Jb 13 (King James)

¹ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
² What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
⁴ But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
⁵ O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
⁷ Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
⁸ Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
¹⁰ He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
¹¹ Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
¹² Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
¹³ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
¹⁴ Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
¹⁶ He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
¹⁸ Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
¹⁹ Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
²⁰ Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
²¹ Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
²² Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
²³ How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
²⁵ Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
²⁶ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
²⁷ Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
²⁸ And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Jb 13 (Vulgate)

¹ [Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus, et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula.
² Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi : nec inferior vestri sum.
³ Sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar, et disputare cum Deo cupio :
⁴ prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii, et cultores perversorum dogmatum.
⁵ Atque utinam taceretis, ut putaremini esse sapientes.
⁶ Audite ergo correptionem meam, et judicium labiorum meorum attendite.
⁷ Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio, ut pro illo loquamini dolos ?
⁸ numquid faciem ejus accipitis, et pro Deo judicare nitimini ?
⁹ aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest ? aut decipietur, ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis ?
¹⁰ Ipse vos arguet, quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis.
¹¹ Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos, et terror ejus irruet super vos.
¹² Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.
¹³ Tacete paulisper, ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit.
¹⁴ Quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis, et animam meam porto in manibus meis ?
¹⁵ Etiam si occiderit me, in ipso sperabo : verumtamen vias meas in conspectu ejus arguam.
¹⁶ Et ipse erit salvator meus : non enim veniet in conspectu ejus omnis hypocrita.
¹⁷ Audite sermonem meum, et ænigmata percipite auribus vestris.
¹⁸ Si fuero judicatus, scio quod justus inveniar.
¹⁹ Quis est qui judicetur mecum ? veniat : quare tacens consumor ?
²⁰ Duo tantum ne facias mihi, et tunc a facie tua non abscondar :
²¹ manum tuam longe fac a me, et formido tua non me terreat.
²² Voca me, et ego respondebo tibi : aut certe loquar, et tu responde mihi.
²³ Quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata ? scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi.
²⁴ Cur faciem tuam abscondis, et arbitraris me inimicum tuum ?
²⁵ Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam, et stipulam siccam persequeris :
²⁶ scribis enim contra me amaritudines, et consumere me vis peccatis adolescentiæ meæ.
²⁷ Posuisti in nervo pedem meum, et observasti omnes semitas meas, et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti :
²⁸ qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea.]