The Latin Vulgate VUL
Good News Translation GNT
1 spiritus meus adtenuabitur dies mei breviabuntur et solum mihi superest sepulchrum
1
The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave.
2 non peccavi et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus
2
I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me.
3 libera me et pone iuxta te et cuiusvis manus pugnet contra me
3
I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say.
4 cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina et propterea non exaltabuntur
4
You have closed their minds to reason; don't let them triumph over me now.
5 praedam pollicetur sociis et oculi filiorum eius deficient
5
In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money, and his children suffer for it.
6 posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi et exemplum sum coram eis
6
And now people use this proverb against me; they come and spit in my face.
7 caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus et membra mea quasi in nihili redacta sunt
7
My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.
8 stupebunt iusti super hoc et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur
8
Those who claim to be honest are shocked, and they all condemn me as godless.
9 et tenebit iustus viam suam et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem
9
Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right.
10 igitur vos omnes convertimini et venite et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem
10
But if all of them came and stood before me, I would not find even one of them wise.
11 dies mei transierunt cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt torquentes cor meum
11
My days have passed; my plans have failed; my hope is gone.
12 noctem verterunt in diem et rursum post tenebras spero lucem
12
But my friends say night is daylight; they say that light is near, but I know I remain in darkness.
13 si sustinuero infernus domus mea est in tenebris stravi lectulum meum
13
My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.
14 putredini dixi pater meus es mater mea et soror mea vermibus
14
I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters.
15 ubi est ergo nunc praestolatio mea et patientiam meam quis considerat
15
Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any?
16 in profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea putasne saltim ibi erit requies mihi
16
Hope will not go with me when I go down to the world of the dead.
The Latin Vulgate is in the public domain.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.