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῾Υπολαβὼν δὲ Ἰὼβ λέγει

Ἀκούσατε, ἀκούσατέ μου τῶν λόγων,

ἴνα μὴ ᾖ μοι παρʼ ὑμῶν αὕτη ἡ παράκλησις.

ἄρατέ με, ἐγὼ δὲ λαλήσω,

κἶτ᾿ οὐ καταγελάσετέ μου.

τί γάρ μὴ ἀνθρώπου μου ἡ ἔλεγξις

ἤ διὰ τί οὐ θυμωθήσομαι

εἰσβλέψαντες εἰς ἐμὲ θαυμάσετε,

χεῖρα θέντες ἐπὶ σιαγόνι.

ἐάν τε γὰρ μνησθῶ, ἐσπούδακα,

ἔχουσιν δέ μου τὰς σάρκας ὀδύναι.

διὰ τί ἀσεβεῖς ζῶσιν,

πεπαλαίωνται δὲ καὶ ἐν πλούτῳ;

ὁ σπόρος αὐτῶν κατὰ ψυχὴν,

τὸ δὲ τέκνα αὐτῶν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς.

οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν εὐθηνοῦσιν, φόβος δὲ οὐδαμοῦ,

μάστιξ δὲ παρὰ Κυρίου οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς.

ἡ βοῦς αὐτῶν οὐκ ὠμοτόκησεν.

διεσώθη δὲ αὐτῶν ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχουσα καὶ οὐκ ἔσφαλεν.

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μένουσιν δὲ ὡς πρόβατα αἰώνια,

τὰ δὲ παιδία αὐτῶν προσπαίζουσιν·

ἀναλαβόντες ψαλτήριον καὶ κιθάραν

καὶ εὐφραίνονται φωνῇ ψαλμοῦ.

συνετέλεσαν δὲ ἐν ἀγαθοῖς τὸν βίον αὐτῶν,

ἐν δὲ ἀναπαύσει ᾂδου ἐκοιμήθησαν.

λέγει δὲ Κυρίῳ Ἀπόστα ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, ὁδούς σου εἰδέναι οὐ

βούλομαι·

τἰ ἱκανὸς ὅτι δουλεύσομεν αὐτῷ;

καὶ τίς ὠφελία ὅτι ἀπαντήσομεν αὐτῷ;

ἐν χερσὶν γὰρ ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ ἀγαθά,

ἔργα δὲ ἀσεβῶν οὐκ ἐφορᾷ.

οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀσεβῶν λύχνος σβεσθήσεται,

ἐπελεύσεται δὲ αὐτοῖς ἡ καταστροφή,

ὠδίνες δὲ ἕξουσιν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ ὀργῆς.

ἔσονται δὲ ὥσπερ ἄχυρα ὑπὸ ἀνέμου,

ἤ ὥσπερ κονιορτὸς ὅν ὑφείλατο λαῖλαψ.

ἐκλίποι υἱοὺς τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ·

ἀνταποδώσει πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ γνώσεται.

ἴδοισαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σφαγήν,

ἀπὸ δὲ Κυρίου μὴ διασωθείη·

ὅτι τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ ἐν ἴοκῳ αὐτοῦ μετʼ αὐτοῦ,

καὶ ἀριθμοὶ μηνῶν αὐτοῦ διῃρέθησαν.

πότερον οὐχὶ ὁ κύριός ἐστιν ὁ διδάσκων σύνεσιν καὶ

ἐπιστήμην ;

αὐτὸς δὲ φόνους διακρινεῖ.

οὗτος ἀποθανεῖται ἐν κράτει ἁπλοσύνης αὐτοῦ,

ὅλος δὲ εὐπαθῶν καὶ εὐθηνῶν,

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τὸ δὲ ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ πλήρη στέατος,

μυελὸς δὲ αὐτοῦ διαχεῖται·

ὁ δὲ τελευτῷ ὑπὸ πικρίας ψυχῆς. οὐφαγὼν οὐδὲν ἀγαθόν·

ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἐπὶ γῆς κοιμῶνται,

σαπρία δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐκάλυψεν.

