Job 13
1 ecce omnia et vidit oculus meus et audivit auris mea et intellexi singula
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi nec inferior vestri sum
What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
3 sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar et disputare cum Deo cupio
But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
4 prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii et cultores perversorum dogmatum
For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 atque utinam taceretis ut putaremini esse sapientes
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
6 audite ergo correptiones meas et iudicium labiorum meorum adtendite
Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio ut pro illo loquamini dolos
Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?
8 numquid faciem eius accipitis et pro Deo iudicare nitimini
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest aut decipietur ut homo vestris fraudulentiis
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
10 ipse vos arguet quoniam in abscondito faciem eius accipitis
He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 statim ut se commoverit turbabit vos et terror eius inruet super vos
Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
12 memoria vestra conparabitur cineri et redigentur in lutum cervices vestrae
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
13 tacete paulisper ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit
Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
14 quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis et animam meam porto in manibus meis
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
15 etiam si occiderit me in ipso sperabo verumtamen vias meas in conspectu eius arguam
Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
16 et ipse erit salvator meus non enim veniet in conspectu eius omnis hypocrita
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
17 audite sermonem meum et enigmata percipite auribus vestris
Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
18 si fuero iudicatus scio quod iustus inveniar
Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 quis est qui iudicetur mecum veniat quare tacens consumor
Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
20 duo tantum ne facias mihi et tunc a facie tua non abscondar
Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 manum tuam longe fac a me et formido tua non me terreat
Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
22 et voca me et respondebo tibi aut certe loquar et tu responde mihi
Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
23 quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi
How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 cur faciem tuam abscondis et arbitraris me inimicum tuum
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
25 contra folium quod vento rapitur ostendis potentiam tuam et stipulam siccam persequeris
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
26 scribis enim contra me amaritudines et consumere me vis peccatis adulescentiae meae
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
27 posuisti in nervo pedem meum et observasti omnes semitas meas et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti
And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; —
28 qui quasi putredo consumendus sum et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea
One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
