Job 33
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1[Audi igitur, Job, eloquia mea, et omnes sermones meos ausculta.
1Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
2Ecce aperui os meum: loquatur lingua mea in faucibus meis.
2Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.
3Simplici corde meo sermones mei, et sententiam puram labia mea loquentur.
3My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.
4Spiritus Dei fecit me, et spiraculum Omnipotentis vivificavit me.
4The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
5Si potes, responde mihi, et adversus faciem meam consiste.
5If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
6Ecce, et me sicut et te fecit Deus, et de eodem luto ego quoque formatus sum.
6Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.
7Verumtamen miraculum meum non te terreat, et eloquentia mea non sit tibi gravis.
7But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.
8Dixisti ergo in auribus meis, et vocem verborum tuorum audivi:
8Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words:
9Mundus sum ego, et absque delicto: immaculatus, et non est iniquitas in me.
9I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.
10Quia querelas in me reperit, ideo arbitratus est me inimicum sibi.
10Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.
11Posuit in nervo pedes meos; custodivit omnes semitas meas.
11He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.
12Hoc est ergo in quo non es justificatus: respondebo tibi, quia major sit Deus homine.
12Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
13Adversus eum contendis, quod non ad omnia verba responderit tibi?
13Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?
14Semel loquitur Deus, et secundo idipsum non repetit.
14God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.
15Per somnium, in visione nocturna, quando irruit sopor super homines, et dormiunt in lectulo,
15By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:
16tunc aperit aures virorum, et erudiens eos instruit disciplina,
16Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.
17ut avertat hominem ab his quæ facit, et liberet eum de superbia,
17That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.
18eruens animam ejus a corruptione, et vitam illius ut non transeat in gladium.
18Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.
19Increpat quoque per dolorem in lectulo, et omnia ossa ejus marcescere facit.
19He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.
20Abominabilis ei fit in vita sua panis, et animæ illius cibus ante desiderabilis.
20Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.
21Tabescet caro ejus, et ossa, quæ tecta fuerant, nudabuntur.
21His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.
22Appropinquavit corruptioni anima ejus, et vita illius mortiferis.
22His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.
23Si fuerit pro eo angelus loquens, unus de millibus, ut annuntiet hominis æquitatem,
23If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man’s uprightness,
24miserebitur ejus, et dicet: Libera eum, ut non descendat in corruptionem: inveni in quo ei propitier.
24He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.
25Consumpta est caro ejus a suppliciis: revertatur ad dies adolescentiæ suæ.
25His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth.
26Deprecabitur Deum, et placabilis ei erit: et videbit faciem ejus in jubilo, et reddet homini justitiam suam.
26He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.
27Respiciet homines, et dicet: Peccavi, et vere deliqui, et ut eram dignus, non recepi.
27He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.
28Liberavit animam suam, ne pergeret in interitum, sed vivens lucem videret.
28He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.
29Ecce hæc omnia operatur Deus tribus vicibus per singulos,
29Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one.
30ut revocet animas eorum a corruptione, et illuminet luce viventium.
30That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.
31Attende, Job, et audi me: et tace, dum ego loquor.
31Attend, Job, and hearken to me: and hold thy peace, whilst I speak.
32Si autem habes quod loquaris, responde mihi: loquere, volo enim te apparere justum.
32But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would have thee to appear just.
33Quod si non habes, audi me: tace, et docebo te sapientiam.]
33And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.
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