Wednesday in the First Week of September

If today be a Feria, the Collect is taken from the preceding Sunday as given in the Ordo.

Matins

De libro Job

The Lesson is taken from
the Book of Job

Post hæc apéruit Job os suum et maledíxit diéi suo et locútus est : Péreat dies in qua natus sum, et nox in qua dictum est : Concéptus est homo.  Dies ille vertátur in ténebras : non requírat eum Deus désuper, et non illustrétur lúmine ; obscúrent eum ténebræ et umbra mortis ; óccupet eum calígo, et involvátur amaritúdine.

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.  And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.  Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.  Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Quis mihi tríbuat, ut in inférno prótegas me et abscóndas me, donec pertránseat furor tuus, Dómine, nisi tu, qui solus es Deus? * Et constítuas mihi tempus, in quo recordéris mei?
V.  Numquid sicut dies hóminis dies tui, ut quæras iniquitátem meam ; cum sit nemo, qui de manu tua possit erúere.
R.  Et constítuas mihi tempus, in quo recordéris mei?

R.  O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave!  O that thou wouldest keep me secret there, until thy wrath be past! * O that thou wouldest appoint me a set time wherein to remember me!
V.  Are thy days as the days of man, that thou must needs enquire after mine iniquity and search after my sin? behold, there is none that can deliver me out of thine hand!
R.  O that thou wouldest appoint me a set time wherein to remember me!

Noctem illam tenebrósus turbo possídeat ; non computétur in diébus anni, nec numerétur in ménsibus.  Sit nox illa solitária nec laude digna ; maledícant ei qui maledícunt diéi, qui paráti sunt suscitáre levíathan.  Obtenebréntur stellæ calígine ejus, exspéctet lucem et non vídeat, nec ortum surgéntis auróræ ; quia non conclúsit óstia ventris, qui portávit me, nec ábstulit mala ab óculis meis.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.  Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.  Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.  Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Utinam appenderéntur peccáta mea, quibus iram mérui, * Et calámitas, quam pátior, in statéra.
V.  Quasi aréna maris hæc grávior apparéret, unde et verba mea dolóre sunt plena.
R.  Et calámitas, quam pátior, in statéra.

R.  O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath,  *  And the calamity whereunder I suffer, were laid in the balances together.
V.  For these same would be heavier than all the sands of the sea, therefore also my words are full of sorrow.
R.  And the calamity whereunder I suffer, were laid in the balances together.

In Feastdays of Simple rank :

V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Et calámitas, quam pátior, in statéra.

V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  And the calamity whereunder I suffer, were laid in the balances together.

And on such Feastdays of Simple rank, the Third Lesson is read according to the Proper.

Proper Third Lesson

Quare non in vulva mórtuus sum? egréssus ex útero non statim périi? quare excéptus génibus? cur lactátus ubéribus?  Nunc enim dórmiens silérem et somno meo requiéscerem cum régibus et consúlibus terræ, qui ædíficant sibi solitúdines, aut cum princípibus, qui póssident aurum et replent domos suas argénto ; aut sicut abortívum abscónditum non subsísterem, vel qui concépti non vidérunt lucem.

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?  Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?  For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, with kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Quare detraxístis sermónibus veritátis? ad increpándum verba compónitis et subvértere nitímini amícum vestrum : * Verúmtamen quæ cogitástis, expléte.
V.  Quod justum est, judicáte ; et non inveniétis in lingua mea iniquitátem.
R.  Verúmtamen quæ cogitástis, expléte.
V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Verúmtamen quæ cogitástis, expléte.

R.  Why do ye argue against the words of truth?  Do ye imagine words to reprove me? and strive to confound one that is your friend? * Nevertheless, finish that ye have in mind.
V.  Judge that which is just, and ye shall find no iniquity in my tongue.
R.  Nevertheless, finish that ye have in mind.
V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  Nevertheless, finish that ye have in mind.

The Office of Matins ends after the Third Respond.  The Te Deum is not said, and Lauds normally follows immediately, beginning with the Opening Versicles.  Otherwise, the Conclusion of Matins is read, according to the Rubrics.

Conclusion of Matins

After the conclusion of the First Nocturn, the Second Nocturn is begun according to the current weekday.

Second Nocturn