Job 30
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
King James Version with Apocrypha
1[Nunc autem derident me juniores tempore, quorum non dignabar patres ponere cum canibus gregis mei:
1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2quorum virtus manuum mihi erat pro nihilo, et vita ipsa putabantur indigni:
2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3egestate et fame steriles, qui rodebant in solitudine, squallentes calamitate et miseria.
3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4Et mandebant herbas, et arborum cortices, et radix juniperorum erat cibus eorum:
4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
5qui de convallibus ista rapientes, cum singula reperissent, ad ea cum clamore currebant.
5They were driven forth from among men , (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6In desertis habitabant torrentium, et in cavernis terræ, vel super glaream:
6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7qui inter hujuscemodi lætabantur, et esse sub sentibus delicias computabant:
7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8filii stultorum et ignobilium, et in terra penitus non parentes.
8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9Nunc in eorum canticum versus sum, et factus sum eis in proverbium.
9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10Abominantur me, et longe fugiunt a me, et faciem meam conspuere non verentur.
10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11Pharetram enim suam aperuit, et afflixit me, et frenum posuit in os meum.
11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12Ad dexteram orientis calamitates meæ illico surrexerunt: pedes meos subverterunt, et oppresserunt quasi fluctibus semitis suis.
12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13Dissipaverunt itinera mea; insidiati sunt mihi, et prævaluerunt: et non fuit qui ferret auxilium.
13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14Quasi rupto muro, et aperta janua, irruerunt super me, et ad meas miserias devoluti sunt.
14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me .
15Redactus sum in nihilum: abstulisti quasi ventus desiderium meum, et velut nubes pertransiit salus mea.
15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16Nunc autem in memetipso marcescit anima mea, et possident me dies afflictionis.
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17Nocte os meum perforatur doloribus, et qui me comedunt, non dormiunt.
17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18In multitudine eorum consumitur vestimentum meum, et quasi capito tunicæ succinxerunt me.
18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19Comparatus sum luto, et assimilatus sum favillæ et cineri.
19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20Clamo ad te, et non exaudis me: sto, et non respicis me.
20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not .
21Mutatus es mihi in crudelem, et in duritia manus tuæ adversaris mihi.
21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22Elevasti me, et quasi super ventum ponens; elisisti me valide.
22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it , and dissolvest my substance.
23Scio quia morti trades me, ubi constituta est domus omni viventi.
23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24Verumtamen non ad consumptionem eorum emittis manum tuam: et si corruerint, ipse salvabis.
24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25Flebam quondam super eo qui afflictus erat, et compatiebatur anima mea pauperi.
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26Expectabam bona, et venerunt mihi mala: præstolabar lucem, et eruperunt tenebræ.
26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27Interiora mea efferbuerunt absque ulla requie: prævenerunt me dies afflictionis.
27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28Mœrens incedebam sine furore; consurgens, in turba clamabam.
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
29Frater fui draconum, et socius struthionum.
29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30Cutis mea denigrata est super me, et ossa mea aruerunt præ caumate.
30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31Versa est in luctum cithara mea, et organum meum in vocem flentium.]
31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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