Job 16
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Respondens autem Job, dixit:
1Then Job answered, and said:
2[Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.
2I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
3Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa? aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris?
3Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
4Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui, atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea:
4I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.
5consolarer et ego vos sermonibus, et moverem caput meum super vos;
5I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.
6roborarem vos ore meo, et moverem labia mea, quasi parcens vobis.
6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.
7Sed quid agam? Si locutus fuero, non quiescet dolor meus, et si tacuero, non recedet a me.
7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.
8Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus, et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei.
8But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.
9Rugæ meæ testimonium dicunt contra me, et suscitatur falsiloquus adversus faciem meam, contradicens mihi.
9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.
10Collegit furorem suum in me, et comminans mihi, infremuit contra me dentibus suis: hostis meus terribilibus oculis me intuitus est.
10He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.
11Aperuerunt super me ora sua, et exprobrantes percusserunt maxillam meam: satiati sunt pœnis meis.
11They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.
12Conclusit me Deus apud iniquum, et manibus impiorum me tradidit.
12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
13Ego ille quondam opulentus, repente contritus sum: tenuit cervicem meam, confregit me, et posuit me sibi quasi in signum.
13I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.
14Circumdedit me lanceis suis; convulneravit lumbos meos: non pepercit, et effudit in terra viscera mea.
14He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth.
15Concidit me vulnere super vulnus: irruit in me quasi gigas.
15He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.
16Saccum consui super cutem meam, et operui cinere carnem meam.
16I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.
17Facies mea intumuit a fletu, et palpebræ meæ caligaverunt.
17My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.
18Hæc passus sum absque iniquitate manus meæ, cum haberem mundas ad Deum preces.
18These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.
19Terra, ne operias sanguinem meum, neque inveniat in te locum latendi clamor meus:
19O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.
20ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis.
20For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.
21Verbosi amici mei: ad Deum stillat oculus meus:
21My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.
22atque utinam sic judicaretur vir cum Deo, quomodo judicatur filius hominis cum collega suo.
22And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!
23Ecce enim breves anni transeunt, et semitam per quam non revertar ambulo.]
23For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.
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