Job 29
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
King James Version with Apocrypha
1Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit:
1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2[Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos, secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me?
2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
3Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum, et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris:
3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
4sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ, quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo:
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
5quando erat Omnipotens mecum, et in circuitu meo pueri mei:
5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
6quando lavabam pedes meos butyro, et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei:
6When I washed my steps 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 through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
8Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur: et senes assurgentes stabant.
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
9Principes cessabant loqui, et digitum superponebant ori suo.
9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10Vocem suam cohibebant duces, et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.
10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11Auris audiens beatificabat me, et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi:
11When the ear heard me , then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me , it gave witness to me:
12eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem, et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.
12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
13Benedictio perituri super me veniebat, et cor viduæ consolatus sum.
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14Justitia indutus sum, et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
15Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
16Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.
16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17Conterebam molas iniqui, et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.
17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18Dicebamque: In nidulo meo moriar, et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.
18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
19Radix mea aperta est secus aquas, et ros morabitur in messione mea.
19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
20Gloria mea semper innovabitur, et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.
20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam, et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.
21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.
22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23Expectabant me sicut pluviam, et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.
23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant: et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.
24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus: cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu, eram tamen mœrentium consolator.]
25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
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