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γπολαβὼν δὲ Ἐλειφὰς ὁ Θαιμανείτης λέγει

Πότερον σοφὸς ἀπόκρισιν δώσει συνέσεως πνεύματος,

καὶ ἐνέπλησεν πόνον γαστρός,

ἐλέγχων ἐν ῥήμασιν οἷς

οὐ δεῖ

ἐν λόγοις οἷς οὐδεν ὄφελος;

οὐ καὶ σὺ ἀπεποιήσω φόβον,

συνετελέσω δὲ ῥήματα τοιαῦτα ἔναντι τοῦ κυρίου;

ἔνοχος εἶ ῥήμασιν στόματός σου,

οὐδὲ διέκρινας ῥήματα δυναστῶν·

ἐλέγξαι σε τὸ σὸν στόμα καὶ μὴ ἐγώ,

τὰ δέ χείλη σου καταμαρτυρήσουσίν σου.

τί γάρ; μὴ πρῶτος ἀνθρώπων ἐγενήθης;

ἤ πρὸ θινῶν ἐπάγης

ἤ σύνταγμα Κυρίου ἀκήκοας

εἰς δὲ σὲ ἀφίκετο σοφία;

τί γὰρ οἶδας ὅ οὐκ οἴδαμεν;

ἤ τί συνίεις ὅ οὐ καὶ ἡμεῖς;

καί γε πρεσβύτης καί γε παλαιὸς ἐν ἡμῖν,

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βαρύτερος τοῦ πατρός σου ἡμέραις.

ὀλίγα ὧν ἡμάρτηκας μεμαστίγωσαι,

μεγάλως ὑπερβαλλόντως λελάληκας.

τί ἐτόλμησεν ἡ καρδία σου

ἤ τί ἐπήνεγκαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου,

ὅτι θυμὸν ἔρρηξας ἔναντι Κυρίου,

ἐξήγαγες δὲ ἐκ στόματος ῥήματα τοιαῦτα;

τίς γὰρ ὤν βροτός, ὅτι ἔσται ἄμεμπτος,

ἤ ὡς ἐσόμενος δίκαιος γεννητὸς γυναικός

εἰ κατὰ ἁγίων οὐ πιστεύει,

οὐρανὸς δὲ οὐ καθαρὸς ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ.

ἴα δὲ ἐβδελυγμένος καὶ ἀκάθαρτος,

ἀνὴρ πίνων ἀδικίας ἴσα ποτῷ.

ἀναγγελῶ δέ σοι, ἄκουέ μου.

ἂ δὴ ἑώρακα ἀναγγελῶ σοι.

ἃ σοφοὶ ἐροῦσιν, οὐκ ἔκρυψαν πατέρας αὐτῶν·

αὐτοῖς μόνοις ἐδόθη ἡ γῆ,

καὶ οὐκ ἐπῆλθεν ἀλλογενὴς ἐπʼ αὐτούς.

πᾶς ὁ βἰος ἀσεβοῦς ἐν φροντίδι,

ἔτη δὲ ἀριθμητὰ δεδομένα δυνάστῃ,

ὁ δὲ φόβος αὐτοῦ ἐν ὠσὶν αὐτοῦ·

ὅταν δοκῆ ἤδη εἰρηνεύειν.

ἤξει αὐτοῦ ἡ καταστροφή.

μὴ πιστευέτω ἀποστραφῆναι ἀπὸ σκότους·

ἐντέταλται γἃρ ἤδη εἰς χεῖρας σιδήρου.

κατατέτακται δὲ εἰς σῖτα γυψίν·

οἶδεν δὲ ἐν ἑαυτῷ ὅτι μένει εἰς πτῶμα.

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ἡμέρα δὲ αὐτὸν σκοτινὴ στροβήσει,

ἀνάγκη δὲ καὶ θλίψις αὐτὸν καθέξει

ὥσπερ στρατηγὸς πρωτοστάτης πίπτων·

ὅτι ἦρκεν χεῖρας ἐναντίον τοῦ κυρίου,

ἔναντι δέ Κυρίου Παντοκράτορος ἐτραχηλίασεν,

ἔδραμεν δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ὕβρει,

ἐν πάχει νώτου ἀσπίδος αὐτοῦ·

ὅτι ἐκάλυψεν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐν στέατι αὐτοῦ,

καὶ ἐποίησεν περιστόμιον ἐπὶ τῶν μηρίων.

