Comparison
Job 31
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. | Pepigi foedus cum oculis meis, ut ne cogitarem quidem de virgine. |
| 2 | For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high? | Quam enim partem haberet in me Deus desuper, et haereditatem Omnipotens de excelsis? |
| 3 | Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity? | Numquid non perditio est iniquo, et alienatio operantibus iniustitiam? |
| 4 | Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps? | Nonne ipse considerat vias meas, et cunctos gressus meos dinumerat? |
| 5 | If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: | Si ambulavi in vanitate, et festinavit in dolo pes meus, |
| 6 | Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. | appendat me in statera iusta, et sciat Deus simplicitatem meam. |
| 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: | Si declinavit gressus meus de via, et si secutum est oculos meos cor meum, et si manibus meis adhaesit macula, |
| 8 | Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out. | seram, et alius comedat, et progenies mea eradicetur. |
| 9 | If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door: | Si deceptum est cor meum super muliere, et si ad ostium amici mei insidiatus sum, |
| 10 | Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her. | scortum alterius sit uxor mea, et super illam incurventur alii. |
| 11 | For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. | Hoc enim nefas est, et iniquitas maxima. |
| 12 | It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring. | Ignis est usque ad perditionem devorans, et omnia eradicans genimina. |
| 13 | If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: | Si contempsi subire iudicium cum servo meo et ancilla mea, cum disceptarent adversum me: |
| 14 | For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him? | quid enim faciam cum surrexerit ad iudicandum Deus? et cum quaesierit, quid respondebo illi? |
| 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? | Numquid non in utero fecit me, qui et illum operatus est, et formavit me in vulva unus? |
| 16 | If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: | Si negavi quod volebant pauperibus, et oculos viduae expectare feci; |
| 17 | If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: | si comedi buccellam meam solus, et non comedit pupillus ex ea |
| 18 | (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother’s womb:) | (quia ab infantia mea crevit mecum miseratio, et de utero matris meae egressa est mecum); |
| 19 | If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: | si despexi pereuntem, eo quod non habuerit indumentum, et absque operimento pauperem; |
| 20 | If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: | si non benedixerunt mihi latera eius, et de velleribus ovium mearum calefactus est; |
| 21 | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: | si levavi super pupillum manum meam, etiam cum viderem me in porta superiorem: |
| 22 | Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. | humerus meus a iunctura sua cadat, et brachium meum cum suis ossibus confringatur. |
| 23 | For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear. | Semper enim quasi tumentes super me fluctus timui Deum, et pondus eius ferre non potui. |
| 24 | If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: | Si putavi aurum robur meum, et obrizo dixi: Fiducia mea; |
| 25 | If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much. | si laetatus sum super multis divitiis meis, et quia plurima reperit manus mea; |
| 26 | If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness: | si vidi solem cum fulgeret, et lunam incedentem clare, |
| 27 | And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth: | et laetatum est in abscondito cor meum, et osculatus sum manum meam ore meo: |
| 28 | Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God. | quae est iniquitas maxima, et negatio contra Deum altissimum. |
| 29 | If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him. | Si gavisus sum ad ruinam eius qui me oderat, et exsultavi quod invenisset eum malum: |
| 30 | For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul. | non enim dedi ad peccandum guttur meum, ut expeterem maledicens animam eius. |
| 31 | If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? | Si non dixerunt viri tabernaculi mei: Quis det de carnibus eius, ut saturemur? |
| 32 | The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller. | foris non mansit peregrinus: ostium meum viatori patuit. |
| 33 | If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom. | Si abscondi quasi homo peccatum meum, et celavi in sinu meo iniquitatem meam; |
| 34 | If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door. | si expavi ad multitudinem nimiam, et despectio propinquorum terruit me: et non magis tacui, nec egressus sum ostium. |
| 35 | Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, | Quis mihi tribuat auditorem, ut desiderium meum audiat Omnipotens, et librum scribat ipse qui iudicat, |
| 36 | That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown? | ut in humero meo portem illum, et circumdem illum quasi coronam mihi? |
| 37 | At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince. | Per singulos gradus meos pronuntiabo illum, et quasi principi offeram eum. |
| 38 | If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: | Si adversum me terra mea clamat, et cum ipsa sulci eius deflent: |
| 39 | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof: | si fructus eius comedi absque pecunia, et animam agricolarum eius afflixi: |
| 40 | Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley. | pro frumento oriatur mihi tribulus, et pro hordeo spina. Finita sunt verba Iob. |
