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῾ Υπολαβὼν δὲ ᾿ Ιὼβ λέγει

Ἕως τίνος ἔγκοπον ποιήσετε ψυχήν μου,

καὶ καθαιρεῖτε με λόγοις;

γνῶτε μόνον ὅτι ὁ κύριος ἐποίησέ με οὕτως·

καταλαλεῖτέ μου, οὐκ αἰσχυνόμενοί με ἐπίκεισθέ μοι.

ναὶ δὴ ἐπʼ ἀληθείας ἐγὼ ἐπλανήθην,

παρʼ ἐμοὶ δὲ αὐλίζεται πλάνος,

a λαλῆσαι ῥήματα ἃ οὐκ ἔδει,

τὰ δὲ ῥήματά μου πλανᾶται καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ καιροῦ.

ἔα δὲ ὅτι ἐπʼ ἐμοὶ μεγαλύνεσθε·

ἐνάλλεσθε δέ μοι ὀνείδει.

γνῶτε οὖν ὅτι ὁ κύριός ἐστιν ὁ ταράξας,

ὀχύρωμα δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ὕψωσεν.

ἰδοὺ γελῶ ὀνείδει καὶ οὐ λαλήσω·

¹³

κεκράξομαι, καὶ οὐδαμοῦ κρίμα.

κύκλῳ περιῳκοδόμημαι, καὶ οὐ μὴ διαβῶ,

ἐπὶ πρόσωπόν μου σκότος ἔθετο.

τὴν δὲ δόξαν ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ ἐξέδυσεν,

ἀφεῖλεν δὲ στέφανον ἀπὸ κεφαλῆς μου.

διέσπασέν με κύκλῳ καὶ ᾠχόμην.

ἐξέκοψεν δὲ ὥσπερ δένδρον τὴν ἐλπίδα μου.

δεινῶς δέ μοι ὀργῇ ἐχρήσατο,

ἡγήσατο δέ με ὥσπερ ἐχθρόν.

ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἦλθον τὰ πειρατήρια αὐτοῦ ἐπʼ ἐμοί,

ταῖς ὁδοῖς μου ἐκύκλωσαν ἐνκάθετοι.

ἀπ ἐμοῦ ἀδελφοί μου ἀπέστησαν,

ἔγνωσαν ἀλλοτρίους ἤ ἐμἐ·

φίλοι δέ μου ἀνελεήμονες γεγόνασιν.

οὐ προσεποιήσαντό με οἱ ἐγγύτατοί μου,

καὶ οἱ εἰδότες μου τὸ ὄνομα ἐπελάθοντό μου.

γείτονες οἰκίας θεράπαιναί τε μου,

ἀλλογενὴς ἤμην ἐναντίον αὐτῶν.

θεράποντά μου ἐκάλεσα, καὶ οὐχ ὑπήκουσεν·

στόμα δέ μου ἐδέετο, 17 καὶ ἱκέτευον τὴν γυναῖκά μου,

προσεκαλούμην δὲ κολακεύων υἱοὺς παλλακίδων μου·

οἱ δὲ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἀπεποιήσαντό με·

ὅταν ἀναστῶ, κατʼ ἐμοῦ λαλοῦσιν.

ἐβδελύξαντό με οἱ ἰδόντες με·

οὕς δὴ ἠγαπήκειν, ἐπανέστησάν μοι.

ἐν δέρματί μου ἐσάπησαν αἱ σάρκες μου,

⁴⁵

τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἐν ὀδοῦσιν ἔχεται.

⁶

ἐλεήσατέ με, ἐλεήσατέ με, ὦ φίλου

χεὶρ γὰρ Κυρίου ἡ ἁψαμένη μού ἐστιν.

διὸ τί με διώκετε ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ κύριος.

ἀπὸ δὲ σαρκῶν μου οὐκ ἐμπίπλασθε;

τίς γὰρ ἂν δώη γραφῆναι τὰ ῥήματά μου.