ὥστε οἶδα ὑμᾶς ὅτι τόλμῃ ἐπίκεισθέ μοι,

ὥστε ἐρεῖτε Ποῦ ἐστιν οἶκος ἄρχοντος;

καὶ ποῦ ἐστιν ἡ σκέπη τῶν σκηνωμάτων τῶν ἀσεβῶν;

ἐραωτήσατε παραπορευομένους ὁδόν,

καὶ τὰ σημεῖα αὐτῶν οὐκ ἀπαλλοτριώσετε·

ὅτι εἰς ἡμέραν ἀπωλείας κουφίζεται ὁ πονηρός.

εἰς ἡμέραν ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπαχθήσονται.

τίς ἀπαγγελεῖ ἐπὶ προσώπου αὐτοῦ τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ;

καὶ ἃ αὐτὸς ἐποίησεν, τίς ἀνταποδώσει αὐτῷ;

καὶ αὐτὸς εἰς τάφους ἀπηνέχθη,

καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ σωρῶν ἠγρύπνησεν.

ἐγλυκάνθησαν αὐτῷ χάλικες χειμάρρου.

καὶ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἀπελεύσεται,

καὶ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ ἀναρίθμητοι.

πῶς δὲ παρακαλεῖτέ με κενά;

τὸ δὲ ἐμὲ καταπαύσασθαι ἀφʼ ὑμῶν οὐδέν.

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).) — 21.1 focus

Τὸν δ' ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη πολύμητις Ἴωβος

Αἰὲν ἐνὶ στήθεσσι νόον ταλαπενθέα νωμῶν·

Κέκλυτέ μευ μύθων κακά περ πάσχοντος, ἑταῖροι,

Καὶ τόδε γ' ὔμμι πέλοι παραμύθιον, ὅ,τι κεν εἴπω.

Πρῶτά με τυτθὸν ἐάσατ' ἀμοιβαίως ἀγορεύειν,

(Οὕτω γὰρ θέμις ἐστίν) ἔπειτα δὲ λωβήσαισθε.

Ἦ ῥα παρ' ἀνθρώποις ἐπιμέμφομαι; εἰ δὲ καὶ οὕτως,

Ὡς κέ μοι ἐν στήθεσσιν ὀρινθείη φίλον ἦτορ;

Ἀλλ' ἐμέθεν ξυνίετ'· ὦκα καὶ ὐμέας θάμβος ἱκάνοι,

Ὑμέας θάμβος ἱκάνοι· ἐπὶ στόμα χεῖρα τιθέντας.

Ταῦθ' ὡς οὖν ἐνόησα, τάφος δέ μ' ἔλεν, ἐν δ' ἄρα θυμῷ

Βαλλόμενος ταρβῶ, ὑπὸ δὲ τρόμος ἔλλαβε γῦα.

Τίφθ' οὕτω ζώουσι κακοὶ θαλίῃ ἐνὶ πολλῇ;

Τίπτε καὶ ἐν κακότητι βροτοὶ καταγηράσκουσι;

Τίπτε καὶ εὐθενέουσ' οἳ ἀτάσθαλα μηχανόωνται,

Ὄλβῳ τε πλούτῳ τε κεκοσμένοι ἐν μερόπεσσιν;

Ἀσκεθέα σφίσι τέκνα, καὶ ἔκγονοι ἄντα πάρεισι,

Παῖδας ἅμ' ἀμφιθαλεῖς, παίδων δέ τε παῖδας ὁρῶντι.

Δώματ' ἐπ' εἰρηνώφιν ἐύκλιτα ναιετάουσι

Παντὸς ἄνευθε φόβου, πάσης ἀπάτερθεν ἀνίης,

Οὔποτε τυπτόμενοι λιγυρῇ μάστιγι Θεοῖο.

Γενναῖός σφισι ταῦρος, ὃ δ' οὐκ ἀφάμαρτεν ὀχεύων·

Αἱ δὲ βόες γείναντο, καὶ οὐδὲ ποθ' ὠμοτόκησαν.

Τυτθὸν ἐκπέμπουσι καὶ ἰλαδὸν ἠύτε πῶϋ

Παῖδες δ' ὀρχηθμῷ τε χοριστυπίῃσί τ' ἄεισοι,

Παρθενικαί τε καὶ ἠίθεοι ἀταλὰ φρονέοντες

Ὠρχεῦντ' ἀλλήλων ἐπὶ καρπῷ χεῖρας ἔχοντες.

