Liber Iob

Iob, chapter 35, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 35 Vulgate

   1 Igitur Eliu haec rursum locutus est:
   2" Numquid aequa tibi videtur tua cogitatio, ut diceres: "Iustificatio mea coram Deo"?
   3 Dixisti enim: "Quid ad te? Vel quid tibi proderit, si ego peccavero?".
   4 Itaque ego respondebo sermonibus tuis et amicis tuis tecum.
   5 Suspice caelum et intuere et contemplare nubes quod altiores te sint.
   6 Si peccaveris, quid facies ei? Et si multiplicatae fuerint iniquitates tuae, quid facies contra eum?
   7 Porro si iuste egeris, quid donabis ei? Aut quid de manu tua accipiet?
   8 Homini, qui similis tui est, nocebit impietas tua, et filium hominis adiuvabit iustitia tua.
   9 Propter multitudinem oppressorum clamabunt et eiulabunt propter vim brachii tyrannorum,
   10 sed nemo dixit: "Ubi est Deus, qui fecit me, qui dedit carmina in nocte,
   11 qui docet nos super iumenta terrae et super volucres caeli erudit nos?".
   12 Ibi clamabunt, et non exaudiet, propter superbiam malorum.
   13 Etiam, frustra: non audiet Deus, et Omnipotens non intuebitur.
   14 Omnino cum dixeris: "Non considerat", iudicium est coram illo, et exspectas eum.
   15 Et nunc cum dicis: "Ira eius poenas non infert, nec ulciscitur scelus valde",
   16 Iob frustra aperit os suum et absque scientia verba multiplicat".

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
   2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
   3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
   4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
   5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
   6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
   7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
   8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
   9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
   10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
   11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
   12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
   13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
   14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
   15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
   16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.