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# Job 14

Job 14 is chapter 14 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 22 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job declares the shortness of man's days: and professes his belief of a resurrection.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 14 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
2. He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state.
3. And do you consider it fitting to look down with your eyes on someone in this way and to lead him into judgment with you?
4. Who can make him clean who is conceived of unclean seed? Are you not the only one who can?
5. The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with you; you have determined his limits, which cannot be surpassed.
6. Withdraw a little from him, so that he may rest, until his awaited day arrives, like that of the hired hand.
7. A tree has hope: if it has been cut, it turns green again, and its branches spring forth.
8. If its roots grow old in the earth, and its trunk passes into dust,
9. at the scent of water, it will sprout and bring forth leaves, as when it had first been planted.
10. Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he?
11. It is as if the waters had receded from the sea and an emptied river had dried up;
12. just so, when a man is fallen asleep, he will not rise again, until the heavens are worn away; he will not awaken, nor rise from his sleep.
13. Who will grant this to me, that you will protect me in the underworld, and hide me until your fury passes by, and establish a time for me, in which you will remember me?
14. Do you suppose that a dead man will live again? On each of the days in which I now battle, I wait until my transformation occurs.
15. You will call me and I will answer you; to the work of your hands, you will extend your right hand.
16. Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.
17. You have sealed up my offenses, as if in a purse, but you have cured my iniquity.
18. A falling mountain flows away, and a stone is transferred from its place.
19. Waters wear away stones, and with a flood the land is reduced little by little; and similarly, you will destroy man.
20. You have strengthened him for a little while, so that he may cross over into eternity. You will change his face and send him forth.
21. Whether his sons have been noble or ignoble, he will not understand.
22. And in this way his body, while he yet lives, will have grief, and his soul will mourn over himself.

## Job 14 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore, repletur multis miseriis.
2. Qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur, et fugit velut umbra, et numquam in eodem statu permanet.
3. Et dignum ducis super hujuscemodi aperire oculos tuos, et adducere eum tecum in judicium?
4. Quis potest facere mundum de immundo conceptum semine? nonne tu qui solus es?
5. Breves dies hominis sunt: numerus mensium ejus apud te est: constituisti terminos ejus, qui præteriri non poterunt.
6. Recede paululum ab eo, ut quiescat, donec optata veniat, sicut mercenarii, dies ejus.
7. Lignum habet spem: si præcisum fuerit, rursum virescit, et rami ejus pullulant.
8. Si senuerit in terra radix ejus, et in pulvere emortuus fuerit truncus illius,
9. ad odorem aquæ germinabit, et faciet comam, quasi cum primum plantatum est.
10. Homo vero cum mortuus fuerit, et nudatus, atque consumptus, ubi, quæso, est?
11. Quomodo si recedant aquæ de mari, et fluvius vacuefactus arescat:
12. sic homo, cum dormierit, non resurget: donec atteratur cælum, non evigilabit, nec consurget de somno suo.
13. Quis mihi hoc tribuat, ut in inferno protegas me, et abscondas me donec pertranseat furor tuus, et constituas mihi tempus in quo recorderis mei?
14. Putasne mortuus homo rursum vivat? cunctis diebus quibus nunc milito, expecto donec veniat immutatio mea.
15. Vocabis me, et ego respondebo tibi: operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram.
16. Tu quidem gressus meos dinumerasti: sed parce peccatis meis.
17. Signasti quasi in sacculo delicta mea, sed curasti iniquitatem meam.
18. Mons cadens defluit, et saxum transfertur de loco suo:
19. lapides excavant aquæ, et alluvione paulatim terra consumitur: et hominem ergo similiter perdes.
20. Roborasti eum paululum, ut in perpetuum transiret: immutabis faciem ejus, et emittes eum.
21. Sive nobiles fuerint filii ejus, sive ignobiles, non intelliget.
22. Attamen caro ejus, dum vivet, dolebit, et anima illius super semetipso lugebit.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 13: That is, in the state of the dead; and in the place where the souls are kept waiting for their Redeemer.

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