Job 10
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1[Tædet animam meam vitæ meæ; dimittam adversum me eloquium meum: loquar in amaritudine animæ meæ.
1“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2Dicam Deo: Noli me condemnare; indica mihi cur me ita judices.
2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
3Numquid bonum tibi videtur, si calumnieris me, et opprimas me opus manuum tuarum, et consilium impiorum adjuves?
3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
4Numquid oculi carnei tibi sunt? aut sicut videt homo, et tu videbis?
4Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
5Numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui, et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora,
5Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
6ut quæras iniquitatem meam, et peccatum meum scruteris,
6that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
7et scias quia nihil impium fecerim, cum sit nemo qui de manu tua possit eruere?
7Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
8Manus tuæ fecerunt me, et plasmaverunt me totum in circuitu: et sic repente præcipitas me?
8“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
9Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.
9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
10Nonne sicut lac mulsisti me, et sicut caseum me coagulasti?
10Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11Pelle et carnibus vestisti me; ossibus et nervis compegisti me.
11You have 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 kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13Licet hæc celes in corde tuo, tamen scio quia universorum memineris.
13Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
14Si peccavi, et ad horam pepercisti mihi, cur ab iniquitate mea mundum me esse non pateris?
14if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15Et si impius fuero, væ mihi est; et si justus, non levabo caput, saturatus afflictione et miseria.
15If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
16Et propter superbiam quasi leænam capies me, reversusque mirabiliter me crucias.
16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
17Instauras testes tuos contra me, et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me, et pœnæ militant in me.
17You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
18Quare de vulva eduxisti me? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.
18“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, 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,
20Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21antequam vadam, et non revertar, ad terram tenebrosam, et opertam mortis caligine:
21before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22terram miseriæ et tenebrarum, ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror inhabitat.]
22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
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