Jb 9 (King James)

¹ Then Job answered and said,
² I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
³ If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
⁵ Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
⁶ Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
⁷ Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
⁸ Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
⁹ Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
¹⁰ Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
¹¹ Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
¹² Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
¹³ If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
¹⁷ For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
¹⁸ He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
¹⁹ If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
²⁰ If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
²¹ Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
²² This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
²⁹ If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
³¹ Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
³³ Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
³⁵ Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

Jb 9 (Vulgate)

¹ Et respondens Job, ait :
² [Vere scio quod ita sit, et quod non justificetur homo compositus Deo.
³ Si voluerit contendere cum eo, non poterit ei respondere unum pro mille.
⁴ Sapiens corde est, et fortis robore : quis restitit ei, et pacem habuit ?
⁵ Qui transtulit montes, et nescierunt hi quos subvertit in furore suo.
⁶ Qui commovet terram de loco suo, et columnæ ejus concutiuntur.
⁷ Qui præcipit soli, et non oritur, et stellas claudit quasi sub signaculo.
⁸ Qui extendit cælos solus, et graditur super fluctus maris.
⁹ Qui facit Arcturum et Oriona, et Hyadas et interiora austri.
¹⁰ Qui facit magna, et incomprehensibilia, et mirabilia, quorum non est numerus.
¹¹ Si venerit ad me, non videbo eum ; si abierit, non intelligam.
¹² Si repente interroget, quis respondebit ei ? vel quis dicere potest : Cur ita facis ?
¹³ Deus, cujus iræ nemo resistere potest, et sub quo curvantur qui portant orbem.
¹⁴ Quantus ergo sum ego, ut respondeam ei, et loquar verbis meis cum eo ?
¹⁵ qui etiam si habuero quippiam justum, non respondebo : sed meum judicem deprecabor.
¹⁶ Et cum invocantem exaudierit me, non credo quod audierit vocem meam.
¹⁷ In turbine enim conteret me, et multiplicabit vulnera mea, etiam sine causa.
¹⁸ Non concedit requiescere spiritum meum, et implet me amaritudinibus.
¹⁹ Si fortitudo quæritur, robustissimus est ; si æquitas judicii, nemo audet pro me testimonium dicere.
²⁰ Si justificare me voluero, os meum condemnabit me ; si innocentem ostendero, pravum me comprobabit.
²¹ Etiam si simplex fuero, hoc ipsum ignorabit anima mea, et tædebit me vitæ meæ.
²² Unum est quod locutus sum : et innocentem et impium ipse consumit.
²³ Si flagellat, occidat semel, et non de pœnis innocentum rideat.
²⁴ Terra data est in manus impii ; vultum judicum ejus operit. Quod si non ille est, quis ergo est ?
²⁵ Dies mei velociores fuerunt cursore ; fugerunt, et non viderunt bonum.
²⁶ Pertransierunt quasi naves poma portantes ; sicut aquila volans ad escam.
²⁷ Cum dixero : Nequaquam ita loquar : commuto faciem meam, et dolore torqueor.
²⁸ Verebar omnia opera mea, sciens quod non parceres delinquenti.
²⁹ Si autem et sic impius sum, quare frustra laboravi ?
³⁰ Si lotus fuero quasi aquis nivis, et fulserint velut mundissimæ manus meæ,
³¹ tamen sordibus intinges me, et abominabuntur me vestimenta mea.
³² Neque enim viro qui similis mei est, respondebo ; nec qui mecum in judicio ex æquo possit audiri.
³³ Non est qui utrumque valeat arguere, et ponere manum suam in ambobus.
³⁴ Auferat a me virgam suam, et pavor ejus non me terreat.
³⁵ Loquar, et non timebo eum ; neque enim possum metuens respondere.]