Τοῖσιν δ' ἐν μέσσοισι παῖς φόρμιγγι λιγείῃ

Ἱμερόεν κιθάριζε, λίνον δ' ὑπὸ καλὸν ἄειδεν·

Οἱ δ' ἐπεὶ ἂν κιθάρης ἄϊον μελιηδέα φωνήν,

Τήθυσαν, καὶ πᾶσιν ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θυμὸς ἰάνθη,

Μολπῇ τ' εὐφμῷ τε ποσὶ σκαίροντες ἕποντο.

Ὡς οἱ μὲν χλαίνας εὖ εἱμένοι ἠδὲ χιτῶνας,

Αἰεί τε λιπαροὶ κεφαλάς, καὶ καλὰ πρόσωπα,

Πίνοντες καὶ ἔδοντες (ἐπηετανὸν γὰρ ἔχεσκον)

Ἀφνειοὶ βιότοιο ἐπεὶ μόρον ἐξετέλεσσαν,

Αἰφνίδιοι θανάτοιο ἔβαν δόμον ἄϊδος εἴσω.

Οἱ δὲ Θεὸν συφέλιξαν ἀγλωσσίῃσι νόοιο,

Καὶ μάλ' ὑπερφίαλον ἔπος ἔκβαλον· ὡς γὰρ ἔφαντο,

Βάσκ' ἴθι ὀπιτάχιστ' ἡμέων ἀπο τηλόθι μᾶλλον,

Ἄμμι γὰρ οὐ φίλον ἐστὶ δαήμεναι σεῖο κελεύθους.

Ἀθάνατος δ' τίς ἔστ', αὐτῷ ἵνα λατρεύσαιμεν;

Ἢ τί τόσον πέλε κέρδος, ἐπεὶ ἱκετεύσαμεν αὐτὸν

Πολλὰ μάλ', ὅς δ' ἀνένευσε, κακῷ δ' οὐ γίνετ' ἐρωή;

Ἀλλ' οὐ δὴν μέλλεσσιν ὑπέρβιοι εὐχετάασθαι,

Οὐδὲ γὰρ ἔμπεδος ὄλβος ἔπι σφίσιν, οὐδὲ πέπηγε.

Τῷ καὶ ἐγὼ δολόεσσαν ἀπέπτυσα μῆτιν ἀλιτρῶν,

Οὐδέ τι μοι σκολιὴ κείνων ἐπιώσατο βουλή,

Οἳ ὕβρει εἴκοντες ἀτάσθαλα μηχανόωνται.

Ποσσάκι δυσσεβέας στυγερὴ κατέμαρψεν ὁμίχλη;

Ποσσάκι τε σφίσι λύχνον ἀπέσβεσε πικρὸς ἀήτης,

Ἐλθὼν ἐξαπίνης, δαΐδων δ' σβεννυμενάων

Αὐτὸς πανσυδίῃ ἐδαμάσσατο λυγρὸς ὄλεθρος;

Χωόμενος δ' ἀνδρεσσιν, ὅπως ἐθέλῃσιν, ἑκάστῳ

Ἄλγε' ἔδωκε Θεός· ταμίης γὰρ ὅγ' ἔστ' ὀδυνάων.

Οἱ δέ τε καρφαλέῃ καλάμῃ τελέθουσιν ὁμοῖοι,

Ἢν τάχ' ἀφαρπάξωσι πολυστροφάλιγγες ἄελλαι,

Ἢ ἄχνῃ, ὴν στρομβηδὸν εὐτροχάλως κατ' ἀλωὰς

Λαίλαπι μαστίζωσι λιγυπνείοντες ἀῆται.

Ἄλλοτε μὲν γὰρ πατρὸς ὑπερβασίην ἀλεγεινὴν

Παίδεσσιν ταμίας ὅδε Θεὸς κειμήλιον εἷεν,

Οἱ δ' αὐτῶν τίσαντες ἐπαυρίσκοντο τοκῆος·

Ἄλλοτε δ' αὐτὸς ἑῆς ἄτης τίνεσκεν ἀμοιβὴν

Σχέτλιος, οὐδέ τις ἔστιν ἀνάβλησις κακότητος.

Ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἑοῖσιν ἑὸν πανάποτμος ὄλεθρον

Ὄψεται, ἀργαλέον πίεται χόλον Ἀθανάτοιο.

