Job 16
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Then Job answered and said:
1Respondens autem Job, dixit:
2I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are ye all.
2[Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.
3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
3Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa? aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris?
4I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
4Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui, atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea:
5I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would assuage your grief.
5consolarer et ego vos sermonibus, et moverem caput meum super vos;
6Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?
6roborarem vos ore meo, et moverem labia mea, quasi parcens vobis.
7But now He hath made me weary; Thou hast made desolate all my company.
7Sed quid agam? Si locutus fuero, non quiescet dolor meus, et si tacuero, non recedet a me.
8And Thou hast shrivelled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face.
8Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus, et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei.
9He hath torn me in His wrath, and hated me; He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth; mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
9Rugæ meæ testimonium dicunt contra me, et suscitatur falsiloquus adversus faciem meam, contradicens mihi.
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully; they gather themselves together against me.
10Collegit furorem suum in me, et comminans mihi, infremuit contra me dentibus suis: hostis meus terribilibus oculis me intuitus est.
11God delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
11Aperuerunt super me ora sua, et exprobrantes percusserunt maxillam meam: satiati sunt pœnis meis.
12I was at ease, and He broke me asunder; yea, He hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces; He hath also set me up for His mark.
12Conclusit me Deus apud iniquum, et manibus impiorum me tradidit.
13His archers compass me round about, He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
13Ego ille quondam opulentus, repente contritus sum: tenuit cervicem meam, confregit me, et posuit me sibi quasi in signum.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
14Circumdedit me lanceis suis; convulneravit lumbos meos: non pepercit, et effudit in terra viscera mea.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
15Concidit me vulnere super vulnus: irruit in me quasi gigas.
16My face is reddened with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
16Saccum consui super cutem meam, et operui cinere carnem meam.
17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
17Facies mea intumuit a fletu, et palpebræ meæ caligaverunt.
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting-place.
18Hæc passus sum absque iniquitate manus meæ, cum haberem mundas ad Deum preces.
19Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He that testifieth of me is on high.
19Terra, ne operias sanguinem meum, neque inveniat in te locum latendi clamor meus:
20Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God;
20ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis.
21That He would set aright a man contending with God, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour!
21Verbosi amici mei: ad Deum stillat oculus meus:
22For the years that are few are coming on, and I shall go the way whence I shall not 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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