Job Chapter 25

God's providence often allows the wicked to go on a long time in their sins: but punishes them in another life.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

2 Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.
3 Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?
4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
5 Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.
6 How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm?

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 Potestas et terror apud eum est,
qui facit concordiam in sublimibus suis.
3 Numquid est numerus militum ejus?
et super quem non surget lumen illius?
4 Numquid justificari potest homo comparatus Deo?
aut apparere mundus natus de muliere?
5 Ecce luna etiam non splendet,
et stellæ non sunt mundæ in conspectu ejus:
6 quanto magis homo putredo,
et filius hominis vermis?

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