Job 5
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1[Voca ergo, si est qui tibi respondeat, et ad aliquem sanctorum convertere.
1Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
2Vere stultum interficit iracundia, et parvulum occidit invidia.
2Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
3Ego vidi stultum firma radice, et maledixi pulchritudini ejus statim.
3I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
4Longe fient filii ejus a salute, et conterentur in porta, et non erit qui eruat.
4His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
5Cujus messem famelicus comedet, et ipsum rapiet armatus, et bibent sitientes divitias ejus.
5Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
6Nihil in terra sine causa fit, et de humo non oritur dolor.
6Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
7Homo nascitur ad laborem, et avis ad volatum.
7Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
8Quam ob rem ego deprecabor Dominum, et ad Deum ponam eloquium meum:
8Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
9qui facit magna et inscrutabilia, et mirabilia absque numero;
9Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
10qui dat pluviam super faciem terræ, et irrigat aquis universa;
10Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
11qui ponit humiles in sublime, et mœrentes erigit sospitate;
11Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
12qui dissipat cogitationes malignorum, ne possint implere manus eorum quod cœperant;
12Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
13qui apprehendit sapientes in astutia eorum, et consilium pravorum dissipat.
13Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
14Per diem incurrent tenebras, et quasi in nocte, sic palpabunt in meridie.
14They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15Porro salvum faciet egenum a gladio oris eorum, et de manu violenti pauperem.
15But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
16Et erit egeno spes; iniquitas autem contrahet os suum.
16And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.
17Beatus homo qui corripitur a Deo: increpationem ergo Domini ne reprobes:
17Blessed is the mall whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:
18quia ipse vulnerat, et medetur; percutit, et manus ejus sanabunt.
18For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
19In sex tribulationibus liberabit te, et in septima non tangent te malum.
19In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
20In fame eruet te de morte, et in bello de manu gladii.
20In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
21A flagello linguæ absconderis, et non timebis calamitatem cum venerit.
21Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.
22In vastitate et fame ridebis, et bestias terræ non formidabis.
22In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23Sed cum lapidibus regionum pactum tuum, et bestiæ terræ pacificæ erunt tibi.
23But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee.
24Et scies quod pacem habeat tabernaculum tuum; et visitans speciem tuam, non peccabis.
24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.
25Scies quoque quoniam multiplex erit semen tuum, et progenies tua quasi herba terræ.
25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
26Ingredieris in abundantia sepulchrum, sicut infertur acervus tritici in tempore suo.
26Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
27Ecce hoc, ut investigavimus, ita est: quod auditum, mente pertracta.]
27Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.
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