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Lunedi, 29 aprile 2024 - Santa Caterina da Siena ( Letture di oggi)

Job 25


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1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:1 Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit :
2 What sovereignty, what awe, is his who creates peace on his heights!2 Potestas et terror apud eum est,
qui facit concordiam in sublimibus suis.
3 Who can count his armies? Against whom does his lightning not surge forth?3 Numquid est numerus militum ejus ?
et super quem non surget lumen illius ?
4 Could anyone think God regards him as virtuous, the child of woman as pure!4 Numquid justificari potest homo comparatus Deo ?
aut apparere mundus natus de muliere ?
5 Why, the very moon lacks lustre, the very stars seem impure to him! The Shadows tremble underneaththe earth, the waters and their denizens are afraid.5 Ecce luna etiam non splendet,
et stellæ non sunt mundæ in conspectu ejus :
6 How much less a human, this maggot, the child of man, this worm! Before his eyes, Sheol is bare,Perdition itself is uncovered.6 quanto magis homo putredo,
et filius hominis vermis ?
7 He it was who spread the North above the void and poised the earth on nothingness.
8 He fastens up the waters in his clouds, without the clouds giving way under their weight.
9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his cloud across it.
10 He has traced a ring on the surface of the waters, at the boundary between light and dark.
11 The pil ars of the heavens tremble, awe-struck at his threats.
12 By his power, he has whipped up the Sea, by his skil , he has crushed Rahab.
13 His breath has made the heavens luminous, his hand transfixed the Fleeing Serpent.
14 This is only a fraction of what he has done and al we catch of it is the feeblest echo. But who canconceive the thunder of his power?