Job 17
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1[Spiritus meus attenuabitur; dies mei breviabuntur: et solum mihi superest sepulchrum.
1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
2Non peccavi, et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus.
2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
3Libera me, Domine, et pone me juxta te, et cujusvis manus pugnet contra me.
3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4Cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina: propterea non exaltabuntur.
4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5Prædam pollicetur sociis, et oculi filiorum ejus deficient.
5He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6Posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi, et exemplum sum coram eis.
6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
7Caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus, et membra mea quasi in nihilum redacta sunt.
7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
8Stupebunt justi super hoc, et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur.
8Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
9Et tenebit justus viam suam, et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem.
9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10Igitur omnes vos convertimini, et venite, et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem.
10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
11Dies mei transierunt; cogitationes meæ dissipatæ sunt, torquentes cor meum.
11My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
12Noctem verterunt in diem, et rursum post tenebras spero lucem.
12They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
13Si sustinuero, infernus domus mea est, et in tenebris stravi lectulum meum.
13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
14Putredini dixi: Pater meus es; Mater mea, et soror mea, vermibus.
14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
15Ubi est ergo nunc præstolatio mea? et patientiam meam quis considerat?
15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
16In profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea: putasne saltem ibi erit requies mihi?]
16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
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