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Sabato, 27 aprile 2024 - Santa Zita ( Letture di oggi)

Giobbe 25


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NOVA VULGATANEW JERUSALEM
1 Respondens autem Baldad Suhitesdixit:
1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:
2 “ Potestas et terror apud eum est,
qui facit pacem in sublimibus suis.
2 What sovereignty, what awe, is his who creates peace on his heights!
3 Numquid est numerus militum eius?
Et super quem non surget lumen illius?
3 Who can count his armies? Against whom does his lightning not surge forth?
4 Numquid iustificari potest homo comparatus Deo,
aut apparere mundus natus de muliere?
4 Could anyone think God regards him as virtuous, the child of woman as pure!
5 Ecce luna etiam non splendet,
et stellae non sunt mundae in conspectu eius;
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.
6 quanto magis homo putredo,
et filius hominis vermis ”.
6 How much less a human, this maggot, the child of man, this worm! Before his eyes, Sheol is bare,Perdition itself is uncovered.
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?