Job 31

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NOVA VULGATA
1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.	1 Pepigi foedus cum oculis meis ut ne cogitarem quidem de virgine.
2 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?	2 Quae enim pars mea apud Deum desuper, et quae hereditas apud Omnipotentem in excelsis?
3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?	3 Numquid non perditio est iniquo, et alienatio operantibus iniustitiam?
4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?	4 Nonne ipse considerat vias meas et cunctos gressus meos dinumerat?
5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:	5 Si ambulavi in vanitate, et festinavit in dolo pes meus,
6 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.	6 appendat me in statera iusta et sciat Deus integritatem meam.
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:	7 Si declinavit gressus meus de via, et si secutum est oculos meos cor meum, et si manibus meis adhaesit macula,
8 Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.	8 seram, et alius comedat, et progenies mea eradicetur.
9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:	9 Si deceptum est cor meum super muliere, et si ad ostium amici mei insidiatus sum,
10 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.	10 molat pro alio uxor mea, et super illam incurventur alii.
11 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.	11 Hoc enim nefas est et iniquitas iudicialis;
12 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.	12 ignis est usque ad perditionem devorans et omnia eradicans genimina.
13 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:	13 Si contempsi subire iudicium cum servo meo et ancilla mea, cum disceptarent adversum me,
14 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?	14 quid enim faciam, cum surrexerit ad iudicandum Deus; et, cum quaesierit, quid respondebo illi?
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?	15 Numquid non in ventre fecit me, qui et illum operatus est, et formavit me in visceribus unus?
16 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:	16 Si negavi, quod volebant, pauperibus et oculos viduae languescere feci;
17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:	17 si comedi buccellam meam solus, et non comedit pupillus ex ea,
18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :)	18 quia ab infantia mea educavi eum ut pater et de ventre matris meae direxi eam;
19 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:	19 si despexi pereuntem, eo quod non habuerit indumentum, et absque operimento pauperem;
20 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:	20 si non benedixerunt mihi latera eius, et de velleribus ovium mearum calefactus est;
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:	21 si levavi super pupillum manum meam, cum viderem in porta adiutorium mihi,
22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.	22 umerus meus a iunctura sua cadat, et brachium meum cum ossibus lacertorum confringatur,
23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.	23 quia timor super me calamitas a Deo, et contra maiestatem eius nihil valerem!
24 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:	24 Si putavi aurum securitatem meam et obryzo dixi: Fiducia mea!;
25 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.	25 si laetatus sum super multis divitiis meis, et quia plurima repperit manus mea;
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:	26 si vidi solem, cum fulgeret, et lunam incedentem clare,
27 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:	27 et decepit me in abscondito cor meum, et osculatus sum manum meam ore meo,
28 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.	28 quae est iniquitas iudicialis, eo quod negassem Deum desuper;
29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.	29 si gavisus sum ad ruinam eius, qui me oderat, et exsultavi quod invenisset eum malum,
30 For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.	30 cum non dederim ad peccandum guttur meum, ut expeterem maledicens animam eius;
31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?	31 si non dixerunt viri tabernaculi mei: “Quis det, qui de carnibus eius nonsaturatus sit?”;
32 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.	32 foris non mansit peregrinus, ostium meum viatori patuit;
33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.	33 si abscondi quasi homo peccatum meum et celavi in sinu meo iniquitatem meam;
34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.	34 si expavi ad multitudinem nimiam, et despectio propinquorum terruit me, et magis tacui nec egressus sum ostium.
35 Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,	35 Quis mihi tribuat auditorem? Ecce signum meum! Omnipotens respondeat mihi! Ecce liber, quem scripsit vir litis meae,
36 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?	36 ut in umero meo portem illum et alligem illum quasi coronam mihi.
37 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.	37 Numerum graduum meorum pronuntiabo illi et quasi principem adibo eum.
38 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:	38 Si adversum me terra mea clamat, et cum ipsa sulci eius deflent;
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:	39 si fructus eius comedi absque pecunia et animam agricolarum eius afflixi,
40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.	40 pro frumento oriatur mihi tribulus, et pro hordeo herba foetida! ”. Finita sunt verba Iob.