Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor

1And Job answered, and said: 2Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God. 3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand. 4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace? 5Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not. 6Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7Who commandeth tile sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal: 8Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea. 9Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south. 10Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number. 11If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall not understand. 12If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?

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14What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him? 15I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge. 16And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.

10My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

11Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?

12Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?

13Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

14But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

15Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

57And it came to pass, as they walked in the way, that a certain man said to him: I will follow thee withersoever thou goest. 58Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. 59But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go, and to bury my father. 60And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou, and preach the kingdom of God. 61And another said: I will follow thee, Lord; but let me first take my leave of them that are at my house. 62Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.