Jb 16 (King James)

   ¹ Then Job answered and said, ² I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. ³ Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? ⁴ I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. ⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
   ⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? ⁷ But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. ⁸ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. ⁹ He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. ¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ¹¹ God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. ¹² I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. ¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
   ¹⁷ Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. ¹⁸ O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. ¹⁹ Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. ²⁰ My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. ²¹ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! ²² When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Jb 16 (Vulgate)

   ¹ Respondens autem Job, dixit :
   ² [Audivi frequenter talia :
consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.
   ³ Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa ?
aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris ?
   ⁴ Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui,
atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea :
   ⁵ consolarer et ego vos sermonibus,
et moverem caput meum super vos ;
   ⁶ roborarem vos ore meo,
et moverem labia mea, quasi parcens vobis.
   ⁷ Sed quid agam ? Si locutus fuero, non quiescet dolor meus,
et si tacuero, non recedet a me.
   ⁸ Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus,
et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei.
   ⁹ Rugæ meæ testimonium dicunt contra me,
et suscitatur falsiloquus adversus faciem meam, contradicens mihi.
   ¹⁰ Collegit furorem suum in me,
et comminans mihi, infremuit contra me dentibus suis :
hostis meus terribilibus oculis me intuitus est.
   ¹¹ Aperuerunt super me ora sua,
et exprobrantes percusserunt maxillam meam :
satiati sunt pœnis meis.
   ¹² Conclusit me Deus apud iniquum,
et manibus impiorum me tradidit.
   ¹³ Ego ille quondam opulentus, repente contritus sum :
tenuit cervicem meam, confregit me,
et posuit me sibi quasi in signum.
   ¹⁴ Circumdedit me lanceis suis ;
convulneravit lumbos meos :
non pepercit, et effudit in terra viscera mea.
   ¹⁵ Concidit me vulnere super vulnus :
irruit in me quasi gigas.
   ¹⁶ Saccum consui super cutem meam,
et operui cinere carnem meam.
   ¹⁷ Facies mea intumuit a fletu,
et palpebræ meæ caligaverunt.
   ¹⁸ Hæc passus sum absque iniquitate manus meæ,
cum haberem mundas ad Deum preces.
   ¹⁹ Terra, ne operias sanguinem meum,
neque inveniat in te locum latendi clamor meus :
   ²⁰ ecce enim in cælo testis meus,
et conscius meus in excelsis.
   ²¹ Verbosi amici mei :
ad Deum stillat oculus meus :
   ²² atque utinam sic judicaretur vir cum Deo,
quomodo judicatur filius hominis cum collega suo.
   ²³ Ecce enim breves anni transeunt,
et semitam per quam non revertar ambulo.]