Job 33
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
1[Audi igitur, Job, eloquia mea, et omnes sermones meos ausculta.
2Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.
2Ecce aperui os meum: loquatur lingua mea in faucibus meis.
3My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
3Simplici corde meo sermones mei, et sententiam puram labia mea loquentur.
4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
4Spiritus Dei fecit me, et spiraculum Omnipotentis vivificavit me.
5Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
5Si potes, responde mihi, et adversus faciem meam consiste.
6I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
6Ecce, et me sicut et te fecit Deus, et de eodem luto ego quoque formatus sum.
7Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
7Verumtamen miraculum meum non te terreat, et eloquentia mea non sit tibi gravis.
8Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
8Dixisti ergo in auribus meis, et vocem verborum tuorum audivi:
9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
9Mundus sum ego, et absque delicto: immaculatus, et non est iniquitas in me.
10Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
10Quia querelas in me reperit, ideo arbitratus est me inimicum sibi.
11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
11Posuit in nervo pedes meos; custodivit omnes semitas meas.
12Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
12Hoc est ergo in quo non es justificatus: respondebo tibi, quia major sit Deus homine.
13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
13Adversus eum contendis, quod non ad omnia verba responderit tibi?
14For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
14Semel loquitur Deus, et secundo idipsum non repetit.
15In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
15Per somnium, in visione nocturna, quando irruit sopor super homines, et dormiunt in lectulo,
16He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
16tunc aperit aures virorum, et erudiens eos instruit disciplina,
17to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,
17ut avertat hominem ab his quæ facit, et liberet eum de superbia,
18to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
18eruens animam ejus a corruptione, et vitam illius ut non transeat in gladium.
19A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
19Increpat quoque per dolorem in lectulo, et omnia ossa ejus marcescere facit.
20so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
20Abominabilis ei fit in vita sua panis, et animæ illius cibus ante desiderabilis.
21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
21Tabescet caro ejus, et ossa, quæ tecta fuerant, nudabuntur.
22He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
22Appropinquavit corruptioni anima ejus, et vita illius mortiferis.
23Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
23Si fuerit pro eo angelus loquens, unus de millibus, ut annuntiet hominis æquitatem,
24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
24miserebitur ejus, et dicet: Libera eum, ut non descendat in corruptionem: inveni in quo ei propitier.
25then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
25Consumpta est caro ejus a suppliciis: revertatur ad dies adolescentiæ suæ.
26He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.
26Deprecabitur Deum, et placabilis ei erit: et videbit faciem ejus in jubilo, et reddet homini justitiam suam.
27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
27Respiciet homines, et dicet: Peccavi, et vere deliqui, et ut eram dignus, non recepi.
28He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
28Liberavit animam suam, ne pergeret in interitum, sed vivens lucem videret.
29Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,
29Ecce hæc omnia operatur Deus tribus vicibus per singulos,
30to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
30ut revocet animas eorum a corruptione, et illuminet luce viventium.
31Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
31Attende, Job, et audi me: et tace, dum ego loquor.
32But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
32Si autem habes quod loquaris, responde mihi: loquere, volo enim te apparere justum.
33But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”
33Quod si non habes, audi me: tace, et docebo te sapientiam.]
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