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title: "Job 27 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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# Job 27

Job 27 is chapter 27 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 persists in asserting his own innocence, and that hypocrites will be punished in the end.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 27 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:
2. As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has led my soul to bitterness,
3. as long as my breath remains in me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
4. my lips will not speak iniquity, nor will my tongue devise lies.
5. Far be it from me that I should judge you to be right, for, until I expire, I will not withdraw from my innocence.
6. I will not forsake my justification, which I have just begun to grasp, for my heart does not find blame for me in my whole life.
7. Let the impious be as my enemy, and the sinful, as my adversary.
8. For what hope is there for the hypocrite, if he greedily plunders and God does not free his soul?
9. Will God pay attention to his cry, when anguish overcomes him?
10. Or will he take delight in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?
11. I will teach you through the hand of God, what the Almighty holds, and I will not conceal it.
12. Behold, you know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?
13. This is the portion of the impious man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they will receive from the Almighty.
14. If his sons should happen to increase, they will be for the sword, and his grandsons will not be satisfied with bread.
15. Whatever will remain of him will be buried in the ruins, and his widows will not weep.
16. If he will amass silver as if it were dirt and fabricate garments as if they were clay,
17. then yes, he will gather, but the just will be clothed with it and the innocent will divide the silver.
18. He has built his house like a moth, and he has made a makeshift shelter like a sentry.
19. When he falls asleep, the rich man will leave him with nothing; he will open his eyes and find nothing.
20. Destitution will surround him like water; a storm will overwhelm him in the night.
21. A burning wind will pick him up and carry him away, and, like a whirlwind, it will rush him from his place.
22. And it will hurl over him and will not spare him; fleeing from its power, he will go into exile.
23. He will clasp his hands over himself, and he will hiss at himself, while considering his situation.

## Job 27 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit:
2. Vivit Deus, qui abstulit judicium meum, et Omnipotens, qui ad amaritudinem adduxit animam meam.
3. Quia donec superest halitus in me, et spiritus Dei in naribus meis,
4. non loquentur labia mea iniquitatem, nec lingua mea meditabitur mendacium.
5. Absit a me ut justos vos esse judicem: donec deficiam, non recedam ab innocentia mea.
6. Justificationem meam, quam cœpi tenere, non deseram: neque enim reprehendit me cor meum in omni vita mea.
7. Sit ut impius, inimicus meus, et adversarius meus quasi iniquus.
8. Quæ est enim spes hypocritæ, si avare rapiat, et non liberet Deus animam ejus?
9. Numquid Deus audiet clamorem ejus, cum venerit super eum angustia?
10. aut poterit in Omnipotente delectari, et invocare Deum omni tempore?
11. Docebo vos per manum Dei quæ Omnipotens habeat, nec abscondam.
12. Ecce vos omnes nostis: et quid sine causa vana loquimini?
13. Hæc est pars hominis impii apud Deum, et hæreditas violentorum, quam ob Omnipotente suscipient.
14. Si multiplicati fuerint filii ejus, in gladio erunt, et nepotes ejus non saturabuntur pane:
15. qui reliqui fuerint ex eo sepelientur in interitu, et viduæ illius non plorabunt.
16. Si comportaverit quasi terram argentum, et sicut lutum præparaverit vestimenta:
17. præparabit quidem, sed justus vestietur illis, et argentum innocens dividet.
18. Ædificavit sicut tinea domum suam, et sicut custos fecit umbraculum.
19. Dives, cum dormierit, nihil secum auferet: aperiet oculos suos, et nihil inveniet.
20. Apprehendet eum quasi aqua inopia: nocte opprimet eum tempestas.
21. Tollet eum ventus urens, et auferet, et velut turbo rapiet eum de loco suo.
22. Et mittet super eum, et non parcet: de manu ejus fugiens fugiet.
23. Stringet super eum manus suas, et sibilabit super illum, intuens locum ejus.

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