Bastarda: Transcription Lines 3-6

............. Pelli me consumptis car -
............. nibus adhesit os meum
............. et derelicta sunt tantummodo la -
............. bia circa dentes meos . Miseremini
In a modern layout, with the modern distinction of u/v, this would read:

Pelli me consumptis carnibus adhesit os meum:
et derelicta sunt tantummodo labia circa dentes meos.
Miseremini

Translation (Douai/Rheims version):
[Job chapter 19 verses 20-21]

[20]......The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin:
.............and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
[21]......Have pity [on me ...]


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