Job 4

1Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and said:

Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit:

2If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?

Si cœperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit?

3Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:

Ecce docuisti multos, et manus lassas roborasti;

4Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:

vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui, et genua trementia confortasti.

5But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.

Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti; tetigit te, et conturbatus es.

6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

Ubi est timor tuus, fortitudo tua, patientia tua, et perfectio viarum tuarum?

7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit? aut quando recti deleti sunt?

8On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

Quin potius vidi eos qui operantur iniquitatem, et seminant dolores, et metunt eos,

9Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.

flante Deo perisse, et spiritu iræ ejus esse consumptos.

10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:

Rugitus leonis, et vox leænæ, et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt.

11The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.

Tigris periit, eo quod non haberet prædam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.

12Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.

Porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum, et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri ejus.

13In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,

In horrore visionis nocturnæ, quando solet sopor occupare homines,

14Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:

pavor tenuit me, et tremor, et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt;

15And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.

et cum spiritus, me præsente, transiret, inhorruerunt pili carnis meæ.

16There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.

Stetit quidam, cujus non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi auræ lenis audivi.

17Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Numquid homo, Dei comparatione, justificabitur? aut factore suo purior erit vir?

18Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:

Ecce qui serviunt ei, non sunt stabiles, et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem;

19How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

quanto magis hi qui habitant domos luteas, qui terrenum habent fundamentum, consumentur velut a tinea?

20From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur; et quia nullus intelligit, in æternum peribunt.

21And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.

Qui autem reliqui fuerint, auferentur ex eis; morientur, et non in sapientia.