Job 13
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
ecce omnia et 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 correptiones meas et iudicium labiorum meorum adtendite
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 eius accipitis et pro Deo iudicare 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 eius accipitis
11 Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?
statim ut se commoverit turbabit vos et terror eius inruet super vos
12 Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.
memoria vestra conparabitur cineri et redigentur in lutum cervices vestrae
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 eius 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 eius omnis hypocrita
17 Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
audite sermonem meum et enigmata percipite auribus vestris
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
si fuero iudicatus scio quod iustus inveniar
19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.
quis est qui iudicetur 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.
et voca me et 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 adulescentiae meae
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