τεθῆναι δὲ αὐτὰ ἐν βιβλίῳ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα,

ἐν γραφίῳ σιδηρῷ καὶ μολίβῳ;

οἴδα γὰρ ὅτι ἀέναος ἐστιν ὁ ἐκλύειν με μέλλων·

ἐπὶ γῆς ⁶ἀναστήσαι τὸ δέρμα μου τὸ ἀναντλοῦν ταῦτα.

παρὰ γὰρ Κυρίου ταῦτά μοι συνετελέσθη,

ἃ ἐγὼ ἐμαυτῷ συνεπίσταμαι,

§ἃ ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἑόρακεν καὶ οὐκ ἄλλος.

⁷

πάντα δέ μοι συντετέλεσται ἐν κόλπῳ.

εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐρεῖτε Τί ἐροῦμεν ἔναντι αὐτοῦ;

καὶ ῥίζαν λόγου εὑρήσομεν ἐν αὐτῷ·

εὐλαβήθητε δὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀπὸ ἐπικαλύμματος·

θυμὸς γὰρ ἐπʼ ἀνόμους ἐπελεύσεται,

καὶ τότε γνώσονται ποῦ ἔστιν αὐτῶν ἡ ὕλη.

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).) — 19.1 focus

Τὸν δ' αὖ βαρυστενάχων ἠμείβετο δῖος Ἴωβος·

Ὤμωξεν δ' ἐλεεινὸν, ἔπος τ' ὀλοφυδνὸν ἔειπεν·

Ὦ μοι ἐγὼ, ὅτ' ἔειπον ἑτάρων ὕπο τόσσα πέπονθα.

Ἕως πότε με κρατερῆς στυφελίζετε θυμὸν ἐνιπῆς;

Ἕως πότε κερτομίοισιν ἐμὲ ξυναράσσετε μύθοις;

Τῇ δ' ἄρα νῦν δεκάκις χαλεπῇ μ' ὑβρίζετ' λώβῃ,

Οὐδέ τις αἰδώς ἐστιν, ἐπεὶ νόος ὔμμιν ἀπειθής·

Οἷα δέ μ' ἀλλοδαπόν τιν' όΐετε καὶ μετανάστην.

Πολλάκις ἀφραδίῃσιν ἑκὼν ἀλιτήμενος ἦα,

Ἤμβροτον, ἀασάμην, φρεσὶν ἀλγαλέῃσι πιθήσας·

Οὐ γὰρ ἀναίνομ' ἐγώ· (τίς κεν βροτὸς οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτῃ;)

Ἀλλὰ τί τοῖσι καὶ ὔμμι; ἐμοὶ τάδε πάντα μελόντων·

Ἄτη ἐμὴ παρ' ἐμοὶ, τῆς μηδ' ἀλεγιζέτω ἄλλος.

Εἰ δ' ὑμῖν φίλον ἐστὶν ἐρίζοντεσσιν ἑταίρῳ

Μὰψ ἀτὰρ οὐ κατὰ κόσμον ὀνείδεα μυθήσασθαι,

Καί μοι ἐπεγχετύασθαι ὀϊζύος εἵνεκα λυγρῆς,

Ἠδέ τ' ἐλεγχείην καταχεῦαι, ὅτ' ἐμόγησα·

Ἴσθ', ὅτι Παμβασιλεὺς ἄτῃ μ' ἐπέδησε βαρείῃ,

Χειρί τέ με συρέλιξεν, ἐγὼ δ' ὑπέπεσον εἶθαρ

Πρηπορηνής· θεσμὸς περί μοι βάλεν, ἀμφὶ δ' ἔγωγε

Ἐμπελεκόμενος, ἰχθὺς ὣς δικτύῳ ἐν πολυωπῷ·

Ἔιποτ' ἐγὼ βοάασκον ὑφ' ὕβριος, ἔπος ἄκρητον·

Τειρόμενος· τε γέγωνα, δίκην δέ μοι οὔτις ὀφέλλει.

Πάντοθεν ἐμφράξας ἀβάτους μοι ἔθηκε κελεύθους·

Ἀχλύϊ καὶ νεφέλῃσιν ἐμὴν ὁδὸν ἀμφεκάλυψεν.

