Job 29

Job 29, Catholic Public Domain Version

1. Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:

   Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit:

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   Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?

   Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos, secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me?

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   At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.

   Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum, et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris:

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   I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.

   sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ, quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo:

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   At that time, the Almighty was with me and my children surrounded me.

   quando erat Omnipotens mecum, et in circuitu meo pueri mei:

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   Then, I washed my feet with butter, and a boulder poured out rivers of oil for me.

   quando lavabam pedes meos butyro, et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei:

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   When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.

   quando procedebam ad portam civitatis, et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.

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   The youths saw me and hid themselves, and the elders, rising up, remained standing.

   Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur: et senes assurgentes stabant.

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   The leaders stopped talking, and they placed a finder over their mouth.

   Principes cessabant loqui, et digitum superponebant ori suo.

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    The commanders subdued their voice, and their tongue adhered to their throat.

    Vocem suam cohibebant duces, et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.

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    The ear that heard me, blessed me, and the eye that saw me, gave testimony for me.

    Auris audiens beatificabat me, et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi:

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    This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.

    eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem, et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.

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    The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.

    Benedictio perituri super me veniebat, et cor viduæ consolatus sum.

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    I put on justice, and I clothed myself with my judgment, like a robe and a diadem.

    Justitia indutus sum, et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.

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    I was an eye for the blind and a foot for the lame.

    Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.

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    I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.

    Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.

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    I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.

    Conterebam molas iniqui, et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.

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    And I said, “I will die in my little nest, and like a palm tree, I will multiply my days.

    Dicebamque: In nidulo meo moriar, et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.

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    My root has been spread beside the waters, and the dew will remain with my harvest.

    Radix mea aperta est secus aquas, et ros morabitur in messione mea.

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    My glory will always be restored, and my bow will be restored to my hand.”

    Gloria mea semper innovabitur, et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.

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    Those who heard me, expected vindication, and they listened closely in silence to my counsel.

    Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam, et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.

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    To my words, they dared to add nothing, and my eloquence poured over them.

    Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.

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    They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for belated rains.

    Expectabant me sicut pluviam, et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.

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    If I had ever laughed at them, they would not have believed it, and the light of my face was not cast down towards the ground.

    Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant: et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.

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    If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to those who mourned.

    Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus: cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu, eram tamen mœrentium consolator.

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