Job 13
1 See, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus, et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula.
2 What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you.
Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi: nec inferior vestri sum.
3 Surely 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 you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.
prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii, et cultores perversorum dogmatum.
5 O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Atque utinam taceretis, ut putaremini esse sapientes.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Audite ergo correptionem meam, et judicium labiorum meorum attendite.
7 Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio, ut pro illo loquamini dolos?
8 Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?
numquid faciem ejus accipitis, et pro Deo judicare nitimini?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest? aut decipietur, ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis?
10 He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly accept persons.
Ipse vos arguet, quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall on you?
Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos, et terror ejus irruet super vos.
12 Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies 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 Why do I 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 maintain my own ways before him.
Etiam si occiderit me, in ipso sperabo: verumtamen vias meas in conspectu ejus arguam.
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Et ipse erit salvator meus: non enim veniet in conspectu ejus omnis hypocrita.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with 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 plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Quis est qui judicetur mecum? veniat: quare tacens consumor?
20 Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from you.
Duo tantum ne facias mihi, et tunc a facie tua non abscondar:
21 Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
manum tuam longe fac a me, et formido tua non me terreat.
22 Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.
Voca me, et ego respondebo tibi: aut certe loquar, et tu responde mihi.
23 How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata? scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi.
24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
Cur faciem tuam abscondis, et arbitraris me inimicum tuum?
25 Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam, et stipulam siccam persequeris:
26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
scribis enim contra me amaritudines, et consumere me vis peccatis adolescentiæ meæ.
27 You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet.
Posuisti in nervo pedem meum, et observasti omnes semitas meas, et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti:
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.
qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea.
