Comparison
Job 38
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said: | Respondens autem Dominus Iob de turbine, dixit: |
| 2 | Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words? | Quis est iste involvens sententias sermonibus imperitis? |
| 3 | Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me. | Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos: interrogabo te, et responde mihi. |
| 4 | Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding. | Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terrae? indica mihi, si habes intelligentiam. |
| 5 | Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? | Quis posuit mensuras eius, si nosti? vel quis tetendit super eam lineam? |
| 6 | Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof, | Super quo bases illius solidatae sunt? aut quis demisit lapidem angularem eius, |
| 7 | When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody? | cum me laudarent simul astra matutina, et iubilarent omnes filii Dei? |
| 8 | Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: | Quis conclusit ostiis mare, quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens; |
| 9 | When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands? | cum ponerem nubem vestimentum eius, et caligine illud quasi pannis infantiae obvolverem? |
| 10 | I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors: | Circumdedi illud terminis meis, et posui vectem et ostia, |
| 11 | And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves. | et dixi: Usque huc venies, et non procedes amplius, et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos. |
| 12 | Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? | Numquid post ortum tuum praecepisti diluculo, et ostendisti aurorae locum suum? |
| 13 | And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it? | Et tenuisti concutiens extrema terrae, et excussisti impios ex ea? |
| 14 | The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment: | Restituetur ut lutum signaculum, et stabit sicut vestimentum: |
| 15 | From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken. | auferetur ab impiis lux sua, et brachium excelsum confringetur. |
| 16 | Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep? | Numquid ingressus es profunda maris, et in novissimis abyssi deambulasti? |
| 17 | Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors? | Numquid apertae sunt tibi portae mortis, et ostia tenebrosa vidisti? |
| 18 | Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things? | Numquid considerasti latitudinem terrae? indica mihi, si nosti, omnia: |
| 19 | Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness: | in qua via lux habitet, et tenebrarum quis locus sit: |
| 20 | That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof. | ut ducas unumquodque ad terminos suos, et intelligas semitas domus eius. |
| 21 | Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days? | Sciebas tunc quod nasciturus esses, et numerum dierum tuorum noveras? |
| 22 | Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail: | Numquid ingressus es thesauros nivis, aut thesauros grandinis aspexisti, |
| 23 | Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war? | quae praeparavi in tempus hostis, in diem pugnae et belli? |
| 24 | By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth? | Per quam viam spargitur lux, dividitur aestus super terram? |
| 25 | Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder: | Quis dedit vehementissimo imbri cursum, et viam sonantis tonitrui, |
| 26 | That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth: | ut plueret super terram absque homine in deserto, ubi nullus mortalium commoratur; |
| 27 | That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass? | ut impleret inviam et desolatam, et produceret herbas virentes? |
| 28 | Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew? | Quis est pluviae pater? vel quis genuit stillas roris? |
| 29 | Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it? | De cuius utero egressa est glacies? et gelu de caelo quis genuit? |
| 30 | The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed. | In similitudinem lapidis aquae durantur, et superficies abyssi constringitur. |
| 31 | Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus? | Numquid coniungere valebis micantes stellas Pleiadas, aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare? |
| 32 | Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth? | Numquid producis luciferum in tempore suo, et vesperum super filios terrae consurgere facis? |
| 33 | Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth? | Numquid nosti ordinem caeli, et pones rationem eius in terra? |
| 34 | Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee? | Numquid elevabis in nebula vocem tuam, et impetus aquarum operiet te? |
| 35 | Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are? | Numquid mittes fulgura, et ibunt, et revertentia dicent tibi: Adsumus? |
| 36 | Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding? | Quis posuit in visceribus hominis sapientiam? vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam? |
| 37 | Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep? | Quis enarrabit caelorum rationem? et concentum caeli quis dormire faciet? |
| 38 | When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together? | Quando fundebatur pulvis in terra, et glebae compingebantur? |
| 39 | Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps, | Numquid capies leaenae praedam, et animam catulorum eius implebis, |
| 40 | When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes? | quando cubant in antris, et in specubus insidiantur? |
| 41 | Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat? | Quis praeparat corvo escam suam, quando pulli eius clamant ad Deum, vagantes, eo quod non habeant cibos? |
