Job 10

NEW JERUSALEM	NOVA VULGATA
1 Since I have lost al taste for life, I shal give free rein to my complaining; I shal let my embittered soulspeak out.	1 Taedet animam meam vitae meae; dimittam adversum me eloquium meum, loquar in amaritudine animae meae.
2 I shal say to God, 'Do not condemn me, tel me what your case is against me.	2 Dicam Deo: Noli me condemnare, indica mihi cur me ita iudices.
3 Is it right for you to attack me, in contempt for what you yourself have made, thus abetting theschemes of the wicked?	3 Numquid bonum tibi videtur, si opprimas me et calumnieris me, opus manuum tuarum, et super consilium impiorum arrideas?
4 Are your eyes mere human eyes, do you see as human beings see?	4 Numquid oculi carnei tibi sunt, aut, sicut videt homo, et tu videbis?
5 Are you mortal like human beings? do your years pass as human days pass?	5 Numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui, et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora,
6 You, who enquire into my faults and investigate my sins,	6 ut quaeras iniquitatem meam et peccatum meum scruteris,
7 you know very wel that I am innocent, and that no one can rescue me from your grasp.	7 cum scias quia nihil impium fecerim, et sit nemo, qui de manu tua possit eruere?
8 Your hands having shaped and created me, now you change your mind and mean to destroy me!	8 Manus tuae fecerunt me et plasmaverunt me totum in circuitu; et sic repente praecipitas me?
9 Having made me, remember, as though of clay, now you mean to turn me back into dust!	9 Memento, quaeso, quod sicut lutum feceris me et in pulverem reduces me.
10 Did you not pour me out like milk, and then let me thicken like curds,	10 Nonne sicut lac mulsisti me et sicut caseum me coagulasti?
11 clothe me with skin and flesh, and weave me of bone and sinew?	11 Pelle et carnibus vestisti me; ossibus et nervis compegisti me.
12 In your love you gave me life, and in your care watched over my every breath.	12 Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
13 Yet, al the while, you had a secret plan: I know that you were biding your time	13 Licet haec celes in corde tuo, tamen scio haec in animo tuo versari.
14 to see if I should sin and then not acquit me of my faults.	14 Si peccaverim, observas me et ab iniquitate mea mundum me esse non pateris.
15 Woe to me, if I am guilty; even if I am upright, I dare not lift my head, so overwhelmed with shameand drunk with pain am I!	15 Et si impius fuero, vae mihi est; et si iustus, non levabo caput, saturatus afflictione et miseria.
16 Proud as a lion, you hunt me down, multiplying your exploits at my expense,	16 Si superbia extollar, quasi catulum leonis capies me et iterum mirabilem te exhibebis in me.
17 attacking me again and again, your fury against me ever increasing, your troops assailing me, waveafter wave.	17 Instauras testes tuos contra me et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me, et poenae militant in me.
18 Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have perished then, unseen by any eye,	18 Quare de vulva eduxisti me? Qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret!
19 a being that had never been, to be carried from womb to grave.	19 Fuissem quasi non essem, de utero translatus ad tumulum.
20 The days of my life are few enough: turn your eyes away, leave me a little joy,	20 Numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi? Dimitte ergo me, ut refrigerem paululum dolorem meum,
21 before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and shadow dark as death,	21 antequam vadam, et non revertar, ad terram tenebrarum et umbrae mortis,
22 where dimness and disorder hold sway, and light itself is like dead of night.	22 terram caliginis et tenebrarum, ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror inhabitat ”.