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διὰ τί δὲ Κύριον ἔλαθον ὦραι,

ἀσεβεῖς δὲ ὅριον ὑπερέβησαν, ποίμνιον σὺν ποιμένι

ἁρπάσαντες ;

ὑποζύγιον ὀρφανῶν ἀπήγαγον,

καὶ βοῦν χήρας ἠνεχύρασαν.

ἐξέκλιναν ἀδυνάτους ἐξ ὁδοῦ δικαίας,

ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἐκρύβησαν πρᾳεῖς γῆς.

ἀπέβησαν δὲ ὥσπερ ὄνοι ἐν ἀγρῷ,

ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ ἐξελθόντες τὴν ἑαυτῶν τάξιν·

ἡδύνθη αὐτῷ ἄρτος εἰς νεωτέρους.

ἀγρὸν πρὸ ὥρας οὐκ αὐτῶν ὄντα ἐθέρισαν·

ἀδύνατοι ἀμπελῶνας ἀσεβῶν ἀμισθὶ καὶ ἀσιτὶ ἠργάσαντο.

§⁷γυμνοὺς πολλοὺς ἐκοίμισαν ἄνευ ἱματίων,

ἀμφίασιν δὲ ψυχῆς αὐτῶν ἀφείλαντο·

ἀπὸ ψεκάδων ὀρέων ὑγραίνονται,

παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν ἑαυτοὺς σκέπην πέτραν περιεβάλοντο.

ἥρπασαν ὀρφανὸν ἀπὸ μαστοῦ,

ἐκπεπτωκότα δὴ ἐταπείνωσαν.

γυμνοὺς δὲ ἐκοίμισαν ἀδίκως,

πεινώντων δὲ τὸν ψωμὸν ἀφείλαντο.

ἐν στενοῖς ἀδίκως ἐνήδρευσαν,

²³

ὁδὸν δὲ δικαίων οὐκ ᾔδεισαν.

⁴

οἱ ἐκ πόλεως καὶ σἴκων ἰδίων ἐξεβάλλοντο,

ψυχὴ δὲ νηπίων ἐστέναξεν μέγα.

αὐτὸς δὲ διὰ τί τούτων ἐπισκοπὴν οὐ πεποίηται ;

(1³)ἐπὶ γῆς ὄντων αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν,

ὁδὸν δὲ δικαιοσύνης οὐκ ᾔδεισαν,

οὐδὲ ἀτραποὺς αὐτῶν ἐπορεύθησαν.

γνοὺς δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ ἔργα παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς εἰς σκότος,

καὶ νυκτὸς ἔσται ὡς κλέπτης.

καὶ· ὀφθαλμὸς μοιχοῦ ἐφύλαξεν σκότος,

λέγων Οὐ προσνοήσει με ὀφθαλμός,

καὶ ἀποκρυβὴν προσώπου ἔθετο.

διώρυξεν ἐν σκότει οἰκίας·

ἡμέρας ἐσφράγισαν ἑαυτούς,

οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν φῶς·

ὅτι ὁμοθυμαδὸν αὐτοῖς τὸ πρωὶ σκιὰ θανάτου,

ὅτι ἐπιγνώσεται τάραχος σκιᾶς θανάτου.

ἐλαφρός ἐστιν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ὕδατος·

καταραθείη ἡ μερὶς αὐτῶν ἐπὶ γῆς,

ἀναφανείη δὲ τὰ φυτὰ αὐτῶν 19ἐπὶ γῆς ξηρά·

ἀγκαλίδα γὰρ ὀρφανῶν ἥρπασαν.

εἶτ᾿ ἀνεμνήσθη αὐτοῦ ἡ ἁμαρτία·

ὥσπερ δέ ὁμίχηλ δρόσου ἀφανὴς ἐγένετο·

ἀποδοθείη δε αὐτῷ ἃ ἔπραξεν,

συντριβείη δὲ πᾶς ἄδικος ἴσα ξύλῳ ἀνιάτῳ.

στεῖραν δὲ οὐκ εὖ ἐποίησεν, καὶ ἀγύναιον οὐκ ἠλέησεν.

⁵⁷

Θυμῷ δὲ κατέστρεψεν ἀδυνάτους.

