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Sabato, 4 maggio 2024 - San Ciriaco ( Letture di oggi)

Job 26


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NEW AMERICAN BIBLEVULGATA
1 Then Job spoke again and said:1 Respondens autem Job dixit :
2 What help you give to the powerless, what strength to the feeble arm!2 Cujus adjutor es ? numquid imbecillis ?
et sustentas brachium ejus qui non est fortis ?
3 How you counsel, as though he had no wisdom; how profuse is the advice you offer!3 Cui dedisti consilium ?
forsitan illi qui non habet sapientiam :
et prudentiam tuam ostendisti plurimam.
4 With whose help have you uttered those words, and whose is the breath that comes forth from you?4 Quem docere voluisti ?
nonne eum qui fecit spiramentum ?
5 The shades beneath writhe in terror, the waters, and their inhabitants.5 Ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis,
et qui habitant cum eis.
6 Naked before him is the nether world, and Abaddon has no covering.6 Nudus est infernus coram illo,
et nullum est operimentum perditioni.
7 He stretches out the North over empty space, and suspends the earth over nothing at all;7 Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum,
et appendit terram super nihilum.
8 He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not rent by their weight;8 Qui ligat aquas in nubibus suis,
ut non erumpant pariter deorsum.
9 He holds back the appearance of the full moon by spreading his clouds before it.9 Qui tenet vultum solii sui,
et expandit super illud nebulam suam.
10 He has marked out a circle on the surface of the deep as the boundary of light and darkness.10 Terminum circumdedit aquis,
usque dum finiantur lux et tenebræ.
11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are stunned at his thunderous rebuke;11 Columnæ cæli contremiscunt,
et pavent ad nutum ejus.
12 By his power he stirs up the sea, and by his might he crushes Rahab;12 In fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt,
et prudentia ejus percussit superbum.
13 With his angry breath he scatters the waters, and he hurls the lightning against them relentlessly; His hand pierces the fugitive dragon as from his hand it strives to flee.13 Spiritus ejus ornavit cælos,
et obstetricante manu ejus, eductus est coluber tortuosus.
14 Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways, and how faint is the word we hear!14 Ecce hæc ex parte dicta sunt viarum ejus :
et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis ejus audierimus,
quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri ?