Job 10
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
King James Version with Apocrypha
1[Tædet animam meam vitæ meæ; dimittam adversum me eloquium meum: loquar in amaritudine animæ meæ.
1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2Dicam Deo: Noli me condemnare; indica mihi cur me ita judices.
2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3Numquid bonum tibi videtur, si calumnieris me, et opprimas me opus manuum tuarum, et consilium impiorum adjuves?
3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4Numquid oculi carnei tibi sunt? aut sicut videt homo, et tu videbis?
4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
5Numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui, et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora,
5Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
6ut quæras iniquitatem meam, et peccatum meum scruteris,
6That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
7et scias quia nihil impium fecerim, cum sit nemo qui de manu tua possit eruere?
7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
8Manus tuæ fecerunt me, et plasmaverunt me totum in circuitu: et sic repente præcipitas me?
8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
9Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.
9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10Nonne sicut lac mulsisti me, et sicut caseum me coagulasti?
10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11Pelle et carnibus vestisti me; ossibus et nervis compegisti me.
11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
12Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
12Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13Licet hæc celes in corde tuo, tamen scio quia universorum memineris.
13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
14Si peccavi, et ad horam pepercisti mihi, cur ab iniquitate mea mundum me esse non pateris?
14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15Et si impius fuero, væ mihi est; et si justus, non levabo caput, saturatus afflictione et miseria.
15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
16Et propter superbiam quasi leænam capies me, reversusque mirabiliter me crucias.
16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
17Instauras testes tuos contra me, et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me, et pœnæ militant in me.
17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18Quare de vulva eduxisti me? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.
18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19Fuissem quasi non essem, de utero translatus ad tumulum.
19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20Numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi? dimitte ergo me, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum,
20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21antequam vadam, et non revertar, ad terram tenebrosam, et opertam mortis caligine:
21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22terram miseriæ et tenebrarum, ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror inhabitat.]
22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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