Job 14
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
1[Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore, repletur multis miseriis.
2Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
2Qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur, et fugit velut umbra, et numquam in eodem statu permanet.
3And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?
3Et dignum ducis super hujuscemodi aperire oculos tuos, et adducere eum tecum in judicium?
4Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?
4Quis potest facere mundum de immundo conceptum semine? nonne tu qui solus es?
5The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.
5Breves dies hominis sunt: numerus mensium ejus apud te est: constituisti terminos ejus, qui præteriri non poterunt.
6Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.
6Recede paululum ab eo, ut quiescat, donec optata veniat, sicut mercenarii, dies ejus.
7A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.
7Lignum habet spem: si præcisum fuerit, rursum virescit, et rami ejus pullulant.
8If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:
8Si senuerit in terra radix ejus, et in pulvere emortuus fuerit truncus illius,
9At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
9ad odorem aquæ germinabit, et faciet comam, quasi cum primum plantatum est.
10But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?
10Homo vero cum mortuus fuerit, et nudatus, atque consumptus, ubi, quæso, est?
11As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up:
11Quomodo si recedant aquæ de mari, et fluvius vacuefactus arescat:
12So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.
12sic homo, cum dormierit, non resurget: donec atteratur cælum, non evigilabit, nec consurget de somno suo.
13Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me?
13Quis mihi hoc tribuat, ut in inferno protegas me, et abscondas me donec pertranseat furor tuus, et constituas mihi tempus in quo recorderis mei?
14Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.
14Putasne mortuus homo rursum vivat? cunctis diebus quibus nunc milito, expecto donec veniat immutatio mea.
15Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.
15Vocabis me, et ego respondebo tibi: operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram.
16Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.
16Tu quidem gressus meos dinumerasti: sed parce peccatis meis.
17Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.
17Signasti quasi in sacculo delicta mea, sed curasti iniquitatem meam.
18A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.
18Mons cadens defluit, et saxum transfertur de loco suo:
19Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.
19lapides excavant aquæ, et alluvione paulatim terra consumitur: et hominem ergo similiter perdes.
20Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.
20Roborasti eum paululum, ut in perpetuum transiret: immutabis faciem ejus, et emittes eum.
21Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.
21Sive nobiles fuerint filii ejus, sive ignobiles, non intelliget.
22But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.
22Attamen caro ejus, dum vivet, dolebit, et anima illius super semetipso lugebit.]
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