Job 4
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Berean Standard Bible
1Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit:
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2[Si cœperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit?
2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3Ecce docuisti multos, et manus lassas roborasti;
3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui, et genua trementia confortasti.
4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti; tetigit te, et conturbatus es.
5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6Ubi est timor tuus, fortitudo tua, patientia tua, et perfectio viarum tuarum?
6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit? aut quando recti deleti sunt?
7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8Quin potius vidi eos qui operantur iniquitatem, et seminant dolores, et metunt eos,
8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9flante Deo perisse, et spiritu iræ ejus esse consumptos.
9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
10Rugitus leonis, et vox leænæ, et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt.
10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11Tigris periit, eo quod non haberet prædam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.
11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12Porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum, et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri ejus.
12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13In horrore visionis nocturnæ, quando solet sopor occupare homines,
13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14pavor tenuit me, et tremor, et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt;
14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
15et cum spiritus, me præsente, transiret, inhorruerunt pili carnis meæ.
15Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
16Stetit quidam, cujus non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi auræ lenis audivi.
16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
17Numquid homo, Dei comparatione, justificabitur? aut factore suo purior erit vir?
17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
18Ecce qui serviunt ei, non sunt stabiles, et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem;
18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
19quanto magis hi qui habitant domos luteas, qui terrenum habent fundamentum, consumentur velut a tinea?
19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
20De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur; et quia nullus intelligit, in æternum peribunt.
20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21Qui autem reliqui fuerint, auferentur ex eis; morientur, et non in sapientia.]
21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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