Τίπτε γ' ἑῷ οἴκῳ ἔτι τέρπεται, ὅν κε λίπῃσιν,

Ὄφρα οἱ ἡμιτελὴς μεσσηγὺ κολύεται αἰών;

Τίς Θεῷ ὑψείῳ ὑποθήσεται, ὄφρα δαείη;

Καὶ γὰρ ὅγ' ὑψηλοῖσι δίκας ἄνδρεσσι δικάζει.

Ὃς μὲν ἀποθνήσκει μέσσῃ νεότητος ἐν ἀκμῇ,

Καὶ δ' ἔχει ἥβης ἄνθος, ὅτε κράτος ἐστὶ μέγιστον·

Ὄλβιος, ἀμφιθαλής τε, καὶ ἥσυχος, οὐδέ τι ταρβεῖ·

Ψυχὴ δ' ἐκ ῥεθέων πταμένη ἀϊδόσδε βεβήκει,

Ὃν πότμον γόωσα, λιποῦσ' ἀδροτῆτα, καὶ ἥβην.

Ὥρῃ ἐν ἡλικίης, ὅτε μυελὸς ὀστέα τέγγει,

Ὥρῃ ἐν εἰαρινῇ, ὅτε τε γλάγος ἄγγεα δαίει·

Ὃς δέ τ᾽ ἀδευκέα θυμὸν ἔχων τετιημένος ἔρρει

Ἐκ βίου, οὐδέ ποτε ψωμὸν ἡδυειδέ᾽ ἐδηδώς.

Ἶσοι δ᾽ ἐν κονίῃ πάντες κατακοιμήσονται,

Ἐν δ᾽ ἰῇ τιμῇ ἠμὲν κακὸς, ἠδὲ καὶ ἐσθλὸς,

Ὄφρα σκωλήκεσσιν ἕλωρ καὶ κύρμα γίνονται.

Ἀλλ᾽ ἐγὼ εὖ οἶδα σφετέρου μελεδήματα θυμοῦ,

Ὅσσά τ᾽ ἐμ᾽ ὑβρίζοντες ἀμήχανα μητιάασθε·

Ὡς γὰρ ἐξερέειτε, Ποῦ ὀρχάμου ἔστι μέλαθρον;

Ποῦ δόμος ὑψικάρηνος ἀγακλειτοῦ βασιλῆος;

Ποῦ μέγαρ᾽ ἄρχοντος; πόθι δ᾽ οἱ δῆμός τε πόλις τε;

Ποίῳ δ᾽ ἐν κόλπῳ χθονὸς ἕσταεν (εἰ δέ ποθί ζῇ)

Δώματα δυσσεβέων; πόθι ναιετάουσιν ἀλῆται;

Οὐκ ἂν τῶνδε πεπύθεσθε, οἳ ἐν τριόδοισι τυχόντες

Ὑμμιν ἀπαντιόωσι, καὶ αὐτῶν οἴδατε τέκμωρ;

Ὡς ὃ μὲν οὔτι σόοι εἰσὶν ἀτάσθαλοι ἀλλὰ μίνυνθα,

Ἔκ τε κακῶν ἐσάωθεν ἀμειλίκτῳ τινὶ φειδοῖ,

Εἰσόκε μοῖρ᾽ ὀλοὴ, καὶ νηλεὲς ἦμαρ ἱκάνῃ·

Καὶ τάχα δ᾽ αὖ θανάτονδε καλεόμενοι ἑρπύζουσιν,

Οἷά περ ἐκ φυλακῆς, καί σφιν σῶς αἰπὺς ὄλεθρος,

Ἤματι τῷ ὅτ᾽ ὄπις τε Θεοῦ νέμεσίς τε γένηται.

Τίς δ᾽ ἄρα τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ὑπέρβιον ὕβριν ἐλέγξει

Ἀμφαδὸν, ἢ εἰς ὦπα ἰδὼν ἐπιμέμψεται ἔργοις;

Ἦ τίς οἱ ἀντικρύ γ᾽ ἀποτίσεται, ὅσσα ἔοργεν;

Ἀλλὰ καὶ ὧς, τοῖός περ ἐὼν, κρατερός καὶ ἀγέλωρος

Δύσεται εἰς ἀΐδαο, καὶ ἐν νεκύεσσι φαεινεὶ

Μίμνων εἰνὶ τάφῳ, τύμβῳ ἔνι οἰκία ναίων,

Ἔνθά ἑ ταρχύσουσι κασίγνητοί τε ἕται τε.

