Job 16
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1Respondens autem Job, dixit:
1Then Job answered,
2[Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.
2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
3Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa? aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris?
3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui, atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea:
4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
5consolarer et ego vos sermonibus, et moverem caput meum super vos;
5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
6roborarem vos ore meo, et moverem labia mea, quasi parcens vobis.
6“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. 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, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
8Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus, et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei.
8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
9Rugæ meæ testimonium dicunt contra me, et suscitatur falsiloquus adversus faciem meam, contradicens mihi.
9He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
10Collegit furorem suum in me, et comminans mihi, infremuit contra me dentibus suis: hostis meus terribilibus oculis me intuitus est.
10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
11Aperuerunt super me ora sua, et exprobrantes percusserunt maxillam meam: satiati sunt pœnis meis.
11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12Conclusit me Deus apud iniquum, et manibus impiorum me tradidit.
12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
13Ego ille quondam opulentus, repente contritus sum: tenuit cervicem meam, confregit me, et posuit me sibi quasi in signum.
13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
14Circumdedit me lanceis suis; convulneravit lumbos meos: non pepercit, et effudit in terra viscera mea.
14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.
15Concidit me vulnere super vulnus: irruit in me quasi gigas.
15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
16Saccum consui super cutem meam, et operui cinere carnem meam.
16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17Facies mea intumuit a fletu, et palpebræ meæ caligaverunt.
17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18Hæc passus sum absque iniquitate manus meæ, cum haberem mundas ad Deum preces.
18“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
19Terra, ne operias sanguinem meum, neque inveniat in te locum latendi clamor meus:
19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
20ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis.
20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
21Verbosi amici mei: ad Deum stillat oculus meus:
21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
22atque utinam sic judicaretur vir cum Deo, quomodo judicatur filius hominis cum collega suo.
22For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.
23Ecce enim breves anni transeunt, et semitam per quam non revertar ambulo.]
no verse 23 in this text
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