Job 7
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1[Militia est vita hominis super terram, et sicut dies mercenarii dies ejus.
1Is there not a time of service to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
2Sicut servus desiderat umbram, et sicut mercenarius præstolatur finem operis sui,
2As a servant that eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hireling that looketh for his wages;
3sic et ego habui menses vacuos, et noctes laboriosas enumeravi mihi.
3So am I made to possess — months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4Si dormiero, dicam: Quando consurgam? et rursum expectabo vesperam, et replebor doloribus usque ad tenebras.
4When I lie down, I say: 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
5Induta est caro mea putredine, et sordibus pulveris cutis mea aruit et contracta est.
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.
6Dies mei velocius transierunt quam a texente tela succiditur, et consumpti sunt absque ulla spe.
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7Memento quia ventus est vita mea, et non revertetur oculus meus ut videat bona.
7O remember that my life is a breath; mine eye shall no more see good.
8Nec aspiciet me visus hominis; oculi tui in me, et non subsistam.
8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; while Thine eyes are upon me, I am gone.
9Sicut consumitur nubes, et pertransit, sic qui descenderit ad inferos, non ascendet.
9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
10Nec revertetur ultra in domum suam, neque cognoscet eum amplius locus ejus.
10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
11Quapropter et ego non parcam ori meo: loquar in tribulatione spiritus mei; confabulabor cum amaritudine animæ meæ.
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12Numquid mare ego sum, aut cetus, quia circumdedisti me carcere?
12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that Thou settest a watch over me?
13Si dixero: Consolabitur me lectulus meus, et relevabor loquens mecum in strato meo:
13When I say: 'My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint';
14terrebis me per somnia, et per visiones horrore concuties.
14Then Thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;
15Quam ob rem elegit suspendium anima mea, et mortem ossa mea.
15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than these my bones.
16Desperavi: nequaquam ultra jam vivam: parce mihi, nihil enim sunt dies mei.
16I loathe it; I shall not live alway; let me alone; for my days are vanity.
17Quid est homo, quia magnificas eum? aut quid apponis erga eum cor tuum?
17What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldest set Thy heart upon him,
18Visitas eum diluculo, et subito probas illum.
18And that Thou shouldest remember him every morning, and try him every moment?
19Usquequo non parcis mihi, nec dimittis me ut glutiam salivam meam?
19How long wilt Thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
20Peccavi; quid faciam tibi, o custos hominum? quare posuisti me contrarium tibi, et factus sum mihimetipsi gravis?
20If I have sinned, what do I unto Thee, O Thou watcher of men? Why hast Thou set me as a mark for Thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
21Cur non tollis peccatum meum, et quare non aufers iniquitatem meam? ecce nunc in pulvere dormiam, et si mane me quæsieris, non subsistam.]
21And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; and Thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.
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