Job 34 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Pronuntians itaque Eliu, etiam hæc locutus est:
1 Moreover Elihu answered,
2 [Audite, sapientes, verba mea: et eruditi, auscultate me.
2 “Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
3 Auris enim verba probat, et guttur escas gustu dijudicat.
3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
4 Judicium eligamus nobis, et inter nos videamus quid sit melius.
4 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.
5 Quia dixit Job: Justus sum, et Deus subvertit judicium meum.
5 For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.
6 In judicando enim me mendacium est: violenta sagitta mea absque ullo peccato.
6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’
7 Quis est vir ut est Job, qui bibit subsannationem quasi aquam:
7 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
8 qui graditur cum operantibus iniquitatem, et ambulat cum viris impiis?
8 who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
9 Dixit enim: Non placebit vir Deo, etiam si cucurrerit cum eo.
9 For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
10 Ideo, viri cordati, audite me: absit a Deo impietas, et ab Omnipotente iniquitas.
10 “Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
11 Opus enim hominis reddet ei, et juxta vias singulorum restituet eis.
11 For the work of a man he will give to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
12 Vere enim Deus non condemnabit frustra, nec Omnipotens subvertet judicium.
12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
13 Quem constituit alium super terram? aut quem posuit super orbem quem fabricatus est?
13 Who put him in charge of the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world?
14 Si direxerit ad eum cor suum, spiritum illius et flatum ad se trahet.
14 If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
15 Deficiet omnis caro simul, et homo in cinerem revertetur.
15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
16 Si habes ergo intellectum, audi quod dicitur, et ausculta vocem eloquii mei:
16 “If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.
17 numquid qui non amat judicium sanari potest? et quomodo tu eum qui justus est in tantum condemnas?
17 Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
18 Qui dicit regi: Apostata; qui vocat duces impios;
18 who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?
19 qui non accipit personas principum, nec cognovit tyrannum cum disceptaret contra pauperem: opus enim manuum ejus sunt universi.
19 He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor, for they all are the work of his hands.
20 Subito morientur, et in media nocte turbabuntur populi: et pertransibunt, et auferent violentum absque manu.
20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
21 Oculi enim ejus super vias hominum, et omnes gressus eorum considerat.
21 “For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
22 Non sunt tenebræ, et non est umbra mortis, ut abscondantur ibi qui operantur iniquitatem,
22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23 neque enim ultra in hominis potestate est, ut veniat ad Deum in judicium.
23 For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
24 Conteret multos, et innumerabiles, et stare faciet alios pro eis.
24 He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
25 Novit enim opera eorum, et idcirco inducet noctem, et conterentur.
25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
26 Quasi impios percussit eos in loco videntium:
26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
27 qui quasi de industria recesserunt ab eo, et omnes vias ejus intelligere noluerunt:
27 because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,
28 ut pervenire facerent ad eum clamorem egeni, et audiret vocem pauperum.
28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
29 Ipso enim concedente pacem, quis est qui condemnet? ex quo absconderit vultum, quis est qui contempletur eum, et super gentes, et super omnes homines?
29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,
30 Qui regnare facit hominem hypocritam propter peccata populi.
30 that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.
31 Quia ergo ego locutus sum ad Deum, te quoque non prohibebo.
31 “For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
32 Si erravi, tu doce me; si iniquitatem locutus sum, ultra non addam.
32 Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
33 Numquid a te Deus expetit eam, quia displicuit tibi? tu enim cœpisti loqui, et non ego: quod si quid nosti melius, loquere.
33 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
34 Viri intelligentes loquantur mihi, et vir sapiens audiat me.
34 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:
35 Job autem stulte locutus est, et verba illius non sonant disciplinam.
35 ‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’
36 Pater mi, probetur Job usque ad finem: ne desinas ab homine iniquitatis:
36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
37 quia addit super peccata sua blasphemiam, inter nos interim constringatur: et tunc ad judicium provocet sermonibus suis Deum.]
37 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”
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Elihu
Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, who burned with anger against Job and his three friends and spoke after they fell silent.
