Job Chapter 35

Eliu declares that the good or evil done by man cannot reach God.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Moreover Eliu spoke these words:

2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?
3 For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?
4 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
5 Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
6 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?
7 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.
10 And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.
12 There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.
13 God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.
14 Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him.
15 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.
16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.

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 Igitur Eliu hæc rursum locutus est:

2 Numquid æqua tibi videtur tua cogitatio,
ut diceres: Justior sum Deo?
3 Dixisti enim: Non tibi placet quod rectum est:
vel quid tibi proderit, si ego peccavero?
4 Itaque ego respondebo sermonibus tuis,
et amicis tuis tecum.
5 Suspice cælum, et intuere:
et contemplare æthera quod altior te sit.
6 Si peccaveris, quid ei nocebis?
et si multiplicatæ fuerint iniquitates tuæ, quid facies contra eum?
7 Porro si juste egeris, quid donabis ei?
aut quid de manu tua accipiet?
8 Homini qui similis tui est, nocebit impietas tua:
et filium hominis adjuvabit justitia tua.
9 Propter multitudinem calumniatorum clamabunt,
et ejulabunt propter vim brachii tyrannorum.
10 Et non dixit: Ubi est Deus qui fecit me,
qui dedit carmina in nocte;
11 qui docet nos super jumenta terræ,
et super volucres cæli erudit nos?
12 Ibi clamabunt, et non exaudiet,
propter superbiam malorum.
13 Non ergo frustra audiet Deus,
et Omnipotens causas singulorum intuebitur.
14 Etiam cum dixeris: Non considerat:
judicare coram illo, et expecta eum.
15 Nunc enim non infert furorem suum,
nec ulciscitur scelus valde.
16 Ergo Job frustra aperit os suum,
et absque scientia verba multiplicat.

Transcribed as part of the Clementine Vulgate Project
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