Job Chapter 5

Eliphaz proceeds in his charge, and exhorts Job to acknowledge his sins.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
6 Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
7 Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.
8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
9 Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
10 Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
11 Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
12 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
13 Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
14 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15 But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
16 And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.
17 Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.
18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
20 In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
21 Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.
22 In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.
24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin.
25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
27 Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Voca ergo, si est qui tibi respondeat,
et ad aliquem sanctorum convertere.
2 Vere stultum interficit iracundia,
et parvulum occidit invidia.
3 Ego vidi stultum firma radice,
et maledixi pulchritudini ejus statim.
4 Longe fient filii ejus a salute,
et conterentur in porta,
et non erit qui eruat.
5 Cujus messem famelicus comedet,
et ipsum rapiet armatus,
et bibent sitientes divitias ejus.
6 Nihil in terra sine causa fit,
et de humo non oritur dolor.
7 Homo nascitur ad laborem,
et avis ad volatum.
8 Quam ob rem ego deprecabor Dominum,
et ad Deum ponam eloquium meum:
9 qui facit magna et inscrutabilia,
et mirabilia absque numero;
10 qui dat pluviam super faciem terræ,
et irrigat aquis universa;
11 qui ponit humiles in sublime,
et mœrentes erigit sospitate;
12 qui dissipat cogitationes malignorum,
ne possint implere manus eorum quod cœperant;
13 qui apprehendit sapientes in astutia eorum,
et consilium pravorum dissipat.
14 Per diem incurrent tenebras,
et quasi in nocte, sic palpabunt in meridie.
15 Porro salvum faciet egenum a gladio oris eorum,
et de manu violenti pauperem.
16 Et erit egeno spes;
iniquitas autem contrahet os suum.
17 Beatus homo qui corripitur a Deo:
increpationem ergo Domini ne reprobes:
18 quia ipse vulnerat, et medetur;
percutit, et manus ejus sanabunt.
19 In sex tribulationibus liberabit te,
et in septima non tangent te malum.
20 In fame eruet te de morte,
et in bello de manu gladii.
21 A flagello linguæ absconderis,
et non timebis calamitatem cum venerit.
22 In vastitate et fame ridebis,
et bestias terræ non formidabis.
23 Sed cum lapidibus regionum pactum tuum,
et bestiæ terræ pacificæ erunt tibi.
24 Et scies quod pacem habeat tabernaculum tuum;
et visitans speciem tuam, non peccabis.
25 Scies quoque quoniam multiplex erit semen tuum,
et progenies tua quasi herba terræ.
26 Ingredieris in abundantia sepulchrum,
sicut infertur acervus tritici in tempore suo.
27 Ecce hoc, ut investigavimus, ita est:
quod auditum, mente pertracta.

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