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# Job 13

Job 13 is chapter 13 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 28 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job persists in maintaining his innocence: and reproves his friends.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 13 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Behold, my eye has seen all these things, and my ear has heard, and I have understood each one.
2. In conformity with your knowledge, I also know. I am not inferior to you.
3. Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,
4. having first shown that you fabricate lies and cultivate perverse teachings.
5. And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.
6. Therefore, listen to my correction, and pay attention to the judgment of my lips.
7. Does God require your lie, so that you would speak deceitfully for him?
8. Have you taken his place, and do you struggle to give judgment in favor of God?
9. Or, will it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? Or, will he be deceived, like a man, by your deceitfulness?
10. He will accuse you because in secret you have preempted his presence.
11. As soon as he moves himself, he will disturb you, and his dread will fall over you.
12. Your remembrance will be compared to ashes, and your necks will be reduced to clay.
13. Be silent for a little while, so that I may speak whatever my mind suggests to me.
14. Why do I wound my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?
15. And now, if he would kill me, I will hope in him; in this, truly, I will correct my ways in his sight.
16. And he will be my savior, for no hypocrite at all will approach in his sight.
17. Listen to my words, and perceive an enigma with your ears.
18. If I will be judged, I know that I will be found to be just.
19. Who is it that will go to judgment with me? Let him approach. Why should I be consumed in silence?
20. Do not do such things to me twice, and then I will not hide from your face.
21. Take your hand far away from me, and do not let your dread terrify me.
22. Call me, and I will answer you, or else I will speak, and you can answer me.
23. How many iniquities and sins do I have? Reveal my crimes and offenses to me.
24. Why do you conceal your face and consider me to be your enemy?
25. Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.
26. For you write bitter things against me, and you want to consume me for the sins of my youth.
27. You have put my feet on a tether, and you have observed all my paths, and you have considered the steps of my feet.
28. I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.

## Job 13 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus, et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula.
2. Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi: nec inferior vestri sum.
3. Sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar, et disputare cum Deo cupio:
4. prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii, et cultores perversorum dogmatum.
5. Atque utinam taceretis, ut putaremini esse sapientes.
6. Audite ergo correptionem meam, et judicium labiorum meorum attendite.
7. Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio, ut pro illo loquamini dolos?
8. numquid faciem ejus accipitis, et pro Deo judicare nitimini?
9. aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest? aut decipietur, ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis?
10. Ipse vos arguet, quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis.
11. Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos, et terror ejus irruet super vos.
12. Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.
13. Tacete paulisper, ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit.
14. Quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis, et animam meam porto in manibus meis?
15. Etiam si occiderit me, in ipso sperabo: verumtamen vias meas in conspectu ejus arguam.
16. Et ipse erit salvator meus: non enim veniet in conspectu ejus omnis hypocrita.
17. Audite sermonem meum, et ænigmata percipite auribus vestris.
18. Si fuero judicatus, scio quod justus inveniar.
19. Quis est qui judicetur mecum? veniat: quare tacens consumor?
20. Duo tantum ne facias mihi, et tunc a facie tua non abscondar:
21. manum tuam longe fac a me, et formido tua non me terreat.
22. Voca me, et ego respondebo tibi: aut certe loquar, et tu responde mihi.
23. Quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata? scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi.
24. Cur faciem tuam abscondis, et arbitraris me inimicum tuum?
25. Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam, et stipulam siccam persequeris:
26. scribis enim contra me amaritudines, et consumere me vis peccatis adolescentiæ meæ.
27. Posuisti in nervo pedem meum, et observasti omnes semitas meas, et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti:
28. qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea.

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