Δεινός τ' αἰδοῖός τε μετ' ἀνθρώποισιν τετύγμην

Τὸ πρὶν ἐνὶ θαλίῃφι, χάρις δ' ἀπελάμπετο πολλή·

Νῦν δ' αὖ κῦδος ὄλωλε, Θεὸς δ' ἀποαίνυτο πᾶσαν

Ἀγλαΐην, καὶ στέμματ' ἀπὸ κρατόσφιν ἔδυσε.

Πανταχόθεν μ' ἔρραισε, καὶ οἴχομαι, ὡς ὅτε τις δρῦς

Χαλκῷ τεμνομένη τέρενα χθονὶ φύλλα πελάσσῃ

Αὐτῇσι ῥίζῃσι διηνεκέως ἐρειποῦσα·

Ὧς κῂ ἐγὼ πίπτω, κῂ πᾶσά μοι ἐλπὶς ὄλωλε.

Λίην μοι κεχόλωται, ἔχει δέ με ἐχθρὸν ἐν αἴσῃ.

Τῷ ἐπὶ μοὶ πυργηδὸν ἀολλίζοντο φάλαγγες,

Κυκλώσαντο δέ με, κλισίην τ' ἐπὶ τάφρον ὄρυξαν,

Ἠύτ' ἐναντίβιον φρικταὶ στίχες ἀσπιστάων.

Αὐτοκασίγνητοί μευ ἀπόπροθι νοσφίζονται,

Ξεῖνοι νῦν μοι ἔασιν, ὀπάονες οἳ πρὶν ἔτυχθεν.

Οἵ μοι κεδνότατοι κῂ φίλτατοι ἦσαν ἁπάντων,

Πηοὶ ὁμῶς ἕταροί τε ἐμεῦ ἄπο νόσφι λίαθεν·

Τῆλε μάλ', ὡς εἰ πάγχυ λελασμένοι ἦσαν ἐμεῖο.

Δμωοὶ κῂ ἀμφιπόλοισιν ἐμῇς ὡς ξεῖνος ἔοικα,

Ὥστε κῂ ἀλλοδαπός τις ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὁρᾶσθαι.

Δῶλον ἐμὸν καλέεσκον, ὁ δ' οὐκ ἠμείβετο μύθῳ·

Μειλιχίοις ἱκέτευον, ὁ δ' οὐκ ἄϊεσκε λιτάων.

Οὐδ' ἄλοχος ζωώηκεν ἐμεῦ ὄπα φωνησάντος,

Ἀλλ' ἐμ' ἀπέχθηρε, στυγερὴ δέ οἱ ἔστιν ἀϋτμὴ,

Ἥ μευ ἀπὸ στόματος ῥέει αἰνῶς φθεγγομένοιο,

Καὶ ἀχάριστον ἑοῖς πέλει ἔασιν ὅ, τι κεν εἴπω,

Εἰ κῂ ὑπὲρ τεκέων τε φίλων γλυκέων θ' ὑμεναίων

Λίσσομαι, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ ὡς μιν ἐγὼ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω.

Νηπίαχοί μ' ἀθέριζον ἀτάσθαλοι· ὡς γὰρ ἀνέστην,

Οἵ μ' ἐπεκερτομέεσκον ὀνειδίοις ἐπέεσσιν.

Ὅσσοι ἔσαν τὸ πάροιθεν ἐμοὶ ἑείηρες ἑταῖροι,

Οὐτέ ποτ' εἰν ἀγορῇ δίχ' ἐβάζομεν, οὔτ' ἐνὶ βουλῇ,

Ἀλλ' ἕνα θυμὸν ἔχοντες ἀεὶ συμφράδμονες ἦμεν,

Οἵδ' ἐπεὶ εἶδον πανάποτμον ὀϊζυρόν τε νόησαν,

ᬬδη με στυγέοντες ἀπέῤῥιψαν φιλότητα.

