Job Chapter 31

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.
2 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?
3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?
5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:
6 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
8 Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.
9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:
10 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.
11 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.
12 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.
13 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:
14 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?
16 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)
19 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
20 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.
24 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:
25 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness: If I beheld the sun, etc... If I behold the sun and moon with admiration, knowing them to be created and governed by the power of God, I call on my adversaries to produce any thing against me, whereby I could be charged with worshipping the sun or moon.
27 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with, my mouth:
28 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.
29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.
30 For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.
31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?
32 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.
33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.
34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.
35 Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,
36 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?
37 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.
38 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:
40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

The words of Job are ended.

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 Pepigi fœdus cum oculis meis,
ut ne cogitarem quidem de virgine.
2 Quam enim partem haberet in me Deus desuper,
et hæreditatem Omnipotens de excelsis?
3 Numquid non perditio est iniquo,
et alienatio operantibus injustitiam?
4 Nonne ipse considerat vias meas,
et cunctos gressus meos dinumerat?
5 Si ambulavi in vanitate,
et festinavit in dolo pes meus,
6 appendat me in statera justa,
et sciat Deus simplicitatem meam.
7 Si declinavit gressus meus de via,
et si secutum est oculos meos cor meum,
et si manibus meis adhæsit macula,
8 seram, et alius comedat,
et progenies mea eradicetur.
9 Si deceptum est cor meum super muliere,
et si ad ostium amici mei insidiatus sum,
10 scortum alterius sit uxor mea,
et super illam incurventur alii.
11 Hoc enim nefas est,
et iniquitas maxima.
12 Ignis est usque ad perditionem devorans,
et omnia eradicans genimina.
13 Si contempsi subire judicium cum servo meo et ancilla mea,
cum disceptarent adversum me:
14 quid enim faciam cum surrexerit ad judicandum Deus?
et cum quæsierit, quid respondebo illi?
15 Numquid non in utero fecit me, qui et illum operatus est,
et formavit me in vulva unus?
16 Si negavi quod volebant pauperibus,
et oculos viduæ expectare feci;
17 si comedi buccellam meam solus,
et non comedit pupillus ex ea
18 (quia ab infantia mea crevit mecum miseratio,
et de utero matris meæ egressa est mecum);
19 si despexi pereuntem, eo quod non habuerit indumentum,
et absque operimento pauperem;
20 si non benedixerunt mihi latera ejus,
et de velleribus ovium mearum calefactus est;
21 si levavi super pupillum manum meam,
etiam cum viderem me in porta superiorem:
22 humerus meus a junctura sua cadat,
et brachium meum cum suis ossibus confringatur.
23 Semper enim quasi tumentes super me fluctus timui Deum,
et pondus ejus ferre non potui.
24 Si putavi aurum robur meum,
et obrizo dixi: Fiducia mea;
25 si lætatus sum super multis divitiis meis,
et quia plurima reperit manus mea;
26 si vidi solem cum fulgeret,
et lunam incedentem clare,
27 et lætatum est in abscondito cor meum,
et osculatus sum manum meam ore meo:
28 quæ est iniquitas maxima,
et negatio contra Deum altissimum.
29 Si gavisus sum ad ruinam ejus qui me oderat,
et exsultavi quod invenisset eum malum:
30 non enim dedi ad peccandum guttur meum,
ut expeterem maledicens animam ejus.
31 Si non dixerunt viri tabernaculi mei:
Quis det de carnibus ejus, ut saturemur?
32 foris non mansit peregrinus:
ostium meum viatori patuit.
33 Si abscondi quasi homo peccatum meum,
et celavi in sinu meo iniquitatem meam;
34 si expavi ad multitudinem nimiam,
et despectio propinquorum terruit me:
et non magis tacui, nec egressus sum ostium.
35 Quis mihi tribuat auditorem,
ut desiderium meum audiat Omnipotens,
et librum scribat ipse qui judicat,
36 ut in humero meo portem illum,
et circumdem illum quasi coronam mihi?
37 Per singulos gradus meos pronuntiabo illum,
et quasi principi offeram eum.
38 Si adversum me terra mea clamat,
et cum ipsa sulci ejus deflent:
39 si fructus ejus comedi absque pecunia,
et animam agricolarum ejus afflixi:
40 pro frumento oriatur mihi tribulus,
et pro hordeo spina.

Finita sunt verba Job.

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