αὐλισθείη δὲ πόλεις ἐρήμους.

εἰσέλθοι δὲ εἰς οἴκους ἀοικήτους·

ἄ δὲ ἐκεῖνοι ἡτοίμασαν, ἄλλοι ἀποίσονται.

οὔτε μὴ πλουτισθῇ, οὔτε μὴ μείνῃ αὐτοῦ τὰ ὑπάρχοντα·

οὐ μὴ βάλῃ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν σκιάν,

οὐδὲ μὴ ἐκφύγῃ τὸ σκότος·

τὸν βλαστὸν αὐτοῦ μαράναι ἄνεμος,

ἐκπέσοι δὲ αὐτοῦ τὸ ἄνθος.

μὴ πιστευέτω ὅτι ὑπομενεῖ,

κενὰ γὰρ ἀποβήσεται αὐτῷ·

ἡ τομὴ αὐτοῦ πρὸ ὥρας φθαρήσεται,

καὶ ὁ ῥάδαμνος αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ πυκάσῃ·

τρυγηθείη) δὲ ὡς ὄμφαξ πρὸ ὥρας.

ἐκπέσοι δὲ ὡς ἄνθος ἐλαίας.

μαρτύριον γὰρ ἀσεβοῦς θάνατος,

πῦρ δὲ καύσει οἴκους δωροδεκτῶν.

ἐν γαστρὶ δὲ λήμψεται ὀδύνας,

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Job. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.. United States. 2017.

Funding provided by Harvard Library Arcadia Fund.

Current edition First1KGreek

Ἰώβ (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 2: I Chronicles-Tobit. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.)

Editions (1)

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 15.1 focus

ΤὊν δ᾽ ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη Ἐλιφᾶς Θαμανίτης,

Καὶ ἐπικερτομέων χαλεπῷ ἠνίπαπε μύθῳ·

Ἦ ῥά νυ λαβραγόρης ἔσται πεπνυμένος ἀνήρ,

Μαψιδίως φρεσὶν ᾗσιν ἄκοσμά τε κεινά τε εἰδώς;

Ἀσκός δ’ ὡς εὔεργος βεβυσμένος; ἦ ῥ’ ἀνέμοιο

Γαστέρ’ ἐνιπλήσει, ἵνα δ’ ὡς ἀνεμώλια βάζοι,

Οἷά τε πολλὰ φέρουσιν ἀνιρπάξασαι ἄελλαι;

Ἐν ᾧ δίκη ἐείσει ἀκερδάντοισι λόγοισιν;

Ἦ ἁλίοις ἐπέεσσι τά τ’ ἀνέρας οὐκ ὀνίνησι;

Ἀσθεέες, ὅ π’ θεὸν φρεσὶν ἅζεαι, ἔτ’ αἰδεῖαι,

Οὐδέ θ’ ἑὸν μάλα θυμὸν ὀπίζεαι, οὐδ’ ἐθέλεις περ

Θελγέμεν, οὐδὲ λιτῇσι καθάπτεαι ἀγανῇσι.

Θάρσησας δ’ ἔτι ἄντα, ἔπος θ’ ὑπέροπλον ἔειπες.

Σεῦ γὰρ ἀτασθαλίην στόμά τ’ ἀμφαδὰ σὸν κατέλεξεν,

Γλῶσσα ὅ σεῖο δόλοισι κεκασμένη, ὃϊ’ ἀγορεύεις,

Ἠΰτε κερδαλέος καὶ ἐπίκλοπος ἠπεροπεύς·

Οὕτω τοι φίλον ἐστ’ ἀπατήλια μυθήσασθαι.

Οὔτι ἔγωγ’ ἀλλὰ στόμα σὸν κατὰ σεῖο δικάζει,

Χείλεά σ’ αὖ ληρεῦντα σέθεν καταμαρτυρέουσιν.

