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title: "Job 7 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Job declares the miseries of man's life: and addresses himself to God. Job 7 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Job 7

Job 7 is chapter 7 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 21 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job declares the miseries of man's life: and addresses himself to God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 7 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. The life of a man on the earth is a battle, and his days are like the days of a hired hand.
2. Just as a servant desires the shade, and just as the hired hand looks forward to the end of his work,
3. so also have I had empty months and have counted my burdensome nights.
4. If I lie down to sleep, I will say, “When will I rise?” And next I will hope for the evening and will be filled with sorrows even until darkness.
5. My flesh is clothed with particles of rottenness and filth; my skin is dried up and tightened.
6. My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.
7. Remember that my life is wind, and my eye will not return to see good things.
8. Neither will the sight of man gaze upon me; your eyes are upon me, and I will not endure.
9. Just as a cloud is consumed and passes away, so he who descends to hell will not ascend.
10. He will not return again to his house, nor will his own place know him any longer.
11. And because of this, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from the bitterness of my soul.
12. Am I an ocean or a whale, that you have encircled me in a prison?
13. If I say, “My bed will comfort me, and I will find rest, speaking with myself on my blanket,”
14. then you will frighten me with dreams, and strike dread through visions,
15. so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.
16. I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.
17. What is man, that you should praise him? Or why do you place your heart near him?
18. You visit him at dawn, and you test him unexpectedly.
19. How long will you not spare me, nor release me to ingest my saliva?
20. I have sinned; what should I do for you, O keeper of men? Why have you set me against you, so that I have become burdensome even to myself?
21. Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.

## Job 7 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Militia est vita hominis super terram, et sicut dies mercenarii dies ejus.
2. Sicut servus desiderat umbram, et sicut mercenarius præstolatur finem operis sui,
3. sic et ego habui menses vacuos, et noctes laboriosas enumeravi mihi.
4. Si dormiero, dicam: Quando consurgam? et rursum expectabo vesperam, et replebor doloribus usque ad tenebras.
5. Induta est caro mea putredine, et sordibus pulveris cutis mea aruit et contracta est.
6. Dies mei velocius transierunt quam a texente tela succiditur, et consumpti sunt absque ulla spe.
7. Memento quia ventus est vita mea, et non revertetur oculus meus ut videat bona.
8. Nec aspiciet me visus hominis; oculi tui in me, et non subsistam.
9. Sicut consumitur nubes, et pertransit, sic qui descenderit ad inferos, non ascendet.
10. Nec revertetur ultra in domum suam, neque cognoscet eum amplius locus ejus.
11. Quapropter et ego non parcam ori meo: loquar in tribulatione spiritus mei; confabulabor cum amaritudine animæ meæ.
12. Numquid mare ego sum, aut cetus, quia circumdedisti me carcere?
13. Si dixero: Consolabitur me lectulus meus, et relevabor loquens mecum in strato meo:
14. terrebis me per somnia, et per visiones horrore concuties.
15. Quam ob rem elegit suspendium anima mea, et mortem ossa mea.
16. Desperavi: nequaquam ultra jam vivam: parce mihi, nihil enim sunt dies mei.
17. Quid est homo, quia magnificas eum? aut quid apponis erga eum cor tuum?
18. Visitas eum diluculo, et subito probas illum.
19. Usquequo non parcis mihi, nec dimittis me ut glutiam salivam meam?
20. Peccavi; quid faciam tibi, o custos hominum? quare posuisti me contrarium tibi, et factus sum mihimetipsi gravis?
21. Cur non tollis peccatum meum, et quare non aufers iniquitatem meam? ecce nunc in pulvere dormiam, et si mane me quæsieris, non subsistam.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Feb 7, 2027: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Job 7:1-4, 6-7

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

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