Job 38
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Berean Standard Bible
1Respondens autem Dominus Job de turbine, dixit:
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2[Quis est iste involvens sententias sermonibus imperitis?
2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
3Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos: interrogabo te, et responde mihi.
3Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
4Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terræ? indica mihi, si habes intelligentiam.
4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5Quis posuit mensuras ejus, si nosti? vel quis tetendit super eam lineam?
5Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6Super quo bases illius solidatæ sunt? aut quis demisit lapidem angularem ejus,
6On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
7cum me laudarent simul astra matutina, et jubilarent omnes filii Dei?
7while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8Quis conclusit ostiis mare, quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens;
8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9cum ponerem nubem vestimentum ejus, et caligine illud quasi pannis infantiæ obvolverem?
9when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
10Circumdedi illud terminis meis, et posui vectem et ostia,
10when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
11et dixi: Usque huc venies, et non procedes amplius, et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos.
11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
12Numquid post ortum tuum præcepisti diluculo, et ostendisti auroræ locum suum?
12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13Et tenuisti concutiens extrema terræ, et excussisti impios ex ea?
13that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14Restituetur ut lutum signaculum, et stabit sicut vestimentum:
14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15auferetur ab impiis lux sua, et brachium excelsum confringetur.
15Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
16Numquid ingressus es profunda maris, et in novissimis abyssi deambulasti?
16Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
17Numquid apertæ sunt tibi portæ mortis, et ostia tenebrosa vidisti?
17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18Numquid considerasti latitudinem terræ? indica mihi, si nosti, omnia:
18Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19in qua via lux habitet, et tenebrarum quis locus sit:
19Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20ut ducas unumquodque ad terminos suos, et intelligas semitas domus ejus.
20so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
21Sciebas tunc quod nasciturus esses, et numerum dierum tuorum noveras?
21Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
22Numquid ingressus es thesauros nivis, aut thesauros grandinis aspexisti,
22Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
23quæ præparavi in tempus hostis, in diem pugnæ et belli?
23which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
24Per quam viam spargitur lux, dividitur æstus super terram?
24In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25Quis dedit vehementissimo imbri cursum, et viam sonantis tonitrui,
25Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
26ut plueret super terram absque homine in deserto, ubi nullus mortalium commoratur;
26to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
27ut impleret inviam et desolatam, et produceret herbas virentes?
27to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
28Quis est pluviæ pater? vel quis genuit stillas roris?
28Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
29De cujus utero egressa est glacies? et gelu de cælo quis genuit?
29From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30In similitudinem lapidis aquæ durantur, et superficies abyssi constringitur.
30when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
31Numquid conjungere valebis micantes stellas Pleiadas, aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare?
31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32Numquid producis luciferum in tempore suo, et vesperum super filios terræ consurgere facis?
32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
33Numquid nosti ordinem cæli, et pones rationem ejus in terra?
33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34Numquid elevabis in nebula vocem tuam, et impetus aquarum operiet te?
34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35Numquid mittes fulgura, et ibunt, et revertentia dicent tibi: Adsumus?
35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36Quis posuit in visceribus hominis sapientiam? vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam?
36Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
37Quis enarrabit cælorum rationem? et concentum cæli quis dormire faciet?
37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
38Quando fundebatur pulvis in terra, et glebæ compingebantur?
38when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
39Numquid capies leænæ prædam, et animam catulorum ejus implebis,
39Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
40quando cubant in antris, et in specubus insidiantur?
40when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
41Quis præparat corvo escam suam, quando pulli ejus clamant ad Deum, vagantes, eo quod non habeant cibos?]
41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
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