The Latin Vulgate VUL
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 respondens autem Iob dixit
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Then Job answered:
2 usquequo adfligitis animam meam et adteritis me sermonibus
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"How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
3 en decies confunditis me et non erubescitis opprimentes me
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These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4 nempe et si ignoravi mecum erit ignorantia mea
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And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5 at vos contra me erigimini et arguitis me obprobriis meis
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If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
6 saltim nunc intellegite quia Deus non aequo iudicio adflixerit me et flagellis suis me cinxerit
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know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
7 ecce clamabo vim patiens et nemo audiet vociferabor et non est qui iudicet
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Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
8 semitam meam circumsepsit et transire non possum et in calle meo tenebras posuit
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He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 spoliavit me gloria mea et abstulit coronam de capite meo
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He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 destruxit me undique et pereo et quasi evulsae arbori abstulit spem meam
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He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
11 iratus est contra me furor eius et sic me habuit quasi hostem suum
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He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
12 simul venerunt latrones eius et fecerunt sibi viam per me et obsederunt in gyro tabernaculum meum
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His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
13 fratres meos longe fecit a me et noti mei quasi alieni recesserunt a me
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"He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 dereliquerunt me propinqui mei et qui me noverant obliti sunt mei
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My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
15 inquilini domus meae et ancillae meae sicut alienum habuerunt me et quasi peregrinus fui in oculis eorum
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the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
16 servum meum vocavi et non respondit ore proprio deprecabar illum
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I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.
17 halitum meum exhorruit uxor mea et orabam filios uteri mei
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I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.
18 stulti quoque despiciebant me et cum ab eis recessissem detrahebant mihi
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Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
19 abominati sunt me quondam consiliarii mei et quem maxime diligebam aversatus est me
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All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20 pelli meae consumptis carnibus adhesit os meum et derelicta sunt tantummodo labia circa dentes meos
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My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 miseremini mei miseremini mei saltim vos amici mei quia manus Domini tetigit me
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Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
22 quare persequimini me sicut Deus et carnibus meis saturamini
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Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23 quis mihi tribuat ut scribantur sermones mei quis mihi det ut exarentur in libro
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"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24 stilo ferreo et plumbi lammina vel certe sculpantur in silice
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Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
25 scio enim quod redemptor meus vivat et in novissimo de terra surrecturus sim
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For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth;
26 et rursum circumdabor pelle mea et in carne mea videbo Deum
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and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,
27 quem visurus sum ego ipse et oculi mei conspecturi sunt et non alius reposita est haec spes mea in sinu meo
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whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
28 quare ergo nunc dicitis persequamur eum et radicem verbi inveniamus contra eum
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If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him';
29 fugite ergo a facie gladii quoniam ultor iniquitatum gladius est et scitote esse iudicium
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be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."
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