Job 4

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NOVA VULGATA
1 But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:	1 Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites dixit:
2 If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?	2 “ Si coeperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit?
3 Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.	3 Ecce, docuisti multos et manus lassas roborasti;
4 Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees.	4 vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui, et genua trementia confortasti.
5 But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed.	5 Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti; tetigit te, et conturbatus es.
6 Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?	6 Nonne timor tuus est fiducia tua, spes tua est perfectio viarum tuarum?
7 Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?	7 Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit, aut quando recti deleti sunt?
8 In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,	8 quin potius vidi eos, qui operantur iniquitatem et seminant dolores et metunt eos,
9 perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.	9 flante Deo perisse, et spiritu irae eius esse consumptos.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away.	10 Rugitus leonis et vox leaenae et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt.
11 The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered.	11 Leo periit, eo quod non haberet praedam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.
12 Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.	12 Porro ad me furtive verbum delatum est, et suscepit auris mea sussurrum eius.
13 In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep,	13 In horrore visionis nocturnae, quando solet sopor occupare homines,
14 fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified.	14 pavor tenuit me et tremor, et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt.
15 And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up.	15 Et cum spiritus, me praesente, transiret, inhorruerunt pili carnis meae.
16 There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze.	16 Stetit quidam, cuius non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi aurae lenis audivi:
17 Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?	17 “Numquid homo Dei comparatione iustificabitur, aut factore suo purior erit vir?”.
18 Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection.	18 Ecce, in servis suis fiduciam non habet et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem.
19 How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?	19 Quanto magis hi, qui habitant domosluteas, quorum fundamentum est in pulvere. Consumentur velut tinea!
20 From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.	20 De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur et, quia nullus intellegit, in aeternum peribunt.
21 But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom.	21 Nonne evulsum est reliquum eorum ab eis? Morientur, et non in sapientia.