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title: "Job 16 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Job expostulates with his friends: and appeals to the judgment of God. Job 16 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Job 16

Job 16 is chapter 16 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 23 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job expostulates with his friends: and appeals to the judgment of God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 16 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then Job, answering, said:
2. I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
3. Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
4. I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.
5. I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
6. I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
7. But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.
8. But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.
9. My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.
10. He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.
11. They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.
12. God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
13. I, who once was wealthy, am now crushed. He has grabbed me by my neck; he has broken me and has placed me before him as a sign.
14. He has surrounded me with his lances. He has severely wounded my lower back, he has not been lenient, and he has poured out my organs upon the earth.
15. He has cut me with wound after wound. He has rushed upon me like a giant.
16. I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.
17. My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
18. These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.
19. O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.
20. For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
21. My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
22. And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!
23. For behold, a few years pass by, and I am walking a path by which I will not return.

## Job 16 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Respondens autem Job, dixit:
2. Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.
3. Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa? aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris?
4. Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui, atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea:
5. consolarer et ego vos sermonibus, et moverem caput meum super vos;
6. roborarem vos ore meo, et moverem labia mea, quasi parcens vobis.
7. Sed quid agam? Si locutus fuero, non quiescet dolor meus, et si tacuero, non recedet a me.
8. Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus, et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei.
9. Rugæ meæ testimonium dicunt contra me, et suscitatur falsiloquus adversus faciem meam, contradicens mihi.
10. Collegit furorem suum in me, et comminans mihi, infremuit contra me dentibus suis: hostis meus terribilibus oculis me intuitus est.
11. Aperuerunt super me ora sua, et exprobrantes percusserunt maxillam meam: satiati sunt pœnis meis.
12. Conclusit me Deus apud iniquum, et manibus impiorum me tradidit.
13. Ego ille quondam opulentus, repente contritus sum: tenuit cervicem meam, confregit me, et posuit me sibi quasi in signum.
14. Circumdedit me lanceis suis; convulneravit lumbos meos: non pepercit, et effudit in terra viscera mea.
15. Concidit me vulnere super vulnus: irruit in me quasi gigas.
16. Saccum consui super cutem meam, et operui cinere carnem meam.
17. Facies mea intumuit a fletu, et palpebræ meæ caligaverunt.
18. Hæc passus sum absque iniquitate manus meæ, cum haberem mundas ad Deum preces.
19. Terra, ne operias sanguinem meum, neque inveniat in te locum latendi clamor meus:
20. ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis.
21. Verbosi amici mei: ad Deum stillat oculus meus:
22. atque utinam sic judicaretur vir cum Deo, quomodo judicatur filius hominis cum collega suo.
23. Ecce enim breves anni transeunt, et semitam per quam non revertar ambulo.

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