Ἔνθ᾽ ὃ μὲν ἐν μαλακὸν καὶ νήδυμον ὕπνον ἀωτεῖ

Κείσεται ἀσπασίως, γλυκεραὶ δ᾽ οἱ ἐν ἄγκεσι βῶλοι·

Ἡμεῖς δ᾽ αὖ δειλοὶ αὐτὸν μέτα φῦλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων

Πάντες ἐπιπασσόμεθα, πρὸ μέν τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽, αὐτὰρ ἔπ᾽ ἄλλοι·

Ὡς τε περὶ αὐτῷ ἔσταν νεκύων ἀμενηνὰ κάρηνα

Μυρίοι, ὅσσά τε φύλλα καὶ ἄνθεα γίνεται ὥρῃ.

Ἀλλὰ τίη μοι ταῦτα παρηγορέεσθε ματαίως;

Ὡς ἁλίη ὑμέων γε παραίφασίς ἐστιν, ἑταῖροι,

Ἔσκεπται δ᾽ ὑμετέροις ἀεσισφροσύνη ἐνὶ μύθοις.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 21 focus

Then Job answered,

Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.

Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

They tell God, Depart from us, For we don’t want to know about your ways.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?

That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?

You say, God lays up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?

One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good.

They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.

Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.

For you say, Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?

Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,

That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 21.1 focus

[1] Answering him, much-devising Job spoke, ever pondering in his breast a grief-worn mind:

[2] Hear me, my friends, though I suffer evils, and let this too be a comfort to you, whatever I may say.

[3] First allow me to speak a little in turn (for so is right), and afterward you may mock.

[4] Is it against men that I complain? And if it is even so, how would my dear heart be stirred within my breast?

[5] But listen to me; swiftly may amazement seize you too, may amazement seize you; laying a hand upon the mouth.

[6] When therefore I perceived these things, amazement took me, and struck within my spirit I tremble, and trembling seized my limbs.

[7] Why do the wicked live thus in great feasting? Why too do mortals grow old in misery? Why too do those who devise reckless things prosper, adorned with bliss and wealth among mortals?

[8] Their children are vigorous, and their offspring are present before them, and they see their children flourishing on both sides, and their children's children.

[9] They dwell in well-built houses in peace, far from all fear, apart from all grief, never being struck by the clear-sounding whip of God.

[10] Their bull is noble, and it does not fail in mounting. And their cows give birth, and never do they miscarry.

[11] They send them out a little, and in troops like a flock; and the boys sing with dancing and choral piping, and maidens and young men, thinking tender thoughts, danced, holding each other's hands by the wrist.

[12] And among them a boy played the lyre sweetly with a clear-toned phorminx, and sang to the lovely linen string. And they, whenever they heard the honey-sweet voice of the lyre, were gladdened, and in all their hearts the spirit was warmed; and with song and nimble feet they followed skipping.

[13] Thus they, well clad in cloaks and tunics, ever sleek as to their heads and fair of face, drinking and eating (for they had abundance), rich in livelihood, after they had fulfilled their doom, suddenly went into the house of Hades, into the house of death.

[14] But they hemmed God in with the tonguelessness of their mind, and they cast out a very overweening word: For as they said, 'Go, depart far away from us as quickly as possible, for we have no wish to know your ways.'

[15] And who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what profit is it that we have entreated him much, since he has refused, and no relief comes from evil?

[16] But the overbearing will not long be able to boast, for their prosperity is not steadfast, nor is it fixed. Therefore I too spat out the deceitful counsel of the wicked, nor did their crooked plan win me over, who, yielding to violence, devise reckless things.

[17] How often has hateful darkness seized the impious? How often has a bitter blast quenched their lamp, coming suddenly, and has grim destruction with all its force subdued the torches as they were being extinguished? But God, being angry with men, gives them pains, to each one as he wills. For he is the steward of sorrows.

[18] And they become like dry stubble, which the whirling storm-winds soon snatch away, or like chaff, which the shrill-blowing winds, whipping with the hurricane, drive round in swift-rolling fashion across the threshing floors.

[19] For at another time God here as steward would store up for the children the grievous transgression of the father, and they themselves, paying the price, would enjoy it from their parent. At another time he himself, the wretched man, used to pay the recompense of his own ruin, and there is no postponement of wickedness.