ἀναστὰς τοιυαροῦν οὐ μὴ πισεύσῃ κατὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ζωῆς·

μαλακισθεὶς μὴ ἐλπιζέτω ὑγιασθῆναι, ἀλλὰ πεσεῖται ωόσῳ.

πολλοὺς γὰρ έκάκωσεν τὸ ὕψωμα αὐτοῦ·

ἐμαράνθη σὲ ὥσπερ μολόχη ἐν καύματι,

ἢ ὥσπερ στάχυς ἀπὸ καλάμης αὐτόματος ἀποπεσών.

εἰ σὲ μή, τίς ἐστιν ὁ φάμενος ψευδῆ με λέγειν, καὶ Θήσει εὶς

οὑδὲν τὰ ῥήματά μου;

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).) — 24.1 focus

Τίπτ’, ἐπεὶ Ἀθάνατος καιροὺς εὖ δῖδεν ἅπαντας,

Μοῖράν τ’ ἀμμορίην τε καταθνητῶν ἀνθρώπων,

Ἀλλ’ ἔμπης κακὸν ἦμαρ ἐν ᾧ πίστεως ἀλείτας

Μέλλει, ἀνὴρ οὐκ ἔγνω ἐνὶ φρεσὶν, ἠδ’ ἐνόησεν,

Οὐδ’ εἴ τις θεὸν οἶδε, καὶ ἅζεται ᾧ ἐνὶ θυμῷ;

Ὅς μὲν ὅρους κινεῖ πολυλήϊος ἀνδρὸς ἐν ἀγρῷ,

Ὅς δὲ βίῃ ἐλάσας ἀλλότρια πώεα βόσκει.

Ἄλλοι δ’ ὀρφανικῶν ὄνον ἤλασαν, οὐδ’ ἔτι φειδώ,

Καὶ βόα χηράων ἀμυμόνων ἠνεχύρασαν.

Ἠδ’ ὕβρει εἴκοντες ὑπερβασίῃ τ’ ἀλεγεινῇ,

Τειρομένους πενίηφιν ἀπεστυφέλιξαν ὁδίτας.

Κεκρύφαται δὲ πτωχοὶ ὁμῶς ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίης

Τοῖσι βιαζομένοις· μάλα γὰρ χλωρὸν δέος ᾕρει.

Ἐκ δ’ ἴσαν ἐμμεμαῶτες ἐπὶ σφέτερ’ αἴσυλα ἔργα,

Νηλεὲς ἐν στήθεσσι καὶ ἄγριον ἦτορ ἔχοντες,

Ἀγροτέρῃσιν ὄνοισιν ἀλίγκιοι, οἵ τ’ ἐν ἐρήμῳ

Ἐξ ἄντρων θορέουσιν ἅμ’ ἠοῖ φαινομένῃσιν,

Εἴπως κύρμα κιχείεν, ὅ σφιν καταθύμιον εἴη·

Καί σφιν ἔρημος ἔδεσμα πόρεν καὶ σφοῖσι τέκεσσι.

Τοῖοι ὑπερφίαλοι καὶ ὑπέρβιοι ὑβριστῆρες

Καππεδία λωτεῦντα καὶ ἀνδρῶν πίονα ἔργα

Πλάζοντ’, ἀλλότριον βίοτον νήποινον ἔδοντες·

Κτήματα μὲν κέρσαν, πολλὴν δ’ ἀπὸ ληΐδ’ ἔλασσαν.

Ἔς τ’ ἦλθον τέμενος βαθυλήϊον ἀλλότριον ἄρ,

Ἦμαν τ’ ὀξείας δρεπάνας ἐν χερσὶν ἔχοντες·

Ἔς τ’ ἦλθον σταφυλῇσι μέγα βρίθουσαν ἀλωὴν

Καλήν, οὐ σφετέρην· μέλανες δ’ ἀνὰ βότρυες ἦσαν·

Τὴν δὲ βίῃ τρυγόωντες ἔχον μεληιδέα καρπόν.

Ὅς τις γυμνὸς ἔη, οὐδ' οἱ ῥάκος ἀμφιβαλέσθαι,

Παννύχιον μιν ἀφῆκαν ἀνείμονα χείματος ὥρῃ.