Ὤμοι, ὅτι χροῒ μέν λιποσαρκέϊ ἀμφὶ μέλεσσιν

Ὀστέα συμπεφύασι, κατεσκλήκασι δὲ γῦα·

Τήκομαι ὠτειλῇσι, κῂ ἐκ ἕλον μέρος ὄζι

Σώματος, εἰ μὴ ἆλον ὑπὸ ῥίζῃσιν ὀδόντων.

Ὦ φίλοι, ἐστὲ φίλοι, ἐλεήσατέ με, οἷα μόγησα,

Δύστηνόν μ' ἐλεεῖτε, κῂ οἶκτον θέσθ' ἐνὶ θυμῷ,

Ὅττι Θεός μ' ἔπληξε, κῂ ἔστασε χειρὶ βατείῃ.

Τίφθ' ὕτω, Θεὸς ὥς, με διώκετε τειρόμενόν περ;

Ἦ οὐχ' ἅλις, ὅττι δέμας βρύει ἕλκεσι μυδαλέοισιν;

Τίπτ' ἔτι δ' ὑμέας χρεὼ, σαρκῶν μευ ἀποφθιμενάων;

Ἢν δὴν βεβρώθοιτε, τάχ' ἂν κόρος ὔμμιν ὀπηδοῖ.

Ὡς ὄφελον μῦθοί μοι ἐνὶ πολυΐστει βίβλῳ

Γεγράφαται, γενεῇσι καὶ ἐσσομένῃσι πυθέσθαι·

Εἴθε χαρακτήρεσσιν ἀνηλείπτοισι τυποῖντο·

Εἴθε σιδηρείῳ κοπέϊ κεχαραγμένοι εἶεν,

Ἠὲ μολυβδαίνῃ, ἐνὶ μαρμάρῳ, ἠὲ ἐπὶ πέτρῃ.

Οἶδα γὰρ ὡς ζώει, τῷ ἐγὼ ζωάγρι' ὀφέλλω,

Ὅς τ' ἐμὲ μὲν λῦσεν, δῶκεν δ' ἀπερείσι' ἄποινα·

Ὡς ζώει σάφα οἶδα, καὶ ὡς μετόπισθεν ἔτ' αὔης

Στήσετ', ὅταν κόσμοιο πανύστατον ἦμαρ ἱκάνῃ.

Εἰ ἄρα σκωλήκεσσιν ἕλωρ τόδε σῶμα γένηται,

Καὶ χρέα μοι εὐλαί τε καὶ ἑρπετὰ τετριώωσιν,

Ἀλλ' ἔμπης ἅμα σαρκὶ Θεὸν πάλιν ὄψομ' ἀναστάς·

Αὐτὸς ἐγὼ, οὐκ ἄλλος ἐμεῦ χάριν, ὄμμασι τούτοις

Ὄψομαι, οὐδ' ἄλλοις, οὐδ' ἀλλοτερίοις ὀφθαλμοῖς·

Εἰ καὶ σπλάγχνα σέσηπε, νεφροὶ δ' ὑπὸ πάντες ὄλοντο.

Ὑμέας οὖν χρὴ ὧδε λέγειν, Τί νυ τείρομεν αὐτόν;

Τίφθ' οὕτω χαλεποῖσιν ὀνείδεσι θυμὸν ἑταίρου

Τρύχομεν; ᾗ γὰρ ἔμοιγε παρεστήκασι θέμιστες,

Εὐδικίῃ, δρυὸς ὣς πυκινῆς ῥίζῃς, ἀραρυῖαι.

Δείδιτε νῦν ξίφος ὀξὺ, τὸ γὰρ ξίφος ἄνδρας ἀλιτροὺς

Τίννυται, ὄφρ' εἰδῆτε δίκην νέμεσίν τε γενέσθαι.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 19 focus

Then Job answered,

How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent.

He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth.

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God,

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

If you say, How we will persecute him! Because the root of the matter is found in me,

Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 19.1 focus

[1] Then again noble Job, deeply groaning, answered him: He wailed piteously, and spoke a lamenting word:

[2] Woe is me, that I spoke thus; so much have I suffered at the hands of my companions. How long will you batter my spirit with harsh reproach? How long will you crush me with mocking words?

