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title: "Job 23 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Job wishes to be tried at God's tribunal. Job 23 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Job 23

Job 23 is chapter 23 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 17 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job wishes to be tried at God's tribunal.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 23 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then Job answered by saying:
2. Now again my conversation is in bitterness, and the force of my scourging weighs more heavily on me because of my mourning.
3. Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne?
4. I would place judgment before his eye, and my mouth would fill with criticism,
5. so that I may know the words that he will answer me and understand what he will say to me.
6. I do not want him to contend with me with much strength, nor to overwhelm me with the bulk of his greatness.
7. Let him show fairness in response to me, and let my judgment reach to victory.
8. If I go to the east, he does not appear; if I go to the west, I will not understand him.
9. If I turn to the left, what can I do? I will not take hold of him. If I turn myself to the right, I will not see him.
10. Truly, he knows my way and has tested me like gold that passes through fire.
11. My feet have been following his footsteps; I have kept to his way and have not strayed from it.
12. I have not withdrawn from the commands of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hidden in my sinews.
13. For he is alone, and no one is able to disturb his intention; and whatever his spirit wills, that he accomplishes.
14. And when he fulfills his will in me, many other similar ones will also be present with him.
15. And, for this reason, I have been troubled at his presence, and, when I consider him, I am approached by fear.
16. God has weakened my heart, and the Almighty has confused me.
17. Yet I have not perished because of the threatening darkness, nor has gloom covered my face.

## Job 23 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Respondens autem Job, ait:
2. Nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus, et manus plagæ meæ aggravata est super gemitum meum.
3. Quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum, et veniam usque ad solium ejus?
4. Ponam coram eo judicium, et os meum replebo increpationibus:
5. ut sciam verba quæ mihi respondeat, et intelligam quid loquatur mihi.
6. Nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum, nec magnitudinis suæ mole me premat.
7. Proponat æquitatem contra me, et perveniat ad victoriam judicium meum.
8. Si ad orientem iero, non apparet; si ad occidentem, non intelligam eum.
9. Si ad sinistram, quid agam? non apprehendam eum; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum.
10. Ipse vero scit viam meam, et probavit me quasi aurum quod per ignem transit.
11. Vestigia ejus secutus est pes meus: viam ejus custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea.
12. A mandatis labiorum ejus non recessi, et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris ejus.
13. Ipse enim solus est, et nemo avertere potest cogitationem ejus: et anima ejus quodcumque voluit, hoc fecit.
14. Cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam, et alia multa similia præsto sunt ei.
15. Et idcirco a facie ejus turbatus sum, et considerans eum, timore sollicitor.
16. Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.
17. Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.

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