[20] With his own eyes the all-doomed man will see his destruction; he will drink the grievous wrath of the Immortal.

[21] Why then does he still take delight in his own house, which he must leave, so that his life is cut short and broken off midway?

[22] Who will teach God Most High, so that he may know? For he indeed judges the cases of the lofty men.

[23] One man dies in the midst of his youth, at its prime, and he has the bloom of young manhood, when his strength is greatest; Prosperous, flourishing on both sides, and at peace, and he fears nothing; But his soul, flying from his limbs, had gone to Hades, lamenting its fate, leaving behind its vigor and its youth.

[24] In the season of his prime, when the marrow moistens his bones, in the spring season, when milk fills the vessels;

[25] But he, having a cruel spirit and being dishonored, perishes away from life, and never having eaten a sweet-tasting morsel.

[26] But alike in the dust all shall lie down to sleep, and in one honor both the wicked and also the noble, until they become spoil and prey for worms.

[27] But I well know the cares of your own heart, and all the helpless things you devise, insulting me.

[28] For you say, Where is the palace of the ruler? Where is the house with lofty head of the far-famed king? Where are the halls of the ruler? and where are their people and city? In what bosom of the earth do the dwellings of the impious stand (if indeed he lives anywhere)? where do the wanderers dwell?

[29] Would you not have inquired of these, who, meeting you at the crossroads, accost you, and do you know their proof?

[30] Thus some are not at all safe, but reckless, and only for a little while; and from evils they are saved by some relentless sparing, until deadly fate and the pitiless day arrive. And presently, called again toward death, they crawl, just as from a prison, and for them destruction is sheer and steep, on the day when the visitation and wrath of God come to be.

[31] But who then will convict the man of his overweening outrage, or who, looking him in the face, will reproach him for his deeds? Will anyone indeed repay him to his face for all that he has done?

[32] But even so, being such as he is, mighty and without lament, he shall go down into Hades, and among the dead he shall shine forth, Mimnas, in the grave, dwelling in a house in the tomb, where his brothers and kinsmen shall bury him.

[33] There he sleeps softly and in sweet slumber, and he will lie down gladly, and the clods of earth are sweet to him in the valleys; But we, wretched men, all the tribes of men, are sprinkled upon him, some before and others after; And around him stand countless feeble heads of the dead, as many as leaves and flowers come to be in season.

[34] But why do you comfort me with these things in vain? How vain is your consolation, friends, and your folly has been considered in your words.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 21.1 focus

Huic autem reſpondens dixit prudens Jobus

Semper in pectoribus mentem patientem verſans;

Audite meos ſermones, mala licèt patientis, ô ſocii,

Et hoc vobis ſit ſolamen, quod dixero.

Primum me paululùm ſinite viciſſim loqui,

(Ità enim fas eſt) deinde autem convitiemini.

Nunquid apud homines queror? quòd ſi ità eſſet,

Sic utiq; utique mihi in pectoribus commotum eſſet charum cor.

At mihi attendite ocyùs, & vos admiratio occupet,

Vos admiratio occupet, ſuper os manum ponentes.

(animo Hæc quamprimum ergò animadverti, ſtupor me cepit, ínq; ínque

Cogitans conturbor, tremor autem ſubtus occupavit membra.

Quare adeò vivunt mali proſperitate in multa?

Quare & in malitia mortales conſeneſcunt?

Quare & proſperè-agunt qui nefaria machinantur,

Opibúſque & divitiis inſtructi inter homines?

Incolumes ipſis liberi, & nepotes coràm adſunt,

Filios ſimul utroque-parente-florentes, filiorúmque filios vi-(dent.

Domos in pace bene-extructas incolunt

Omni abſq; abſque timore, omnem citra mœrorem,

Nunquam verberati ſtridulo flagello Dei.

Generoſus ipſis taurus, is autem non aberravit inien's;

Vaccæ autem pepererunt, & non unquam abortierunt.

Parvulos emittunt vel catervatim tanquam gregem:

Liberi autem ſaltationé q; que choreíſ q; que præſtantiſſimi,

Virgunculæ q; que & iuvenes puerilia ſapientes

Saltârunt, invicem ad volam manus tenentes.

