Job 14
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1[Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore, repletur multis miseriis.
1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2Qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur, et fugit velut umbra, et numquam in eodem statu permanet.
2He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3Et dignum ducis super hujuscemodi aperire oculos tuos, et adducere eum tecum in judicium?
3And dost Thou open Thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with Thee?
4Quis potest facere mundum de immundo conceptum semine? nonne tu qui solus es?
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5Breves dies hominis sunt: numerus mensium ejus apud te est: constituisti terminos ejus, qui præteriri non poterunt.
5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with Thee, and Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6Recede paululum ab eo, ut quiescat, donec optata veniat, sicut mercenarii, dies ejus.
6Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
7Lignum habet spem: si præcisum fuerit, rursum virescit, et rami ejus pullulant.
7For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8Si senuerit in terra radix ejus, et in pulvere emortuus fuerit truncus illius,
8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9ad odorem aquæ germinabit, et faciet comam, quasi cum primum plantatum est.
9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
10Homo vero cum mortuus fuerit, et nudatus, atque consumptus, ubi, quæso, est?
10But man dieth, and lieth low; yea, man perisheth, and where is he?
11Quomodo si recedant aquæ de mari, et fluvius vacuefactus arescat:
11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river is drained dry;
12sic homo, cum dormierit, non resurget: donec atteratur cælum, non evigilabit, nec consurget de somno suo.
12So man lieth down and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
13Quis mihi hoc tribuat, ut in inferno protegas me, et abscondas me donec pertranseat furor tuus, et constituas mihi tempus in quo recorderis mei?
13Oh that Thou wouldest hide me in the nether-world, that Thou wouldest keep me secret, until Thy wrath be past, that Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! —
14Putasne mortuus homo rursum vivat? cunctis diebus quibus nunc milito, expecto donec veniat immutatio mea.
14If a man die, may he live again? All the days of my service would I wait, till my relief should come —
15Vocabis me, et ego respondebo tibi: operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram.
15Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee; Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands.
16Tu quidem gressus meos dinumerasti: sed parce peccatis meis.
16But now Thou numberest my steps, Thou dost not even wait for my sin;
17Signasti quasi in sacculo delicta mea, sed curasti iniquitatem meam.
17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou heapest up mine iniquity.
18Mons cadens defluit, et saxum transfertur de loco suo:
18And surely the mountain falling crumbleth away, and the rock is removed out of its place;
19lapides excavant aquæ, et alluvione paulatim terra consumitur: et hominem ergo similiter perdes.
19The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.
20Roborasti eum paululum, ut in perpetuum transiret: immutabis faciem ejus, et emittes eum.
20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21Sive nobiles fuerint filii ejus, sive ignobiles, non intelliget.
21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he regardeth them not.
22Attamen caro ejus, dum vivet, dolebit, et anima illius super semetipso lugebit.]
22But his flesh grieveth for him, and his soul mourneth over him.
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