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title: "Job 11 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Sophar reproves Job, for justifying himself, and invites him to repentance. Job 11 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Job 11

Job 11 is chapter 11 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 20 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Sophar reproves Job, for justifying himself, and invites him to repentance.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 11 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. But Zophar the Naamathite, responding, said:
2. Will he who speaks much, not also listen? Or will a talkative man be justified?
3. Will men be silent only for you? And when you have mocked others, will no one refute you?
4. For you said: “My word is pure, and I am clean in your sight.”
5. Yet I wish that God would speak with you, and would open his lips to you,
6. so that he might reveal to you the secrets of wisdom, and how intricate his law is, and that you would understand how much less he requires of you than your iniquity deserves.
7. By chance, will you comprehend the footsteps of God and reach all the way to the perfection of the Almighty?
8. He is higher than heaven, and what will you do? He is deeper than hell, but how will you know?
9. His measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
10. If he overturns all things, or packs them together, who will contradict him?
11. For he knows the vanity of men, and when he sees iniquity, does he not evaluate it?
12. A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass’s colt.
13. But you have fortified your heart and extended your hands to him.
14. If you would send away from you the iniquity that is in your hand, and not let injustice remain in your tabernacle,
15. then you would be able to lift up your face without blemish, and you would be steadfast and unafraid.
16. Misery, likewise, you would forget, or would remember only like waters that have passed by.
17. And brightness, like that of midday, will rise upon you until evening, and when you would think yourself consumed, you will rise up like the morning star.
18. And, when hope has been set before you, you will have faith, and, when buried, you will sleep secure.
19. You will rest, and there will be nothing to make you afraid, and many will make requests before your face.
20. But the eyes of the impious will fade away, and the path to escape will perish before them, for the abomination of the soul is their hope.

## Job 11 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Respondens autem Sophar Naamathites, dixit:
2. Numquid qui multa loquitur, non et audiet? aut vir verbosus justificabitur?
3. Tibi soli tacebunt homines? et cum ceteros irriseris, a nullo confutaberis?
4. Dixisti enim: Purus est sermo meus, et mundus sum in conspectu tuo.
5. Atque utinam Deus loqueretur tecum, et aperiret labia sua tibi,
6. ut ostenderet tibi secreta sapientiæ, et quod multiplex esset lex ejus: et intelligeres quod multo minora exigaris ab eo quam meretur iniquitas tua!
7. Forsitan vestigia Dei comprehendes, et usque ad perfectum Omnipotentem reperies?
8. Excelsior cælo est, et quid facies? profundior inferno, et unde cognosces?
9. Longior terra mensura ejus, et latior mari.
10. Si subverterit omnia, vel in unum coarctaverit, quis contradicet ei?
11. Ipse enim novit hominum vanitatem; et videns iniquitatem, nonne considerat?
12. Vir vanus in superbiam erigitur, et tamquam pullum onagri se liberum natum putat.
13. Tu autem firmasti cor tuum, et expandisti ad eum manus tuas.
14. Si iniquitatem quæ est in manu tua abstuleris a te, et non manserit in tabernaculo tuo injustitia,
15. tunc levare poteris faciem tuam absque macula; et eris stabilis, et non timebis.
16. Miseriæ quoque oblivisceris, et quasi aquarum quæ præterierunt recordaberis.
17. Et quasi meridianus fulgor consurget tibi ad vesperam; et cum te consumptum putaveris, orieris ut lucifer.
18. Et habebis fiduciam, proposita tibi spe: et defossus securus dormies.
19. Requiesces, et non erit qui te exterreat; et deprecabuntur faciem tuam plurimi.
20. Oculi autem impiorum deficient, et effugium peribit ab eis: et spes illorum abominatio animæ.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).