Job 13
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1[Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus, et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula.
1“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
2Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi: nec inferior vestri sum.
2What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
3Sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar, et disputare cum Deo cupio:
3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
4prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii, et cultores perversorum dogmatum.
4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
5Atque utinam taceretis, ut putaremini esse sapientes.
5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
6Audite ergo correptionem meam, et judicium labiorum meorum attendite.
6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio, ut pro illo loquamini dolos?
7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
8numquid faciem ejus accipitis, et pro Deo judicare nitimini?
8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
9aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest? aut decipietur, ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis?
9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
10Ipse vos arguet, quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis.
10He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
11Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos, et terror ejus irruet super vos.
11Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?
12Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.
12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13Tacete paulisper, ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit.
13“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
14Quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis, et animam meam porto in manibus meis?
14Why should I 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.
15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
16Et ipse erit salvator meus: non enim veniet in conspectu ejus omnis hypocrita.
16This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.
17Audite sermonem meum, et ænigmata percipite auribus vestris.
17Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
18Si fuero judicatus, scio quod justus inveniar.
18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
19Quis est qui judicetur mecum? veniat: quare tacens consumor?
19Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.
20Duo tantum ne facias mihi, et tunc a facie tua non abscondar:
20“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
21manum tuam longe fac a me, et formido tua non me terreat.
21withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
22Voca me, et ego respondebo tibi: aut certe loquar, et tu responde mihi.
22Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
23Quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata? scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi.
23How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
24Cur faciem tuam abscondis, et arbitraris me inimicum tuum?
24Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
25Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam, et stipulam siccam persequeris:
25Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
26scribis enim contra me amaritudines, et consumere me vis peccatis adolescentiæ meæ.
26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27Posuisti in nervo pedem meum, et observasti omnes semitas meas, et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti:
27You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
28qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea.]
28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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