Job 13

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

ecce omnia et vidit oculus meus et audivit auris mea et intellexi singula

What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi nec inferior vestri sum

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar et disputare cum Deo cupio

But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii et cultores perversorum dogmatum

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

atque utinam taceretis ut putaremini esse sapientes

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

audite ergo correptiones meas et iudicium labiorum meorum adtendite

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio ut pro illo loquamini dolos

Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

numquid faciem eius accipitis et pro Deo iudicare nitimini

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest aut decipietur ut homo vestris fraudulentiis

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

ipse vos arguet quoniam in abscondito faciem eius accipitis

Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

statim ut se commoverit turbabit vos et terror eius inruet super vos

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

memoria vestra conparabitur cineri et redigentur in lutum cervices vestrae

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

tacete paulisper ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis et animam meam porto in manibus meis

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

etiam si occiderit me in ipso sperabo verumtamen vias meas in conspectu eius arguam

He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

et ipse erit salvator meus non enim veniet in conspectu eius omnis hypocrita

Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

audite sermonem meum et enigmata percipite auribus vestris

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

si fuero iudicatus scio quod iustus inveniar

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

quis est qui iudicetur mecum veniat quare tacens consumor

Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

duo tantum ne facias mihi et tunc a facie tua non abscondar

Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

manum tuam longe fac a me et formido tua non me terreat

Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

et voca me et respondebo tibi aut certe loquar et tu responde mihi

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

cur faciem tuam abscondis et arbitraris me inimicum tuum

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

contra folium quod vento rapitur ostendis potentiam tuam et stipulam siccam persequeris

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

scribis enim contra me amaritudines et consumere me vis peccatis adulescentiae meae

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

posuisti in nervo pedem meum et observasti omnes semitas meas et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

qui quasi putredo consumendus sum et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea