Job 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit:
2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Si cœperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit?
3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
Ecce docuisti multos, et manus lassas roborasti;
4 Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui, et genua trementia confortasti.
5 But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti; tetigit te, et conturbatus es.
6 Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
Ubi est timor tuus, fortitudo tua, patientia tua, et perfectio viarum tuarum?
7 “Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit? aut quando recti deleti sunt?
8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
Quin potius vidi eos qui operantur iniquitatem, et seminant dolores, et metunt eos,
9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
flante Deo perisse, et spiritu iræ ejus esse consumptos.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Rugitus leonis, et vox leænæ, et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt.
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
Tigris periit, eo quod non haberet prædam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.
12 “Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
Porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum, et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri ejus.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
In horrore visionis nocturnæ, quando solet sopor occupare homines,
14 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
pavor tenuit me, et tremor, et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt;
15 Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
et cum spiritus, me præsente, transiret, inhorruerunt pili carnis meæ.
16 It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
Stetit quidam, cujus non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi auræ lenis audivi.
17 ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Numquid homo, Dei comparatione, justificabitur? aut factore suo purior erit vir?
18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
Ecce qui serviunt ei, non sunt stabiles, et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem;
19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
quanto magis hi qui habitant domos luteas, qui terrenum habent fundamentum, consumentur velut a tinea?
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur; et quia nullus intelligit, in æternum peribunt.
21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
Qui autem reliqui fuerint, auferentur ex eis; morientur, et non in sapientia.
