Job 13
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
[Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus, et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula.
2 What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.
Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi: nec inferior vestri sum.
3 Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar, et disputare cum Deo cupio:
4 But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii, et cultores perversorum dogmatum.
5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom.
Atque utinam taceretis, ut putaremini esse sapientes.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Audite ergo correptionem meam, et judicium labiorum meorum attendite.
7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?
Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio, ut pro illo loquamini dolos?
8 Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for God?
numquid faciem ejus accipitis, et pro Deo judicare nitimini?
9 Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?
aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest? aut decipietur, ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.
Ipse vos arguet, quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis.
11 Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?
Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos, et terror ejus irruet super vos.
12 Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.
Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Tacete paulisper, ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit.
14 Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
Quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis, et animam meam porto in manibus meis?
15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him.
Etiam si occiderit me, in ipso sperabo: verumtamen vias meas in conspectu ejus arguam.
16 This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him.
Et ipse erit salvator meus: non enim veniet in conspectu ejus omnis hypocrita.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
Audite sermonem meum, et ænigmata percipite auribus vestris.
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Si fuero judicatus, scio quod justus inveniar.
19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.
Quis est qui judicetur mecum? veniat: quare tacens consumor?
20 Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee:
Duo tantum ne facias mihi, et tunc a facie tua non abscondar:
21 Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid.
manum tuam longe fac a me, et formido tua non me terreat.
22 Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer Thou me.
Voca me, et ego respondebo tibi: aut certe loquar, et tu responde mihi.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata? scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi.
24 Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?
Cur faciem tuam abscondis, et arbitraris me inimicum tuum?
25 Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?
Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam, et stipulam siccam persequeris:
26 That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
scribis enim contra me amaritudines, et consumere me vis peccatis adolescentiæ meæ.
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet;
Posuisti in nervo pedem meum, et observasti omnes semitas meas, et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti:
28 Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea.]
