Comparison
Job 14
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. | Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore, repletur multis miseriis. |
| 2 | Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. | Qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur, et fugit velut umbra, et numquam in eodem statu permanet. |
| 3 | And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee? | Et dignum ducis super huiuscemodi aperire oculos tuos, et adducere eum tecum in iudicium? |
| 4 | Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art? | Quis potest facere mundum de immundo conceptum semine? nonne tu qui solus es? |
| 5 | The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. | Breves dies hominis sunt: numerus mensium eius apud te est: constituisti terminos eius, qui praeteriri non poterunt. |
| 6 | Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling. | Recede paululum ab eo, ut quiescat, donec optata veniat, sicut mercenarii, dies eius. |
| 7 | A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout. | Lignum habet spem: si praecisum fuerit, rursum virescit, et rami eius pullulant. |
| 8 | If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust: | Si senuerit in terra radix eius, et in pulvere emortuus fuerit truncus illius, |
| 9 | At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted. | ad odorem aquae germinabit, et faciet comam, quasi cum primum plantatum est. |
| 10 | But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? | Homo vero cum mortuus fuerit, et nudatus, atque consumptus, ubi, quaeso, est? |
| 11 | As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up: | Quomodo si recedant aquae de mari, et fluvius vacuefactus arescat: |
| 12 | So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep. | sic homo, cum dormierit, non resurget: donec atteratur caelum, non evigilabit, nec consurget de somno suo. |
| 13 | Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me? | Quis mihi hoc tribuat, ut in inferno protegas me, et abscondas me donec pertranseat furor tuus, et constituas mihi tempus in quo recorderis mei? |
| 14 | Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come. | Putasne mortuus homo rursum vivat? cunctis diebus quibus nunc milito, expecto donec veniat immutatio mea. |
| 15 | Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand. | Vocabis me, et ego respondebo tibi: operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram. |
| 16 | Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins. | Tu quidem gressus meos dinumerasti: sed parce peccatis meis. |
| 17 | Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity. | Signasti quasi in sacculo delicta mea, sed curasti iniquitatem meam. |
| 18 | A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place. | Mons cadens defluit, et saxum transfertur de loco suo: |
| 19 | Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man. | lapides excavant aquae, et alluvione paulatim terra consumitur: et hominem ergo similiter perdes. |
| 20 | Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away. | Roborasti eum paululum, ut in perpetuum transiret: immutabis faciem eius, et emittes eum. |
| 21 | Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand. | Sive nobiles fuerint filii eius, sive ignobiles, non intelliget. |
| 22 | But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him. | Attamen caro eius, dum vivet, dolebit, et anima illius super semetipso lugebit. |
