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V ers. 11.— Quapropter et ego non parcam ori meo. 36. Iram judicis in confessione praeveniunt electi. —Ori etenim suo e parcit, qui confit ri malum quod fecit erubescit. In laborem quippe os mittere est hoc ad confessionem perpetratae iniquitatis occupare. Sed justus ori suo non parcit, qui(??)iram judicis di- stricti praeveniens, verbis contra se propriae confes- sionis saevit. Hinc Psalmista ait: Praeveniamus faciem ejus in confessione ( Psal. xciv, 2). Hinc per Salomo- nem dicitur: Qui abscondit sc(??)lera sua, non dirigetur; qui autem confessus fuerit et dereliquerit ea, misericor- diam consequetur ( Prov. xxviii, 15). Hinc rursum Scriptum est:
第11節：「因此我不禁止我的口」（約伯記七章11節）。三十六、蒙揀選者藉認罪搶在審判者的忿怒之前。——因為那羞於承認自己所行之惡的人，便是禁止自己的口。使口勞苦，就是使它從事於承認所犯的罪孽。但義人不禁止自己的口，他搶在那嚴厲審判者的忿怒之前，用自己認罪的言語向自己發烈怒。所以詩人說：「我們來到他面前認罪」（詩篇九十五篇2節，按拉丁文編號）。因此藉所羅門說：「遮掩自己罪過的，必不亨通；承認並離棄罪過的，必蒙憐恤」（箴言二十八章13節）。因此又記著說：
Verse 11: 'Wherefore I also will not spare my mouth' (Job 7:11). 36. The elect forestall the anger of the Judge by confession. — For he spares his mouth who is ashamed to confess the evil that he has done. To set the mouth to labor is to employ it for the confession of iniquity committed. But the righteous man does not spare his mouth, who, forestalling the anger of the severe Judge, rages against himself with the words of his own confession. Hence the Psalmist says: 'Let us forestall his face in confession' (Ps. 94:2). Hence it is said through Solomon: 'He who hides his crimes shall not be directed aright; but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy' (Prov. 28:13). Hence again it is written:
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Justus in principio accusator est sui ( Prov. xviii, 17). Sed nequaquam ad confessionem os panditur, nisi cum consideratione districti judicit per pavorem spiritus angustatur. Unde et apte mox subditur:
「義人在起初便是控告自己的人」（箴言十八章17節）。但那口絕不為認罪而開啟，除非它藉著對那嚴厲審判者的思念、因心靈的恐懼而被逼迫。因此也恰當地立即補上：
'The righteous man is the accuser of himself at the beginning' (Prov. 18:17). But the mouth is by no means opened for confession except when, by the consideration of the strict Judge, it is straitened through dread of spirit. Whence too it is fittingly subjoined at once: