Job 13
1 Lo, all — hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus, et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula.
2 According to your knowledge I have known — also I. I am not fallen more than you.
Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi: nec inferior vestri sum.
3 Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
Sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar, et disputare cum Deo cupio:
4 And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,
Prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii, et cultores perversorum dogmatum.
5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
Atque utinam taceretis, ut putaremini esse sapientes.
6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
Audite ergo correptionem meam, et iudicium labiorum meorum attendite.
7 For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio, ut pro illo loquamini dolos?
8 His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
Numquid faciem eius accipitis, et pro Deo iudicare nitimini?
9 Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
Aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest? aut decipietur ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis?
10 He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
Ipse vos arguet, quoniam in abscondito faciem eius accipitis.
11 Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos, et terror eius irruet super vos.
12 Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.
13 Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
Tacete paulisper ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
Quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis, et animam meam porto in manibus meis?
15 Lo, He doth slay me — I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
Etiam si occiderit me, in ipso sperabo: verumtamen vias meas in conspectu eius arguam.
16 Also — He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
Et ipse erit salvator meus: non enim veniet in conspectu eius omnis hypocrita.
17 Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
Audite sermonem meum, et ænigmata percipite auribus vestris.
18 Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
Si fuero iudicatus, scio quod iustus inveniar.
19 Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
Quis est qui iudicetur mecum? veniat: quare tacens consumor?
20 Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
Duo tantum ne facias mihi, et tunc a facie tua non abscondar:
21 Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
Manum tuam longe fac a me, et formido tua non me terreat.
22 And call Thou, and I — I answer, Or — I speak, and answer Thou me.
Voca me, et ego respondebo tibi: aut certe loquar, et tu responde mihi.
23 How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
Quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata, scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi.
24 Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
Cur faciem tuam abscondis, et arbitraris me inimicum tuum?
25 A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam, et stipulam siccam persequeris:
26 For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
Scribis enim contra me amaritudines, et consumere me vis peccatis adolescentiæ meæ.
27 And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
Posuisti in nervo pedem meum, et observasti omnes semitas meas, et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti:
28 And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
Qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea.
