Job 29
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit:
1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
2[Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos, secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me?
2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
3Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum, et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris:
3When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
4sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ, quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo:
4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
5quando erat Omnipotens mecum, et in circuitu meo pueri mei:
5When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
6quando lavabam pedes meos butyro, et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei:
6When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
7quando procedebam ad portam civitatis, et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.
7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
8Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur: et senes assurgentes stabant.
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
9Principes cessabant loqui, et digitum superponebant ori suo.
9The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
10Vocem suam cohibebant duces, et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.
10The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
11Auris audiens beatificabat me, et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi:
11The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
12eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem, et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.
12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
13Benedictio perituri super me veniebat, et cor viduæ consolatus sum.
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
14Justitia indutus sum, et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.
14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
15Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.
15I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
16Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.
16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
17Conterebam molas iniqui, et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.
17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
18Dicebamque: In nidulo meo moriar, et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.
18And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
19Radix mea aperta est secus aquas, et ros morabitur in messione mea.
19My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
20Gloria mea semper innovabitur, et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.
20My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
21Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam, et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.
21They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
22Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.
22To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
23Expectabant me sicut pluviam, et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.
23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
24Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant: et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.
24If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
25Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus: cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu, eram tamen mœrentium consolator.]
25If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.
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