Job Chapter 22

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

2 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
3 What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
4 Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
5 And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?
6 For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
8 In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.
9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
10 Therefore art thou surrounded with shares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
11 And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?
12 Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
13 And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
14 The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
15 Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
16 Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
17 Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
18 Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
19 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
20 Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
21 Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
22 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
23 If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
24 He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
25 And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
26 Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
27 Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
29 For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.
30 The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

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 Eliphaz Themanites, dixit:

2 Numquid Deo potest comparari homo,
etiam cum perfectæ fuerit scientiæ?
3 Quid prodest Deo, si justus fueris?
aut quid ei confers, si immaculata fuerit via tua?
4 Numquid timens arguet te,
et veniet tecum in judicium,
5 et non propter malitiam tuam plurimam,
et infinitas iniquitates tuas?
6 Abstulisti enim pignus fratrum tuorum sine causa,
et nudos spoliasti vestibus.
7 Aquam lasso non dedisti,
et esurienti subtraxisti panem.
8 In fortitudine brachii tui possidebas terram,
et potentissimus obtinebas eam.
9 Viduas dimisisti vacuas,
et lacertos pupillorum comminuisti.
10 Propterea circumdatus es laqueis,
et conturbat te formido subita.
11 Et putabas te tenebras non visurum,
et impetu aquarum inundantium non oppressum iri?
12 an non cogitas quod Deus excelsior cælo sit,
et super stellarum verticem sublimetur?
13 Et dicis: Quid enim novit Deus?
et quasi per caliginem judicat.
14 Nubes latibulum ejus, nec nostra considerat,
et circa cardines cæli perambulat.
15 Numquid semitam sæculorum custodire cupis,
quam calcaverunt viri iniqui,
16 qui sublati sunt ante tempus suum,
et fluvius subvertit fundamentum eorum?
17 Qui dicebant Deo: Recede a nobis:
et quasi nihil posset facere Omnipotens, æstimabant eum,
18 cum ille implesset domos eorum bonis:
quorum sententia procul sit a me.
19 Videbunt justi, et lætabuntur,
et innocens subsannabit eos:
20 nonne succisa est erectio eorum?
et reliquias eorum devoravit ignis?
21 Acquiesce igitur ei, et habeto pacem,
et per hæc habebis fructus optimos.
22 Suscipe ex ore illius legem,
et pone sermones ejus in corde tuo.
23 Si reversus fueris ad Omnipotentem, ædificaberis,
et longe facies iniquitatem a tabernaculo tuo.
24 Dabit pro terra silicem,
et pro silice torrentes aureos.
25 Eritque Omnipotens contra hostes tuos,
et argentum coacervabitur tibi.
26 Tunc super Omnipotentem deliciis afflues,
et elevabis ad Deum faciem tuam.
27 Rogabis eum, et exaudiet te,
et vota tua reddes.
28 Decernes rem, et veniet tibi,
et in viis tuis splendebit lumen.
29 Qui enim humiliatus fuerit, erit in gloria,
et qui inclinaverit oculos, ipse salvabitur.
30 Salvabitur innocens:
salvabitur autem in munditia manuum suarum.

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