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῾Υπολαβὼν δὲ Βαλδὰδ ὁ Σαυχίτης λέγει

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Μέχρι τίνος οὐ παύσῃ;

ἐπίσχες, ἴνα καὶ αὐτοὶ λαλήσωμεν.

διὰ τί ὥσπερ τετράποδα σεσιωπήκαμεν ἐναντίον σου;

κέχρηταί σοι ὀργή.

τί γάρ; ἐὰν σὺ ἀποθάνῃς, ἀοίκητος ἡ ὑπʼ οὐρανόν;

ἢ καταστραφήσεται ὄρη ἐκ θεμελίων

καὶ φῶς ἀσεβῶν σβεσθήσεται,

καὶ οὐκ ἀποβήσεται αὐτῶν ἡ φλόξ.

τὸ φῶς αὐτοῦ σκότος ἐν διαίτῃ,

ὁ δὲ λύχνος αὐτῷ σβεσθήσεται.

θηρεύσαισαν ἐλάχιστοι τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ,

σφάλαι δὲ αὐτοῦ ἡ βουλή.

ἐμβέβληται δὲ ὁ ποὺς αὐτοῦ ἐν παγίδι.

ἐν δικτύῳ ἑλιχθείη.

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ἒλθοισαν δὲ ἐπʼ αὐτὸν παγίδες.¶

κατισχύσει ἐπʼ αὐτὸν διψῶντας.

κέκρυπται ἐν τῇ γῇ σχοινίον αὐτοῦ,

καὶ ἡ σύλλημψις αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τρίβων.

κύκλῳ ὀλέσαισαν αὐτὸν ὀδύναι·

πολλοὶ δὲ περὶ πόδα αὐτοῦ ἔλθοισαν ἐν λιμῷ στενῷ,

πτῶμα δὲ αὐτῷ ἡτοίμασται ἐξαίσιον.

βραωθείησαν αὐτοῦ κλῶνες ποδῶν,

κατέδεται δὲ τὰ ὡραῖα αὐτοῦ θάνατος.

ἐκραγείη δὲ ἐκ διαίτης αὐτοῦ ἴασις,

σχοίη δὲ αὐτὸν ἀνάγκη αἰτίᾳ βασιλικῇ.

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κατασκηνώσει ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ αὐτοῦ ἐν νυκτὶ αὐτοῦ,

κατασπαρήσονται τὰ εὐπρεπῆ αὐτοῦ θείῳ.

ὑποκάτωθεν αἱ ῥίζαι αὐτοῦ ξηρανθήσονται,

καὶ ἐπάνωθεν ἐπιπεσεῖται θερισμὸς αὐτοῦ.

τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτοῦ ἀπόλοιτο ἐκ γῆς.

καὶ ὑπάρχει ὄνομα αὐτῷ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐξωτέρω·

ἀπώσειεν αὐτὸν ἐκ φωτὸς εἰς σκότος.

οὐκ ἔσται ἐπίγνωστος ἐν λαῷ αὐτοῦ,

οὐδὲ σεσωσμένος ἐν τῇ ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν ὁ οἶκος αὐτοῦ,

ἀλλ᾿ ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῦ ζήσονται ἕτεροι.

ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ ἐστέναξαν ἔσχατοι,

πρώτους δὲ ἔσχεν θαῦμα.

οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ οἶκοι ἀδίκων,

οὗτος δὲ ὁ τόπος τῶν μὴ εἰδότων τὸν κύριον.

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.)

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Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 18.1 focus

Τὸν δ’ μέγ’ ὀχθήσας Σαυχαῖος ἀμείβετο Βελδάδ·

Ἕως πότε δὴ τοιαῦτα μεθ’ ἡμῖν μάψ ἀγορεύσεις;

Οὐδ’ ἐπέων λήξεις, ἵνα δ’ ἡμέων μῦθον ἀκούσῃς;

Ἄλλο δέ τι ἐρέω, σὺ δ’ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ βάλλεο σῇσι.

Τίφθ’ ἡμέας ἀλόγοισιν τόσον ζώοισιν ἐΐσκεις;

Τίπτε καὶ ὑπιδανοῖσιν ὁμῶς ἀνδρέσσιν ἀτίζεις,

Ἠδ’ ἀσυφήλοισιν, καὶ ἐλεγχίστοις ζωόντων;

Ἐκπάγλως κεχόλωσο, καὶ ἔνδοθι θυμὸν ἀμύσσεις·

Ἀλλ’ ἔσθ’ ὡς πότε γαῖά σευ εἵνεκεν ἔσσετ’ ἐρήμη,

Καὶ μάλα, περ κοτέοντος ἐνὶ φρεσὶν, οὐδ’ ἔτι πέτρη

Κινηθῇ σέθεν εἵνεχ’ ἑοῖς τρομέουσα θεμέθλοις

Ὕψι μάλα θρώσκουσα δ’ αἰθέρος ἵζετ’ ὄλυμπον.

