The Latin Vulgate VUL
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 respondens autem Iob dixit
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Then Job answered:
2 audite quaeso sermones meos et agetis paenitentiam
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"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
3 sustinete me ut et ego loquar et post mea si videbitur verba ridete
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Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
4 numquid contra hominem disputatio mea est ut merito non debeam contristari
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As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
5 adtendite me et obstupescite et superponite digitum ori vestro
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Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6 et ego quando recordatus fuero pertimesco et concutit carnem meam tremor
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When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
7 quare ergo impii vivunt sublevati sunt confortatique divitiis
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Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
8 semen eorum permanet coram eis propinquorum turba et nepotum in conspectu eorum
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Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 domus eorum securae sunt et pacatae et non est virga Dei super illos
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Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
10 bos eorum concepit et non abortit vacca peperit et non est privata fetu suo
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Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.
11 egrediuntur quasi greges parvuli eorum et infantes eorum exultant lusibus
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They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12 tenent tympanum et citharam et gaudent ad sonitum organi
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They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
13 ducunt in bonis dies suos et in puncto ad inferna descendunt
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They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
14 qui dixerunt Deo recede a nobis et scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus
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They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
15 quid est Omnipotens ut serviamus ei et quid nobis prodest si oraverimus illum
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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'
16 verumtamen quia non sunt in manu eorum bona sua consilium impiorum longe sit a me
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Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17 quotiens lucerna impiorum extinguetur et superveniet eis inundatio et dolores dividet furoris sui
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"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?
18 erunt sicut paleae ante faciem venti et sicut favilla quam turbo dispergit
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That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 Deus servabit filiis illius dolorem patris et cum reddiderit tunc sciet
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You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their sons.' Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.
20 videbunt oculi eius interfectionem suam et de furore Omnipotentis bibet
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Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 quid enim ad eum pertinet de domo sua post se et si numerus mensuum eius dimidietur
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For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
22 numquid Deum quispiam docebit scientiam qui excelsos iudicat
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Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?
23 iste moritur robustus et sanus dives et felix
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One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,
24 viscera eius plena sunt adipe et medullis ossa illius inrigantur
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his body full of fat and the marrow of his bones moist.
25 alius vero moritur in amaritudine animae absque ullis opibus
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Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.
26 et tamen simul in pulverem dormient et vermes operient eos
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They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
27 certe novi cogitationes vestras et sententias contra me iniquas
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"Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.
28 dicitis enim ubi est domus principis et ubi tabernacula impiorum
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For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?'
29 interrogate quemlibet de viatoribus et haec eadem eum intellegere cognoscetis
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Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony
30 quia in diem perditionis servabitur malus et ad diem furoris ducitur
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that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
31 quis arguet coram eo viam eius et quae fecit quis reddet illi
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Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?
32 ipse ad sepulchra ducetur et in congerie mortuorum vigilabit
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When he is borne to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.
33 dulcis fuit glareis Cocyti et post se omnem hominem trahet et ante se innumerabiles
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The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all men follow after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
34 quomodo igitur consolamini me frustra cum responsio vestra repugnare ostensa sit veritati
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How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
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