Comparison
Job 33
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words. | Audi igitur, Iob, eloquia mea, et omnes sermones meos ausculta. |
| 2 | Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws. | Ecce aperui os meum: loquatur lingua mea in faucibus meis. |
| 3 | My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence. | Simplici corde meo sermones mei, et sententiam puram labia mea loquentur. |
| 4 | The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life. | Spiritus Dei fecit me, et spiraculum Omnipotentis vivificavit me. |
| 5 | If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face. | Si potes, responde mihi, et adversus faciem meam consiste. |
| 6 | Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed. | Ecce, et me sicut et te fecit Deus, et de eodem luto ego quoque formatus sum. |
| 7 | But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee. | Verumtamen miraculum meum non te terreat, et eloquentia mea non sit tibi gravis. |
| 8 | Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words: | Dixisti ergo in auribus meis, et vocem verborum tuorum audivi: |
| 9 | I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me. | Mundus sum ego, et absque delicto: immaculatus, et non est iniquitas in me. |
| 10 | Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy. | Quia querelas in me reperit, ideo arbitratus est me inimicum sibi. |
| 11 | He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths. | Posuit in nervo pedes meos; custodivit omnes semitas meas. |
| 12 | Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. | Hoc est ergo in quo non es iustificatus: respondebo tibi, quia maior sit Deus homine. |
| 13 | Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words? | Adversus eum contendis, quod non ad omnia verba responderit tibi? |
| 14 | God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time. | Semel loquitur Deus, et secundo idipsum non repetit. |
| 15 | By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: | Per somnium, in visione nocturna, quando irruit sopor super homines, et dormiunt in lectulo, |
| 16 | Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn. | tunc aperit aures virorum, et erudiens eos instruit disciplina, |
| 17 | That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride. | ut avertat hominem ab his quae facit, et liberet eum de superbia, |
| 18 | Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword. | eruens animam eius a corruptione, et vitam illius ut non transeat in gladium. |
| 19 | He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither. | Increpat quoque per dolorem in lectulo, et omnia ossa eius marcescere facit. |
| 20 | Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired. | Abominabilis ei fit in vita sua panis, et animae illius cibus ante desiderabilis. |
| 21 | His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare. | Tabescet caro eius, et ossa, quae tecta fuerant, nudabuntur. |
| 22 | His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers. | Appropinquavit corruptioni anima eius, et vita illius mortiferis. |
| 23 | If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man’s uprightness, | Si fuerit pro eo angelus loquens, unus de millibus, ut annuntiet hominis aequitatem, |
| 24 | He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him. | miserebitur eius, et dicet: Libera eum, ut non descendat in corruptionem: inveni in quo ei propitier. |
| 25 | His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth. | Consumpta est caro eius a suppliciis: revertatur ad dies adolescentiae suae. |
| 26 | He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice. | Deprecabitur Deum, et placabilis ei erit: et videbit faciem eius in iubilo, et reddet homini iustitiam suam. |
| 27 | He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved. | Respiciet homines, et dicet: Peccavi, et vere deliqui, et ut eram dignus, non recepi. |
| 28 | He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light. | Liberavit animam suam, ne pergeret in interitum, sed vivens lucem videret. |
| 29 | Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one. | Ecce haec omnia operatur Deus tribus vicibus per singulos, |
| 30 | That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living. | ut revocet animas eorum a corruptione, et illuminet luce viventium. |
| 31 | Attend, Job, and hearken to me: and hold thy peace, whilst I speak. | Attende, Iob, et audi me: et tace, dum ego loquor. |
| 32 | But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would have thee to appear just. | Si autem habes quod loquaris, responde mihi: loquere, volo enim te apparere iustum. |
| 33 | And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom. | Quod si non habes, audi me: tace, et docebo te sapientiam. |
