KJV ¹ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

NEG ¹ Et maintenant!… je suis la risée de plus jeunes que moi, De ceux dont je dédaignais de mettre les pères Parmi les chiens de mon troupeau.

VULC ¹ [Nunc autem derident me juniores tempore,
quorum non dignabar patres ponere cum canibus gregis mei :

KJV ² Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

NEG ² Mais à quoi me servirait la force de leurs mains? Ils sont incapables d'atteindre la vieillesse.

VULC ² quorum virtus manuum mihi erat pro nihilo,
et vita ipsa putabantur indigni :

KJV ³ For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

NEG ³ Desséchés par la misère et la faim, Ils fuient dans les lieux arides, Depuis longtemps abandonnés et déserts;

VULC ³ egestate et fame steriles, qui rodebant in solitudine,
squallentes calamitate et miseria.

KJV ⁴ Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

NEG ⁴ Ils arrachent près des arbrisseaux les herbes sauvages, Et ils n'ont pour pain que la racine des genêts.

VULC ⁴ Et mandebant herbas, et arborum cortices,
et radix juniperorum erat cibus eorum :

KJV ⁵ They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

NEG ⁵ On les chasse du milieu des hommes, On crie après eux comme après des voleurs.

VULC ⁵ qui de convallibus ista rapientes,
cum singula reperissent, ad ea cum clamore currebant.

KJV ⁶ To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

NEG ⁶ Ils habitent dans d'affreuses vallées, Dans les cavernes de la terre et dans les rochers;

VULC ⁶ In desertis habitabant torrentium,
et in cavernis terræ, vel super glaream :

KJV ⁷ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

NEG ⁷ Ils hurlent parmi les buissons, Ils se rassemblent sous les ronces.

VULC ⁷ qui inter hujuscemodi lætabantur,
et esse sub sentibus delicias computabant :

KJV ⁸ They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

NEG ⁸ Etres vils et méprisés, On les repousse du pays.

VULC ⁸ filii stultorum et ignobilium,
et in terra penitus non parentes.

KJV ⁹ And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

NEG ⁹ Et maintenant, je suis l'objet de leurs chansons, Je suis en butte à leurs propos.

VULC ⁹ Nunc in eorum canticum versus sum,
et factus sum eis in proverbium.

KJV ¹⁰ They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

NEG ¹⁰ Ils ont horreur de moi, ils se détournent, Ils me crachent au visage.

VULC ¹⁰ Abominantur me, et longe fugiunt a me,
et faciem meam conspuere non verentur.

KJV ¹¹ Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

NEG ¹¹ Ils n'ont plus de retenue et ils m'humilient, Ils rejettent tout frein devant moi.

VULC ¹¹ Pharetram enim suam aperuit, et afflixit me,
et frenum posuit in os meum.

KJV ¹² Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

NEG ¹² Ces misérables se lèvent à ma droite et me poussent les pieds, Ils se fraient jusqu'à moi des sentiers pour ma ruine;

VULC ¹² Ad dexteram orientis calamitates meæ illico surrexerunt :
pedes meos subverterunt,
et oppresserunt quasi fluctibus semitis suis.

KJV ¹³ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

NEG ¹³ Ils détruisent mon propre sentier et travaillent à ma perte, Eux à qui personne ne viendrait en aide;

VULC ¹³ Dissipaverunt itinera mea ;
insidiati sunt mihi, et prævaluerunt :
et non fuit qui ferret auxilium.

KJV ¹⁴ They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

NEG ¹⁴ Ils arrivent comme par une large brèche, Ils se précipitent sous les craquements.

VULC ¹⁴ Quasi rupto muro, et aperta janua, irruerunt super me,
et ad meas miserias devoluti sunt.