< Job 11 >
1 Respondens autem Sophar Naamathites, dixit:
and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
2 Numquid qui multa loquitur, non et audiet? aut vir verbosus iustificabitur?
abundance word not to answer and if: surely no man lip: words to justify
3 Tibi soli tacebunt homines? et cum ceteros irriseris, a nullo confutaberis?
bluster your man be quiet and to mock and nothing be humiliated
4 Dixisti enim: Purus est sermo meus, et mundus sum in conspectu tuo.
and to say pure teaching my and pure to be in/on/with eye your
5 Atque utinam Deus loqueretur tecum, et aperiret labia sua tibi,
and but who? to give: if only! god to speak: speak and to open lips his with you
6 Ut ostenderet tibi secreta sapientiae, et quod multiplex esset lex eius, et intelligeres quod multo minora exigaris ab eo, quam meretur iniquitas tua.
and to tell to/for you secret wisdom for double to/for wisdom and to know for to forget to/for you god from iniquity: guilt your
7 Forsitan vestigia Dei comprehendes, et usque ad perfectum Omnipotentem reperies?
search god to find if: surely no till limit Almighty to find
8 Excelsior caelo est, et quid facies? profundior inferno, et unde cognosces? (Sheol )
height heaven what? to work deep from hell: Sheol what? to know (Sheol )
9 Longior terra mensura eius, et latior mari.
long from land: country/planet garment her and broad: wide from sea
10 Si subverterit omnia, vel in unum coarctaverit, quis contradicet ei?
if to pass and to shut and to gather and who? to return: return him
11 Ipse enim novit hominum vanitatem, et videns iniquitatem, nonne considerat?
for he/she/it to know man vanity: false and to see: see evil: wickedness and not to understand
12 Vir vanus in superbiam erigitur, et tamquam pullum onagri se liberum natum putat.
and man be hollow to encourage and colt wild donkey man to beget
13 Tu autem firmasti cor tuum, et expandisti ad eum manus tuas.
if you(m. s.) to establish: prepare heart your and to spread to(wards) him palm your
14 Si iniquitatem, quae est in manu tua, abstuleris a te, et non manserit in tabernaculo tuo iniustitia:
if evil: wickedness in/on/with hand your to remove him and not to dwell in/on/with tent your injustice
15 Tunc levare poteris faciem tuam absque macula, et eris stabilis, et non timebis.
for then to lift: kindness face: kindness your from blemish and to be to pour: firm and not to fear
16 Miseriae quoque oblivisceris, et quasi aquarum quae praeterierunt recordaberis.
for you(m. s.) trouble to forget like/as water to pass to remember
17 Et quasi meridianus fulgor consurget tibi ad vesperam: et cum te consumptum putaveris, orieris ut lucifer.
and from midday to arise: establish lifetime/world gloom like/as morning to be
18 Et habebis fiduciam, proposita tibi spe, et defossus securus dormies.
and to trust for there hope and to search to/for security to lie down: sleep
19 Requiesces, et non erit qui te exterreat: et deprecabuntur faciem tuam plurimi.
and to stretch and nothing to tremble and to beg face of your many
20 Oculi autem impiorum deficient, et effugium peribit ab eis, et spes illorum abominatio animae.
and eye wicked to end: expend and refuge to perish from them and hope their exhalation soul: life