Job 9 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Et respondens Job, ait:
1 Then Job answered,
2 [Vere scio quod ita sit, et quod non justificetur homo compositus Deo.
2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
3 Si voluerit contendere cum eo, non poterit ei respondere unum pro mille.
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
4 Sapiens corde est, et fortis robore: quis restitit ei, et pacem habuit?
4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
5 Qui transtulit montes, et nescierunt hi quos subvertit in furore suo.
5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
6 Qui commovet terram de loco suo, et columnæ ejus concutiuntur.
6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
7 Qui præcipit soli, et non oritur, et stellas claudit quasi sub signaculo.
7 He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
8 Qui extendit cælos solus, et graditur super fluctus maris.
8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
9 Qui facit Arcturum et Oriona, et Hyadas et interiora austri.
9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
10 Qui facit magna, et incomprehensibilia, et mirabilia, quorum non est numerus.
10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
11 Si venerit ad me, non videbo eum; si abierit, non intelligam.
11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
12 Si repente interroget, quis respondebit ei? vel quis dicere potest: Cur ita facis?
12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
13 Deus, cujus iræ nemo resistere potest, et sub quo curvantur qui portant orbem.
13 “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14 Quantus ergo sum ego, ut respondeam ei, et loquar verbis meis cum eo?
14 How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
15 qui etiam si habuero quippiam justum, non respondebo: sed meum judicem deprecabor.
15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
16 Et cum invocantem exaudierit me, non credo quod audierit vocem meam.
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17 In turbine enim conteret me, et multiplicabit vulnera mea, etiam sine causa.
17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18 Non concedit requiescere spiritum meum, et implet me amaritudinibus.
18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19 Si fortitudo quæritur, robustissimus est; si æquitas judicii, nemo audet pro me testimonium dicere.
19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20 Si justificare me voluero, os meum condemnabit me; si innocentem ostendero, pravum me comprobabit.
20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
21 Etiam si simplex fuero, hoc ipsum ignorabit anima mea, et tædebit me vitæ meæ.
21 I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
22 Unum est quod locutus sum: et innocentem et impium ipse consumit.
22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 Si flagellat, occidat semel, et non de pœnis innocentum rideat.
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24 Terra data est in manus impii; vultum judicum ejus operit. Quod si non ille est, quis ergo est?
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
25 Dies mei velociores fuerunt cursore; fugerunt, et non viderunt bonum.
25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
26 Pertransierunt quasi naves poma portantes; sicut aquila volans ad escam.
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
27 Cum dixero: Nequaquam ita loquar: commuto faciem meam, et dolore torqueor.
27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
28 Verebar omnia opera mea, sciens quod non parceres delinquenti.
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29 Si autem et sic impius sum, quare frustra laboravi?
29 I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
30 Si lotus fuero quasi aquis nivis, et fulserint velut mundissimæ manus meæ,
30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 tamen sordibus intinges me, et abominabuntur me vestimenta mea.
31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
32 Neque enim viro qui similis mei est, respondebo; nec qui mecum in judicio ex æquo possit audiri.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
33 Non est qui utrumque valeat arguere, et ponere manum suam in ambobus.
33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
34 Auferat a me virgam suam, et pavor ejus non me terreat.
34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
35 Loquar, et non timebo eum; neque enim possum metuens respondere.]
35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 4:17; Romans 3:20; Psalm 143:2; Job 25:4; 1 Kings 8:46
- 3 Job 10:2; Job 40:2; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 1:8; Psalm 19:12
- 4 Job 36:5; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Exodus 14:17–18; Job 9:19
- 5 Luke 21:11; Matthew 27:51; Habakkuk 3:10; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:18–20
- 6 Haggai 2:6; Psalm 75:3; Hebrews 12:26; Job 26:11; Isaiah 2:21
- 7 Isaiah 13:10; Amos 8:9; Luke 21:25–26; Job 37:7; Matthew 24:29
- 8 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 104:2–3; Job 37:18; Zechariah 12:1
- 9 Amos 5:8; Genesis 1:16; Job 38:31–41; Psalm 147:4; Acts 28:13
- 10 Job 5:9; Psalm 72:18; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Daniel 4:2–3
- 11 Job 23:8–9; Job 35:14; Psalm 77:19; 1 Timothy 6:16
- 12 Job 11:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 23:13; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35
- 13 Psalm 89:10; Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 30:7; James 4:6–7
- 14 Job 11:4–5; Job 4:19; Job 9:3; Job 23:7; Job 23:4
- 15 Job 10:15; Job 8:5; Job 22:27; Job 10:2; 1 Peter 2:23
- 16 Exodus 6:9; Psalm 66:18–20; Luke 24:41; Job 29:24; Psalm 18:6
- 17 Job 16:14; Job 2:3; Job 34:6; Job 2:13; Ezekiel 13:13
- 18 Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:15; Hebrews 12:11; Job 3:20; Job 27:2
- 19 Job 9:32–33; Job 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Job 40:9–10; Matthew 6:13
- 20 Psalm 143:2; Job 34:35; Job 9:2; Psalm 130:3; Philippians 3:12–15
- 21 Job 1:1; Psalm 139:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26
- 22 Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; Job 10:8; Ezekiel 21:3–4; Luke 13:2–4
- 23 Job 24:12; Hebrews 11:36–37; Ezekiel 14:19–21; Job 8:20; Job 2:7
- 24 Job 10:3; Psalm 73:3–7; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:7–15; 2 Samuel 15:30
- 25 Job 7:6–7; James 4:14; Psalm 90:9–10; Psalm 39:5; Esther 8:14
- 26 Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 18:2; Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 4:13; 2 Samuel 1:23
- 27 Job 7:13; Psalm 77:2–3; Job 7:11; Jeremiah 8:18
- 28 Psalm 119:120; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 9:20–21; Job 14:16; Job 10:14
- 29 Job 10:7; Job 10:2; Job 10:14–17; Job 21:16–17; Jeremiah 2:35
- 30 Jeremiah 2:22; Psalm 26:6; 1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16–18; Jeremiah 4:14
- 31 Job 15:6; Philippians 3:8–9; Job 9:20; Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 64:6
- 32 Romans 9:20; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 45:9; Numbers 23:19
- 33 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 John 2:1–2; Job 9:19; Psalm 106:23; 1 Kings 3:16–28
- 34 Psalm 39:10; Job 33:7; Job 13:11; Psalm 90:11; Job 13:20–22
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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).
That which a certain scripture says: "The earth was delivered into the hands of the ungodly." The flesh was given into the power of the Jews; and this that thereby the bag, as it were, might be rent asunder, whence our purchase-price might run out.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
And this Job said mystically, Which alone spread out the heaven, and walketh upon the sea as on firm ground; signifying to those who understand that He who when present here walked upon the sea is also He who aforetime made the heavens.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
"The earth is given into the hands of the wicked." What is meant by "earth" being "given into the hands of the ungodly"?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
"I slept," because "I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again." "I laid Me down and slept, and rose up again." Rage then the Jews; be "the earth given into the hands of the wicked," be the flesh left to the hands of persecutors, let them on wood suspend it, with nails …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)