Job 33
1 Audi igitur Iob eloquia mea, et omnes sermones meos ausculta.
Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes.
2 Ecce aperui os meum, loquatur lingua mea in faucibus meis.
Beholde now, I haue opened my mouth: my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
3 Simplici corde meo sermones mei, et sententiam puram labia mea loquentur.
My words are in the vprightnesse of mine heart, and my lippes shall speake pure knowledge.
4 Spiritus Dei fecit me, et spiraculum Omnipotentis vivificavit me.
The Spirite of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen me life.
5 Si potes, responde mihi, et adversus faciem meam consiste.
If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.
6 Ecce, et me sicut et te fecit Deus, et de eodem luto ego quoque formatus sum.
Beholde, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead: I am also formed of the clay.
7 Verumtamen miraculum meum non te terreat, et eloquentia mea non sit tibi gravis.
Beholde, my terrour shall not feare thee, neither shall mine hand be heauie vpon thee.
8 Dixisti ergo in auribus meis, et vocem verborum tuorum audivi:
Doubtles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes.
9 Mundus sum ego, et absque delicto: immaculatus, et non est iniquitas in me.
I am cleane, without sinne: I am innocent, and there is none iniquitie in me.
10 Quia querelas in me reperit, ideo arbitratus est me inimicum sibi.
Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.
11 Posuit in nervo pedes meos, custodivit omnes semitas meas.
He hath put my feete in the stockes, and looketh narrowly vnto all my paths.
12 Hoc est ergo, in quo non es iustificatus: respondebo tibi, quia maior sit Deus homine.
Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man.
13 Adversus eum contendis quod non ad omnia verba responderit tibi?
Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters.
14 Semel loquitur Deus, et secundo idipsum non repetit.
For God speaketh once or twise, and one seeth it not.
15 Per somnium in visione nocturna, quando irruit sopor super homines, et dormiunt in lectulo:
In dreames and visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds,
16 Tunc aperit aures virorum, et erudiens eos instruit disciplina,
Then he openeth the eares of men, euen by their corrections, which he had sealed,
17 Ut avertat hominem ab his, quae facit, et liberet eum de superbia:
That he might cause man to turne away from his enterprise, and that he might hide the pride of man,
18 Eruens animam eius a corruptione: et vitam illius, ut non transeat in gladium.
And keepe backe his soule from the pit, and that his life should not passe by the sword.
19 Increpat quoque per dolorem in lectulo, et omnia ossa eius marcescere facit.
He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore,
20 Abominabilis ei fit in vita sua panis, et animae illius cibus ante desiderabilis.
So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.
21 Tabescet caro eius, et ossa, quae tecta fuerant, nudabuntur.
His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.
22 Appropinquavit corruptioni anima eius, et vita illius mortiferis.
So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers.
23 Si fuerit pro eo Angelus loquens, unus de millibus, ut annunciet hominis aequitatem:
If there be a messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand to declare vnto man his righteousnesse,
24 Miserebitur eius, et dicet: Libera eum, ut non descendat in corruptionem: inveni in quo ei propitier.
Then will he haue mercie vpon him, and will say, Deliuer him, that he go not downe into the pit: for I haue receiued a reconciliation.
25 Consumpta est caro eius a suppliciis, revertatur ad dies adolescentiae suae.
Then shall his flesh be as fresh as a childes, and shall returne as in the dayes of his youth.
26 Deprecabitur Deum, et placabilis ei erit: et videbit faciem eius in iubilo, et reddet homini iustitiam suam.
He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto man his righteousnes.
27 Respiciet homines, et dicet: Peccavi, et vere deliqui, et, ut eram dignus, non recepi.
He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me,
28 Liberavit animam suam ne pergeret in interitum, sed vivens lucem videret.
He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
29 Ecce, haec omnia operatur Deus tribus vicibus per singulos.
Lo, all these things will God worke twise or thrise with a man,
30 Ut revocet animas eorum a corruptione, et illuminet luce viventium.
That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the liuing.
31 Attende Iob, et audi me: et tace, dum ego loquor.
Marke well, O Iob, and heare me: keepe silence, and I will speake.
32 Si autem habes quod loquaris, responde mihi, loquere: volo enim, te apparere iustum.
If there be matter, answere me, and speak: for I desire to iustifie thee.
33 Quod si non habes, audi me: tace, et docebo te sapientiam.
If thou hast not, heare me: holde thy tongue, and I will teach thee wisedome.