Hos autem inter medios puer citharâ ſonorâ

Suaviter citharizabat, fides autem dulcè reſonabant:

Ii autem ut citharæ audierunt mellitam vocem,

Lætati ſunt, & omnibus in præcordiis animus gaviſus eſt;

Cantú q; que ſibiló q; que pedibus ſaltantes ſecuti ſunt.

Sic hi quidem lænas bene induti & veſtes,

Sempér q; que delibuti-unguento capita & pulchros vultus,

Bibentes & edentes, (affatim enim habuerunt)

Divites opum poſtquam fatum compleverint,

Repentinâ morte abrepti deſcenderunt ad inferni domum.

Hi autem Deum repulerunt arrogantiâ mentis,

Et valde audax verbum jactârunt; ſic enim dixerunt,

Vade agè quàm celerrimè à nobis longiùs,

Nobis enim non libitum eſt cognoſcere tuas vias.

Immortalis autem quis eſt, illi ut ſerviremus?

Aut quodnam adeò eſt emolumentum,quandoquid ẽ em ſupplicavimus illi

Multùm valde, ille autem abnuit,mali autem non fit ceſſatio?

At non diu ſuperbi gloriaturi ſunt :

Ne q; que enim firma felicitas adeſt iis, ne q; que fixa eſt. ¹

Quocirca & ego fraudulentam deteſtatus ſum ſententiam impiorum,

Nec mihi perverſum eorum placuit conſilium,

Qui injuriæ cedentes pravâ machinantur.

Quoties impios odioſa occupavit caligo ?

Quotiéſ q; que iis lampadem extinxit acerbus ventus

Ingruens ſubitò, lucernis autem extinctis

Ipſos funditus oppreſſit triſte exitium?

Succenſens autem hominibus, prout voluerit, unicui q; que

Luctus dedit Deus : diſpenſator enim is eſt dolorum.

Hi verò aridæ ſtipulæ ſunt ſimiles,

Quam celeriter abripiunt multarum-vortiginum procellæ;

Aut palææ, quam turbinatim rotunda per horrea

Tempeſtate flagellant ſtridulè-ſpirantes venti.

Interdum enim patris tranſgreſſionem miſeram

Filiis reſervavit Deus theſaurum eſſe;

Hi autem pœnam ſolventes luerunt patrem :

Interdum verò ipſe ſuæ culpæ luit talionem

Improbus, nec ulla eſt dilatio afflictionis.

Oculis ſuis ſuum omnino-infelix exitium

Videbit, gravem bibet iram Immortalis.

Cur ſuâ domo adhuc delectatur, quam linquet,

Quando ei ſemiperfecta in medio decurtatur ætas?

Quis Deo ſcientiam ſuggeret, ut diſcat?

Etenim is excelſis cauſas viris judicat.

Unus quidem moritur medio juventutis vigore,

At q; que habet pubertatis florem, quod & robur eſt maximum,

Opulentus, utro q; que parente-florens, & tranquillus, nec quicquam

metuit;

Anima autem è membris volans ad inferos deſcendit

Suam ſortem lugens, relictâ corporis-vi & juventâ.

Tempore adoleſcentiæ, cùm medulla oſſa humectat;

Tempore verno, cùm lac vaſa rigat :

Alter verò amarum animum habens afflictus ægre diſcedit

E vita, qui nec unquam buccellam jucundam comederit.

Æquales autem in pulvere omnes obdormient,

Inque eodem honorè tum malus tum bonus,

Dum vermibus eſca & præda fiunt.

At ego bene novi veſtri cogitationes animi,

Quot q; que me injuriâ afficientes nefaria molimini.

Ità enim interrogâſtis, Ubi ducis eſt palatium?

Ubi domus excelſa præclari regis?

Ubi ædes principis? ubi & illi natió q; que civitáſ q; que?

Quali autem in ſinu terræ ſita ſunt ( ſicubi fuerint )

Tecta impiorum? ubi habitant transgreſſores?

Annon ab iis audiviſtis, qui in triviis obvii

Vobis occurrunt, & eorum nôſtis ſignum?

Quemadmodum non diu ſalvi ſunt improbi ſed paulul ū um,

Et à malo conſervati ſunt immiti quâdam clementiâ,

Quoad fatum exitiale, & ſævus dies venerit:

Et ſtatim rurſus ad mortem vocati repunt

Tanquam è carcere, & ipſis certum eſt grave exitium,

Die illo, cùm vindicta divina ultió q; que fuerit.