Ἔσται ἦμαρ, ὅταν περ’ ὀλώλῃ φέγγος ἀλιτροῦ,

Λύχνος σβεννυμένοιο, καὶ ὀλλυμένοιό τε κείνου·

Οὐ οἱ ἐπ’ ἐσχαρόφιν σπινθὴρ, ὃς φλόγιος ἔσται

Σπέρμα πυρὸς σώζων, ἐπεὶ μάλα φλὸξ ἐμαράνθη.

Ἀλλ’ οἱ ἀμαυρότατος δόμος ἔσσεται, οὐδέ τις αὐγὴ

Αὐτῷ ἐνὶ κλισίῃ Ἀΐδων ὕπο λαμπομενάων,

Λύχνος ἐπεὶ κατασβέσετ' ἐὸς, κατασβέσεθ' αὐτός.

Πλαγκτοσύνῃ δ' οἱ πόδες δεδμήατο, γυῖά τ' ἔνερθε,

Καὶ κρατερῇ ἄρ' ἐόντος ἐπὶ στεινωπὸν ἀταρπὸν

Ἴχνια πάντ' ἔκλινε παρέξ ὁδοῦ εὐρυχόροιο.

Ἦ, οἱ κακορραφίῃσιν ἄφαρ νώνυμος ὀλεῖται.

Ἐς παγίδα στονόεσσαν ἑοῖς ὑπὸ ποσσὶ πλανηθεὶς

Ἔμπεσεν ἀφραδίῃσι, καὶ ἐν βρόχῳ ἴχνος ἔθηκε.

Μάρψε δέ οἱ πτέρνῳ δολερὴ παγὶς, ἀμφὶ δὲ ποσσὶ

Πλέκτο περιπροχυθεῖσα, κακὸς δέ ἑ δεσμὸς ἐδάμνα.

Τοῖο δ' ληΐστωρ ἀλιτήριος ὄβριμοεργὸς

Πάντα τ' ἀφαρπάζει βίοτον, καὶ κλήματα κείρει.

Ἦ, ἄρ' ὅγ' ἂν μέλλῃ θήσειν πόδας, ἀμφὶ κελεύθους

Οὔδει ἐνισκίμφθεν πυκινοὶ βρόχοι ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα

Λάθριοι, ἀτρεπτοειδεῖς, ἵνα μήποτε φυκτὰ πέλωνται.

Δεῖμά μιν ἠδὲ τρόμος περί τ' ἀμφί τε θυμὸν ἀτύξει,

Ῥιγεδανὰ βλοσυροῖσι προσώπασι μορμολύκειαι

Σμερδαλέον δέρκοντα δεδίξεται· ὡς ἄρ' ἐκεῖνον

Εἷλε φόβος, καὶ φύζα φόβου κρυόεντος ἑταίρη.

Τοῦ δ' βίη καὶ κάρτος ἀνιηρῷ ὑπὸ λιμῷ

Φθίσετ', ἑτοιμότατος καί οἱ ἄγχι παρέστη ὄλεθρος·

Πρωτότοκος θανάτοιο ἑὸν σθένος ἐξαλαπάξει,

Νεῦρα κατατρώγων στερρῷ χροὸς ἐν συνεοχμῷ.

Ἐλπωρὴ δ' οἱ πᾶσα δόμων ἄπο καὶ κλισιάων

Ὤλετο, καὶ θάρσος· στυγερὴ δέ μιν ἤγαγεν αἶσα

Ἐς βασιλῆα φόβων, ταμίην δέ τε ταρβοσυνάων.

Ὅωεκ' ἀπ' ἀλλοτρίου βιότου ἑὸν οἶκον ἔδειμε,

Τὤνεκ' ἔη τρόμος αἰνὸς ἐπὶ κλισίῃσιν ἔμιμνεν·

Ἦ δ' ἐλελίχθη πᾶσα Θεοῦ πληγεῖσα κεραυνῷ,

Δεινὴ ἦ φλὸξ ὦρτο θεείου κηλουμένοιο.

Ἀζαλέη οἱ ῥίζα καὶ ἰκμάδος ἄμμορος ἔσται,

Αὔη ῥίζα τ' ἔνερθεν, ὕπερθε δὲ πρέμνον ἀεικές,

Ὄζος ταμνομένοιο, μαραινομένοιο τε καρπός.

Μνήμη οἱ ἐκ γαίης ἀπό τε κλέος ἐσθλὸν ὀλεῖται·

Πᾶσιν ἄϊστος, ἄπυστος, ἀνώνυμος ἤματα πάντα

Ἔσται ἐν ἀνθρώποις, τοί κεν μετόπισθε γένωνται.

