The Latin Vulgate VUL
American Standard Version ASV
1 addidit quoque Iob adsumens parabolam suam et dixit
1
And Job again took up his parable, and said,
2 quis mihi tribuat ut sim iuxta menses pristinos secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me
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Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
3 quando splendebat lucerna eius super caput meum et ad lumen eius ambulabam in tenebris
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When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
4 sicut fui in diebus adulescentiae meae quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo
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As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;
5 quando erat Omnipotens mecum et in circuitu meo pueri mei
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When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;
6 quando lavabam pedes meos butyro et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei
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When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
7 quando procedebam ad portam civitatis et in platea parabant cathedram mihi
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When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
8 videbant me iuvenes et abscondebantur et senes adsurgentes stabant
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The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
9 principes cessabant loqui et digitum superponebant ori suo
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The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
10 vocem suam cohibebant duces et lingua eorum gutturi suo adherebat
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The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11 auris audiens beatificabat me et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi
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For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me:
12 quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem et pupillum cui non esset adiutor
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Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
13 benedictio perituri super me veniebat et cor viduae consolatus sum
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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 iustitia indutus sum et vestivit me sicut vestimento et diademate iudicio meo
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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
15 oculus fui caeco et pes claudo
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I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.
16 pater eram pauperum et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam
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I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
17 conterebam molas iniqui et de dentibus illius auferebam praedam
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And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18 dicebamque in nidulo meo moriar et sicut palma multiplicabo dies
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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
19 radix mea aperta est secus aquas et ros morabitur in messione mea
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My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;
20 gloria mea semper innovabitur et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur
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My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.
21 qui me audiebant expectabant sententiam et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum
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Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
22 verbis meis addere nihil audebant et super illos stillabat eloquium meum
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After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
23 expectabant me sicut pluviam et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum
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And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
24 si quando ridebam ad eos non credebant et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram
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I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25 si voluissem ire ad eos sedebam primus cumque sederem quasi rex circumstante exercitu eram tamen maerentium consolator
25
I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.
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