Job 13
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1[Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus, et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula.
1Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi: nec inferior vestri sum.
2What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.
3Sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar, et disputare cum Deo cupio:
3Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii, et cultores perversorum dogmatum.
4But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5Atque utinam taceretis, ut putaremini esse sapientes.
5Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom.
6Audite ergo correptionem meam, et judicium labiorum meorum attendite.
6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio, ut pro illo loquamini dolos?
7Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?
8numquid faciem ejus accipitis, et pro Deo judicare nitimini?
8Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for God?
9aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest? aut decipietur, ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis?
9Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?
10Ipse vos arguet, quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis.
10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.
11Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos, et terror ejus irruet super vos.
11Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?
12Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.
12Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.
13Tacete paulisper, ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit.
13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14Quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis, et animam meam porto in manibus meis?
14Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
15Etiam si occiderit me, in ipso sperabo: verumtamen vias meas in conspectu ejus arguam.
15Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him.
16Et ipse erit salvator meus: non enim veniet in conspectu ejus omnis hypocrita.
16This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him.
17Audite sermonem meum, et ænigmata percipite auribus vestris.
17Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
18Si fuero judicatus, scio quod justus inveniar.
18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19Quis est qui judicetur mecum? veniat: quare tacens consumor?
19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.
20Duo tantum ne facias mihi, et tunc a facie tua non abscondar:
20Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee:
21manum tuam longe fac a me, et formido tua non me terreat.
21Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid.
22Voca me, et ego respondebo tibi: aut certe loquar, et tu responde mihi.
22Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer Thou me.
23Quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata? scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi.
23How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24Cur faciem tuam abscondis, et arbitraris me inimicum tuum?
24Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?
25Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam, et stipulam siccam persequeris:
25Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?
26scribis enim contra me amaritudines, et consumere me vis peccatis adolescentiæ meæ.
26That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27Posuisti in nervo pedem meum, et observasti omnes semitas meas, et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti:
27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet;
28qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea.]
28Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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