The Latin Vulgate VUL
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 ecce omnia et vidit oculus meus et audivit auris mea et intellexi singula
1
"Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
2 secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi nec inferior vestri sum
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What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
3 sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar et disputare cum Deo cupio
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But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
4 prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii et cultores perversorum dogmatum
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As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
5 atque utinam taceretis ut putaremini esse sapientes
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Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
6 audite ergo correptiones meas et iudicium labiorum meorum adtendite
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Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio ut pro illo loquamini dolos
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Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?
8 numquid faciem eius accipitis et pro Deo iudicare nitimini
8
Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
9 aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest aut decipietur ut homo vestris fraudulentiis
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Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
10 ipse vos arguet quoniam in abscondito faciem eius accipitis
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He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
11 statim ut se commoverit turbabit vos et terror eius inruet super vos
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Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
12 memoria vestra conparabitur cineri et redigentur in lutum cervices vestrae
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Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 tacete paulisper ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit
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"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
14 quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis et animam meam porto in manibus meis
14
I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
15 etiam si occiderit me in ipso sperabo verumtamen vias meas in conspectu eius arguam
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Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.
16 et ipse erit salvator meus non enim veniet in conspectu eius omnis hypocrita
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This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
17 audite sermonem meum et enigmata percipite auribus vestris
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Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
18 si fuero iudicatus scio quod iustus inveniar
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Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
19 quis est qui iudicetur mecum veniat quare tacens consumor
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Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
20 duo tantum ne facias mihi et tunc a facie tua non abscondar
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Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
21 manum tuam longe fac a me et formido tua non me terreat
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withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not dread of thee terrify me.
22 et voca me et respondebo tibi aut certe loquar et tu responde mihi
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Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.
23 quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi
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How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24 cur faciem tuam abscondis et arbitraris me inimicum tuum
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Why dost thou hide thy face, and count me as thy enemy?
25 contra folium quod vento rapitur ostendis potentiam tuam et stipulam siccam persequeris
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Wilt thou frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
26 scribis enim contra me amaritudines et consumere me vis peccatis adulescentiae meae
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For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27 posuisti in nervo pedem meum et observasti omnes semitas meas et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti
27
Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
28 qui quasi putredo consumendus sum et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea
28
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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