Comparison
Job 16
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then Job answered, and said: | Respondens autem Iob, dixit: |
| 2 | I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters. | Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis. |
| 3 | Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak? | Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa? aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris? |
| 4 | I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. | Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui, atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea: |
| 5 | I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you. | consolarer et ego vos sermonibus, et moverem caput meum super vos; |
| 6 | I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you. | roborarem vos ore meo, et moverem labia mea, quasi parcens vobis. |
| 7 | But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me. | Sed quid agam? Si locutus fuero, non quiescet dolor meus, et si tacuero, non recedet a me. |
| 8 | But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing. | Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus, et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei. |
| 9 | My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me. | Rugae meae testimonium dicunt contra me, et suscitatur falsiloquus adversus faciem meam, contradicens mihi. |
| 10 | He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes. | Collegit furorem suum in me, et comminans mihi, infremuit contra me dentibus suis: hostis meus terribilibus oculis me intuitus est. |
| 11 | They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains. | Aperuerunt super me ora sua, et exprobrantes percusserunt maxillam meam: satiati sunt poenis meis. |
| 12 | God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked. | Conclusit me Deus apud iniquum, et manibus impiorum me tradidit. |
| 13 | I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark. | Ego ille quondam opulentus, repente contritus sum: tenuit cervicem meam, confregit me, et posuit me sibi quasi in signum. |
| 14 | He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth. | Circumdedit me lanceis suis; convulneravit lumbos meos: non pepercit, et effudit in terra viscera mea. |
| 15 | He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant. | Concidit me vulnere super vulnus: irruit in me quasi gigas. |
| 16 | I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes. | Saccum consui super cutem meam, et operui cinere carnem meam. |
| 17 | My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim. | Facies mea intumuit a fletu, et palpebrae meae caligaverunt. |
| 18 | These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God. | Haec passus sum absque iniquitate manus meae, cum haberem mundas ad Deum preces. |
| 19 | O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee. | Terra, ne operias sanguinem meum, neque inveniat in te locum latendi clamor meus: |
| 20 | For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high. | ecce enim in caelo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis. |
| 21 | My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God. | Verbosi amici mei: ad Deum stillat oculus meus: |
| 22 | And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion! | atque utinam sic iudicaretur vir cum Deo, quomodo iudicatur filius hominis cum collega suo. |
| 23 | For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return. | Ecce enim breves anni transeunt, et semitam per quam non revertar ambulo. |
