The Latin Vulgate VUL
Hebrew Names Version HNV
1 spiritus meus adtenuabitur dies mei breviabuntur et solum mihi superest sepulchrum
1
"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
2 non peccavi et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus
2
Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.
3 libera me et pone iuxta te et cuiusvis manus pugnet contra me
3
"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina et propterea non exaltabuntur
4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.
5 praedam pollicetur sociis et oculi filiorum eius deficient
5
He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi et exemplum sum coram eis
6
"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
7 caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus et membra mea quasi in nihili redacta sunt
7
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
8 stupebunt iusti super hoc et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur
8
Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
9 et tenebit iustus viam suam et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem
9
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
10 igitur vos omnes convertimini et venite et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem
10
But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 dies mei transierunt cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt torquentes cor meum
11
My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.
12 noctem verterunt in diem et rursum post tenebras spero lucem
12
They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
13 si sustinuero infernus domus mea est in tenebris stravi lectulum meum
13
If I look for She'ol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
14 putredini dixi pater meus es mater mea et soror mea vermibus
14
If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
15 ubi est ergo nunc praestolatio mea et patientiam meam quis considerat
15
Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
16 in profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea putasne saltim ibi erit requies mihi
16
Shall it go down with me to the gates of She'ol, Or descend together into the dust?"
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