Job 13 Clementine Vulgate
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 [Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus, et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula.
1 “Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
2 Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi: nec inferior vestri sum.
2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
3 Sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar, et disputare cum Deo cupio:
3 “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
4 prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii, et cultores perversorum dogmatum.
4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
5 Atque utinam taceretis, ut putaremini esse sapientes.
5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
6 Audite ergo correptionem meam, et judicium labiorum meorum attendite.
6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio, ut pro illo loquamini dolos?
7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
8 numquid faciem ejus accipitis, et pro Deo judicare nitimini?
8 Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
9 aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest? aut decipietur, ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
10 Ipse vos arguet, quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis.
10 He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
11 Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos, et terror ejus irruet super vos.
11 Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?
12 Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.
12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 Tacete paulisper, ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit.
13 “Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
14 Quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis, et animam meam porto in manibus meis?
14 Why 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 ejus arguam.
15 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
16 Et ipse erit salvator meus: non enim veniet in conspectu ejus omnis hypocrita.
16 This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.
17 Audite sermonem meum, et ænigmata percipite auribus vestris.
17 Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
18 Si fuero judicatus, scio quod justus inveniar.
18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
19 Quis est qui judicetur mecum? veniat: quare tacens consumor?
19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.
20 Duo tantum ne facias mihi, et tunc a facie tua non abscondar:
20 “Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
21 manum tuam longe fac a me, et formido tua non me terreat.
21 withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
22 Voca me, et ego respondebo tibi: aut certe loquar, et tu responde mihi.
22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
23 Quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata? scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi.
23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
24 Cur faciem tuam abscondis, et arbitraris me inimicum tuum?
24 Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
25 Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam, et stipulam siccam persequeris:
25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
26 scribis enim contra me amaritudines, et consumere me vis peccatis adolescentiæ meæ.
26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27 Posuisti in nervo pedem meum, et observasti omnes semitas meas, et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti:
27 You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
28 qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea.]
28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 5:9–16; Job 12:9–25; Job 15:17–18; 1 John 1:3; Job 8:8–10
- 2 Job 12:3; 2 Corinthians 11:16–18; 2 Corinthians 12:11; Job 42:7; Job 40:4–5
- 3 Isaiah 41:21; Job 9:3; Isaiah 1:18–20; Job 13:22; Job 31:35
- 4 Psalm 119:69; Job 16:2; Jeremiah 23:32; Jeremiah 6:14; Mark 5:26
- 5 Proverbs 17:28; James 1:19; Ecclesiastes 5:3; Job 13:13; Job 32:1
- 6 Job 34:2; Proverbs 8:6–7; Job 21:2–3; Job 33:1–3; Judges 9:7
- 7 Job 36:4; Job 27:4; 2 Corinthians 4:2; Romans 3:5–8; Job 4:7
- 8 Proverbs 24:23; Exodus 23:2–3; Job 32:21; Malachi 2:9; Job 34:19
- 9 Galatians 6:7–8; Jeremiah 17:10; Psalm 44:21; Psalm 139:23; Isaiah 28:22
- 10 James 2:9; Psalm 50:21–22; Psalm 82:2; Job 42:7–8
- 11 Psalm 119:120; Job 31:23; Exodus 15:16; Isaiah 8:13; Job 13:21
- 12 Genesis 18:27; Exodus 17:14; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Proverbs 10:7; Psalm 109:15
- 13 Job 7:11; Job 13:5; Job 21:3; Job 10:1; Job 6:9–10
- 14 Judges 12:3; Psalm 119:109; 1 Samuel 19:5; Job 18:4; Ecclesiastes 4:5
- 15 Psalm 23:4; Job 19:25–28; Job 23:10; Romans 8:38–39; 1 John 3:20
- 16 Isaiah 12:1–2; Isaiah 33:14; Psalm 118:21; Psalm 27:1; Job 27:8–10
- 17 Job 33:1; Job 21:2; Job 13:6
- 18 Job 23:4; Job 9:2–3; Job 40:7–8; Isaiah 43:26; Job 16:21
- 19 Isaiah 50:7–8; Job 33:32; Job 10:8; Job 13:13; Job 33:5–7
- 20 Genesis 3:8–10; Psalm 139:12; Revelation 6:15–16; Job 9:34–35
- 21 Job 33:7; Psalm 39:10; Job 9:34; Job 13:11; Job 22:15–17
- 22 Job 14:15; Job 9:16; Job 38:3; Job 42:3–6; Job 40:4–5
- 23 Psalm 139:23; Job 36:8–9; Psalm 44:20–21; Job 22:5
- 24 Job 19:11; Lamentations 2:5; Psalm 13:1; Isaiah 8:17; Job 33:10
- 25 Leviticus 26:36; Job 21:18; 1 Samuel 24:14; Matthew 12:20; Job 14:3
- 26 Psalm 25:7; John 5:14; Job 20:11; Jeremiah 31:19; Job 3:20
- 27 Job 33:11; Job 14:16; Proverbs 7:22; Job 2:7; Acts 16:24
- 28 Psalm 39:11; Job 4:19; Numbers 12:12; Job 30:17–19; Hosea 5:12
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