Ἦ ῥα σὺ πρωτότοκος βροτός εἰς; προγενέστατος ἀνδρῶν;

Ἠὲ πάλαι γέγαας πρὶν ἢ ὄρεα μακρὰ τετύχθαι;

Ἦ ῥά σοι οὐρανόθεν μυστήρια θεῖα πέφανται;

Τῷ καὶ ἐπὶ θνητοῖσι μόνος σοφὸς ἔμμεν’ ἔφανθι;

Οἷος πέπνυται, τοὶ δ’ σκιαὶ ἀΐσσουσιν;

Ἀλλὰ τίη σύ τί ποτ’ οἶσθα, τὸ μὴ σάφα οἴδαμεν αὐτοί;

Ἡμεῖς; ἤ τί σὺ γινώσκεις, ὃ κὲν ἐκ ἀείδηλον

Ἄμμι πέλει; ἐπεὶ οὔ τι φρενῶν ἐπιδεέες εἰμέν.

Ἐν δ’ ἦ παλαιγενέες πολυΐδριες ἄμμιν ἔασι,

Καὶ πολυσεβλότατοι πολιοκρόταφοί τε γέροντες,

Οἵ τε πρεσβύτεροι ἡμεῖς σέθεν εἰσὶ τοκῆος.

Ἦ τοι ἀπόβλητ’ ὅτι Θεοῦ παραμύθια καλά,

Ὅσσά κεν αὐτὸς δῶσι φιλοφροσύνῃσι πιθήσας

Ἦπος; ἦ γὰρ πᾶσιν ἐπίστατο μείλιχος εἶναι.

Ἦ ῥά τοι ἐνδυμύχῃσε τεῷ τινὰ θέσφατα θυμῷ,

Κρυπτάδια φρονέοντι, τά τ’ ἀγνώαστοι καὶ ἄλλοις;

Τίπτε σοι οἰδάνεται κραδίη φρεσὶν ὁρμαίνοντι,

Δαιμόνι’; ἤ τί σε τόσσον ἀγλωσσίῃσιν ἐνῆκε;

Τίπτε δ’ ἐπιλλίζεις αὔτως, καὶ ἐπ’ ὀφρύσι νεύεις;

Τίφθ’ οὕτω μύσαν ὄσσε ὑπὸ βλεφάροισι τεοῖσι;

Τίπτε κατ’ Ἀθανάτοιο μέγα φρονέων ἐνὶ θυμῷ

Μαίνεαι ἐκπάγλως, κρατερὴ δέ σε λύσσα δέδυκεν;

Σχέτλιε, ποῖον γάρ σε ἔπος φύγεν ἕρκος ὀδόντων;

Ἄνθρωπος τί ποτ' ἐστὶν, ἀκήρατος ὄφρα πέλοιτο;

Ἦ τί γυναικεῖον δειλὸν τέκος, ὄφρα δίκαιος;

Οὐδὲ γάρ οἱ θεράποντες ἀμύμονες ἀξιόπιστοι,

Οἳ δ' οἱ κεδνότατοι καὶ φίλτατοί εἰσιν ἁπάντων·

Οὐδέ πω οἱ καθαρὸς πέλει ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὁρᾷσθαι

Οὐρανὸς ἀστερόεις, τῷ καὶ χαριεστάτη αἴγλη.

Πῶς ἂν ὃς πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἀνὴρ στυγερός τε καὶ αἰσχρός;

Δυσνομίης ἀκόρητος ἀνὴρ, ἔθεν ἄντα φανείης;

Ὅς καὶ διψαλέῳ κατέπινεν ἁμαρτάδα θυμῷ,

Ὡς ὅτε τις χανδὸν ῥοφέων πίεν ἀγλαὸν ὕδωρ

Δίψῃ καρχαλέος, πιέειν δέ ἑ θυμὸς ἀνώγει·

Ὡς ὅγ' ἀτασθαλίῃσι λαύρως πίε διψάδι λύσσῃ.

