Job scarce able to speak yet sheweth that there is no injustice nor ignorance in God, neither is his sin the cause of so great afflictions. 9. Acknowledgeth God's love and benefits towards himself. 15. and dreadeth his strict judgement.Iob scarse able to speake yet sheweth that there is no iniustice nor ignorance in God, neither is his sinne the cause of so great afflictions. 9. Acknowledgeth Gods loue and benefites towards himself. 15. and dreadeth his strict iudgement.✦
My soul is weary of my life, I will let my speech pass against my self. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.MY soule is wearie of my life, I wil let my speach passe agaynst my self. I wil speake in the bitternes of my soule.Tædet animam meam vitæ meæ ; dimittam adversum me eloquium meum : loquar in amaritudine animæ meæ.
2I will say to God: Condemn me not: tell me why thou judgest me so.I wil say to God: Condemne me not: tel me why thou iudgest me so.Dicam Deo : Noli me condemnare ; indica mihi cur me ita judices.
3Doth it seem good to thee, if thou calumnieris: slander, defame; oppress, deal wrongfully with me, and oppress me the work of thy hands, and help the counsel of the impious?Doth it seeme good to thee, if thou calumniate me, and oppresse me the worke of thy handes, and helpe the counsel of the impious?✦Numquid bonum tibi videtur, si calumnieris me, et opprimas me opus manuum tuarum, et consilium impiorum adjuves ?
4Hast thou eyes of flesh: or as a man seeth, shalt thou also see?Hast thou eies of flesh: or as a man seeth, shalt thou also see?Numquid oculi carnei tibi sunt ? aut sicut videt homo, et tu videbis ?
5Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:Are thy daies as the daies of man, and are thy yeares as the times of men:Numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui, et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora,
6That thou seekest my iniquity, and searchest my sin?That thou sekest my iniquitie, and searchest my sinne?ut quæras iniquitatem meam, et peccatum meum scruteris,
7And thou mayst know that I have done no impious thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand.And thou mayst knowe that I haue done no impious thing, whereas there is no man that can deliuer out of thy hand.et scias quia nihil impium fecerim, cum sit nemo qui de manu tua possit eruere ?
8Thy hands have made me, and framed me wholly round about, and dost thou so suddenly cast me down headlong?Thy handes haue made me, and framed me wholly round about, and dost thou so sodenlie cast me downe headlong?✦Manus tuæ fecerunt me, et plasmaverunt me totum in circuitu : et sic repente præcipitas me ?
9Remember I beseech thee that as clay thou madest me, and into dust thou wilt bring me again.Remember I besech thee that as clay thou madest me, and into dust thou wilt bring me agayne.✦Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.
10Hast thou not as milk milked me, and curded me as cheese?Hast thou not as milke milked me, and curded me as cheese?✦Nonne sicut lac mulsisti me, et sicut caseum me coagulasti ?
11With skin and flesh thou hast clothed me: with bones and sinews thou hast compegisti: compressed, condensed; knit, framed firmly together me.With skinne and flesh thou hast clothed me: with bones & sinowes thou hast compacted me.Pelle et carnibus vestisti me ; ossibus et nervis compegisti me.
12Life and mercy thou hast given to me, and thy visitation hath kept my spirit.Life and mercie thou hast geuen to me, and thy visitation hath kept my spirit.✦Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
13Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou remembrest all things,Although thou conceale these thinges in thy hart, yet I know that thou remembrest al thinges,✦Licet hæc celes in corde tuo, tamen scio quia universorum memineris.
14If I have sinned and thou hast spared me for an hour: why doest thou not suffer me to be clean from mine iniquity?If I haue sinned and thou hast spared me for an houre: why doest thou not suffer me to be cleane from mine iniquitie?✦Si peccavi, et ad horam pepercisti mihi, cur ab iniquitate mea mundum me esse non pateris ?
15And if I shall be impious, woe is to me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, filled with affliction and misery.And if I shal be impious, woe is to me: and if iust, I shal not lift vp my head, filled with affliction and miserie.✦Et si impius fuero, væ mihi est ; et si justus, non levabo caput, saturatus afflictione et miseria.
16And for pride as a lioness thou wilt take me, and returning thou doest marvellously torment me.And for pride as a lionesse thou wilt take me, and returning thou doest meruelously torment me.✦Et propter superbiam quasi leænam capies me, reversusque mirabiliter me crucias.
17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath toward me, and pains do war upon me.Thou renewest thy witnesses agaynst me, and multipliest thy wrath toward me, and paynes doe warre vpon me.✦Instauras testes tuos contra me, et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me, et pœnæ militant in me.
18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the vulva: the womb? Who would God, I had been consumed that eye might not see me.Why didst thou bring me forth out of the matrice? Who would God, I had beene consumed that eye might not see me.Quare de vulva eduxisti me ? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.
19I had been as if I were not, carried from the womb to the grave.I had beene as if I were not, caried from the wombe to the graue.✦Fuissem quasi non essem, de utero translatus ad tumulum.
20Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me therefore, that I may a little lament my sorrow:Shal not the fewnes of my daies be ended shortly? suffer me therfore, that I may a litle lament my sorow:✦Numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi ? dimitte ergo me, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum,
21Before I go, and return not, unto the dark land, that is covered with the mist of death:Before I goe, and returne not, vnto the darke land, that is couered with the mist of death:✦antequam vadam, et non revertar, ad terram tenebrosam, et opertam mortis caligine :
22A land of misery and darkness, where is the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror inhabiteth.A land of miserie and darkenesse, where is the shadow of death, and no order, but euerlasting horrour inhabiteth.✦terram miseriæ et tenebrarum, ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror inhabitat.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.