[3] Now indeed ten times you insult me with grievous outrage, and there is no shame, since your mind is disobedient. But you regard me as some foreigner and a stranger.

[4] Often in my follies I was willingly sinning, I erred, I went astray, trusting in my painful mind. For I do not refuse. (what mortal would not sin? ) But what is that to them and to you? let all these things be my concern; My ruin is with me; let no other care about it.

[5] But if it is dear to you, quarreling with a comrade, to utter reproaches idly and not in due order, and to pour abuse on me because of my grievous misery, and to heap up reproof, when I have toiled—

[6] Know that the Almighty has bound me with heavy ruin, and with his hand has dragged me, and I fell straightway headlong; He has cast his net around me, and I am entangled all about, like a fish in a many-eyed net;

[7] If ever I cried out from outrage, a word undiluted, being worn down; and I have cried aloud, yet no one grants me justice.

[8] Having blocked my paths from every side, he made them impassable for me; with mist and clouds he covered over my way.

[9] I was held mighty and revered among men formerly in feasts, and much grace shone forth; But now again my glory has perished, and God has taken away all my splendor, and has stripped the garlands from my head.

[10] He has dashed me on every side, and I am gone, and like a tree cut down with bronze that brings its tender leaves to the ground, hurling them down with its very roots continually— Thus I too fall, and all hope for me has perished.

[11] He has been exceedingly angry with me, and he holds me as an enemy in his fate.

[12] Against me in a tower-formation his troops gathered together, and they encircled me, and they dug a trench by my tent, like bristling battle-lines of shield-bearers facing the foe.

[13] My own brothers stand aloof from me; those who were once my guests are now mine, and my attendants, who were formerly appointed to me.

[14] Those who were dearest and most beloved to me of all, my kinsmen and likewise my companions, have departed far from me. Very far off, as if they had utterly forgotten me.

[15] My maidservants and my handmaidens regard me as a stranger, and I seem in their eyes like a foreigner.

[16] I called my servant, but he did not answer me with a word. I kept supplicating him with gentle words, but he did not listen to my entreaties.

[17] Nor has my wife kept alive at my voice when I spoke, but she has hated me; her breath is loathsome to me, which flows from my mouth terribly as I speak; and it is thankless to his own people, whatever I may say. If I plead even for my dear children and sweet marriage-beds — but I think that she will not be persuaded by me.

[18] Even foolish children despised me, reckless as they were. For when I rose up, they mocked me with reproachful words.

[19] All who were formerly my own dear companions — never did we speak apart in the assembly, nor in the council, but holding one spirit we were always of one mind — these, when they saw me utterly ruined and perceived my misery, now loathing me have cast off friendship.

[20] Woe is me, that my bones have cleaved to my skin, fleshless, around my limbs, and my members have become shriveled. I am wasted away with wounds, and my limb has been taken from the edge of my body, unless it was taken from under the roots of the teeth.

[21] O friends, you are friends, have pity on me, inasmuch as I have toiled; pity me, wretched man, and put compassion in your heart, because God has struck me and set me down with a heavy hand.

[22] Why do you pursue me thus, as God does, though I am already worn down? Is it not enough that my body swells with dripping wounds? Why then do you still have need of me, when my flesh is perishing? If you had long devoured it, soon would satiety attend you.

[23] O that my words were written in a many-knowing book, to be learned by generations and by those to come!

[24] O that they were stamped with indelible graven marks! O that they were engraved with an iron chisel, or with lead, on marble, or on stone!

[25] For I know that he lives, to whom I owe the reward of life, who indeed released me and gave boundless ransom; That he lives I know clearly, and that hereafter he shall yet stand upon the dry land, when the very last day of the world arrives.

[26] If then this body becomes prey for worms, and maggots and creeping things consume my flesh, yet nevertheless with my flesh I shall see God, having risen again;

[27] I myself, not another on my behalf, with these eyes shall see, and not with others', nor with alien eyes; Even if my inward parts have rotted, and all my kidneys have perished beneath.