Ἐκ γάρ τι ἐρέω, σὺ δ' σύνθεο καί μοι ἄκουσον,

Ἀγγελέω, τόδ' ἐγὼ πάλαι ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὄπωπα·

Καὶ πινυτοὶ τὸ πάροιθεν ἑῶν πεπύθοντο τοκήων;

Ἄμμι δ' ἀφηγήσαντο διαμπερὲς, ἠδ' ἐπέκευσαν.

Γαῖαν ὅλην αὑτοῖσι πόρεν Θεὸς ὤρεξε φῦλα·

Οὐδέ τις ἀλλοδαπῶν γε μὴ σφίσιν οὐκέτ' ἐναίειν.

Ὠδίνει ὀδύνῃσιν ἀτάσθαλος ἤματα πάντα,

Δάκρυσί τε, στοναχῇ τε, καὶ ἄλγεσι θυμὸν ἐρέχθων·

Τῷδ' ὕβρις τε βίη τε σιδήρεον οὐρανὸν ἵκει,

Παμπόλλους οὐκ εἶδε περιπλομένους ἐνιαυτούς·

Ὤλετο δ' εἰν ἥβῃ, ἠδ' ἵκετο γήραος οὐδόν.

Σμερδαλέη βόμβησεν ἑοῖς ἀμφ' ὤασιν ἠχή,

Τόν τ' ὀλετὴρ ἀδόκητον ἐϋῤῥέοντα κιχήσας,

Αἰφνιδίως κατέμαρψε, καὶ οὐ νοέοντα κατέκτα.

Οὐ μὲν γε ζόφου ἐκτὸς ὀΐεται ἀπονέεσθαι,

Καί μιν ἄορ μίμνει πολυδίψιον, αἵματι θῦον.

Πλαγκτοσύνῃ δέδμητο, καὶ ὡς ἀσύφηλος ἀλήτης

Ἄκμηνος, καὶ ἄπαστος, ἐελδόμενός που ἐδωδῆς

Πλάζετ' ἐπ' ἀλλοθρόων ἀνδρῶν δῆμόν τε πόλιν τε,

Ἔλπεταί οἱ στυγερόν τε μόρον, καὶ νηλεὲς ἦμαρ

Ἄγχι παρεστάμεναι, ὅτε μιν σκότος ἀμφικαλύψῃ

Ταρβοσύνῃ καὶ πένθος ἔοι μέγα δεῖος ἐνόρσει,

Κὰδ δ' ἕλεν ἰσχύσει, ὡς ὄρχαμος ἀλκὶ πεποιθὼς

Ἄχριον ἐς πόλεμον κεκορυθμένος αἴθοπι χαλκῷ.

Χεῖρα κατ' Ἀθανάτοιο ὑπερφιάλως ἐτάνυσσεν,

Κάρτυνεν δ' καθ' αὑτοῦ ἑὸν μεγαλήτορα θυμόν.

Ἀλλ' ἐπί οἱ μεμαὼς, καὶ ἀναιδέϊ θῦεν ἐρωῇ

Αὐτὸς ἐπὶ δειρῆς, ἐπί τ' ἀσπίδος ὀμφαλοέσσης

Ἥλοισιν πυκινοῖσιν διαμπερὲς εὖ ἀραρυίης.

Δημῷ καὶ σαρκέσσιν ἑὸν ἐνέβυσεν ὄπωπα

Πιαλέῳ, λιπαρῷ, πολλὸς δ' ἀναδέδρομε κόλπος

Ἀμφί τε βουβῶνα στιβαρόν, καὶ γούνατα μακρόν.

Ἄστ' ἐρημωθέντα, καὶ οὐδενόσωρα μέλαθρα

Ναιετάει, σωροὺς ἤδη μέλλοντα γενέσθαι.

Οὔ οἱ χρήματα πολλά, μινυνθάδιον δέ τε ὄλβος,

Οὐδέ μάλ' ἔμπεδος ἔσται ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ.

Οὐδέ ποτ' ἐκ σκότεος παρελεύσεται ἀχλυόεντος,

Οὐδέ ποτ' ἐξ ἄτης καὶ ὀϊζυρῆς κακότητος.