Quis certè talis viri ſuperbam injuriam redarguet

Palàm, aut coràm intuens reprehendet opera?

Aut quis ei cominus rependet, quæcunque patravit?

Veruntamen talis licèt fuerit, fortis & ſtrenuus,

Deſcendet ad inferos, & inter mortuos apparebit

Manens in tumulo, in ſepulcro domos habitans,

Ubi eum humabunt fratréſ q; que amicí q; que.

Ibi hic quidem mollem & jucundum ſomnum carpens

Jacebit lubenter, dulces autem ei in convallibus glebæ erunt;

Nos autem miſeri poſt eum gentes hominum

Omnes tractim-ſequemur; antè quidem alii, poſt verò alii;

Sicut ante eum erant mortuorum debilia capita,

Innumeri, quot folia & flores naſcuntur vere.

At quid me iſtis conſolamini fruſtrá?

Quàm vana veſtra eſt exhortatio, ſodales,

Adhúc q; que veſtris ſtoliditas in ſermonibus?

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2. 26 κατεδεται] + δε AC | ακαυστον BU+05D0c.aC] ακουστον U+05D0* ασβεστον U+05D0c.a? ᵐᵍ (postea improb) A | κακωσαι δε] και κακωσαι A 27 om δε 1⁰ A | ανομιας] νομας U+05D0* (αν. U+05D0c.a) | om δε 2⁰ U+05D0* (hab U+05D0c.a) 28 ελκυσαι] εκλυσαι U+05D0 | απωλεια BᵃᵇC | ημερα] και ημεραι A 29 αυτω] αυτου AC XXI 1 evan in C 2 ακουσατε 1⁰] + μου A | η 1⁰] ειη A | αυτη παρ υμων A | η παρα- κλησις (-σεις A)] om η AC 3 αρατε] βαστασατε A | ειτ ου καταγελασετε (-γελασατε U+05D0) μου] ειτα μη μου καταγελαται A 4 μη] μοι C | ανθρωπου] pr εξ A | μου η ελεγξις] η ελ. μου A om μου C | η 2⁰] και A 5 εισ- βλεψαντες] εμβλεψ. A | θαυμασετε] θαυμασατε U+05D0* A θαυμα σχητε U+05D0c.a | σια- γονι] στομα A 7 δια τι] + δε A | om εν A 8 om δε U+05D0* (hab U+05D0c.a ) | οφθαλμοις] + ουτων A 9 οι οικοι ουτων ευθηνουσι sup ras C?| μαστιγξ U+05D0 |αυ- τοις] επ αυτοις Bᵃᵇ A επ αυτους U+05D0 10 εν] pr? η A om εχουσα U+05D0* (hab U+05D0c.a)

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4. U+05D0ΑC

4. 11 ως] ωσπερ ΑC | προσπαιζουσιν] προσπεζει αυτοις A 12 αναλα- ⁴ τες] + αυ U+05D0* (improb αυ U+05D0¹) αναλαμβανοντα A ευφραινονται] ευφρανθη- ται U+05D0* (ευφραιν. U+05D0c.a) 13 om δε 1⁰ A 14 δε] + ο ασεβης A | ριω] pr τω U+05D0A | οδους σου ειδεναι] ειδεναι οδ. σου U+05D0 τας οδ. σου ειδ. A δουλευσωμεν C | om καΙ τις...αυτω (2⁰) C | ωφελεια BᵃᵇA | απαντησωμεν 16 ουτων ην A | ουκ εφορα] ου καθαρα A 17 λυχνος ασεβων U+05D0 εσθησεται] pr ου U+05D0* (improb et postea ras U+05D0?) | ωδινες...αυτους] και ωδ. τοις εξ. A ωδ. δε αυτους εξ. C 18 υπο] απο Bᵃᵇ προ AC | om η U+05D0* b U+05D0c.a) | υφιλατο U+05D0AC 19 εκλειποι AC | υιοις A 20 δοι- ν] ιδοιεν δε A | εαυτου] αυτου C | απο δε] και υπο A 21 αυτου 3⁰] τον A 22 ο κυριος] om ο U+05D0 | φονους] σοφους AC 23 αποθα- ται] απεθανεν U+05D0 | απλοσυνης] αφροσυνης U+05D0c.cAC

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ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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