Τῆλε δέ μιν ῥίψουσι ἀπ' αὐγῆς ἠελίοιο

Ἐς ζόφον ἐκ γαίηθεν ἀποπλάζοντες ἐνιπῇ,

Ἔρρε κακὴ γλήνη, κακὸν θηρίον, ἔρρε, λέγοντες·

Ἔρρ' ἐκ κόσμου θᾶσσον, ἐλέγχεα ζῳόντων.

Οὐδέ τι μὴν παῖδες ποτὶ γούνασι παππάζουσιν,

υἱός οἱ οὐκ ἔσται, οὐδ' ἔκγονος ᾧ ἐνὶ δήμῳ,

Οὐδ' ἄρα τις περίλοιπος ἑοῖς ἐνὶ δώμασι ναίων.

Ἔσται ὁμῶς μέγα θαῦμα καὶ ἐσσομένοισι πυθέσθαι,

Ὡς καὶ τοὺς πρό τ' ἐόντας ἔχεν τάφος ὡς ὁρόωντο.

Ἧμαρ ἀναγκαῖον καὶ ὀϊζυὸν, ἥ μιν ἵκανεν.

Τοῖος μὲν πέλεν οἶκος ἁμαρτηνῶν ἀνθρώπων,

Ἠδέ τε μοῖρ' αὐτῶν, οἷς σχέτλια ἔργα μεμήλει,

Οἳ Θεὸν οὐκ ἀλέγουσι, καὶ οὐχ ἅζοντ' ἐνὶ θυμῷ.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 18 focus

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?

You who tear yourself in your anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.

The steps of his strength shall be shortened, His own counsel shall cast him down.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.

A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.

The members of his body shall be devoured, The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.

His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, As those who went before were frightened.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 18.1 focus

[1] Then Bildad the Shuhite, greatly angered, answered him:

[2] How long will you speak such things among us in vain? Will you not cease from words, so that you may hear our speech? And I will say something else; but do you lay it in your mind.

[3] Why do you liken us to brute beasts, so great in your eyes? Why too do you count us as worthless, like the unclean and most reprobate of the living?

[4] You have been exceedingly angry, and you tear your heart within; But it is possible that at some time the land will be desolate on your account — yes, greatly so — even while he rages in his heart; and no longer shall a rock be moved on your account, trembling in its own foundations, but leaping high it shall set itself on Olympus in the upper air.

[5] There shall be a day when the light of the wicked man perishes, and his lamp is quenched, even of that man as he is destroyed. No spark from his hearth shall remain, which shall be a flame saving a seed of fire, since the flame has utterly been quenched.

[6] But his house shall be utterly darkened, and there shall be no light for him in his tent from the torches shining beneath Hades, since his own lamp shall be quenched, and he himself shall be quenched.

[7] And his feet are subdued by wandering, and his limbs below, and by his strong might he has turned all his footsteps aside from the broad-wayed road onto a narrow path. Truly, by his wicked plots he shall straightway perish nameless.

[8] Into a groaning snare, having wandered under his own feet, he fell through his follies, and in a noose he set his foot.

[9] A treacherous snare seized him by the heel, and around his feet it was woven, poured all about, and an evil bond subdued him. But his guilty, violent-handed robber snatches away all his livelihood, and cuts down his branches.

[10] Truly, whenever he is about to set his feet, on every side along the paths, from the ground thick snares spring up here and there, lurking, unchangeable in form, so that they may never be escapable.

[11] Fear and trembling will distress his spirit all around, and dreadful bogey-shapes with grim faces, glaring terribly, will frighten him. Thus then fear seized that man, and panic, the companion of chilling fear.

[12] But his strength and might shall be consumed by grievous famine, and destruction stands ready, very near to him.

[13] The firstborn of death shall devour his strength, gnawing his sinews in the firm joint of the flesh.

[14] And all hope of his house and tents is perished, and his confidence. And a hateful fate led him to the king of terrors, and to the steward of fears.

[15] Because from another's livelihood he built his own house, therefore a dread trembling lingered upon his tents; Truly it was shaken all over, struck by God's thunderbolt, and a dread flame of burning brimstone arose.

[16] His root shall be withered and devoid of moisture; below the root shall be dry, and above it a misshapen trunk, the branch of one cut off, and the fruit of one withering.

[17] His memory shall perish from the earth, and his good fame as well; He shall be unknown to all, unheard-of, nameless, for all days among men who may come hereafter.

[18] And they shall cast him far from the light of the sun into darkness, driving him from the land with a rebuke, saying: Begone, evil eyeball, evil beast, begone!

[19] Begone from the world more swiftly, you reproaches of the living! Nor indeed do children prattle at his knees; he will have no son, nor offspring in his people, nor then any survivor dwelling in his house.