Ὡς δ' ἀναμαιμάει βαθέ' ἄγκεα θεσπιδαὲς πῦρ

Οὔρεος ἀζαλέοιο, βαθεῖα δὲ καίεται ὕλη,

Πάντῃ τε κλονέων ἄνεμος φλόγα εἰλυφάζει·

Ὡς τοῦ μέν τ' ὄζους καταδάπτει θεσπιδαὲς πῦρ,

Θεοῦ δὲ στόματος πνοιὴ φλόγα εἰλυφάζει.

Ἦ ῥά νύ οἱ μεγάλων δώρων ἐπεμαίετο θυμὸς

Πλαγκτός, ἀτασθαλίῃ πίσυνος μάτην τ' ἀλεγεινῇ·

Τούνεκα δ' οἱ μισθὸς κενὸς ἀντάξιος ἔσται.

Ὄλβος οἱ οὔπω χλωρὸς ἐών, ταχυπότμος ὀλεῖται

Ῥιζόθεν, ἀζαλέος, παναώριος, αἶψα μαρανθείς.

Ὄμφακα ὃς τρυγόων τε, καὶ ἔτ' ὑποσαρκάζουσαν,

Ἄμπελος ὡς τρισάωρος, ἀνήμερος ἐξαποδύσει·

Ὧκα δ' ἀπανθήσει ὡς ὠλεσίκαρπος ἐλαίη.

Ὡς κλισίη κεν ἐρήμη ἀτασθάλοιο ἠπεροπῆος,

Οἰοπόλος τε γένοιτο, Θεὸς δέ ἑ σφλώσειεν.

Οἱ δὲ φιλοκτέανοι, τοῖσιν τ' ἐπιηδάνα δῶρα,

Τῶν νύ κεν οἰκία καλὰ πυρὶ σμύχοιτο κατ' ἄκρης.

Οἳ μόχθον κύουσι καὶ ἀμπλακίην ἀλεγεινήν,

Τίκτουσιν κακότητα, δόλους δ' ἐν γαστέρ' ἔχουσι.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 15 focus

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Yes, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.

Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

What do you know, that we don’t know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.

Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;

To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;

Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins.

He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.

It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 15.1 focus

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said to him, and mocking him rebuked him with a harsh word:

[2] Will a babbling man truly be wise, one who in his own heart foolishly knows disorderly and empty things? And like a well-made wineskin that is stuffed full? Will he fill his belly with wind, so that he may babble windy nothings, such as the storm-winds carry off snatching up many things?

[3] In which will he be judged with unprofitable words? Is it with idle words, which do not profit men?

[4] Wicked man, who in your heart reveres God, and still respects him, and does not at all regard his own soul, nor are you willing to be softened, nor are you touched by gentle prayers. But you have grown bold still further, and you have spoken an overbearing word.

[5] For your mouth has openly recounted your wickedness, and your tongue, which is adorned with your guiles, the things you utter, like a crafty and thievish deceiver. Thus, you see, it is dear to you to speak deceitful things.

[6] Not I, but your own mouth judges against you; your lips again testify against you that you are babbling.

[7] Are you really the firstborn of mortals? The most ancient of men? Or were you born long ago, before the great mountains were made?

[8] Have divine mysteries really been revealed to you from heaven? Therefore have you appeared alone wise among mortals? What do you know, that they are but shadows that flit?

[9] But why—what is it that you know, that we ourselves do not know clearly? We? Or what do you know, that would be unclear to us? since we are not at all lacking in understanding.

[10] And indeed there are among us men born long ago, full of knowledge, and very reverend grey-templed elders, who are older than your father.

[11] Is it indeed that the consolations of God are worthless, and whatever he may give, trusting in kindnesses, is a word? For surely he knew how to be gentle to all. Is it indeed that some oracles were whispered in your own heart, as you ponder hidden things, which are unknown even to others?

[12] Why does your heart swell within you as you ponder, O wretch? Or what has put you into such speechlessness? Why do you wink in this way, and nod with your brows? Why then have your eyes thus closed beneath your eyelids?