Cited in the guide: Job 32:2; Job 32:6; Job 34:1
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- 2 1 Corinthians 14:20; Proverbs 1:5; 1 Corinthians 10:15
- 3 Job 12:11; 1 Corinthians 2:15; Hebrews 5:14; Job 33:2; Job 31:30
- 4 1 Thessalonians 5:21; Galatians 2:11–14; 1 Corinthians 6:2–5; Judges 20:7; Judges 19:30
- 5 Job 27:2; Job 33:9; Job 32:1; Job 16:17; Job 9:17
- 6 Job 6:4; Job 16:13; Job 27:4–6
- 7 Job 15:16; Deuteronomy 29:19; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 4:17
- 8 Psalm 1:1; 1 Corinthians 15:33; Proverbs 13:20; Psalm 26:4; Psalm 50:18
- 9 Job 21:14–16; Job 35:3; Malachi 3:14; Job 9:22–23; Psalm 37:4
- 10 Romans 9:14; Deuteronomy 32:4; 2 Chronicles 19:7; Job 8:3; James 1:13
- 11 2 Corinthians 5:10; Romans 2:6; Revelation 22:12; Psalm 62:12; Matthew 16:27
- 12 Job 8:3; Psalm 145:17; Psalm 11:7; Habakkuk 1:12–13
- 13 1 Chronicles 29:11; Isaiah 40:13–14; Romans 11:34–36; Job 36:23; Job 40:8–11
- 14 Psalm 104:29; Job 9:4; Job 7:17; Isaiah 24:22
- 15 Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 57:16; Psalm 90:3–10; Job 30:23
- 16 Job 13:2–6; Job 12:3
- 17 Genesis 18:25; Romans 9:14; Job 40:8; 2 Samuel 23:3; Romans 3:5–7
- 18 Exodus 22:28; Proverbs 17:26; Romans 13:7; Acts 23:3; Jude 8
- 19 Deuteronomy 10:17; James 2:5; Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11; Colossians 3:25
- 20 Psalm 73:19; Isaiah 30:30–33; 1 Samuel 25:37–39; Luke 12:20; Isaiah 30:13
- 21 Proverbs 15:3; Job 31:4; Proverbs 5:21; Jeremiah 16:17; Jeremiah 32:19
- 22 Hebrews 4:13; Amos 9:2–3; Proverbs 10:29; Psalm 139:11–12; Jeremiah 23:24
- 23 Daniel 9:7–9; Psalm 119:137; Ezra 9:13; Romans 9:20; Job 11:11
- 24 Psalm 113:7–8; Daniel 2:21; Psalm 72:4; Psalm 94:5; Psalm 2:9
- 25 Job 34:20; Hosea 7:2; Psalm 33:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; Isaiah 66:18
- 26 Psalm 58:10–11; Deuteronomy 13:9–11; 1 Timothy 5:20; 2 Samuel 12:11–12; Revelation 18:20
- 27 1 Samuel 15:11; Psalm 28:5; Isaiah 5:12; Hebrews 10:39; Luke 17:31–32
- 28 James 5:4; Exodus 3:7; Job 35:9; Exodus 3:9; Psalm 12:5
- 29 Job 23:13; John 14:27; Isaiah 26:3; Psalm 27:9; Romans 8:31–34
- 30 Proverbs 29:2–12; Psalm 12:8; Revelation 13:3–4; 2 Thessalonians 2:4–11; Job 34:21
- 31 Job 33:27; Micah 7:9; Ezra 9:13–14; Nehemiah 9:33–38; Leviticus 26:41
- 32 Psalm 32:8; Psalm 25:4–5; Psalm 19:12; Psalm 139:23–24; Psalm 143:8–10
- 33 Job 33:32; Job 34:11; Proverbs 11:31; Psalm 135:6; Isaiah 45:9
- 34 Job 34:10; Job 34:4; Job 34:2; 1 Corinthians 10:15; Job 34:16
- 35 Job 35:16; Job 38:2; Job 13:2; Job 15:2; Job 42:3
- 36 James 5:11; Job 21:7; Job 24:1; Psalm 17:3; Job 34:8–9
- 37 Job 27:23; Isaiah 1:19–20; 1 Samuel 15:23; Job 11:2–3; Job 8:2–3
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