Job 38
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Respondens autem Dominus Job de turbine, dixit:
1Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:
2[Quis est iste involvens sententias sermonibus imperitis?
2Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?
3Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos: interrogabo te, et responde mihi.
3Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
4Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terræ? indica mihi, si habes intelligentiam.
4Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.
5Quis posuit mensuras ejus, si nosti? vel quis tetendit super eam lineam?
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6Super quo bases illius solidatæ sunt? aut quis demisit lapidem angularem ejus,
6Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,
7cum me laudarent simul astra matutina, et jubilarent omnes filii Dei?
7When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?
8Quis conclusit ostiis mare, quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens;
8Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
9cum ponerem nubem vestimentum ejus, et caligine illud quasi pannis infantiæ obvolverem?
9When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?
10Circumdedi illud terminis meis, et posui vectem et ostia,
10I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:
11et dixi: Usque huc venies, et non procedes amplius, et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos.
11And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
12Numquid post ortum tuum præcepisti diluculo, et ostendisti auroræ locum suum?
12Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
13Et tenuisti concutiens extrema terræ, et excussisti impios ex ea?
13And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?
14Restituetur ut lutum signaculum, et stabit sicut vestimentum:
14The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:
15auferetur ab impiis lux sua, et brachium excelsum confringetur.
15From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.
16Numquid ingressus es profunda maris, et in novissimis abyssi deambulasti?
16Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?
17Numquid apertæ sunt tibi portæ mortis, et ostia tenebrosa vidisti?
17Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?
18Numquid considerasti latitudinem terræ? indica mihi, si nosti, omnia:
18Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?
19in qua via lux habitet, et tenebrarum quis locus sit:
19Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness:
20ut ducas unumquodque ad terminos suos, et intelligas semitas domus ejus.
20That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.
21Sciebas tunc quod nasciturus esses, et numerum dierum tuorum noveras?
21Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?
22Numquid ingressus es thesauros nivis, aut thesauros grandinis aspexisti,
22Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail:
23quæ præparavi in tempus hostis, in diem pugnæ et belli?
23Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?
24Per quam viam spargitur lux, dividitur æstus super terram?
24By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?
25Quis dedit vehementissimo imbri cursum, et viam sonantis tonitrui,
25Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:
26ut plueret super terram absque homine in deserto, ubi nullus mortalium commoratur;
26That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:
27ut impleret inviam et desolatam, et produceret herbas virentes?
27That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
28Quis est pluviæ pater? vel quis genuit stillas roris?
28Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?
29De cujus utero egressa est glacies? et gelu de cælo quis genuit?
29Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?
30In similitudinem lapidis aquæ durantur, et superficies abyssi constringitur.
30The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
31Numquid conjungere valebis micantes stellas Pleiadas, aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare?
31Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?
32Numquid producis luciferum in tempore suo, et vesperum super filios terræ consurgere facis?
32Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?
33Numquid nosti ordinem cæli, et pones rationem ejus in terra?
33Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?
34Numquid elevabis in nebula vocem tuam, et impetus aquarum operiet te?
34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?
35Numquid mittes fulgura, et ibunt, et revertentia dicent tibi: Adsumus?
35Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?
36Quis posuit in visceribus hominis sapientiam? vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam?
36Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?
37Quis enarrabit cælorum rationem? et concentum cæli quis dormire faciet?
37Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
38Quando fundebatur pulvis in terra, et glebæ compingebantur?
38When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?
39Numquid capies leænæ prædam, et animam catulorum ejus implebis,
39Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,
40quando cubant in antris, et in specubus insidiantur?
40When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?
41Quis præparat corvo escam suam, quando pulli ejus clamant ad Deum, vagantes, eo quod non habeant cibos?]
41Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?
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