The Latin Vulgate VUL
English Standard Version ESV
1 respondens autem Iob dixit
1
Then Job answered and said:
2 cuius adiutor es numquid inbecilli et sustentas brachium eius qui non est fortis
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“How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
3 cui dedisti consilium forsitan illi qui non habet sapientiam et prudentiam tuam ostendisti plurimam
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How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 quem docere voluisti nonne eum qui fecit spiramen tuum
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With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?
5 ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis et qui habitant cum eis
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The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
6 nudus est inferus coram illo et nullum est operimentum perditioni
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Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum et adpendit terram super nihili
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He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 qui ligat aquas in nubibus suis ut non erumpant pariter deorsum
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He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.
9 qui tenet vultum solii sui et expandit super illud nebulam suam
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He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.
10 terminum circumdedit aquis usque dum finiantur lux et tenebrae
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He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 columnae caeli contremescunt et pavent ad nutum eius
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The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.
12 in fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt et prudentia eius percussit superbum
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By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
13 spiritus eius ornavit caelos et obsetricante manu eius eductus est coluber tortuosus
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By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 ecce haec ex parte dicta sunt viarum eius et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis eius audierimus quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri
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Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand? ”
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