Liber Iob, 19
1. Respondens autem Iob dixit:
1. Then Job answered:
2. “Usquequo affligitis ani mam meam et atteritis me sermonibus?
2. "How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
3. En decies obiurgatis me et non erubescitis opprimentes me.
3. These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4. Nempe, etsi erravi, mecum erit error meus.
4. And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5. Si vos contra me erigimini et arguitis me opprobriis meis,
5. If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
6. saltem nunc intellegite quia Deus non aequo iudicio afflixerit me et rete suo me cinxerit.
6. know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
7. Etsi clamo: Vim patior!, non exaudior; si vociferor, non est qui iudicet.
7. Behold, I cry out, `Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
8. Semitam meam circumsaepsit, et transire non possum; et in calle meo tenebras posuit.
8. He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9. Spoliavit me gloria mea et abstulit coronam de capite meo.
9. He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10. Destruxit me undique, et pereo, et evellit quasi arborem spem meam.
10. He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
11. Iratus est contra me furor eius, et sic me habuit quasi hostem suum.
11. He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
12. Simul venerunt turmae eius et fecerunt sibi viam adversus me et obsederunt in gyro tabernaculum meum.
12. His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
13. Fratres meos longe fecit a me, et noti mei quasi alieni recesserunt a me.
13. "He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14. Dereliquerunt me propinqui mei, et, qui me noverant, obliti sunt mei.
14. My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
15. Inquilini domus meae et ancillae meae sicut alienum habuerunt me, et quasi peregrinus fui in oculis eorum.
15. the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
16. Servum meum vocavi, et non respondit; ore proprio deprecabar illum.
16. I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.
17. Halitum meum exhorruit uxor mea, et fetui filiis uteri mei.
17. I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.
18. Vel infantes despiciebant me et, cum surgerem, detrahebant mihi.
18. Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
19. Abominati sunt me quondam consiliarii mei; et, quem maxime diligebam, aversatus est me.
19. All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20. Pelli meae, consumptis carnibus, adhaesit os meum, et evanuit cutis mea circa dentes meos.
20. My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21. Miseremini mei, miseremini mei, saltem vos, amici mei, quia manus Domini tetigit me.
21. Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
22. Quare persequimini me sicut Deus et carnibus meis non saturamini?
22. Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23. Quis mihi tribuat, ut scribantur sermones mei? Quis mihi det, ut exarentur in libro
23. "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24. stilo ferreo et plumbeo, in aeternum sculpantur in silice?
24. Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
25. Scio enim quod redemptor meus vivit et in novissimo super pulvere stabit;
25. For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth;
26. et post pellem meam hanc, quam abstraxerunt, et de carne mea videbo Deum.
26. and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,
27. Quem visurus sum ego ipse, et oculi mei conspecturi sunt, et non alienum. Consumpti sunt renes mei in sinu meo.
27. whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
28. Si ergo nunc dicitis: “Quomodo persequemur eum et radicem verbi inveniemus contra eum?”,
28. If you say, `How we will pursue him!' and, `The root of the matter is found in him';
29. timete a facie gladii, quoniam ultor iniquitatum gladius est; et scitote esse iudicium”.
29. be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."
