Job 4
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
1Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit:
2If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
2[Si cœperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit?
3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
3Ecce docuisti multos, et manus lassas roborasti;
4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
4vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui, et genua trementia confortasti.
5But now it is come upon thee, and thou art weary; it toucheth thee, and thou art affrighted.
5Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti; tetigit te, et conturbatus es.
6Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?
6Ubi est timor tuus, fortitudo tua, patientia tua, et perfectio viarum tuarum?
7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
7Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit? aut quando recti deleti sunt?
8According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow mischief, reap the same.
8Quin potius vidi eos qui operantur iniquitatem, et seminant dolores, et metunt eos,
9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger are they consumed.
9flante Deo perisse, et spiritu iræ ejus esse consumptos.
10The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth — yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
10Rugitus leonis, et vox leænæ, et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt.
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
11Tigris periit, eo quod non haberet prædam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.
12Now a word was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.
12Porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum, et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri ejus.
13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
13In horrore visionis nocturnæ, quando solet sopor occupare homines,
14Fear came upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were made to shake.
14pavor tenuit me, et tremor, et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt;
15Then a spirit passed before my face, that made the hair of my flesh to stand up.
15et cum spiritus, me præsente, transiret, inhorruerunt pili carnis meæ.
16It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes; I heard a still voice:
16Stetit quidam, cujus non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi auræ lenis audivi.
17'Shall mortal man be just before God? Shall a man be pure before his Maker?
17Numquid homo, Dei comparatione, justificabitur? aut factore suo purior erit vir?
18Behold, He putteth no trust in His servants, and His angels He chargeth with folly;
18Ecce qui serviunt ei, non sunt stabiles, et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem;
19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
19quanto magis hi qui habitant domos luteas, qui terrenum habent fundamentum, consumentur velut a tinea?
20Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
20De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur; et quia nullus intelligit, in æternum peribunt.
21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
21Qui autem reliqui fuerint, auferentur ex eis; morientur, et non in sapientia.]
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