Job 16
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
King James Version with Apocrypha
1Respondens autem Job, dixit:
1Then Job answered and said,
2[Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.
2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa? aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris?
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui, atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea:
4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5consolarer et ego vos sermonibus, et moverem caput meum super vos;
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief .
6roborarem vos ore meo, et moverem labia mea, quasi parcens vobis.
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7Sed quid agam? Si locutus fuero, non quiescet dolor meus, et si tacuero, non recedet a me.
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus, et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei.
8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9Rugæ meæ testimonium dicunt contra me, et suscitatur falsiloquus adversus faciem meam, contradicens mihi.
9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10Collegit furorem suum in me, et comminans mihi, infremuit contra me dentibus suis: hostis meus terribilibus oculis me intuitus est.
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11Aperuerunt super me ora sua, et exprobrantes percusserunt maxillam meam: satiati sunt pœnis meis.
11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12Conclusit me Deus apud iniquum, et manibus impiorum me tradidit.
12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13Ego ille quondam opulentus, repente contritus sum: tenuit cervicem meam, confregit me, et posuit me sibi quasi in signum.
13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14Circumdedit me lanceis suis; convulneravit lumbos meos: non pepercit, et effudit in terra viscera mea.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15Concidit me vulnere super vulnus: irruit in me quasi gigas.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16Saccum consui super cutem meam, et operui cinere carnem meam.
16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17Facies mea intumuit a fletu, et palpebræ meæ caligaverunt.
17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18Hæc passus sum absque iniquitate manus meæ, cum haberem mundas ad Deum preces.
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19Terra, ne operias sanguinem meum, neque inveniat in te locum latendi clamor meus:
19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
20ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis.
20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21Verbosi amici mei: ad Deum stillat oculus meus:
21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22atque utinam sic judicaretur vir cum Deo, quomodo judicatur filius hominis cum collega suo.
22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
23Ecce enim breves anni transeunt, et semitam per quam non revertar ambulo.]
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