Job 19
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1Respondens autem Job, dixit:
1Then Job answered,
2[Usquequo affligitis animam meam, et atteritis me sermonibus?
2“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
3En decies confunditis me, et non erubescitis opprimentes me.
3You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
4Nempe etsi ignoravi, mecum erit ignorantia mea.
4If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5At vos contra me erigimini, et arguitis me opprobriis meis.
5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
6Saltem nunc intelligite quia Deus non æquo judicio afflixerit me, et flagellis suis me cinxerit.
6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
7Ecce clamabo, vim patiens, et nemo audiet; vociferabor, et non est qui judicet.
7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8Semitam meam circumsepsit, et transire non possum: et in calle meo tenebras posuit.
8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
9Spoliavit me gloria mea, et abstulit coronam de capite meo.
9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10Destruxit me undique, et pereo: et quasi evulsæ arbori abstulit spem meam.
10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
11Iratus est contra me furor ejus, et sic me habuit quasi hostem suum.
11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
12Simul venerunt latrones ejus, et fecerunt sibi viam per me, et obsederunt in gyro tabernaculum meum.
12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
13Fratres meos longe fecit a me, et noti mei quasi alieni recesserunt a me.
13“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14Dereliquerunt me propinqui mei, et qui me noverant obliti sunt mei.
14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
15Inquilini domus meæ et ancillæ meæ sicut alienum habuerunt me, et quasi peregrinus fui in oculis eorum.
15Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
16Servum meum vocavi, et non respondit: ore proprio deprecabar illum.
16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
17Halitum meum exhorruit uxor mea, et orabam filios uteri mei.
17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
18Stulti quoque despiciebant me: et cum ab eis recessissem, detrahebant mihi.
18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
19Abominati sunt me quondam consiliarii mei, et quem maxime diligebam, aversatus est me.
19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
20Pelli meæ, consumptis carnibus, adhæsit os meum, et derelicta sunt tantummodo labia circa dentes meos.
20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21Miseremini mei, miseremini mei saltem vos, amici mei, quia manus Domini tetigit me.
21“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
22Quare persequimini me sicut Deus, et carnibus meis saturamini?
22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23Quis mihi tribuat ut scribantur sermones mei? quis mihi det ut exarentur in libro
23“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24stylo ferreo et plumbi lamina, vel celte sculpantur in silice?
24That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
25Scio enim quod redemptor meus vivit, et in novissimo die de terra surrecturus sum:
25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
26et rursum circumdabor pelle mea, et in carne mea videbo Deum meum:
26After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
27quem visurus sum ego ipse, et oculi mei conspecturi sunt, et non alius: reposita est hæc spes mea in sinu meo.
27whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
28Quare ergo nunc dicitis: Persequamur eum, et radicem verbi inveniamus contra eum?
28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
29Fugite ergo a facie gladii, quoniam ultor iniquitatum gladius est: et scitote esse judicium.]
29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
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