Job 10
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Berean Standard Bible
1[Tædet animam meam vitæ meæ; dimittam adversum me eloquium meum: loquar in amaritudine animæ meæ.
1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2Dicam Deo: Noli me condemnare; indica mihi cur me ita judices.
2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
3Numquid bonum tibi videtur, si calumnieris me, et opprimas me opus manuum tuarum, et consilium impiorum adjuves?
3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
4Numquid oculi carnei tibi sunt? aut sicut videt homo, et tu videbis?
4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
5Numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui, et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora,
5Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
6ut quæras iniquitatem meam, et peccatum meum scruteris,
6that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
7et scias quia nihil impium fecerim, cum sit nemo qui de manu tua possit eruere?
7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
8Manus tuæ fecerunt me, et plasmaverunt me totum in circuitu: et sic repente præcipitas me?
8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
9Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.
9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
10Nonne sicut lac mulsisti me, et sicut caseum me coagulasti?
10Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
11Pelle et carnibus vestisti me; ossibus et nervis compegisti me.
11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
12You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
13Licet hæc celes in corde tuo, tamen scio quia universorum memineris.
13Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
14Si peccavi, et ad horam pepercisti mihi, cur ab iniquitate mea mundum me esse non pateris?
14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
15Et si impius fuero, væ mihi est; et si justus, non levabo caput, saturatus afflictione et miseria.
15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
16Et propter superbiam quasi leænam capies me, reversusque mirabiliter me crucias.
16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
17Instauras testes tuos contra me, et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me, et pœnæ militant in me.
17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
18Quare de vulva eduxisti me? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.
18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
19Fuissem quasi non essem, de utero translatus ad tumulum.
19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
20Numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi? dimitte ergo me, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum,
20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
21antequam vadam, et non revertar, ad terram tenebrosam, et opertam mortis caligine:
21before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
22terram miseriæ et tenebrarum, ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror inhabitat.]
22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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