Job 17

World English Bible

Clementine Vulgate, 1598

1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

1[Spiritus meus attenuabitur; dies mei breviabuntur: et solum mihi superest sepulchrum.

2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

2Non peccavi, et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus.

3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

3Libera me, Domine, et pone me juxta te, et cujusvis manus pugnet contra me.

4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

4Cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina: propterea non exaltabuntur.

5He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

5Prædam pollicetur sociis, et oculi filiorum ejus deficient.

6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

6Posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi, et exemplum sum coram eis.

7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

7Caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus, et membra mea quasi in nihilum redacta sunt.

8Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

8Stupebunt justi super hoc, et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur.

9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

9Et tenebit justus viam suam, et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem.

10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

10Igitur omnes vos convertimini, et venite, et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem.

11My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

11Dies mei transierunt; cogitationes meæ dissipatæ sunt, torquentes cor meum.

12They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

12Noctem verterunt in diem, et rursum post tenebras spero lucem.

13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

13Si sustinuero, infernus domus mea est, et in tenebris stravi lectulum meum.

14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

14Putredini dixi: Pater meus es; Mater mea, et soror mea, vermibus.

15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

15Ubi est ergo nunc præstolatio mea? et patientiam meam quis considerat?

16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

16In profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea: putasne saltem ibi erit requies mihi?]

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