Job 5
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1[Voca ergo, si est qui tibi respondeat, et ad aliquem sanctorum convertere.
1Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
2Vere stultum interficit iracundia, et parvulum occidit invidia.
2For anger killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
3Ego vidi stultum firma radice, et maledixi pulchritudini ejus statim.
3I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.
4Longe fient filii ejus a salute, et conterentur in porta, et non erit qui eruat.
4His children are far from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them.
5Cujus messem famelicus comedet, et ipsum rapiet armatus, et bibent sitientes divitias ejus.
5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
6Nihil in terra sine causa fit, et de humo non oritur dolor.
6For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7Homo nascitur ad laborem, et avis ad volatum.
7But man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8Quam ob rem ego deprecabor Dominum, et ad Deum ponam eloquium meum:
8But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause;
9qui facit magna et inscrutabilia, et mirabilia absque numero;
9Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;
10qui dat pluviam super faciem terræ, et irrigat aquis universa;
10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields;
11qui ponit humiles in sublime, et mœrentes erigit sospitate;
11So that He setteth up on high those that are low, and those that mourn are exalted to safety.
12qui dissipat cogitationes malignorum, ne possint implere manus eorum quod cœperant;
12He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.
13qui apprehendit sapientes in astutia eorum, et consilium pravorum dissipat.
13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong.
14Per diem incurrent tenebras, et quasi in nocte, sic palpabunt in meridie.
14They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15Porro salvum faciet egenum a gladio oris eorum, et de manu violenti pauperem.
15But He saveth from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16Et erit egeno spes; iniquitas autem contrahet os suum.
16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17Beatus homo qui corripitur a Deo: increpationem ergo Domini ne reprobes:
17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
18quia ipse vulnerat, et medetur; percutit, et manus ejus sanabunt.
18For He maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and His hands make whole.
19In sex tribulationibus liberabit te, et in septima non tangent te malum.
19He will deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20In fame eruet te de morte, et in bello de manu gladii.
20In famine He will redeem thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.
21A flagello linguæ absconderis, et non timebis calamitatem cum venerit.
21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22In vastitate et fame ridebis, et bestias terræ non formidabis.
22At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23Sed cum lapidibus regionum pactum tuum, et bestiæ terræ pacificæ erunt tibi.
23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24Et scies quod pacem habeat tabernaculum tuum; et visitans speciem tuam, non peccabis.
24And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.
25Scies quoque quoniam multiplex erit semen tuum, et progenies tua quasi herba terræ.
25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
26Ingredieris in abundantia sepulchrum, sicut infertur acervus tritici in tempore suo.
26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
27Ecce hoc, ut investigavimus, ita est: quod auditum, mente pertracta.]
27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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