[28] You therefore ought to speak thus: Why now do we torment him? Why then do we thus vex the soul of our companion with harsh reproaches? For in my case the ordinances stand fast, in righteousness, like the roots of a thick oak, firmly fitted.

[29] Fear now the sharp sword, for the sword is exacted upon sinful men, so that you may know that judgment and retribution come to be.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 19.1 focus

Huic verò graviter-ingemiſcens reſpondit divinus Jobus

Lamentabatur autẽ autem miſerabiliter, verbúmq; verbúmque lamentabile dixit.

Hei mihi, quòd à meis amicis tot paſſus ſum!

Quouſque meum gravibus laceſſetis animum jurgiis?

Quouſque probroſis me proſcindetis ſermonibus?

Hâc jam decies acerbâ me læſiſtis contumeliâ,

Nec quis pudor eſt, quandoquidem mens vobís crudelis.

Veluti autem extraneum quendam me reputatis & extorrem.

Sæpe ſtultitiæ cedens delinquens fui,

Erravi, peccavi, animo perdito obtemperans;

Non enim inficior ego. (Quis mortalis non peccaverit?)

At quid hæc ad vos? mihi hæc omnia curæ-ſunt;

Noxa mea apud me, eam autem non curat alius.

Quòd ſi vobis libet opprobria dicere,

Et mihi inſultare calamitatem ob triſtem,

Temere & non ſecundum ordinem contendentibus cum amico:

Et dedecus offundere, eò-quòd-talia paſſus-ſum:

Scitote, quòd ſupremus omniũ omnium rex calamitate me implicuit

Manúq; Manúque me detruſit, ego verò decidi repentè

Pronus: vincula mihi injecit, ſtatim verò ego

Illaqueabar, piſcis ceu reti in multifori.

Si quando ego clamavi præ injuriâ, nemo audit;

Afflictúſque vociferatus ſum, jus autem mihi nemo præbet.

Undique obſepiens impervias mihi fecit ſemitas,

Caligine & nebulis meam viam circuntexit.

Gravíſque reverendúſque inter homines fui

Priùs in proſperitate, venuſtas autem reſplendebat multa:

Nunc autem viciſſim gloria periit, Deus autem abſtulit

Splendorem, & coronam capiti detraxit. (omnem

Undique me deſtruxit, & abeo, ſicut quando aliqua arbor

Ære recisà tenera terræ folia admovit

Ex ipſis radicibus funditus collapſa:

Sic ego cado, & omnis mihi ſpes periit.

Valde mihi iratus eſt, habet autem me hoſtis in loco.

Illius advers ũ um me turmatim confertæ ſunt phalanges,

Cinxerunt autem me, contrá q; que tentorium meum vallum foderunt,

Veluti adverſorum horrendæ acies bellatorum.

Fratres mei procul à me receſſerunt,

Peregrini nunc mihi ſunt, comites qui antea fuerunt.

Qui mihi chariſſimi & amiciſſimi erant omnium,

Propinqui pariter & ſocii à me ſeorſum abierunt

Longè admodum, ac ſi penitus obliti eſſent mei.

Famulis & ancillis meis quaſi peregrinus videor,

Velutíque alienigena aliquis oculis cerni.

Servum meum vocavi, is autem non reſpondit ſermone;

Blandis verbis obſecravi, is autem non audivit preces.

Nec uxor percepit mei vocem loquentis,

Sed me odit, inviſus autem ei eſt halitus,

Qui meo ab ore fluit ægrè loquentis,

Et ingratum eſt illius auribus, quicquid dixero,

Quanquam per liberos charos dulcéſque hymenæos

Oro, tamen neque ſic eã eam ego perſuaſum iri puto.

Parvuli me ſpreverunt improbi: ut enim ſurrexi,

Hi me ſubſiannârunt probroſis verbis.

Quotquot erant antehac mihi jucundi ſodales,

Ne q; que unquam in concione diverſum dicebamus, ne q; que in concilio,

Sed unum animum habentes ſemper concordes eramus,

Hi poſtquam omnino-infelicem calamitoſúmque ſenſerunt,

Jam me odio-habentes depoſuerunt amicitiam.

