Job 14
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1[Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore, repletur multis miseriis.
1“Man, who 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 grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3Et dignum ducis super hujuscemodi aperire oculos tuos, et adducere eum tecum in judicium?
3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
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 you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
6Recede paululum ab eo, ut quiescat, donec optata veniat, sicut mercenarii, dies ejus.
6Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
7Lignum habet spem: si præcisum fuerit, rursum virescit, et rami ejus pullulant.
7“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
8Si senuerit in terra radix ejus, et in pulvere emortuus fuerit truncus illius,
8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies 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 sprout boughs like a plant.
10Homo vero cum mortuus fuerit, et nudatus, atque consumptus, ubi, quæso, est?
10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11Quomodo si recedant aquæ de mari, et fluvius vacuefactus arescat:
11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
12sic homo, cum dormierit, non resurget: donec atteratur cælum, non evigilabit, nec consurget de somno suo.
12so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will 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?
13“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would 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 dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
15Vocabis me, et ego respondebo tibi: operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram.
15You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
16Tu quidem gressus meos dinumerasti: sed parce peccatis meis.
16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
17Signasti quasi in sacculo delicta mea, sed curasti iniquitatem meam.
17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
18Mons cadens defluit, et saxum transfertur de loco suo:
18“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. 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 torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
20Roborasti eum paululum, ut in perpetuum transiret: immutabis faciem ejus, et emittes eum.
20You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
21Sive nobiles fuerint filii ejus, sive ignobiles, non intelliget.
21His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
22Attamen caro ejus, dum vivet, dolebit, et anima illius super semetipso lugebit.]
22But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”
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