[13] Why, thinking great things against the Immortal in your heart, do you rage madly, and fierce madness has entered you? Wretch, what word has escaped the fence of your teeth?

[14] What is man, that he should be pure? Or what is woman-born, that he should be righteous?

[15] For not even his blameless servants are trustworthy, and those who are most loyal and dearest to him of all; Nor yet is the heaven, starry with its most gracious radiance, pure in his eyes to behold.

[16] How much more so a man who is hateful and shameful? A man insatiable of lawlessness, before whom would you appear? Who even with thirsty spirit gulped down sin, as when one gulping greedily drinks bright water, parched with thirst, and his spirit urges him to drink; So he in his wickednesses drank insatiably with thirsty frenzy.

[17] For I will speak something from my own knowledge; but do you attend and hear me, O Angelos; this I have long seen with my own eyes.

[18] And did the wise from of old learn it from their own fathers? To us they recounted it continually, and they told it forth.

[19] To them alone God gave the whole land, and stretched out the tribes. And no foreigner at all dwelt any longer among them.

[20] The wicked man writhes in pains all his days, with tears and groaning, and with griefs, racking his soul. For him, both outrage and violence reach the iron heaven; he has not seen many revolving years. He perished in his youth, and he came to the threshold of old age.

[21] A dreadful sound rang about his ears; and the destroyer, having caught him unawares as he flowed on well, seized him suddenly, and slew him though he did not perceive it.

[22] He does not indeed think that he will return out of the darkness, and the sword awaits him, very thirsty, raging with blood.

[23] He is worn down by wandering, and like a wretched, weary, famished vagrant longing somewhere for food he roams over the people and city of men of alien speech; he hopes that grim doom and the pitiless day stand near him, when darkness covers him about with terror and great fear of grief arises, and he is seized by strength, as a chieftain trusting in his might, armed in blazing bronze for the fierce war.

Ταρβοσύνῃ καὶ πένθος ἔοι μέγα δεῖος ἐνόρσει,

Κὰδ δ' ἕλεν ἰσχύσει, ὡς ὄρχαμος ἀλκὶ πεποιθὼς

Ἄχριον ἐς πόλεμον κεκορυθμένος αἴθοπι χαλκῷ.

[25] He stretched out his hand against the Immortal in overweening fashion, and he hardened his own great-hearted spirit against himself.

[26] But rushing upon him, and raging with shameless onset, he charged straight at his neck, and at the bossed shield well fitted all through with close-set nails.

[27] He covered his face with fat and flesh, rich and sleek, and much belly bulged out over his sturdy thigh and his long knee.

[28] He dwells in cities made desolate, and in houses that no one values, which are already about to become heaps.

[29] He shall not have many possessions, and his wealth shall be short-lived, nor shall it be at all steadfast upon the much-nourishing earth.

[30] Nor shall he ever pass out of the misty darkness, nor ever out of ruin and wretched misery. As god-sent fire rages through the deep glens of a parched mountain, and the deep forest burns, and the wind, shaking it everywhere, wraps the flame about. As fire sent from God devours his branches, so the breath of God's mouth scorches the flame.

[31] Truly his mind, wandering and trusting in wretched folly, vainly grasped at great gifts; Therefore his reward shall be empty and worthless.

[32] His prosperity, not yet green, shall perish swiftly-fated from the root, withered, all-unseasonable, quickly faded.

[33] He shall strip off the unripe grape as he gathers it, and even the one still growing fleshy, like a vine thrice-blighted, unripe, harsh. But swiftly it will shed its blossoms, like the fruit-destroying olive tree.

[34] As a tent would be desolate of a reckless deceiver, and he would become childless, and God would strip him bare. But those who love possessions, for whom gifts are pleasing, their fair houses would smolder with fire from top to bottom.

[35] They who conceive toil and grievous transgression, give birth to wickedness, and hold deceits in their belly.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 15.1 focus

Huic autem reſpondens dixit Eliphas Thamanites,

Et convitiis-inceſſens aſpero eum increpuit ſermone;

Num loquax erit prudens vir,

Fruſtrà in animo ſuo inconditáque variáque ſciens?

