Job 38
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:
1Respondens autem Dominus Job de turbine, dixit:
2Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?
2[Quis est iste involvens sententias sermonibus imperitis?
3Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
3Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos: interrogabo te, et responde mihi.
4Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.
4Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terræ? indica mihi, si habes intelligentiam.
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
5Quis posuit mensuras ejus, si nosti? vel quis tetendit super eam lineam?
6Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,
6Super quo bases illius solidatæ sunt? aut quis demisit lapidem angularem ejus,
7When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?
7cum me laudarent simul astra matutina, et jubilarent omnes filii Dei?
8Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
8Quis conclusit ostiis mare, quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens;
9When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?
9cum ponerem nubem vestimentum ejus, et caligine illud quasi pannis infantiæ obvolverem?
10I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:
10Circumdedi illud terminis meis, et posui vectem et ostia,
11And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
11et dixi: Usque huc venies, et non procedes amplius, et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos.
12Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
12Numquid post ortum tuum præcepisti diluculo, et ostendisti auroræ locum suum?
13And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?
13Et tenuisti concutiens extrema terræ, et excussisti impios ex ea?
14The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:
14Restituetur ut lutum signaculum, et stabit sicut vestimentum:
15From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.
15auferetur ab impiis lux sua, et brachium excelsum confringetur.
16Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?
16Numquid ingressus es profunda maris, et in novissimis abyssi deambulasti?
17Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?
17Numquid apertæ sunt tibi portæ mortis, et ostia tenebrosa vidisti?
18Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?
18Numquid considerasti latitudinem terræ? indica mihi, si nosti, omnia:
19Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness:
19in qua via lux habitet, et tenebrarum quis locus sit:
20That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.
20ut ducas unumquodque ad terminos suos, et intelligas semitas domus ejus.
21Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?
21Sciebas tunc quod nasciturus esses, et numerum dierum tuorum noveras?
22Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail:
22Numquid ingressus es thesauros nivis, aut thesauros grandinis aspexisti,
23Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?
23quæ præparavi in tempus hostis, in diem pugnæ et belli?
24By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?
24Per quam viam spargitur lux, dividitur æstus super terram?
25Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:
25Quis dedit vehementissimo imbri cursum, et viam sonantis tonitrui,
26That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:
26ut plueret super terram absque homine in deserto, ubi nullus mortalium commoratur;
27That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
27ut impleret inviam et desolatam, et produceret herbas virentes?
28Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?
28Quis est pluviæ pater? vel quis genuit stillas roris?
29Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?
29De cujus utero egressa est glacies? et gelu de cælo quis genuit?
30The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
30In similitudinem lapidis aquæ durantur, et superficies abyssi constringitur.
31Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?
31Numquid conjungere valebis micantes stellas Pleiadas, aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare?
32Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?
32Numquid producis luciferum in tempore suo, et vesperum super filios terræ consurgere facis?
33Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?
33Numquid nosti ordinem cæli, et pones rationem ejus in terra?
34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?
34Numquid elevabis in nebula vocem tuam, et impetus aquarum operiet te?
35Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?
35Numquid mittes fulgura, et ibunt, et revertentia dicent tibi: Adsumus?
36Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?
36Quis posuit in visceribus hominis sapientiam? vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam?
37Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
37Quis enarrabit cælorum rationem? et concentum cæli quis dormire faciet?
38When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?
38Quando fundebatur pulvis in terra, et glebæ compingebantur?
39Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,
39Numquid capies leænæ prædam, et animam catulorum ejus implebis,
40When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?
40quando cubant in antris, et in specubus insidiantur?
41Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?
41Quis præparat corvo escam suam, quando pulli ejus clamant ad Deum, vagantes, eo quod non habeant cibos?]
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