Hei mihi! quoniam cuti meæ macilenta circa membra

Oſſa adhærent, contabuerunt autem artus,

Conſumor ulceribus, & non ſana pars eſt

Corporis, niſi gingiva ſub radicibus dentium.

O amici, eſtote amici; miſeremini mei qualia paſſus ſum,

Infelicis mei miſeremini, & miſericordiam ponite in animo;

Quoniam Deus me percuſſit, & vulneravit manu gravi.

Cur adeò, tanquam Deus, me perſequimini afflictum licét?

Annon ſatis eſt, quòd corpus ſcatet ulceribus ſanioſis?

Quid adhuc vobis opus eſt, carnibus meis abſumptis?

Crudum devoretis, tum fortè ſatietas vobis aderit.

Utinam ſermones mei in memoriali libro

Scriberentur, generationibus etiam futuris ſcitu;

Utinam characteribus indelebilibus imprimerentur:

Utinam ferreo ſtylo ſculpti eſſent

Aut plumbo, in marmore aut in petra. (debeo,

Scio enim quòd vivit ille, cui ego redemptionis-præmia

Qui me quidem liberavit, dedit autem infinitum pretium:

Quòd vivit certò ſcio, & quòd poſthac ſuper terram

Stabit, cùm mundi ſupremus dies venerit.

Etſi lumbricis præda hoc corpus fuerit,

Et pellem meam vermes & reptilia perforaverint,

Veruntamen unà cum carne mea Deum rurſus videbo reſurgens:

Ipſe ego, non alius mei gratiâ, oculis hiſce

Videbo, nec aliis, nec alienis luminibus:

Etſi viſcera computruerint, renes autem omnes perierint.

Vos ergò oportet ſic dicere, Quid vexamus eum?

Cur adeò gravibus opprobriis animum amici

Angimus? certè enim mihi aſtant jura

Æquitate, arbores ceu denſis radicibus, connixa.

Timete nunc gladi ũ um acutum, gladius enim viros improbos

Plectit, ut ſciatis judicium vindictám q; que eſſe.

Notes on the current edition

Job

1. U+05D0AC

3. B

4. U+05D0AC

5. 8 επι] + δε A | προσωπον] προσωπου U+05D0 ατραπους A 9 om δε A δοξαν] +μου A | αφειλεν δε] και αφειλεν A 10 διεσπασεν] + δε U+05D0c.a(poste del) A 11 om δε 1ο A | om ηγησατο...εχθρον U+05D0* (hab U+05D0c.a ) 12 o1 δε A | ηλθον τα πειρ. αυτου] αυτου ηλθεν τα πειρ. A | εμοι] εμε A | τα οδοις μου c praec coniung U+05D0 | εκυκλωσαν] + με U+05D0A | εγκαθετοι] Bᵃᵇ 13 α εμου c praec coniung U+05D0 | εμου] + δε A | αδελφοι μου απεστησαν] απεσ αδελφοι A | εγνωσαν] in γ ras aliq B? | φιλοι] pr οι A 14 ου] pr και A προσεποιησαντο] προσειδον | om και A | ειδοτες BᵇU+05D0*] ειδοντες B*U+05D0c.a ιδοι τες A 15 οπιας] οικιοι A | θεραπαιναι τε μου] θεραποντες θεραπενοι(sic) ημην] εγενομην A 16 θεραποντα] θεραποντας δε A | υπηκουσεν] υπηκουσο μου A | εδεετο (δεετο U+05D0* εδ. U+05D0¹)] εδεειτο αυτῶ A 17 προσεκαλ. δε] κ προσεκαλ. A 18 απεποιησαντο με] με απεποιησ. BᵃᵇU+05D01) (om με U+05D0*) ι απιπαντο A 19 εβδελυξαντο] + δε U+05D0A | ιδοντες] ιδοτες A | ους δη] ους U+05D0¹ και ους A | ηγαπηκειν (-κεν U+05D0)] ηγαπων A 20 εσαπησαν] pr α U+05D0 (improb α U+05D0¹) | αι σαρκες] om αι A

6. B

7. §C

Septuaginta Job 19

ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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