The Latin Vulgate VUL
Hebrew Names Version HNV
1 pepigi foedus cum oculis meis ut ne cogitarem quidem de virgine
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"I made a covenant with my eyes, How then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
2 quam enim partem haberet Deus in me desuper et hereditatem Omnipotens de excelsis
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For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from Shaddai on high?
3 numquid non perditio est iniquo et alienatio operantibus iniustitiam
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Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
4 nonne ipse considerat vias meas et cunctos gressus meos dinumerat
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Doesn't he see my ways, And number all my steps?
5 si ambulavi in vanitate et festinavit in dolo pes meus
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"If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit
6 adpendat me in statera iusta et sciat Deus simplicitatem meam
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(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
7 si declinavit gressus meus de via et si secutum est oculos meos cor meum et in manibus meis adhesit macula
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If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,
8 seram et alius comedat et progenies mea eradicetur
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Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
9 si deceptum est cor meum super mulierem et si ad ostium amici mei insidiatus sum
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"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
10 scortum sit alteri uxor mea et super illam incurventur alii
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Then let my wife grind for another, And let others sleep with her.
11 hoc enim nefas est et iniquitas maxima
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For that would be a heinous crime; Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
12 ignis est usque ad perditionem devorans et omnia eradicans genimina
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For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, And would root out all my increase.
13 si contempsi subire iudicium cum servo meo et ancillae meae cum disceptarent adversum me
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"If I have despised the cause of my man-servant Or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
14 quid enim faciam cum surrexerit ad iudicandum Deus et cum quaesierit quid respondebo illi
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What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
15 numquid non in utero fecit me qui et illum operatus est et formavit in vulva unus
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Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?
16 si negavi quod volebant pauperibus et oculos viduae expectare feci
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"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17 si comedi buccellam meam solus et non comedit pupillus ex ea
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Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless has not eaten of it
18 quia ab infantia mea crevit mecum miseratio et de utero matris meae egressa est mecum
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(No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb);
19 si despexi pereuntem eo quod non habuerit indumentum et absque operimento pauperem
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If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
20 si non benedixerunt mihi latera eius et de velleribus ovium mearum calefactus est
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If his heart hasn't blessed me, If he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
21 si levavi super pupillum manum meam etiam cum viderem me in porta superiorem
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If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
22 umerus meus a iunctura sua cadat et brachium meum cum suis ossibus confringatur
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Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And my arm be broken from the bone.
23 semper enim quasi tumentes super me fluctus timui Deum et pondus eius ferre non potui
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For calamity from God is a terror to me, By reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
24 si putavi aurum robur meum et obrizae dixi fiducia mea
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"If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'
25 si laetatus sum super multis divitiis meis et quia plurima repperit manus mea
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If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;
26 si vidi solem cum fulgeret et lunam incedentem clare
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If I have seen the sun when it shined, Or the moon moving in splendor,
27 et lactatum est in abscondito cor meum et osculatus sum manum meam ore meo
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And my heart has been secretly enticed, My hand threw a kiss from my mouth:
28 quae est iniquitas maxima et negatio contra Deum altissimum
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This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God who is above.
29 si gavisus sum ad ruinam eius qui me oderat et exultavi quod invenisset eum malum
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"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
30 non enim dedi ad peccandum guttur meum ut expeterem maledicens animam eius
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(Yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
31 si non dixerunt viri tabernaculi mei quis det de carnibus eius ut saturemur
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If the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
32 foris non mansit peregrinus ostium meum viatori patuit
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(The sojourner has not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveler);
33 si abscondi quasi homo peccatum meum et celavi in sinu meo iniquitatem meam
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If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my heart,
34 si expavi ad multitudinem nimiam et despectio propinquorum terruit me et non magis tacui nec egressus sum ostium
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Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--
35 quis mihi tribuat auditorem ut desiderium meum Omnipotens audiat et librum scribat ipse qui iudicat
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Oh that I had one to hear me! (Behold, here is my signature, let Shaddai answer me); Let the accuser write my indictment!
36 ut in umero meo portem illum et circumdem illum quasi coronam mihi
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Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; And I would bind it to me as a crown.
37 per singulos gradus meos pronuntiabo illum et quasi principi offeram eum
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I would declare to him the number of my steps. As a prince would I go near to him.
38 si adversum me terra mea clamat et cum ipsa sulci eius deflent
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If my land cries out against me, And the furrows of it weep together;
39 si fructus eius comedi absque pecunia et animam agricolarum eius adflixi
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If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, Or have caused the owners of it to lose their life:
40 pro frumento oriatur mihi tribulus et pro hordeo spina finita sunt verba Iob
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Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Iyov are ended.
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