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title: "Job 17 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Job's hope in God: he expects rest in death. Job 17 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Job 17

Job 17 is chapter 17 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 16 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job's hope in God: he expects rest in death.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 17 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. My spirit will be wasted, my days will be shortened, and only the grave will be left for me.
2. I have not sinned, yet my eye remains in bitterness.
3. Free me, O Lord, and set me beside you, and let the hand of anyone you wish fight against me.
4. You have set their heart far from discipline; therefore, they will not be praised.
5. He promises prey to his companions, but the eyes of his sons will grow faint.
6. He has posted me like a proverb to the people, and I am an example in their presence.
7. My eyesight has been clouded by indignation, and my limbs have been reduced, as if to nothing.
8. The just will be astounded over this, and the innocent will be stirred up against the hypocrite.
9. And the just will cling to his way, and clean hands will increase strength.
10. Therefore, be converted, all of you, and approach, for I do not find in you any wisdom.
11. My days have passed away; my thoughts have been scattered, tormenting my heart.
12. They have turned night into day, and I hope for light again after the darkness.
13. If I should wait, the underworld is my house, and in darkness I have spread out my bed.
14. I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, my mother, and my sister.”
15. Therefore, where is my expectation now, and who is it that considers my patience?
16. Everything of mine will descend into the deepest underworld; do you think that, in that place at least, there will be rest for me?

## Job 17 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Spiritus meus attenuabitur; dies mei breviabuntur: et solum mihi superest sepulchrum.
2. Non peccavi, et in amaritudinibus moratur oculus meus.
3. Libera me, Domine, et pone me juxta te, et cujusvis manus pugnet contra me.
4. Cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina: propterea non exaltabuntur.
5. Prædam pollicetur sociis, et oculi filiorum ejus deficient.
6. Posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi, et exemplum sum coram eis.
7. Caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus, et membra mea quasi in nihilum redacta sunt.
8. Stupebunt justi super hoc, et innocens contra hypocritam suscitabitur.
9. Et tenebit justus viam suam, et mundis manibus addet fortitudinem.
10. Igitur omnes vos convertimini, et venite, et non inveniam in vobis ullum sapientem.
11. Dies mei transierunt; cogitationes meæ dissipatæ sunt, torquentes cor meum.
12. Noctem verterunt in diem, et rursum post tenebras spero lucem.
13. Si sustinuero, infernus domus mea est, et in tenebris stravi lectulum meum.
14. Putredini dixi: Pater meus es; Mater mea, et soror mea, vermibus.
15. Ubi est ergo nunc præstolatio mea? et patientiam meam quis considerat?
16. In profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea: putasne saltem ibi erit requies mihi?

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 2: “Not sinned” … That is, I am not guilty of such sins as they charge me with.
- Verse 13: Sheol. The region of the dead.
- Verse 16: Literally, hell.

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