Job 10 #catechesis/bible/job
[!abstract] Job laments his afflictions and begs to be delivered.
Book: Job · ← Job 9 · Job 11 →
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GR κάμνων τῇ ψυχῇ μου στένων ἐπαφήσω ἐπ’ αὐτὸν τὰ ῥήματά μου λαλήσω πικρίᾳ ψυχῆς μου συνεχόμενος
LA Tædet animam meam vitæ meæ; dimittam adversum me eloquium meum: loquar in amaritudine animæ meæ.
EN My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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GR καὶ ἐρῶ πρὸς κύριον μή με ἀσεβεῖν δίδασκε καὶ διὰ τί με οὕτως ἔκρινας
LA Dicam Deo: Noli me condemnare; indica mihi cur me ita judices.
EN I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why you judge me so?
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GR ἦ καλόν σοι ἐὰν ἀδικήσω ὅτι ἀπείπω ἔργα χειρῶν σου βουλῇ δὲ ἀσεβῶν προσέσχες
LA Numquid bonum tibi videtur, si calumnieris me, et opprimas me opus manuum tuarum, et consilium impiorum adjuves?
EN Does it seem good to you that you should calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of your own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?
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GR ἦ ὥσπερ βροτὸς ὁρᾷ καθορᾷς ἢ καθὼς ὁρᾷ ἄνθρωπος βλέψῃ
LA Numquid oculi carnei tibi sunt? aut sicut videt homo, et tu videbis?
EN Have you eyes of flesh: or, shall you see as man sees?
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GR ἦ ὁ βίος σου ἀνθρώπινός ἐστιν ἢ τὰ ἔτη σου ἀνδρός
LA Numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui, et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora,
EN Are your days as the days of man, and are your years as the times of men:
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GR ὅτι ἀνεζήτησας τὴν ἀνομίαν μου καὶ τὰς ἁμαρτίας μου ἐξιχνίασας
LA ut quæras iniquitatem meam, et peccatum meum scruteris,
EN That you should inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
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GR οἶδας γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ ἠσέβησα ἀλλὰ τίς ἐστιν ὁ ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν σου ἐξαιρούμενος
LA et scias quia nihil impium fecerim, cum sit nemo qui de manu tua possit eruere?
EN And should know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of your hand?
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GR αἱ χεῖρές σου ἔπλασάν με καὶ ἐποίησάν με μετὰ ταῦτα μεταβαλών με ἔπαισας
LA Manus tuæ fecerunt me, et plasmaverunt me totum in circuitu: et sic repente præcipitas me?
EN Your hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and do you thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?
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GR μνήσθητι ὅτι πηλόν με ἔπλασας εἰς δὲ γῆν με πάλιν ἀποστρέφεις
LA Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.
EN Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay, and you will bring me into dust.
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GR ἦ οὐχ ὥσπερ γάλα με ἤμελξας ἐτύρωσας δέ με ἴσα τυρῷ
LA Nonne sicut lac mulsisti me, et sicut caseum me coagulasti?
EN Have you not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
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GR δέρμα καὶ κρέας με ἐνέδυσας ὀστέοις δὲ καὶ νεύροις με ἐνεῖρας
LA Pelle et carnibus vestisti me; ossibus et nervis compegisti me.
EN You have clothed me with skin and flesh: you have put me together with bones and sinews:
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GR ζωὴν δὲ καὶ ἔλεος ἔθου παρ’ ἐμοί ἡ δὲ ἐπισκοπή σου ἐφύλαξέν μου τὸ πνεῦμα
LA Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
EN You have granted me life and mercy, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
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GR ταῦτα ἔχων ἐν σεαυτῷ οἶδα ὅτι πάντα δύνασαι ἀδυνατεῖ δέ σοι οὐθέν
LA Licet hæc celes in corde tuo, tamen scio quia universorum memineris.
EN Although you conceal these things in your heart, yet I know that you remember all things.
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GR ἐάν τε γὰρ ἁμάρτω φυλάσσεις με ἀπὸ δὲ ἀνομίας οὐκ ἀθῷόν με πεποίηκας
LA Si peccavi, et ad horam pepercisti mihi, cur ab iniquitate mea mundum me esse non pateris?
EN If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour: why do you not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?
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GR ἐάν τε γὰρ ἀσεβὴς ὦ οἴμμοι ἐάν τε ὦ δίκαιος οὐ δύναμαι ἀνακύψαι πλήρης γὰρ ἀτιμίας εἰμί
LA Et si impius fuero, væ mihi est; et si justus, non levabo caput, saturatus afflictione et miseria.
EN And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.
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GR ἀγρεύομαι γὰρ ὥσπερ λέων εἰς σφαγήν πάλιν δὲ μεταβαλὼν δεινῶς με ὀλέκεις
LA Et propter superbiam quasi leænam capies me, reversusque mirabiliter me crucias.
EN And for pride you will take me as a lioness, and returning, you torment me wonderfully.
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GR ἐπανακαινίζων ἐπ’ ἐμὲ τὴν ἔτασίν μου ὀργῇ δὲ μεγάλῃ μοι ἐχρήσω ἐπήγαγες δὲ ἐπ’ ἐμὲ πειρατήρια
LA Instauras testes tuos contra me, et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me, et pœnæ militant in me.
EN You renew your witnesses against me, and multiply your wrath upon me, and pains war against me.
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GR ἵνα τί οὖν ἐκ κοιλίας με ἐξήγαγες καὶ οὐκ ἀπέθανον ὀφθαλμὸς δέ με οὐκ εἶδεν
LA Quare de vulva eduxisti me? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.
EN Why did you bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!
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GR καὶ ὥσπερ οὐκ ὢν ἐγενόμην διὰ τί γὰρ ἐκ γαστρὸς εἰς μνῆμα οὐκ ἀπηλλάγην
LA Fuissem quasi non essem, de utero translatus ad tumulum.
EN I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
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GR ἦ οὐκ ὀλίγος ἐστὶν ὁ χρόνος τοῦ βίου μου ἔασόν με ἀναπαύσασθαι μικρὸν
LA Numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi? dimitte ergo me, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum,
EN Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
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GR πρὸ τοῦ με πορευθῆναι ὅθεν οὐκ ἀναστρέψω εἰς γῆν σκοτεινὴν καὶ γνοφεράν
LA antequam vadam, et non revertar, ad terram tenebrosam, et opertam mortis caligine:
EN Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:
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GR εἰς γῆν σκότους αἰωνίου οὗ οὐκ ἔστιν φέγγος οὐδὲ ὁρᾶν ζωὴν βροτῶν
LA terram miseriæ et tenebrarum, ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror inhabitat.
EN A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwells.
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