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