Job Chapter 8

Baldad, under pretence of defending the justice of God, accuses Job, and exhorts him to return to God.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:

2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
7 In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow.)
10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?
12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall no stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
16 He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.
17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.
18 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:
21 Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.

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 Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit:

2 Usquequo loqueris talia,
et spiritus multiplex sermones oris tui?
3 Numquid Deus supplantat judicium?
aut Omnipotens subvertit quod justum est?
4 Etiam si filii tui peccaverunt ei,
et dimisit eos in manu iniquitatis suæ:
5 tu tamen si diluculo consurrexeris ad Deum,
et Omnipotentem fueris deprecatus;
6 si mundus et rectus incesseris:
statim evigilabit ad te,
et pacatum reddet habitaculum justitiæ tuæ,
7 in tantum ut si priora tua fuerint parva,
et novissima tua multiplicentur nimis.
8 Interroga enim generationem pristinam,
et diligenter investiga patrum memoriam
9 (hesterni quippe sumus, et ignoramus,
quoniam sicut umbra dies nostri sunt super terram),
10 et ipsi docebunt te, loquentur tibi,
et de corde suo proferent eloquia.
11 Numquid vivere potest scirpus absque humore?
aut crescere carectum sine aqua?
12 Cum adhuc sit in flore, nec carpatur manu,
ante omnes herbas arescit.
13 Sic viæ omnium qui obliviscuntur Deum,
et spes hypocritæ peribit.
14 Non ei placebit vecordia sua,
et sicut tela aranearum fiducia ejus.
15 Innitetur super domum suam, et non stabit;
fulciet eam, et non consurget.
16 Humectus videtur antequam veniat sol,
et in ortu suo germen ejus egredietur.
17 Super acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur,
et inter lapides commorabitur.
18 Si absorbuerit eum de loco suo,
negabit eum, et dicet: Non novi te.
19 Hæc est enim lætitia viæ ejus,
ut rursum de terra alii germinentur.
20 Deus non projiciet simplicem,
nec porriget manum malignis,
21 donec impleatur risu os tuum,
et labia tua jubilo.
22 Qui oderunt te induentur confusione,
et tabernaculum impiorum non subsistet.

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