Liber Iob, 30
1. Nunc autem derident me iuniores tempore, quorum non dignabar patres ponere cum canibus gregis mei;
1. "But now they make sport of me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
2. quorum virtus manuum mihi erat pro nihilo, et robur iuvenile perierat totum.
2. What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?
3. Egestate et fame steriles, qui rodebant in solitudine, serotino tempore fiebant turbo et vastatio;
3. Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;
4. et mandebant herbas et arborum frutices, et radix iuniperorum erat cibus eorum.
4. they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.
5. De medio eiciebantur, clamabant contra eos tamquam fures;
5. They are driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief.
6. ad ripas habitabant torrentium et in cavernis terrae et petrarum;
6. In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7. inter frutices rudebant, sub sentibus se congerebant;
7. Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.
8. filii stultorum et ignobilium et de terra penitus exturbati.
8. A senseless, a disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.
9. Nunc in eorum canticum versus sum et factus sum eis in proverbium.
9. "And now I have become their song, I am a byword to them.
10. Abominantur me et longe fugiunt a me et faciem meam conspuere non verentur.
10. They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
11. Pharetram enim suam aperuit et afflixit me et frenum in os meum immisit.
11. Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
12. Ad dexteram progenies surrexerunt; pedes meos subverterunt et complanaverunt contra me semitas ruinae.
12. On my right hand the rabble rise, they drive me forth, they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13. Dissipaverunt itinera mea, insidiati sunt mihi et praevaluerunt, et non fuit qui ferret auxilium.
13. They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.
14. Quasi rupto muro et aperto irruerunt super me et sub ruinis devoluti sunt.
14. As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.
15. Versi sunt contra me in terrores, persequitur quasi ventus principatum meum, et velut nubes pertransiit salus mea.
15. Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
16. Nunc autem in memetipso effunditur anima mea; et possident me dies afflictionis.
16. "And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
17. Nocte os meum perforatur doloribus; et, qui me comedunt, non dormiunt.
17. The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
18. In multitudine roboris tenent vestimentum meum et quasi capitio tunicae succinxerunt me.
18. With violence it seizes my garment; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
19. Proiecit me in lutum, et assimilatus sum favillae et cineri.
19. God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20. Clamo ad te, et non exaudis me; sto, et non respicis me.
20. I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me.
21. Mutatus es mihi in crudelem et in duritia manus tuae adversaris mihi.
21. Thou hast turned cruel to me; with the might of thy hand thou dost persecute me.
22. Elevasti me et quasi super ventum ponens dissolvisti me.
22. Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.
23. Scio quia morti trades me, ubi constituta est domus omni viventi.
23. Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24. Verumtamen non ad ruinam mittit manum; et in exitio eius erit salvatio.
24. "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?
25. An non flebam quondam super eo, qui afflictus erat, et compatiebatur anima mea pauperi?
25. Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26. Exspectabam bona, et venerunt mihi mala; praestolabar lucem, et eruperunt tenebrae.
26. But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
27. Interiora mea efferbuerunt absque ulla requie; praevenerunt me dies afflictionis.
27. My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet me.
28. Taetro vultu incedebam sine consolatione, consurgens in turba clamabam.
28. I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
29. Frater fui draconum et socius struthionum.
29. I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
30. Cutis mea denigrata est super me, et ossa mea aruerunt prae caumate.
30. My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
31. Versa est in luctum cithara mea, et organum meum in vocem flentium.
31. My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
