Job 38
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,
1Respondens autem Dominus Job de turbine, dixit:
2“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
2[Quis est iste involvens sententias sermonibus imperitis?
3Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
3Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos: interrogabo te, et responde mihi.
4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
4Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terræ? indica mihi, si habes intelligentiam.
5Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
5Quis posuit mensuras ejus, si nosti? vel quis tetendit super eam lineam?
6What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
6Super quo bases illius solidatæ sunt? aut quis demisit lapidem angularem ejus,
7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
7cum me laudarent simul astra matutina, et jubilarent omnes filii Dei?
8“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
8Quis conclusit ostiis mare, quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens;
9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
9cum ponerem nubem vestimentum ejus, et caligine illud quasi pannis infantiæ obvolverem?
10marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
10Circumdedi illud terminis meis, et posui vectem et ostia,
11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
11et dixi: Usque huc venies, et non procedes amplius, et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos.
12“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
12Numquid post ortum tuum præcepisti diluculo, et ostendisti auroræ locum suum?
13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
13Et tenuisti concutiens extrema terræ, et excussisti impios ex ea?
14It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
14Restituetur ut lutum signaculum, et stabit sicut vestimentum:
15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
15auferetur ab impiis lux sua, et brachium excelsum confringetur.
16“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
16Numquid ingressus es profunda maris, et in novissimis abyssi deambulasti?
17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
17Numquid apertæ sunt tibi portæ mortis, et ostia tenebrosa vidisti?
18Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
18Numquid considerasti latitudinem terræ? indica mihi, si nosti, omnia:
19“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
19in qua via lux habitet, et tenebrarum quis locus sit:
20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
20ut ducas unumquodque ad terminos suos, et intelligas semitas domus ejus.
21Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
21Sciebas tunc quod nasciturus esses, et numerum dierum tuorum noveras?
22Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
22Numquid ingressus es thesauros nivis, aut thesauros grandinis aspexisti,
23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
23quæ præparavi in tempus hostis, in diem pugnæ et belli?
24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
24Per quam viam spargitur lux, dividitur æstus super terram?
25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
25Quis dedit vehementissimo imbri cursum, et viam sonantis tonitrui,
26to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
26ut plueret super terram absque homine in deserto, ubi nullus mortalium commoratur;
27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
27ut impleret inviam et desolatam, et produceret herbas virentes?
28Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
28Quis est pluviæ pater? vel quis genuit stillas roris?
29Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
29De cujus utero egressa est glacies? et gelu de cælo quis genuit?
30The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
30In similitudinem lapidis aquæ durantur, et superficies abyssi constringitur.
31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
31Numquid conjungere valebis micantes stellas Pleiadas, aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare?
32Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
32Numquid producis luciferum in tempore suo, et vesperum super filios terræ consurgere facis?
33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
33Numquid nosti ordinem cæli, et pones rationem ejus in terra?
34“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
34Numquid elevabis in nebula vocem tuam, et impetus aquarum operiet te?
35Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
35Numquid mittes fulgura, et ibunt, et revertentia dicent tibi: Adsumus?
36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
36Quis posuit in visceribus hominis sapientiam? vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam?
37Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
37Quis enarrabit cælorum rationem? et concentum cæli quis dormire faciet?
38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
38Quando fundebatur pulvis in terra, et glebæ compingebantur?
39“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
39Numquid capies leænæ prædam, et animam catulorum ejus implebis,
40when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
40quando cubant in antris, et in specubus insidiantur?
41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
41Quis præparat corvo escam suam, quando pulli ejus clamant ad Deum, vagantes, eo quod non habeant cibos?]
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