Job 12 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Respondens autem Job, dixit:
1 Then Job answered,
2 [Ergo vos estis soli homines, et vobiscum morietur sapientia?
2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3 Et mihi est cor sicut et vobis, nec inferior vestri sum; quis enim hæc quæ nostis ignorat?
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
4 Qui deridetur ab amico suo, sicut ego, invocabit Deum, et exaudiet eum: deridetur enim justi simplicitas.
4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
5 Lampas contempta apud cogitationes divitum parata ad tempus statutum.
5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6 Abundant tabernacula prædonum, et audacter provocant Deum, cum ipse dederit omnia in manus eorum.
6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
7 Nimirum interroga jumenta, et docebunt te; et volatilia cæli, et indicabunt tibi.
7 “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8 Loquere terræ, et respondebit tibi, et narrabunt pisces maris.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Quis ignorat quod omnia hæc manus Domini fecerit?
9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
10 In cujus manu anima omnis viventis, et spiritus universæ carnis hominis.
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
11 Nonne auris verba dijudicat? et fauces comedentis, saporem?
11 Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
12 In antiquis est sapientia, et in multo tempore prudentia.
12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
13 Apud ipsum est sapientia et fortitudo; ipse habet consilium et intelligentiam.
13 “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
14 Si destruxerit, nemo est qui ædificet; si incluserit hominem, nullus est qui aperiat.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15 Si continuerit aquas, omnia siccabuntur; et si emiserit eas, subvertent terram.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 Apud ipsum est fortitudo et sapientia; ipse novit et decipientem, et eum qui decipitur.
16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 Adducit consiliarios in stultum finem, et judices in stuporem.
17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18 Balteum regum dissolvit, et præcingit fune renes eorum.
18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
19 Ducit sacerdotes inglorios, et optimates supplantat:
19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20 commutans labium veracium, et doctrinam senum auferens.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 Effundit despectionem super principes, eos qui oppressi fuerant relevans.
21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 Qui revelat profunda de tenebris, et producit in lucem umbram mortis.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 Qui multiplicat gentes, et perdit eas, et subversas in integrum restituit.
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24 Qui immutat cor principum populi terræ, et decipit eos ut frustra incedant per invium:
24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 palpabunt quasi in tenebris, et non in luce, et errare eos faciet quasi ebrios.]
25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Isaiah 5:21; Job 17:4; Job 17:10; Job 8:8–10; Job 11:12
- 3 Job 13:2–5; 2 Corinthians 11:21–23; Proverbs 26:4; 2 Corinthians 11:5; Job 6:6–7
- 4 Job 30:1; Job 21:3; Psalm 91:15; Job 17:6; Psalm 22:7–8
- 5 Psalm 17:5; Proverbs 13:9; Matthew 25:8; Amos 6:1–6; Psalm 123:3–4
- 6 Job 9:24; Psalm 73:11–12; Psalm 37:35; Psalm 17:14; Job 21:7–15
- 7 Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7; Proverbs 6:6; Job 21:29–30
- 9 Isaiah 41:20; Jeremiah 27:5–6; Romans 11:36; Acts 19:35; 1 Samuel 2:7
- 10 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Numbers 16:22; Job 27:3
- 11 Job 34:3; Hebrews 5:14; Job 6:30; 1 Peter 2:3; Philippians 1:10
- 12 Job 32:7; Job 15:10; Job 8:8
- 13 Job 36:5; Job 9:4; Proverbs 2:6–7; James 1:5; Job 28:20–28
- 14 Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7; Malachi 1:4; Job 11:10; Job 37:7
- 15 1 Kings 17:1; Amos 5:8; Genesis 6:17; James 5:17–18; Genesis 6:13
- 16 Job 13:9; Job 12:13; Ezekiel 14:9; 1 Kings 22:22–23; Matthew 6:13
- 17 Isaiah 29:14; 1 Corinthians 1:19–20; 2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 17:14; Job 9:24
- 18 Daniel 2:21; Psalm 116:16; Jeremiah 52:31–34; 2 Chronicles 33:11–14; Revelation 19:16
- 19 Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 37:36–38; Job 35:9; Joshua 10:24; Revelation 19:19–21
- 20 Job 32:9; Job 17:4; Job 12:24; Proverbs 10:21; Job 39:17
- 21 Psalm 107:40; 1 Kings 21:23–24; Ephesians 6:10; Acts 12:23; Exodus 16:24
- 22 Daniel 2:22; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 2:10; Job 3:5; Luke 1:79
- 23 Isaiah 9:3; Isaiah 26:15; Isaiah 60:22; Psalm 107:38; Jeremiah 33:22
- 24 Psalm 107:40; Job 12:20; Hosea 7:11; Isaiah 19:1; Daniel 4:16
- 25 Job 5:14; Psalm 107:27; Isaiah 24:20; Isaiah 19:14; Deuteronomy 28:29
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Speak to the earth, if perchance it may teach thee: and though thou inquire of all things which are upon the earth, they shall not be able to tell thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)