Job 21
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1Respondens autem Job, dixit:
1Then Job answered,
2[Audite, quæso, sermones meos, et agite pœnitentiam.
2“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
3Sustinete me, et ego loquar: et post mea, si videbitur, verba, ridete.
3Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
4Numquid contra hominem disputatio mea est, ut merito non debeam contristari?
4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
5Attendite me et obstupescite, et superponite digitum ori vestro.
5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
6Et ego, quando recordatus fuero, pertimesco, et concutit carnem meam tremor.
6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
7Quare ergo impii vivunt, sublevati sunt, confortatique divitiis?
7“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
8Semen eorum permanet coram eis: propinquorum turba et nepotum in conspectu eorum.
8Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
9Domus eorum securæ sunt et pacatæ, et non est virga Dei super illos.
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10Bos eorum concepit, et non abortivit: vacca peperit, et non est privata fœtu suo.
10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
11Egrediuntur quasi greges parvuli eorum, et infantes eorum exultant lusibus.
11They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
12Tenent tympanum et citharam, et gaudent ad sonitum organi.
12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13Ducunt in bonis dies suos, et in puncto ad inferna descendunt.
13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
14Qui dixerunt Deo: Recede a nobis, et scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus.
14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
15Quis est Omnipotens, ut serviamus ei? et quid nobis prodest si oraverimus illum?
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
16Verumtamen quia non sunt in manu eorum bona sua, consilium impiorum longe sit a me.
16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17Quoties lucerna impiorum extinguetur, et superveniet eis inundatio, et dolores dividet furoris sui?
17“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
18Erunt sicut paleæ ante faciem venti, et sicut favilla quam turbo dispergit.
18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
19Deus servabit filiis illius dolorem patris, et cum reddiderit, tunc sciet.
19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
20Videbunt oculi ejus interfectionem suam, et de furore Omnipotentis bibet.
20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21Quid enim ad eum pertinet de domo sua post se, et si numerus mensium ejus dimidietur?
21For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
22Numquid Deus docebit quispiam scientiam, qui excelsos judicat?
22“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
23Iste moritur robustus et sanus, dives et felix:
23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24viscera ejus plena sunt adipe, et medullis ossa illius irrigantur:
24His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
25alius vero moritur in amaritudine animæ absque ullis opibus:
25Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
26et tamen simul in pulvere dormient, et vermes operient eos.
26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
27Certe novi cogitationes vestras, et sententias contra me iniquas.
27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
28Dicitis enim: Ubi est domus principis? et ubi tabernacula impiorum?
28For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29Interrogate quemlibet de viatoribus, et hæc eadem illum intelligere cognoscetis:
29Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
30quia in diem perditionis servatur malus, et ad diem furoris ducetur.
30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
31Quis arguet coram eo viam ejus? et quæ fecit, quis reddet illi?
31Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
32Ipse ad sepulchra ducetur, et in congerie mortuorum vigilabit.
32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
33Dulcis fuit glareis Cocyti, et post se omnem hominem trahet, et ante se innumerabiles.
33The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
34Quomodo igitur consolamini me frustra, cum responsio vestra repugnare ostensa sit veritati?]
34So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
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