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# Job 30

Job 30 is chapter 30 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 31 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job shews the wonderful change of his temporal estate, from welfare to great calamity.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 30 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,
2. the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.
3. They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.
4. And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
5. They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.
6. They lived in the parched desert and in caves underground or above the rocks.
7. They rejoiced among these kinds of things, and they considered it delightful to be under thorns.
8. These are the sons of foolish and base men, not even paying any attention to the land.
9. Now I become their song, and I have been made into their proverb.
10. They loathe me, and so they flee far from me, and they are not reluctant to spit in my face.
11. For he has opened his quiver and has afflicted me, and he has placed a bridle in my mouth.
12. Immediately, upon rising, my calamities rise up to the right. They have overturned my feet and have pressed me down along their way like waves.
13. They have diverted my journeys; they have waited to ambush me, and they have prevailed, and there was no one who might bring help.
14. They have rushed upon me, as when a wall is broken or a gate opened, and they have been pulled down into my miseries.
15. I have been reduced to nothing. You have taken away my desire like a wind, and my health has passed by like a cloud.
16. But now my soul withers within myself, and the days of affliction take hold of me.
17. At night, my bone is pierced with sorrows, and those who feed on me, do not sleep.
18. By the sheer number of them my clothing is worn away, and they have closed in on me like the collar of my coat.
19. I have been treated like dirt, and I have been turned into embers and ashes.
20. I cry to you, and you do not heed me. I stand up, and you do not look back at me.
21. You have changed me into hardness, and, with the hardness of your hand, you oppose me.
22. You have lifted me up, and, placing me as if on the wind, you have thrown me down powerfully.
23. I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living.
24. Truly, then, you do not extend your hand in order to consume them, and if they fall down, you will save them.
25. Once, I wept over him who was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
26. I expected good things, but evil things have come to me. I stood ready for light, yet darkness burst forth.
27. My insides have seethed, without any rest, for the days of affliction have prevented it.
28. I went forth mourning, without anger, and rising up, I cried out in confusion.
29. I was the brother of snakes, and the companion of ostriches.
30. My skin has become blackened over me, and my bones have dried up because of the heat.
31. My harp has been turned into mourning, and my pipes have been turned into a voice of weeping.

## Job 30 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Nunc autem derident me juniores tempore, quorum non dignabar patres ponere cum canibus gregis mei:
2. quorum virtus manuum mihi erat pro nihilo, et vita ipsa putabantur indigni:
3. egestate et fame steriles, qui rodebant in solitudine, squallentes calamitate et miseria.
4. Et mandebant herbas, et arborum cortices, et radix juniperorum erat cibus eorum:
5. qui de convallibus ista rapientes, cum singula reperissent, ad ea cum clamore currebant.
6. In desertis habitabant torrentium, et in cavernis terræ, vel super glaream:
7. qui inter hujuscemodi lætabantur, et esse sub sentibus delicias computabant:
8. filii stultorum et ignobilium, et in terra penitus non parentes.
9. Nunc in eorum canticum versus sum, et factus sum eis in proverbium.
10. Abominantur me, et longe fugiunt a me, et faciem meam conspuere non verentur.
11. Pharetram enim suam aperuit, et afflixit me, et frenum posuit in os meum.
12. Ad dexteram orientis calamitates meæ illico surrexerunt: pedes meos subverterunt, et oppresserunt quasi fluctibus semitis suis.
13. Dissipaverunt itinera mea; insidiati sunt mihi, et prævaluerunt: et non fuit qui ferret auxilium.
14. Quasi rupto muro, et aperta janua, irruerunt super me, et ad meas miserias devoluti sunt.
15. Redactus sum in nihilum: abstulisti quasi ventus desiderium meum, et velut nubes pertransiit salus mea.
16. Nunc autem in memetipso marcescit anima mea, et possident me dies afflictionis.
17. Nocte os meum perforatur doloribus, et qui me comedunt, non dormiunt.
18. In multitudine eorum consumitur vestimentum meum, et quasi capitio tunicæ succinxerunt me.
19. Comparatus sum luto, et assimilatus sum favillæ et cineri.
20. Clamo ad te, et non exaudis me: sto, et non respicis me.
21. Mutatus es mihi in crudelem, et in duritia manus tuæ adversaris mihi.
22. Elevasti me, et quasi super ventum ponens; elisisti me valide.
23. Scio quia morti trades me, ubi constituta est domus omni viventi.
24. Verumtamen non ad consumptionem eorum emittis manum tuam: et si corruerint, ipse salvabis.
25. Flebam quondam super eo qui afflictus erat, et compatiebatur anima mea pauperi.
26. Expectabam bona, et venerunt mihi mala: præstolabar lucem, et eruperunt tenebræ.
27. Interiora mea efferbuerunt absque ulla requie: prævenerunt me dies afflictionis.
28. Mœrens incedebam sine furore; consurgens, in turba clamabam.
29. Frater fui draconum, et socius struthionum.
30. Cutis mea denigrata est super me, et ossa mea aruerunt præ caumate.
31. Versa est in luctum cithara mea, et organum meum in vocem flentium.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: That is, younger than I am, and as it were obscure, when I was conspicuous and in magnificence; they now look down on me.
- Verse 29: Imitating these creatures in their lamentable noise.

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