1Job again took up his parable, and said,
2“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
3(for the length of my life is still in me,
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
4surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness,
neither will my tongue utter deceit.
5Far be it from me that I should justify you.
Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go.
My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
7“Let my enemy be as the wicked.
Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
8For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off,
when God takes away his life?
9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
10Will he delight himself in the Almighty,
and call on God at all times?
11I will teach you about the hand of God.
I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
12Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
why then have you become altogether vain?
13“This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword.
His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
15Those who remain of him will be buried in death.
His widows will make no lamentation.
16Though he heap up silver as the dust,
and prepare clothing as the clay;
17he may prepare it, but the just will put it on,
and the innocent will divide the silver.
18He builds his house as the moth,
as a booth which the watchman makes.
19He lies down rich, but he will not do so again.
He opens his eyes, and he is not.
20Terrors overtake him like waters.
A storm steals him away in the night.
21The east wind carries him away, and he departs.
It sweeps him out of his place.
22For it hurls at him, and does not spare,
as he flees away from his hand.
23Men will clap their hands at him,
and will hiss him out of his place.
1Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit: 2Vivit Deus, qui abstulit judicium meum, et Omnipotens, qui ad amaritudinem adduxit animam meam. 3Quia donec superest halitus in me, et spiritus Dei in naribus meis, 4non loquentur labia mea iniquitatem, nec lingua mea meditabitur mendacium. 5Absit a me ut justos vos esse judicem: donec deficiam, non recedam ab innocentia mea. 6Justificationem meam, quam cœpi tenere, non deseram: neque enim reprehendit me cor meum in omni vita mea. 7Sit ut impius, inimicus meus, et adversarius meus quasi iniquus. 8Quæ est enim spes hypocritæ, si avare rapiat, et non liberet Deus animam ejus? 9Numquid Deus audiet clamorem ejus, cum venerit super eum angustia? 10aut poterit in Omnipotente delectari, et invocare Deum omni tempore? 11Docebo vos per manum Dei quæ Omnipotens habeat, nec abscondam. 12Ecce vos omnes nostis: et quid sine causa vana loquimini? 13Hæc est pars hominis impii apud Deum, et hæreditas violentorum, quam ob Omnipotente suscipient. 14Si multiplicati fuerint filii ejus, in gladio erunt, et nepotes ejus non saturabuntur pane: 15qui reliqui fuerint ex eo sepelientur in interitu, et viduæ illius non plorabunt. 16Si comportaverit quasi terram argentum, et sicut lutum præparaverit vestimenta: 17præparabit quidem, sed justus vestietur illis, et argentum innocens dividet. 18Ædificavit sicut tinea domum suam, et sicut custos fecit umbraculum. 19Dives, cum dormierit, nihil secum auferet: aperiet oculos suos, et nihil inveniet. 20Apprehendet eum quasi aqua inopia: nocte opprimet eum tempestas. 21Tollet eum ventus urens, et auferet, et velut turbo rapiet eum de loco suo. 22Et mittet super eum, et non parcet: de manu ejus fugiens fugiet. 23Stringet super eum manus suas, et sibilabit super illum, intuens locum ejus.