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# Job 32

Job 32 is chapter 32 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 22 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Eliu is angry with Job and his friends. He boasts of himself.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 32 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. But these three men ceased to answer Job, because he considered himself justified.
2. And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, was angry and indignant. But he was angry against Job because he described himself to be just in the presence of God.
3. Moreover, he was indignant with his friends because they had not found a reasonable response, except in so far as they condemned Job.
4. Therefore, Eliu waited while Job was talking, for these were his elders that were speaking.
5. But when he saw that these three were not able to respond, he was extremely angry.
6. And so Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite responded by saying: I am younger in years, and you are more ancient; therefore, I kept my head low, for I was afraid to reveal to you my opinion.
7. For I had hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.
8. But I see now that there is only breath in men, and that it is the inspiration of the Almighty that gives understanding.
9. The wise are not the aged, nor do the elders understand judgment.
10. Therefore, I will speak. Listen to me, and so I will show you my wisdom.
11. For I have endured your words; I have paid attention to your deliberations, while you were being argumentative with words.
12. And as long as I supposed that you were saying something, I considered; but now I see that there is none of you that is able to argue with Job and to respond to his words.
13. So that you will not say, “We have found wisdom,” God has thrown him down, not man.
14. He has said nothing to me, and I will not respond to him according to your words.
15. Then they were filled with dread, and so they no longer responded, and they withdrew from their speechmaking.
16. Therefore, because I have waited and they have not been speaking, for they stood firm and did not respond at all,
17. I also will answer in my turn, and I will reveal my knowledge.
18. For I am full of words, and the feeling in my gut inspires me.
19. Yes, my stomach is like fermenting wine without a vent, which bursts the new containers.
20. I should speak, but I will also breathe a little; I will open my lips, and I will answer.
21. I will not esteem the reputation of a man, and I will not equate God with man.
22. For I do not know how long I will continue, and whether, after a while, my Maker might take me away.

## Job 32 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Omiserunt autem tres viri isti respondere Job, eo quod justus sibi videretur.
2. Et iratus indignatusque est Eliu filius Barachel Buzites, de cognatione Ram: iratus est autem adversum Job, eo quod justum se esse diceret coram Deo.
3. Porro adversum amicos ejus indignatus est, eo quod non invenissent responsionem rationabilem, sed tantummodo condemnassent Job.
4. Igitur Eliu expectavit Job loquentem, eo quod seniores essent qui loquebantur.
5. Cum autem vidisset quod tres respondere non potuissent, iratus est vehementer.
6. Respondensque Eliu filius Barachel Buzites, dixit: Junior sum tempore, vos autem antiquiores: idcirco, demisso capite, veritus sum vobis indicare meam sententiam.
7. Sperabam enim quod ætas prolixior loqueretur, et annorum multitudo doceret sapientiam.
8. Sed, ut video, spiritus est in hominibus, et inspiratio Omnipotentis dat intelligentiam.
9. Non sunt longævi sapientes, nec senes intelligunt judicium.
10. Ideo dicam: Audite me: ostendam vobis etiam ego meam sapientiam.
11. Expectavi enim sermones vestros; audivi prudentiam vestram, donec disceptaremini sermonibus;
12. et donec putabam vos aliquid dicere, considerabam: sed, ut video, non est qui possit arguere Job, et respondere ex vobis sermonibus ejus.
13. Ne forte dicatis: Invenimus sapientiam: Deus projecit eum, non homo.
14. Nihil locutus est mihi: et ego non secundum sermones vestros respondebo illi.
15. Extimuerunt, nec responderunt ultra, abstuleruntque a se eloquia.
16. Quoniam igitur expectavi, et non sunt locuti: steterunt, nec ultra responderunt:
17. respondebo et ego partem meam, et ostendam scientiam meam.
18. Plenus sum enim sermonibus, et coarctat me spiritus uteri mei.
19. En venter meus quasi mustum absque spiraculo, quod lagunculas novas disrumpit.
20. Loquar, et respirabo paululum: aperiam labia mea, et respondebo.
21. Non accipiam personam viri, et Deum homini non æquabo.
22. Nescio enim quamdiu subsistam, et si post modicum tollat me factor meus.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 21: Here Eliu considers that Job hath put himself on a level with God, by the manner he assumed to justify his own life in speaking to God as if he spoke to an equal: Eliu expresses in the following ver. 22 his fear of punishment hereafter for such an attempt.

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