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.

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?

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.

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.

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;)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

KJV ¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

VULC ¹⁵ Redactus sum in nihilum :
abstulisti quasi ventus desiderium meum,
et velut nubes pertransiit salus mea.

KJV ¹⁶ And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

VULC ¹⁶ Nunc autem in memetipso marcescit anima mea,
et possident me dies afflictionis.

KJV ¹⁷ My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

VULC ¹⁷ Nocte os meum perforatur doloribus,
et qui me comedunt, non dormiunt.

KJV ¹⁸ By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

VULC ¹⁸ In multitudine eorum consumitur vestimentum meum,
et quasi capitio tunicæ succinxerunt me.

KJV ¹⁹ He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

VULC ¹⁹ Comparatus sum luto,
et assimilatus sum favillæ et cineri.

KJV ²⁰ I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

VULC ²⁰ Clamo ad te, et non exaudis me :
sto, et non respicis me.

KJV ²¹ Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

VULC ²¹ Mutatus es mihi in crudelem,
et in duritia manus tuæ adversaris mihi.

KJV ²² Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

VULC ²² Elevasti me, et quasi super ventum ponens ;
elisisti me valide.

KJV ²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

VULC ²³ Scio quia morti trades me,
ubi constituta est domus omni viventi.

KJV ²⁴ Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

VULC ²⁴ Verumtamen non ad consumptionem eorum emittis manum tuam :
et si corruerint, ipse salvabis.

KJV ²⁵ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

VULC ²⁵ Flebam quondam super eo qui afflictus erat,
et compatiebatur anima mea pauperi.

KJV ²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

VULC ²⁶ Expectabam bona, et venerunt mihi mala :
præstolabar lucem, et eruperunt tenebræ.

KJV ²⁷ My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

VULC ²⁷ Interiora mea efferbuerunt absque ulla requie :
prævenerunt me dies afflictionis.

KJV ²⁸ I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

VULC ²⁸ Mœrens incedebam sine furore ;
consurgens, in turba clamabam.

KJV ²⁹ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

VULC ²⁹ Frater fui draconum,
et socius struthionum.

KJV ³⁰ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

VULC ³⁰ Cutis mea denigrata est super me,
et ossa mea aruerunt præ caumate.

KJV ³¹ My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

VULC ³¹ Versa est in luctum cithara mea,
et organum meum in vocem flentium.]