Job 7 Clementine Vulgate
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1 [Militia est vita hominis super terram, et sicut dies mercenarii dies ejus.
1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
2 Sicut servus desiderat umbram, et sicut mercenarius præstolatur finem operis sui,
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
3 sic et ego habui menses vacuos, et noctes laboriosas enumeravi mihi.
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 Si dormiero, dicam: Quando consurgam? et rursum expectabo vesperam, et replebor doloribus usque ad tenebras.
4 When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
5 Induta est caro mea putredine, et sordibus pulveris cutis mea aruit et contracta est.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
6 Dies mei velocius transierunt quam a texente tela succiditur, et consumpti sunt absque ulla spe.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 Memento quia ventus est vita mea, et non revertetur oculus meus ut videat bona.
7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
8 Nec aspiciet me visus hominis; oculi tui in me, et non subsistam.
8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
9 Sicut consumitur nubes, et pertransit, sic qui descenderit ad inferos, non ascendet.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
10 Nec revertetur ultra in domum suam, neque cognoscet eum amplius locus ejus.
10 He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
11 Quapropter et ego non parcam ori meo: loquar in tribulatione spiritus mei; confabulabor cum amaritudine animæ meæ.
11 “Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Numquid mare ego sum, aut cetus, quia circumdedisti me carcere?
12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
13 Si dixero: Consolabitur me lectulus meus, et relevabor loquens mecum in strato meo:
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
14 terrebis me per somnia, et per visiones horrore concuties.
14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
15 Quam ob rem elegit suspendium anima mea, et mortem ossa mea.
15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
16 Desperavi: nequaquam ultra jam vivam: parce mihi, nihil enim sunt dies mei.
16 I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 Quid est homo, quia magnificas eum? aut quid apponis erga eum cor tuum?
17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
18 Visitas eum diluculo, et subito probas illum.
18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
19 Usquequo non parcis mihi, nec dimittis me ut glutiam salivam meam?
19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
20 Peccavi; quid faciam tibi, o custos hominum? quare posuisti me contrarium tibi, et factus sum mihimetipsi gravis?
20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
21 Cur non tollis peccatum meum, et quare non aufers iniquitatem meam? ecce nunc in pulvere dormiam, et si mane me quæsieris, non subsistam.]
21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 14:5–6; Psalm 39:4; Job 5:7; Job 14:13–14; Leviticus 25:50
- 2 Leviticus 19:13; Deuteronomy 24:15; James 5:4; Malachi 3:5; Jeremiah 6:4
- 3 Psalm 6:6; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Job 16:7; Job 29:2; Psalm 39:5
- 4 Deuteronomy 28:67; Job 7:13–14; Psalm 77:4; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 130:6
- 5 Isaiah 14:11; Job 17:14; Job 2:7–8; Isaiah 1:6; Acts 12:23
- 6 Job 9:25; Job 17:15; Job 17:11; Isaiah 38:12–13; Isaiah 40:6–7
- 7 James 4:14; Psalm 78:39; Jeremiah 15:15; Psalm 89:47; Job 10:21–22
- 8 Job 20:9; Psalm 37:36; Job 8:18; Psalm 90:8–9; Job 13:27
- 9 Job 10:21; 2 Samuel 14:14; Job 30:15; Job 16:22; Job 14:10–14
- 10 Job 8:18; Job 20:9; Psalm 103:16; Job 27:23; Job 27:21
- 11 1 Samuel 1:10; Psalm 40:9; Job 10:1; Isaiah 38:15; Job 21:25
- 12 Job 7:17; Lamentations 3:7; Ezekiel 32:2–3; Job 38:6–11; Job 41:1–34
- 13 Psalm 6:6; Psalm 77:4; Job 7:3–4; Job 9:27–28
- 14 Genesis 41:8; Daniel 2:1; Genesis 40:5–7; Judges 7:13–14; Matthew 27:19
- 15 Matthew 27:5; 2 Samuel 17:23
- 16 1 Kings 19:4; Job 10:1; Job 9:21; Job 14:6; Psalm 62:9
- 17 Hebrews 2:6; Psalm 8:4; Psalm 144:3; Job 34:14–15; Job 7:12
- 18 1 Peter 1:7; Jeremiah 9:7; Isaiah 38:12–13; Job 14:3; Genesis 22:1
- 19 Job 9:18; Psalm 13:1–3; Job 14:6; Psalm 6:3; Psalm 94:3
- 20 Lamentations 3:12; Psalm 36:6; Job 3:24; Job 7:11–12; Psalm 21:12
- 21 Job 10:14; Daniel 12:2; 1 John 1:9; Lamentations 5:20–22; Isaiah 64:9
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What the Fathers said
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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).
"For I shall not live alway, that I should suffer long." Next, his being conscious to himself of many good works.
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