Giobbe 14

NOVA VULGATA	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore, commotione satiatur.	1 Man born of woman is short-lived and full of trouble,
2 Qui quasi flos egreditur et arescit et fugit velut umbra et non permanet.	2 Like a flower that springs up and fades, swift as a shadow that does not abide.
3 Et dignum ducis super huiuscemodi aperire oculos tuos et adducere eum tecum in iudicium?	3 Upon such a one will you cast your eyes so as to bring him into judgment before you,
4 Quis potest facere mundum de immundo? Ne unus quidem!	4 Can a man be found who is clean of defilement? There is none,
5 Si statuti dies hominis sunt, et numerus mensium eius apud te est, et constituti sunt termini eius, quos non praeteribit,	5 however short his days. You know the number of his months; you have fixed the limit which he cannot pass.
6 averte oculos tuos ab eo, ut quiescat, donec solvat, sicut mercennarius, dies suos.	6 Look away from him and let him be, while, like a hireling, he completes his day.
7 Nam lignum habet spem; si praecisum fuerit, rursum virescet, et rami eius non deficient.	7 For a tree there is hope, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender shoots will not cease.
8 Si senuerit in terra radix eius, et in pulvere emortuus fuerit truncus illius,	8 Even though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the dust,
9 ad odorem aquae germinabit et faciet comam quasi novellae.	9 Yet at the first whiff of water it may flourish again and put forth branches like a young plant.
10 Homo vero cum mortuus fuerit et debilitatur, exspirat homo et, ubi, quaeso, est?	10 But when a man dies, all vigor leaves him; when man expires, where then is he?
11 Recedent aquae de mari, et fluvius vacuefactus arescet;	11 As when the waters of a lake fail, or a stream grows dry and parches,
12 sic homo, cum dormierit, non resurget: donec atteratur caelum, non evigilabit nec consurget de somno suo.	12 So men lie down and rise not again. Till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
13 Quis mihi hoc tribuat, ut in inferno seponas me et abscondas me, donec pertranseat furor tuus, et constituas mihi tempus, in quo recorderis mei?	13 Oh, that you would hide me in the nether world and keep me sheltered till your wrath is past; would fix a time for me, and then remember me!
14 Putasne mortuus homo rursum vivat? Cunctis diebus, quibus nunc milito, exspectarem, donec veniat immutatio mea.	14 When a man has died, were he to live again, all the days of my drudgery I would wait, until my relief should come.
15 Vocares me, et ego responderem tibi; opus manuum tuarum requireres.	15 You would call, and I would answer you; you would esteem the work of your hands.
16 Tu quidem nunc gressus meos dinumerares, sed parceres peccatis meis.	16 Surely then you would count my steps, and not keep watch for sin in me.
17 Signares quasi in sacculo delicta mea, sed dealbares iniquitatem meam.	17 My misdeeds would be sealed up in a pouch, and you would cover over my guilt.
18 Mons cadens decidit, et saxum transfertur de loco suo;	18 But as a mountain falls at last and its rock is moved from its place,
19 lapides excavant aquae, et alluvione terra inundatur: et spem hominis perdes.	19 As waters wear away the stones and floods wash away the soil of the land, so you destroy the hope of man.
20 Praevales adversus eum, et in perpetuum transiet; immutas faciem eius et emittis eum.	20 You prevail once for all against him and he passes on; with changed appearance you send him away.
21 Sive nobiles fuerint filii eius, non novit; sive ignobiles, non intellegit.	21 If his sons are honored, he is not aware of it; if they are in disgrace, he does not know about them.
22 Attamen caro eius, dum vivet, dolet, et anima illius super semetipso luget ”.	22 Only his own flesh pains him, and his soul grieves for him.