[20] It will be alike a great wonder even for those to come to hear of, how the grave held those who were before, as they were seen. A day of necessity and misery, which came upon him.

[21] Such was the house of sinful men, and such their lot, whose deeds were cruel, who pay no heed to God and do not revere him in their heart.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 18.1 focus

ILli autem valde commotus Sauchæus reſpondit Bildad;

Quouſ q; que ergò talia inter nos fruſtrà loqueris?

Nec à verbis defiſtis, ut & noſtrum ſermonem audias?

Aliud autem tibi dicam; tu autem in animo perpende tuo.

Quare nos brutis adeò animantibus aſſimilas?

Quare & viliſſimos tanquam homunciones ſpernis,

Et tanquam errones, & probroſiſſimos viventium?

Vehementer indignaris & intus animum angis;

At neque ſic terra tui gratiâ erit deſerta,

Et valde licèt iraſcentis in animo: nec adhuc petra

Mota tui gratiâ ſuis tremens fundamentis

Surſum admodum ſaliens per aërem continget cœlum.

Erit dies, cùm aliquando peribit lumen impii,

Lucernâ extinctâ, defuncto & illo:

Non ei ſuper focum ſcintilla, ne ſcintillula quidem erit

Semen ignis ſervans, poſtquam valde flamma conſumptá fuerit.

Quin ei obſcuriſſima domus erit, nec quis ſplendor

Ejus in tentorio luminaribus præ fulgentibus,

Lucerna quippe conſumetur ejus, conſumetur ipſe. (ſubter,

Peregrinatione autem pedes ejus fatigati ſunt, membráque

Quantumv\u00ecs robuſtus fuerit: in anguſtum callem

Greſſus omnes divertit extra viam latam.

Suis malefactis confeſtim inglorius peribit.

In laqueum funeſtum ſuis pedibus ſeductus

Incidit ſtultiti\u00e2, & in tendicula veſtigium poſuit.

Corripuit autem ejus calcem doloſus laqueus, ped\u00e9ſque

Implicit circumfuſus, malum autem eum vinculum ſubegit.

Ejus autem latro ſceleratus maleficus

Omn\u00e9m q; que diripit ſubſtantiam, & poſſeſſiones tondet.

Quacunque is poſiturus eſt pedes, circa vias

Terr\u00e6 infixi ſunt frequentes laquei h\u00eec & illic

Occulti, improviſi, ut n\u00e8 quando poteſtas effugiendi ſit.

Terror eum & tremor undi q; que animum perceller,

Horribilia torvis vultibus ſpectra

Imman\u00e8 tuentia terrebunt: ſic illum

Capit timor, & fuga timoris frigidi ſocia.

Ejus autem vis & robur luctuoſ\u00e2 fame

Conficietur, paratiſſim\u00fam q; que ei prop\u00e8 aderit exitium.

Primogenitus mortis ejus vires conſumet,

Nervos devorans robuſti corporis in compage.

Spes autem ei omnis ab \u00e6dibus & tentoriis

Periit, & fiducia: infanda autem eum adduxit fors

Ad regem timorum, diſpenſator\u00e9m q; que terrorum.

Quoniam de aliena ſubſtantia ſuam domum \u00e6dificavit,

Ideo tremor dirus in ejus tentorio manſit.

Hoc autem concuſſum eſt totum Dei percuſſum fulmine;

Ingens autem flamma orta eſt ſulphuris ardentis.

Arida ei radix & humoris expers erit,

Squalida radix infr\u00e0, ſupern\u00e8 autem truncus turpis,

Ramo reciſo, marceſcent\u00e9 q; que fructu.

Memoria ei ex terra, & fama bona peribit:

Omnes ignotus, inauditus, incelebris diebus omnibu ꝭ s

Erit inter homines, qui in-poſterum naſcentur.

Long\u00e8 autem eum propellent \u00e0 lumine ſolis

In tenebras extra terram dimoventes increpatione,

Abi in malam rem, nequam caput, mala beſtia, abi dicentes,

Abi ex mundo ocy\u00f9s, ignominioſiſſime viventium.

Ne q; que ipſum liberi ad genua patrem-bland\u00e8-compellant,

Filius ei non erit, nec nepos ſuo in populo,

Nec quiſquam ſuperſtes ejus in ædibus habitans.

Erit ſanè magnum miraculum etiam poſteris auditu,

Ut & eos, qui antegreſſi ſunt, tenuit admiratio ut viderunt

Diem neceſſarium, & calamitatem, quæ eum occupabat.

Talis certè eſt domus peccatorum hominum,

Iſtáque ſors eorum, quibus nefaria opera curæ-ſunt,

Qui Deum nihil morantur, nec reverentur animitus.

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