Job 24
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
King James Version with Apocrypha
1[Ab Omnipotente non sunt abscondita tempora: qui autem noverunt eum, ignorant dies illius.
1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2Alii terminos transtulerunt; diripuerunt greges, et paverunt eos.
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof .
3Asinum pupillorum abegerunt, et abstulerunt pro pignore bovem viduæ.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4Subverterunt pauperum viam, et oppresserunt pariter mansuetos terræ.
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5Alii quasi onagri in deserto egrediuntur ad opus suum: vigilantes ad prædam, præparant panem liberis.
5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
6Agrum non suum demetunt, et vineam ejus, quem vi oppresserint, vindemiant.
6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7Nudos dimittunt homines, indumenta tollentes, quibus non est operimentum in frigore:
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8quos imbres montium rigant, et non habentes velamen, amplexantur lapides.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9Vim fecerunt deprædantes pupillos, et vulgum pauperem spoliaverunt.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10Nudis et incedentibus absque vestitu, et esurientibus tulerunt spicas.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11Inter acervos eorum meridiati sunt, qui calcatis torcularibus sitiunt.
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12De civitatibus fecerunt viros gemere, et anima vulneratorum clamavit: et Deus inultum abire non patitur.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them .
13Ipsi fuerunt rebelles lumini: nescierunt vias ejus, nec reversi sunt per semitas ejus.
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14Mane primo consurgit homicida; interficit egenum et pauperem: per noctem vero erit quasi fur.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15Oculus adulteri observat caliginem, dicens: Non me videbit oculus: et operiet vultum suum.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
16Perfodit in tenebris domos, sicut in die condixerant sibi, et ignoraverunt lucem.
16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17Si subito apparuerit aurora, arbitrantur umbram mortis: et sic in tenebris quasi in luce ambulant.
17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18Levis est super faciem aquæ: maledicta sit pars ejus in terra, nec ambulet per viam vinearum.
18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19Ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis nivium, et usque ad inferos peccatum illius.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
20Obliviscatur ejus misericordia; dulcedo illius vermes: non sit in recordatione, sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum.
20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21Pavit enim sterilem quæ non parit, et viduæ bene non fecit.
21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22Detraxit fortes in fortitudine sua, et cum steterit, non credet vitæ suæ.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23Dedit ei Deus locum pœnitentiæ, et ille abutitur eo in superbiam: oculi autem ejus sunt in viis illius.
23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24Elevati sunt ad modicum, et non subsistent: et humiliabuntur sicut omnia, et auferentur, et sicut summitates spicarum conterentur.
24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other , and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25Quod si non est ita, quis me potest arguere esse mentitum, et ponere ante Deum verba mea?]
25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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