Job 9
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1Et respondens Job, ait:
1Then Job answered,
2[Vere scio quod ita sit, et quod non justificetur homo compositus Deo.
2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
3Si voluerit contendere cum eo, non poterit ei respondere unum pro mille.
3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
4Sapiens corde est, et fortis robore: quis restitit ei, et pacem habuit?
4God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
5Qui transtulit montes, et nescierunt hi quos subvertit in furore suo.
5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
6Qui commovet terram de loco suo, et columnæ ejus concutiuntur.
6He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
7Qui præcipit soli, et non oritur, et stellas claudit quasi sub signaculo.
7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
8Qui extendit cælos solus, et graditur super fluctus maris.
8He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
9Qui facit Arcturum et Oriona, et Hyadas et interiora austri.
9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
10Qui facit magna, et incomprehensibilia, et mirabilia, quorum non est numerus.
10He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
11Si venerit ad me, non videbo eum; si abierit, non intelligam.
11Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
12Si repente interroget, quis respondebit ei? vel quis dicere potest: Cur ita facis?
12Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
13Deus, cujus iræ nemo resistere potest, et sub quo curvantur qui portant orbem.
13“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14Quantus ergo sum ego, ut respondeam ei, et loquar verbis meis cum eo?
14How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
15qui etiam si habuero quippiam justum, non respondebo: sed meum judicem deprecabor.
15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
16Et cum invocantem exaudierit me, non credo quod audierit vocem meam.
16If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17In turbine enim conteret me, et multiplicabit vulnera mea, etiam sine causa.
17For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18Non concedit requiescere spiritum meum, et implet me amaritudinibus.
18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19Si fortitudo quæritur, robustissimus est; si æquitas judicii, nemo audet pro me testimonium dicere.
19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20Si justificare me voluero, os meum condemnabit me; si innocentem ostendero, pravum me comprobabit.
20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
21Etiam si simplex fuero, hoc ipsum ignorabit anima mea, et tædebit me vitæ meæ.
21I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
22Unum est quod locutus sum: et innocentem et impium ipse consumit.
22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23Si flagellat, occidat semel, et non de pœnis innocentum rideat.
23If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24Terra data est in manus impii; vultum judicum ejus operit. Quod si non ille est, quis ergo est?
24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
25Dies mei velociores fuerunt cursore; fugerunt, et non viderunt bonum.
25“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
26Pertransierunt quasi naves poma portantes; sicut aquila volans ad escam.
26They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
27Cum dixero: Nequaquam ita loquar: commuto faciem meam, et dolore torqueor.
27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
28Verebar omnia opera mea, sciens quod non parceres delinquenti.
28I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29Si autem et sic impius sum, quare frustra laboravi?
29I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
30Si lotus fuero quasi aquis nivis, et fulserint velut mundissimæ manus meæ,
30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
31tamen sordibus intinges me, et abominabuntur me vestimenta mea.
31yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
32Neque enim viro qui similis mei est, respondebo; nec qui mecum in judicio ex æquo possit audiri.
32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
33Non est qui utrumque valeat arguere, et ponere manum suam in ambobus.
33There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
34Auferat a me virgam suam, et pavor ejus non me terreat.
34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
35Loquar, et non timebo eum; neque enim possum metuens respondere.]
35then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
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