Job 24
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1[Ab Omnipotente non sunt abscondita tempora: qui autem noverunt eum, ignorant dies illius.
1“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
2Alii terminos transtulerunt; diripuerunt greges, et paverunt eos.
2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
3Asinum pupillorum abegerunt, et abstulerunt pro pignore bovem viduæ.
3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and 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 all hide themselves.
5Alii quasi onagri in deserto egrediuntur ad opus suum: vigilantes ad prædam, præparant panem liberis.
5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
6Agrum non suum demetunt, et vineam ejus, quem vi oppresserint, vindemiant.
6They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
7Nudos dimittunt homines, indumenta tollentes, quibus non est operimentum in frigore:
7They lie all night naked without clothing, and 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 lack of a shelter.
9Vim fecerunt deprædantes pupillos, et vulgum pauperem spoliaverunt.
9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
10Nudis et incedentibus absque vestitu, et esurientibus tulerunt spicas.
10so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
11Inter acervos eorum meridiati sunt, qui calcatis torcularibus sitiunt.
11They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
12De civitatibus fecerunt viros gemere, et anima vulneratorum clamavit: et Deus inultum abire non patitur.
12From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
13Ipsi fuerunt rebelles lumini: nescierunt vias ejus, nec reversi sunt per semitas ejus.
13“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
14Mane primo consurgit homicida; interficit egenum et pauperem: per noctem vero erit quasi fur.
14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
15Oculus adulteri observat caliginem, dicens: Non me videbit oculus: et operiet vultum suum.
15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
16Perfodit in tenebris domos, sicut in die condixerant sibi, et ignoraverunt lucem.
16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
17Si subito apparuerit aurora, arbitrantur umbram mortis: et sic in tenebris quasi in luce ambulant.
17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18Levis est super faciem aquæ: maledicta sit pars ejus in terra, nec ambulet per viam vinearum.
18“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into 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 does Sheol those who have sinned.
20Obliviscatur ejus misericordia; dulcedo illius vermes: non sit in recordatione, sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum.
20The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
21Pavit enim sterilem quæ non parit, et viduæ bene non fecit.
21He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
22Detraxit fortes in fortitudine sua, et cum steterit, non credet vitæ suæ.
22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
23Dedit ei Deus locum pœnitentiæ, et ille abutitur eo in superbiam: oculi autem ejus sunt in viis illius.
23God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
24Elevati sunt ad modicum, et non subsistent: et humiliabuntur sicut omnia, et auferentur, et sicut summitates spicarum conterentur.
24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
25Quod si non est ita, quis me potest arguere esse mentitum, et ponere ante Deum verba mea?]
25If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”
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