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Vulgata
Jerome's Latin Translation of the Bible |
Liber I O B
Chapter 20 |
Douay-Rheims
Translation of the Latin Vulgate |
| 20:1 respondens autem Sophar Naamathites dixit | 1 Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said: |
| 20:2 idcirco cogitationes meae variae succedunt sibi et mens in diversa rapitur | 2 Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things. |
| 20:3 doctrinam qua me arguis audiam et spiritus intellegentiae meae respondebit mihi | 3 The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me. |
| 20:4 hoc scio a principio ex quo positus est homo super terram | 4 This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth, |
| 20:5 quod laus impiorum brevis sit et gaudium hypocritae ad instar puncti | 5 that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. |
| 20:6 si ascenderit usque ad caelum superbia eius et caput eius nubes tetigerit | 6 If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds: |
| 20:7 quasi sterquilinium in fine perdetur et qui eum viderant dicent ubi est | 7 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he? |
| 20:8 velut somnium avolans non invenietur transiet sicut visio nocturna | 8 As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night: |
| 20:9 oculus qui eum viderat non videbit neque ultra intuebitur eum locus suus | 9 The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him. |
| 20:10 filii eius adterentur egestate et manus illius reddent ei dolorem suum | 10 His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow. |
| 20:11 ossa eius implebuntur vitiis adulescentiae eius et cum eo in pulverem dormient | 11 His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust. |
| 20:12 cum enim dulce fuerit in ore eius malum abscondet illud sub lingua sua | 12 For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue. |
| 20:13 parcet illi et non derelinquet illud et celabit in gutture suo | 13 He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat. |
| 20:14 panis eius in utero illius vertetur in fel aspidum intrinsecus | 14 His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him. |
| 20:15 divitias quas devoravit evomet et de ventre illius extrahet eas Deus | 15 The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly. |
| 20:16 caput aspidum suget occidet eum lingua viperae | 16 He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him. |
| 20:17 non videat rivulos fluminis torrentes mellis et butyri | 17 (Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.) |
| 20:18 luet quae fecit omnia nec tamen consumetur iuxta multitudinem adinventionum suarum sic et sustinebit | 18 He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer. |
| 20:19 quoniam confringens nudavit pauperes domum rapuit et non aedificavit eam | 19 Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build. |
| 20:20 nec est satiatus venter eius et cum habuerit quae cupierat possidere non poterit | 20 And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them. |
| 20:21 non remansit de cibo eius et propterea nihil permanebit de bonis eius | 21 There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods: |
| 20:22 cum satiatus fuerit artabitur aestuabit et omnis dolor inruet in eum | 22 When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him. |
| 20:23 utinam impleatur venter eius ut emittat in eum iram furoris sui et pluat super illum bellum suum | 23 May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him. |
| 20:24 fugiet arma ferrea et inruet in arcum aereum | 24 He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass. |
| 20:25 eductus et egrediens de vagina sua et fulgurans in amaritudine sua vadent et venient super eum horribiles | 25 The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him. |
| 20:26 omnes tenebrae absconditae sunt in occultis eius devorabit eum ignis qui non succenditur adfligetur relictus in tabernaculo suo | 26 All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle. |
| 20:27 revelabunt caeli iniquitatem eius et terra consurget adversus eum | 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. |
| 20:28 apertum erit germen domus illius detrahetur in die furoris Dei | 28 The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath. |
| 20:29 haec est pars hominis impii a Deo et hereditas verborum eius a Domino | 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord. |