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.]