Job 14 #catechesis/bible/job
[!abstract] Job declares the shortness of man’s days: and professes his belief of a resurrection.
Book: Job · ← Job 13 · Job 15 →
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GR βροτὸς γὰρ γεννητὸς γυναικὸς ὀλιγόβιος καὶ πλήρης ὀργῆς
LA Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore, repletur multis miseriis.
EN Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
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GR ἢ ὥσπερ ἄνθος ἀνθῆσαν ἐξέπεσεν ἀπέδρα δὲ ὥσπερ σκιὰ καὶ οὐ μὴ στῇ
LA Qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur, et fugit velut umbra, et numquam in eodem statu permanet.
EN Who comes forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and flees as a shadow, and never continues in the same state.
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GR οὐχὶ καὶ τούτου λόγον ἐποιήσω καὶ τοῦτον ἐποίησας εἰσελθεῖν ἐν κρίματι ἐνώπιόν σου
LA Et dignum ducis super hujuscemodi aperire oculos tuos, et adducere eum tecum in judicium?
EN And do you think it meet to open your eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with you?
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GR τίς γὰρ καθαρὸς ἔσται ἀπὸ ῥύπου ἀλλ’ οὐθείς
LA Quis potest facere mundum de immundo conceptum semine? nonne tu qui solus es?
EN Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? Is it not you who only is?
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GR ἐὰν καὶ μία ἡμέρα ὁ βίος αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἀριθμητοὶ δὲ μῆνες αὐτοῦ παρὰ σοί εἰς χρόνον ἔθου καὶ οὐ μὴ ὑπερβῇ
LA Breves dies hominis sunt: numerus mensium ejus apud te est: constituisti terminos ejus, qui præteriri non poterunt.
EN The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with you: you have appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.
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GR ἀπόστα ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ἵνα ἡσυχάσῃ καὶ εὐδοκήσῃ τὸν βίον ὥσπερ ὁ μισθωτός
LA Recede paululum ab eo, ut quiescat, donec optata veniat, sicut mercenarii, dies ejus.
EN Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.
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GR ἔστιν γὰρ δένδρῳ ἐλπίς ἐὰν γὰρ ἐκκοπῇ ἔτι ἐπανθήσει καὶ ὁ ῥάδαμνος αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ἐκλίπῃ
LA Lignum habet spem: si præcisum fuerit, rursum virescit, et rami ejus pullulant.
EN A tree has hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.
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GR ἐὰν γὰρ γηράσῃ ἐν γῇ ἡ ῥίζα αὐτοῦ ἐν δὲ πέτρᾳ τελευτήσῃ τὸ στέλεχος αὐτοῦ
LA Si senuerit in terra radix ejus, et in pulvere emortuus fuerit truncus illius,
EN If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:
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GR ἀπὸ ὀσμῆς ὕδατος ἀνθήσει ποιήσει δὲ θερισμὸν ὥσπερ νεόφυτον
LA ad odorem aquæ germinabit, et faciet comam, quasi cum primum plantatum est.
EN At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
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GR ἀνὴρ δὲ τελευτήσας ᾤχετο πεσὼν δὲ βροτὸς οὐκέτι ἔστιν
LA Homo vero cum mortuus fuerit, et nudatus, atque consumptus, ubi, quæso, est?
EN But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?
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GR χρόνῳ γὰρ σπανίζεται θάλασσα ποταμὸς δὲ ἐρημωθεὶς ἐξηράνθη
LA Quomodo si recedant aquæ de mari, et fluvius vacuefactus arescat:
EN As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up;
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GR ἄνθρωπος δὲ κοιμηθεὶς οὐ μὴ ἀναστῇ ἕως ἂν ὁ οὐρανὸς οὐ μὴ συρραφῇ καὶ οὐκ ἐξυπνισθήσονται ἐξ ὕπνου αὐτῶν
LA sic homo, cum dormierit, non resurget: donec atteratur cælum, non evigilabit, nec consurget de somno suo.
EN so man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.
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GR εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον ἐν ᾅδῃ με ἐφύλαξας ἔκρυψας δέ με ἕως ἂν παύσηταί σου ἡ ὀργὴ καὶ τάξῃ μοι χρόνον ἐν ᾧ μνείαν μου ποιήσῃ
LA Quis mihi hoc tribuat, ut in inferno protegas me, et abscondas me donec pertranseat furor tuus, et constituas mihi tempus in quo recorderis mei?
EN Who will grant me this, that you may protect me in hell, and hide me till your wrath pass, and appoint me a time when you will remember me?
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[!note]- That you may protect me in hell…
That is, in the state of the dead; and in the place where the souls are kept waiting for their Redeemer. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
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GR ἐὰν γὰρ ἀποθάνῃ ἄνθρωπος ζήσεται συντελέσας ἡμέρας τοῦ βίου αὐτοῦ ὑπομενῶ ἕως ἂν πάλιν γένωμαι
LA Putasne mortuus homo rursum vivat? cunctis diebus quibus nunc milito, expecto donec veniat immutatio mea.
EN Shall man that is dead, do you think, live again? All the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.
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GR εἶτα καλέσεις ἐγὼ δέ σοι ὑπακούσομαι τὰ δὲ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σου μὴ ἀποποιοῦ
LA Vocabis me, et ego respondebo tibi: operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram.
EN You shall call me, and I will answer you: to the work of your hands you shall reach out your right hand.
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GR ἠρίθμησας δέ μου τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα καὶ οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ σε οὐδὲν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν μου
LA Tu quidem gressus meos dinumerasti: sed parce peccatis meis.
EN You indeed have numbered my steps, but spare my sins.
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GR ἐσφράγισας δέ μου τὰς ἀνομίας ἐν βαλλαντίῳ ἐπεσημήνω δέ εἴ τι ἄκων παρέβην
LA Signasti quasi in sacculo delicta mea, sed curasti iniquitatem meam.
EN You have sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but have cured my iniquity.
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GR καὶ πλὴν ὄρος πῖπτον διαπεσεῖται καὶ πέτρα παλαιωθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτῆς
LA Mons cadens defluit, et saxum transfertur de loco suo:
EN A mountain falling comes to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.
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GR λίθους ἐλέαναν ὕδατα καὶ κατέκλυσεν ὕδατα ὕπτια τοῦ χώματος τῆς γῆς καὶ ὑπομονὴν ἀνθρώπου ἀπώλεσας
LA lapides excavant aquæ, et alluvione paulatim terra consumitur: et hominem ergo similiter perdes.
EN Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner you shall destroy man.
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GR ὦσας αὐτὸν εἰς τέλος καὶ ᾤχετο ἐπέστησας αὐτῷ τὸ πρόσωπον καὶ ἐξαπέστειλας
LA Roborasti eum paululum, ut in perpetuum transiret: immutabis faciem ejus, et emittes eum.
EN You have strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: you shall change his face, and shall send him away.
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GR πολλῶν δὲ γενομένων τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ οὐκ οἶδεν ἐὰν δὲ ὀλίγοι γένωνται οὐκ ἐπίσταται
LA Sive nobiles fuerint filii ejus, sive ignobiles, non intelliget.
EN Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.
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GR ἀλλ’ ἢ αἱ σάρκες αὐτοῦ ἤλγησαν ἡ δὲ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ἐπένθησεν
LA Attamen caro ejus, dum vivet, dolebit, et anima illius super semetipso lugebit.
EN But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.
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