Job 12

NEW JERUSALEM	VULGATA
1 Job spoke next. He said:	1 Respondens autem Job, dixit :
2 Doubtless, you are the voice of the people, and when you die, wisdom wil die with you!	2 Ergo vos estis soli homines, et vobiscum morietur sapientia ?
3 But I have a brain, as well as you, I am in no way inferior to you, and who, in any case, does not know al that?	3 Et mihi est cor sicut et vobis, nec inferior vestri sum ; quis enim hæc quæ nostis ignorat ?
4 Anyone becomes a laughing-stock to his friends if he cries to God and expects an answer. Peoplelaugh at anyone who has integrity and is upright.	4 Qui deridetur ab amico suo, sicut ego, invocabit Deum, et exaudiet eum : deridetur enim justi simplicitas.
5 'Add insult to injury,' think the prosperous, 'strike the fel ow now that he is staggering!'	5 Lampas contempta apud cogitationes divitum parata ad tempus statutum.
6 And yet the tents of brigands are left in peace: those who provoke God dwel secure and so doesanyone who makes a god of his fist!	6 Abundant tabernacula prædonum, et audacter provocant Deum, cum ipse dederit omnia in manus eorum.
7 You have only to ask the cattle, for them to instruct you, and the birds of the sky, for them to informyou.	7 Nimirum interroga jumenta, et docebunt te ; et volatilia cæli, et indicabunt tibi.
8 The creeping things of earth wil give you lessons, and the fish of the sea provide you an explanation:	8 Loquere terræ, et respondebit tibi, et narrabunt pisces maris.
9 there is not one such creature but wil know that the hand of God has arranged things like this!	9 Quis ignorat quod omnia hæc manus Domini fecerit ?
10 In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of every human being!	10 In cujus manu anima omnis viventis, et spiritus universæ carnis hominis.
11 Can the ear not distinguish the value of what is said, just as the palate can tel one food fromanother?	11 Nonne auris verba dijudicat ? et fauces comedentis, saporem ?
12 Wisdom is found in the old, and discretion comes with great age.	12 In antiquis est sapientia, et in multo tempore prudentia.
13 But in him there is wisdom, and power too, and good counsel no less than discretion.	13 Apud ipsum est sapientia et fortitudo ; ipse habet consilium et intelligentiam.
14 What he destroys, no one can rebuild; whom he imprisons, no one can release.	14 Si destruxerit, nemo est qui ædificet ; si incluserit hominem, nullus est qui aperiat.
15 Is there a drought? He has withheld the waters. Do they play havoc on earth? He has let them loose.	15 Si continuerit aquas, omnia siccabuntur ; et si emiserit eas, subvertent terram.
16 In him is strength, in him resourcefulness, beguiler and beguiled alike are his.	16 Apud ipsum est fortitudo et sapientia ; ipse novit et decipientem, et eum qui decipitur.
17 He robs a country's counsel ors of their wits, turns judges into fools.	17 Adducit consiliarios in stultum finem, et judices in stuporem.
18 He undoes the belts of kings and knots a rope round their waists.	18 Balteum regum dissolvit, et præcingit fune renes eorum.
19 He makes priests walk barefoot, and overthrows the powers that are established.	19 Ducit sacerdotes inglorios, et optimates supplantat :
20 He strikes the most assured of speakers dumb and robs old people of their discretion.	20 commutans labium veracium, et doctrinam senum auferens.
21 He pours contempt on the nobly born, and unbuckles the belt of the strong.	21 Effundit despectionem super principes, eos qui oppressi fuerant relevans.
22 He unveils the depths of darkness, brings shadow dark as death to the light.	22 Qui revelat profunda de tenebris, et producit in lucem umbram mortis.
23 He builds nations up, then ruins them, he makes peoples expand, then suppresses them.	23 Qui multiplicat gentes, et perdit eas, et subversas in integrum restituit.
24 He strips a country's leaders of their judgement, and leaves them to wander in a trackless waste,	24 Qui immutat cor principum populi terræ, et decipit eos ut frustra incedant per invium :
25 to grope about in unlit darkness, lurching to and fro as though drunk.	25 palpabunt quasi in tenebris, et non in luce, et errare eos faciet quasi ebrios.