Comparison
Job 4
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said: | Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit: |
| 2 | If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived? | Si coeperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit? |
| 3 | Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands: | Ecce docuisti multos, et manus lassas roborasti; |
| 4 | Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees: | vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui, et genua trementia confortasti. |
| 5 | But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled. | Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti; tetigit te, et conturbatus es. |
| 6 | Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways? | Ubi est timor tuus, fortitudo tua, patientia tua, et perfectio viarum tuarum? |
| 7 | Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed? | Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit? aut quando recti deleti sunt? |
| 8 | On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them, | Quin potius vidi eos qui operantur iniquitatem, et seminant dolores, et metunt eos, |
| 9 | Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath. | flante Deo perisse, et spiritu irae eius esse consumptos. |
| 10 | The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken: | Rugitus leonis, et vox leaenae, et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt. |
| 11 | The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad. | Tigris periit, eo quod non haberet praedam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt. |
| 12 | Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper. | Porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum, et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri eius. |
| 13 | In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men, | In horrore visionis nocturnae, quando solet sopor occupare homines, |
| 14 | Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted: | pavor tenuit me, et tremor, et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt; |
| 15 | And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up. | et cum spiritus, me praesente, transiret, inhorruerunt pili carnis meae. |
| 16 | There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind: | Stetit quidam, cuius non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi aurae lenis audivi. |
| 17 | Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker? | Numquid homo, Dei comparatione, iustificabitur? aut factore suo purior erit vir? |
| 18 | Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness: | Ecce qui serviunt ei, non sunt stabiles, et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem; |
| 19 | How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth? | quanto magis hi qui habitant domos luteas, qui terrenum habent fundamentum, consumentur velut a tinea? |
| 20 | From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever. | De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur; et quia nullus intelligit, in aeternum peribunt. |
| 21 | And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom. | Qui autem reliqui fuerint, auferentur ex eis; morientur, et non in sapientia. |
