Job 29
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1And Job again took up his parable, and said:
1Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit:
2Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
2[Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos, secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me?
3When His lamp shined above my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;
3Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum, et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris:
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the converse of God was upon my tent;
4sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ, quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo:
5When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;
5quando erat Omnipotens mecum, et in circuitu meo pueri mei:
6When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
6quando lavabam pedes meos butyro, et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei:
7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the broad place,
7quando procedebam ad portam civitatis, et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.
8The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;
8Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur: et senes assurgentes stabant.
9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;
9Principes cessabant loqui, et digitum superponebant ori suo.
10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
10Vocem suam cohibebant duces, et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.
11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me;
11Auris audiens beatificabat me, et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi:
12Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.
12eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem, et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
13Benedictio perituri super me veniebat, et cor viduæ consolatus sum.
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; my justice was as a robe and a diadem.
14Justitia indutus sum, et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
15Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.
16I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
16Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.
17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
17Conterebam molas iniqui, et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.
18Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;
18Dicebamque: In nidulo meo moriar, et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.
19My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew shall lie all night upon my branch;
19Radix mea aperta est secus aquas, et ros morabitur in messione mea.
20My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow shall be renewed in my hand.'
20Gloria mea semper innovabitur, et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.
21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
21Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam, et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.
22After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
22Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.
23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
23Expectabant me sicut pluviam, et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.
24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
24Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant: et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.
25I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
25Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus: cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu, eram tamen mœrentium consolator.]
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