Urer ceu Euro turgens num vento

Ventrem implebit, ut ſic irrita & et inania loquatur,

Qualia multa ferunt abripientes auræ?

Num in judicio contendet imperfectis rationibus?

Aut inanibus vēbis verbis, quæque viris non proſunt?

Impudens, haudquaquam Deum mente colis, nec revereris,

Neque ejus omnino iram vereris, neque vis ipſum

Placare, neque precibus demulcere mitibus.

Confiſus es autem coram illo, verbúmque ſuperbum jactâſti.

Tuam enim nequitiam etiam os tuum palàm declaravit,

Lingua autem tua dolis inſtructa eſt, eò-quòd-talia dicis,

Velut aſtuti & et vafri impoſtoris;

Adeò tibi gratum eſt fallacia loqui.

Non ego, ſed os tuum te condemnat,

Labia tua blaterantia contra te teſtimonium-præbent.

Nunquid tu primogenitus mortalis es? maximus-natu inter

homines?

Aut olim natus es, antequam montes longi fabricarentur?

Nunquid tibi cœlitus myſteria divina patefacta ſunt?

Ideóque inter mortales ſolus ſapiens eſſe profiteris?

Solus ſapis, illi autem velut umbræ vagantur.

At quid tu tandem nôſti, quod non perſpicuè novimus ipſi

Nos? aut quid tu ſcis quod non etiam manifeſtum

Nobis eſt? quandoquidem haud mentis expertes ſumus.

Etiam grandævi multarum-rerum-experti inter nos ſunt,

Et conſilio abundantes, & et capite cani ſenes;

Quíque ſeniores natu tuo ſunt patre.

Num tibi deſpicatui ſunt Dei ſolatia bona,

Quæ ipſe dederit benevolentiâ fretus,

Clemens? certè enim omnibus novit mitis eſſe.

Num tibi intus recondita ſunt tuo aliqua oracula in animo;

Occulta ſapienti, quæ & et ignorant alii?

Utquid tibi intumeſcit cor in pectore cogitanti

Infelix? aut quid te adeò inſolentem fecit?

Utquid nictas fruſtrà, & et ſuperciliis annuis?

Cur adeò connivent oculi ſub palpebris tuis?

Utquid contra Immortalem valde elatus animo

Inſanis terribiliter; ingens autem te rabies invaſit?

Improbe, quale enim tibi verbum aufugit vallum dentium?

Homo quid eſt, integer ut eſſet?

Aut quid eſt muliebris miſera proles, ut eſſet juſta?

Neque enim ei ſervi egregii fide-digni ſunt,

Etiam qui ei chariſſimi & amiciſſimi ſunt omnium;

Necdum ei purum eſt oculis videri

Cœlum ſtellatum, cujus etiam venuſtiſſimus ſplendor.

Quomodo ergò non multò magìs homo odioſus & turpis;

Iniquitate inſatiabilis homo, coram eo videretur?

Qui etiam ſitienti bibit peccatum animo,

Sicut quando quis hianti-ore ſorbens bibit limpidam aquam;

Siti aridus, bibere autem eum animus jubet:

Ità hic nequitiam affatim bibit ſitienti rabie.

At enim tibi dico, tu autem percipe, & me audi;

Narrabo, quod ego olim oculis vidi:

Prudentes autem antehac à ſuis audierunt patribus,

Nobis autem declarârunt omnino, nec reticuerunt.

Terram totam ipſis conceſſit Deus, & perdidit gentes:

Nec quiſquam alienigenarum intèr ipſos ampliùs habitavit;

Dolet doloribus improbus diebus omnibus,

Lacrymis & gemitibus, & doloribus animum excrucians:

Cujus injuriá q; que víſ q; que ad ferreum cœlum vadit,

Admodum-multos non vidit volventes annos;

Periit autem in pubertate, nec attigit ſenectutis limen.

Terribilis ſtrepuit ejus circa aures ſonus,

Eúm q; que occiſor ex-improviſo proſpere-agentem deprehendens

Repentè corripuit, & non cogitantem interfecit.

Haudquaquam extra tenebras ſperat reverti,

Et eum enſis expectat ſitibundus, ſanguine furens.