Τὸν δ' ὄμβρος κατέδευσεν, ὅταν λάβρον ῥέῃ ὕδωρ

Ῥοιζηδὸν καθ' ὄρεσφι κελαινῇ λαίλαπι θῦον,

Ὅς τ' ἐπεὶ ἐκ ἄλλων εὖρε ψύχεος ἀλεωρήν,

Πέτρῃ ὑπὸ γλαφυρῇ εὕδει βορέω ὑπ' ἰωγῇ,

Τῆς δ' ἔχετ' ἐμπεφυώς, ἵνα οἱ σκέπας ᾖ ἀνέμοιο.

Ὀρφανικὸν δέ τε παῖδα, φίλας ὅτε χεῖρας ὀρέξῃ,

Ἡδύ τι μειδιόων ἐνὶ νηπιέῃ ἀλεγεινῇ,

Μαζῷ ἀπεσπάσσαντο καὶ ἐκ κόλποιο τιθήνης,

Νηλεὲς ἦτορ ἔχοντες· ἐπηχύρησαν δὲ πενιχρόν·

Οὐδ' αὐτῷ τι διδῶσι ῥάκος, τό μιν ἀμφικαλύψῃ,

Γυμνὸν δ' ἐκπέμπουσι, γυμνόν τ' εἰῶσι νέεσθαι.

Οἷσί δ' ὑπ' ἀργαλέῳ λιμῷ φίλα γυῖα λέλυντο,

Καὶ καμάτῳ, οὐδέ ζωαρκέα δράγματ' ἀπήυρων

Σίνται, ἀμαλλάων ἵνα μηδ' ἀποναίατ' ἐεδνοί.

Οἱ δ' ἐν ἀλωῇσι λιπαρὰς τρυγόωσιν ἐλαίας,

Καὶ σταφυλὰς τραπέουσι φιλακρήτοις ἐπὶ ληνοῖς,

Ἀρνύμενοι μισθὸν σφίσι τ' αὐτοῖς καὶ τέκεϊ σφῷ,

Οὔποτε πίνοντες πολυκαγκέα δίψαν ἄφεντο.

Ἔνθα δ' ἅμ' οἰμωγή τε καὶ εὐχωλὴ πέλεν ἀνδρῶν

Ὀλλυμένων τε καὶ ὀλλυμβίων· ῥέε δ' αἵματι γαῖα·

Τῶν ὕβρις τε βίη τε σιδήρεον οὐρανὸν ἵκεν

Ἄορι θεινόντων, οὐδ' ἦν σόν γ' ἄρευν' ἀεικὴς

Καππόλιν ἐταμβύων· ὅμαδος δ' ἀλίαστος ὀρώρει.

Ἀλλ' ἐκ αἶψα Θεός γ' ἀτίῳ τίννυσθαι ἔμελλεν,

Οὐδ' ἀεσφρεσύνῃσιν, ἐᾴοι τάδε ἔργα νοῆσαι.

Σχέτλιοι ἐκ ἴσασιν ὅπη φάος, οὐδ' ὅπη ἠώς,

Οὐδ' ὅπη ἠέλιος φαεσίμβροτος εἶσ' ὑπὲρ αἶαν,

Ἠέρι καὶ νεφέλῃ κεκαλυμμένοι· οὐδέ ποτ' αὐτοὺς

Ἠέλιος φαέθων ἐπιδέρκεται ἀκτίνεσσιν,

Οὐδ' ὁπότ' ἂν στείχῃσι πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἀστερόεντα,

Οὐδ' ὅταν ἂψ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἀπ' οὐρανόθεν προτράπηται·

Ἀλλ' ἐπὶ νὺξ ὀλοὴ τέταται δειλοῖσι βροτοῖσιν.

Ἀνέρ, ἄνερ, βροτολοιγὲ, μιαφόνε, τειχεσιπλῆτα,

Καὶ σὺ πρὸ ἠελίοιο, πρὶν ἂν φανῇ ἄφθιτος ἠώς,

Ὄρνυσαι ἐκ λεχέων, κεχρημένον ἄνδρα φονεύσων,

Ἠΰτε δ' κλέπτης ἀλάλησαι νυκτὸς ἀμολγῷ.

