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Giovedi, 9 maggio 2024 - Beata Maria Teresa di Gesù (Carolina Gerhardinger) ( Letture di oggi)

Giobbe 25


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DIODATINEW JERUSALEM
1 E BILDAD Suhita rispose, e disse:1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:
2 La signoria, e lo spavento, è con lui; Egli fa in pace ciò che gli piace ne’ suoi cieli altissimi.2 What sovereignty, what awe, is his who creates peace on his heights!
3 Le sue schiere si posson esse annoverare? E sopra cui non si leva la sua luce?3 Who can count his armies? Against whom does his lightning not surge forth?
4 Ma come sarà giusto l’uomo appo Iddio? E come sarà puro colui ch’è nato di donna?4 Could anyone think God regards him as virtuous, the child of woman as pure!
5 Ecco, fino alla luna non sarà pura, e non risplenderà; E le stelle non saranno pure nel suo cospetto.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 meno l’uomo, che è un verme, E il figliuol dell’uomo, che è un vermicello?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?