectu eorum.
9Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
9Domus eorum securæ sunt et pacatæ, et non est virga Dei super illos.
10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
10Bos eorum concepit, et non abortivit: vacca peperit, et non est privata fœtu suo.
11They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
11Egrediuntur quasi greges parvuli eorum, et infantes eorum exultant lusibus.
12singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
12Tenent tympanum et citharam, et gaudent ad sonitum organi.
13They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
13Ducunt in bonis dies suos, et in puncto ad inferna descendunt.
14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
14Qui dixerunt Deo: Recede a nobis, et scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus.
15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
15Quis est Omnipotens, ut serviamus ei? et quid nobis prodest si oraverimus illum?
16Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
16Verumtamen quia non sunt in manu eorum bona sua, consilium impiorum longe sit a me.
17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
17Quoties lucerna impiorum extinguetur, et superveniet eis inundatio, et dolores dividet furoris sui?
18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
18Erunt sicut paleæ ante faciem venti, et sicut favilla quam turbo dispergit.
19It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
19Deus servabit filiis illius dolorem patris, et cum reddiderit, tunc sciet.
20Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
20Videbunt oculi ejus interfectionem suam, et de furore Omnipotentis bibet.
21For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
21Quid enim ad eum pertinet de domo sua post se, et si numerus mensium ejus dimidietur?
22Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
22Numquid Deus docebit quispiam scientiam, qui excelsos judicat?
23One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
23Iste moritur robustus et sanus, dives et felix:
24His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
24viscera ejus plena sunt adipe, et medullis ossa illius irrigantur:
25Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
25alius vero moritur in amaritudine animæ absque ullis opibus:
26But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
26et tamen simul in pulvere dormient, et vermes operient eos.
27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
27Certe novi cogitationes vestras, et sententias contra me iniquas.
28For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
28Dicitis enim: Ubi est domus principis? et ubi tabernacula impiorum?
29Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
29Interrogate quemlibet de viatoribus, et hæc eadem illum intelligere cognoscetis:
30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
30quia in diem perditionis servatur malus, et ad diem furoris ducetur.
31Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
31Quis arguet coram eo viam ejus? et quæ fecit, quis reddet illi?
32He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
32Ipse ad sepulchra ducetur, et in congerie mortuorum vigilabit.
33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
33Dulcis fuit glareis Cocyti, et post se omnem hominem trahet, et ante se innumerabiles.
34So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
34Quomodo igitur consolamini me frustra, cum responsio vestra repugnare ostensa sit veritati?]
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