Job 5
1 Voca ergo, si est qui tibi respondeat, et ad aliquem sanctorum convertere.
Call now, if there is any that will answer thee; and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
2 Vere stultum interficit iracundia, et parvulum occidit invidia.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
3 Ego vidi stultum firma radice, et maledixi pulchritudini eius statim.
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 Longe fient filii eius a salute, et conterentur in porta, et non erit qui eruat.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Cuius messem famelicus comedet, et ipsum rapiet armatus, et bibent sitientes divitias eius.
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6 Nihil in terra sine causa fit, et de humo non oritur dolor.
Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Homo nascitur ad laborem, et avis ad volatum.
Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 Quam ob rem ego deprecabor Dominum, et ad Deum ponam eloquium meum:
I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:
9 Qui facit magna et inscrutabilia et mirabilia absque numero:
Who doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
10 Qui dat pluviam super faciem terrae, et irrigat aquis universa:
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
11 Qui ponit humiles in sublime, et moerentes erigit sospitate:
To set on high those that are low; that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 Qui dissipat cogitationes malignorum, ne possint implere manus eorum quod coeperant:
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 Qui apprehendit sapientes in astutia eorum, et consilium pravorum dissipat:
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
14 Per diem incurrent tenebras, et quasi in nocte sic palpabunt in meridie.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noon as in the night.
15 Porro salvum faciet egenum a gladio oris eorum, et de manu violenti pauperem.
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 Et erit egeno spes, iniquitas autem contrahet os suum.
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17 Beatus homo qui corripitur a Deo: increpationem ergo Domini ne reprobes:
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
18 Quia ipse vulnerat, et medetur: percutit, et manus eius sanabunt.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 In sex tribulationibus liberabit te, et in septima non tangent te malum.
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20 In fame eruet te de morte, et in bello de manu gladii.
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21 A flagello linguae absconderis, et non timebis calamitatem cum venerit.
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22 In vastitate, et fame ridebis, et bestias terrae non formidabis.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 Sed cum lapidibus regionum pactum tuum, et bestiae terrae pacificae erunt tibi.
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 Et scies quod pacem habeat tabernaculum tuum, et visitans speciem tuam, non peccabis.
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
25 Scies quoque quoniam multiplex erit semen tuum, et progenies tua quasi herba terrae.
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thy offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 Ingredieris in abundantia sepulchrum, sicut infertur acervus tritici in tempore suo.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
27 Ecce, hoc, ut investigavimus, ita est: quod auditum, mente pertracta.
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
