Job 4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	NOVA VULGATA
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:	1 Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites dixit:
2 "If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? Yet who can keep from speaking?	2 “ Si coeperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit?
3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.	3 Ecce, docuisti multos et manus lassas roborasti;
4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.	4 vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui, et genua trementia confortasti.
5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.	5 Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti; tetigit te, et conturbatus es.
6 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?	6 Nonne timor tuus est fiducia tua, spes tua est perfectio viarum tuarum?
7 "Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?	7 Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit, aut quando recti deleti sunt?
8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.	8 quin potius vidi eos, qui operantur iniquitatem et seminant dolores et metunt eos,
9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.	9 flante Deo perisse, et spiritu irae eius esse consumptos.
10 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.	10 Rugitus leonis et vox leaenae et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt.
11 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.	11 Leo periit, eo quod non haberet praedam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.
12 "Now a word was brought to me stealthily, my ear received the whisper of it.	12 Porro ad me furtive verbum delatum est, et suscepit auris mea sussurrum eius.
13 Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,	13 In horrore visionis nocturnae, quando solet sopor occupare homines,
14 dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.	14 pavor tenuit me et tremor, et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt.
15 A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.	15 Et cum spiritus, me praesente, transiret, inhorruerunt pili carnis meae.
16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:	16 Stetit quidam, cuius non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi aurae lenis audivi:
17 'Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?	17 “Numquid homo Dei comparatione iustificabitur, aut factore suo purior erit vir?”.
18 Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;	18 Ecce, in servis suis fiduciam non habet et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem.
19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.	19 Quanto magis hi, qui habitant domosluteas, quorum fundamentum est in pulvere. Consumentur velut tinea!
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.	20 De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur et, quia nullus intellegit, in aeternum peribunt.
21 If their tent-cord is plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'	21 Nonne evulsum est reliquum eorum ab eis? Morientur, et non in sapientia.