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