Job Chapter 9

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 And Job answered, and said:

2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.
3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?
5 Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.
6 Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
7 Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars, as it were, under a seal:
8 Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea,
9 Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south. Arcturus, etc... These are names of stars or constellations. In Hebrew, Ash, Cesil, and Cimah. See note on Job 38:31.
10 Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.
11 If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart, I shall not understand.
12 If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?
13 God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.
14 What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
15 I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.
16 And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
17 For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause. Without cause... That is, without my knowing the cause: or without any crime of mine.
18 He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.
19 If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.
20 If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would show myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.
21 Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.
22 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.
23 If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?
25 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
26 They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.
27 If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.
28 I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
29 But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
30 If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever 80. clean:
31 Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.
32 For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.
33 There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.
34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
35 I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.

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 Et respondens Job, ait:

2 Vere scio quod ita sit,
et quod non justificetur homo compositus Deo.
3 Si voluerit contendere cum eo,
non poterit ei respondere unum pro mille.
4 Sapiens corde est, et fortis robore:
quis restitit ei, et pacem habuit?
5 Qui transtulit montes, et nescierunt
hi quos subvertit in furore suo.
6 Qui commovet terram de loco suo,
et columnæ ejus concutiuntur.
7 Qui præcipit soli, et non oritur,
et stellas claudit quasi sub signaculo.
8 Qui extendit cælos solus,
et graditur super fluctus maris.
9 Qui facit Arcturum et Oriona,
et Hyadas et interiora austri.
10 Qui facit magna, et incomprehensibilia,
et mirabilia, quorum non est numerus.
11 Si venerit ad me, non videbo eum;
si abierit, non intelligam.
12 Si repente interroget, quis respondebit ei?
vel quis dicere potest: Cur ita facis?
13 Deus, cujus iræ nemo resistere potest,
et sub quo curvantur qui portant orbem.
14 Quantus ergo sum ego, ut respondeam ei,
et loquar verbis meis cum eo?
15 qui etiam si habuero quippiam justum, non respondebo:
sed meum judicem deprecabor.
16 Et cum invocantem exaudierit me,
non credo quod audierit vocem meam.
17 In turbine enim conteret me,
et multiplicabit vulnera mea, etiam sine causa.
18 Non concedit requiescere spiritum meum,
et implet me amaritudinibus.
19 Si fortitudo quæritur, robustissimus est;
si æquitas judicii, nemo audet pro me testimonium dicere.
20 Si justificare me voluero, os meum condemnabit me;
si innocentem ostendero, pravum me comprobabit.
21 Etiam si simplex fuero, hoc ipsum ignorabit anima mea,
et tædebit me vitæ meæ.
22 Unum est quod locutus sum:
et innocentem et impium ipse consumit.
23 Si flagellat, occidat semel,
et non de pœnis innocentum rideat.
24 Terra data est in manus impii;
vultum judicum ejus operit.
Quod si non ille est, quis ergo est?
25 Dies mei velociores fuerunt cursore;
fugerunt, et non viderunt bonum.
26 Pertransierunt quasi naves poma portantes;
sicut aquila volans ad escam.
27 Cum dixero: Nequaquam ita loquar:
commuto faciem meam, et dolore torqueor.
28 Verebar omnia opera mea,
sciens quod non parceres delinquenti.
29 Si autem et sic impius sum,
quare frustra laboravi?
30 Si lotus fuero quasi aquis nivis,
et fulserint velut mundissimæ manus meæ,
31 tamen sordibus intinges me,
et abominabuntur me vestimenta mea.
32 Neque enim viro qui similis mei est, respondebo;
nec qui mecum in judicio ex æquo possit audiri.
33 Non est qui utrumque valeat arguere,
et ponere manum suam in ambobus.
34 Auferat a me virgam suam,
et pavor ejus non me terreat.
35 Loquar, et non timebo eum;
neque enim possum metuens respondere.

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