Vagatione confectus eſt, & tanquā tanquam vilis erro

Jejunus, & impaſtus, egens cibi

Errat apud peregrinorum virorum populúm q; que civitatémque:

Expectat ſibi triſte fatum, & crudelem diem

Propè adſtare, cùm eum tenebræ circuntegent:

Terror & luctus ei magnum metum incutiet,

Contráque eum prævalebit, ut princeps robore fretus

Sævum ad bellum armatus ſplendenti ære.

Manum contra Immortalem ſuperbè extendit,

Corroboravítque adversùs illum ſuum ſtrenuum animum.

Infiliit in eum promptus, & impudenti ruit impetu

Ejus in collum, ínque clypeum umbilicatum,

Clavis denſis paſſim bene compactum.

Adipe & et carne ſuam opplevit faciem

Pinguem, nitidám; multus autem eminet callus

Circáque inguen robuſtum & et pingue femur.

Urbes vaſtatas, & et ruinoſas domos

Inhabitat, aggeres mox futuras.

Divitiæ ei non multæ, opéfque brevi duraturæ,

Nec admodum ſtabiles erunt in terra alma.

Nec unquam è tenebris emerget obſcuris,

Nec unquam ex ærumna & et calamitoſo malo.

Quemadmodum autem furit in altis convallibus fævus ignis

Montis aridi, profunda autem ardet ſylva,

Ubique autem turbans ventus flammam convolvit:

Sic hujus ramos depaſcit divinitus-accenſus ignis,

Divini autem oris ſpiritus flammam convolvit.

Certè ei magna dona affectabat animus,

Seductus, nequitiâ fretus vanitatéque miſerandâ:

Quocirca ei præmium vanitas condignum erit.

Ramus ejus nondum vireſcens citò-moriens peribit

Radicitus, aridus, omnino-immaturus, confeſtim marceſcens.

Omphacem verò acerbam & et nè quidem ſub-nigreſcentem,

Vitis ceu ter-immatura, agreſtis exuet;

Citò autem deflorebit, quaſi frugiperda oliva.

Ità tentorium deſolatum improbi hypocritæ

Solitariúmque erit, Deus autem ipſum turpem-reddet.

Avari autem, quibúſque cordi-ſunt dona,

Eorum domicilia pulchra igne ardebunt à faſtigio.

Qui dolorem concipiunt & et iniquitatem funeſtam,

Pariunt malitiam, dolos autem in utero habent.

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8. 23 om δε 3⁰ A | σκοτινη στροβησει αυτον A σκοτ. αυτον στροβ. C | σκοτεινη Bᵃᵇ 24 om και U+05D0* (superscr κ U+05D0c.a) | πρωτοστρατης U+05D0 | πιπτων] πεπτωκω A 25 εναντιον] ενοντι A | του κυριου] om του A αυτου C 26 om δε U+05D0 (hab U+05D0C.A) | εναντιον] εαντιον Cedit (txt) | om αυτου 1⁰ C | παχει νωτου πανεχινω της A in νωτου scr θ pro τ C* postea revoc τ C 27 μηριων μηρων U+05D0A+ αυτου| σινος δε αυτου υβρις| A 28 πολις B* U+05D0A ( -λεις BᵃᵇC) εισελθοι δε] και εισελθοι A | εκεινος ητοιμασεν U+05D0c.a, c.c A | απονσονται (sic) 29 τα υπαρχοντα αυτου A | ου] ουδε A | την γην] om την BᵃᵇU+05D0* γης U+05D0c.a 30 το σκοτος] om το A | μαραινει A | εκπεσοι δε] και εκπεσοι A 31 κενα καινα C | αυτω αποβησεται A 32 φθαρησεται] θαρησεται sup ras C πυκασει U+05D0A (-σι) 33 ως 1⁰] ωσπερ AC | εκπεσοι δε] και εκπεσοι A ως 2⁰] ωσπερ A 34 καυσει] κατακαυσει A 35 εν γαστρι δε] κο εκ γαστρι (sic) A | λημψονται A

Septuaginta Job 15

ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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