Μοιχὸς ὁ νυκτιπλανὴς δολερῆς ἐλέλιξεν ὀπωπᾶς,

Ἧστο δ' ἐνὶ μεγάροις ποτιδέγμενος, εἰσόκε δύῃ

Οὐρανοῦ ἀγλαὸν ὄμμα, φίλος δ' ἐπὶ ἕσπερος ἔλθῃ,

Ἕλκων νύκτα μέλαιναν ἐπὶ ζείδωρον ἄρουραν.

Ἦμος δ' ὅτε κνέφας ἱκῇ, σκίδναντό τε πᾶσαι ἀγυιαὶ,

Φῆ ῥ' ὡς ὅττι μιν ὄμμα διαδρέκοι ὀξύτατόν περ,

Τοίη γὰρ νεφέλῃ κεκαλυμμένος εὔχετο εἶναι.

Ἄλλοι μὲν (Τέχναι δὲ κακῶν πολυμήχανοί εἰσιν·

Πάσας δ' οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ μυθήσομαι, οὐδ' ὀνομήνω,

Οὐδ' εἴ μοι δέκα μὲν γλῶσσαι, δέκα δὲ στόματ' εἶεν)

Ὀρφναίην ἀνὰ νύκτα διωρύξαντο μέλαθρα,

Ἅσσα πάρος σφι καὶ ἦμαρ ἕλωρ προέλοντο μινύθειν.

Οὐ φιλέουσι φάος, σκότεος δέ τε ἵμερος αἱρεῖ.

Ἅπασίη τρίλλιστος ἐπήλυθε νὺξ ἐρεβεννή.

Ἦ τ' ἄλλοισι φάος τερψίμβροτον ἤγαγεν ἠώς,

Ἐχθρὴ τοῖσι πέλει, σκιὴ ὡς θανάτοιο μέλαινα.

Εἰ δέ τις ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἴδοι, ἢ ἔργα πύθοιτο,

Πορφύρεον δ' ἄρα τώς γε νέφος θανάτοιο κάλυψεν,

Ἀχλυόεις τε φόβος δῶκε φρένας ἀμφιμελαίνας·

Ἔδεισαν μὲν ἐπιζαφελῶς, χάζοντο δ' ὀπίσω·

Ὡς ὅτε τίς τε δράκοντα ἰδὼν παλίνορσος ἀπέστη

Οὔρεος ἐν βήσσῃς, ὑπό τε τρόμος ἔλλαβε γυῖα·

Ὡς οἱ μὲν ῥίγησαν, ἐπεί κέ τις ἀθρήσειεν.

Αἰνά τε δειδιότες φύγαδ' ἐμνώοντο ἕκαστος,

Λαιψηρεῖς ὑδάτεσσιν ἐοικότες ὦκα ῥέουσι.

Τῶν δέ τε μοῖραν ὄλβου καὶ κτήματα πάντ' ἐπὶ γαῖαν,

Ὅσσά σφιν πάρος ἔσκε, κακὴ ἀπόλεσσεν ἐπαφή,

Ἔιλές τε, καὶ ἐσκέδασεν ἄφαρ διασπλῆγϊς ἐριννύς.

Οἰοπόλοι δ' ἄρα τίγ' ἀλόωνται νόσφιν ἀπ' ἄλλων,

Οὐ χρεὼν εἰσοίχνεσι βροτῶν, οὐδ' πίωνα ἔργα

Ἀμφαδίην, ἔτ' ἄδιμον ἀλωάων ἐριθηλέων.

Ὡς χιόνα ψυχρήν, ἣ ἐξ ὕδατος κρύσταλλον

Αὐχμὸς καὶ θέρμη, τάφος ὣς κατέμαρψεν ἀλείτην·

Γαστήρ, ἥ μιν ἔτικτε, λελασμένη ἔσσεται αὐτοῦ,

Τοῦ καὶ τεθνειῶτος ἰδ' ἐν κονίῃσι τεθέντος

Τεύξουσι σκώληκες ἐν ἔγκασι δαῖτα θάλειαν,

Δημὸν ἐρεπτόμενοι, ἐπινεφείδιον κείροντες.

Ὤλεθ' ἵν' οὐδ' ὄνομ' αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀνθρώποισι λίπηται,

Οὐδέ οἱ ὀψιγόνοισι πάρα μνημεῖον ἔσται.

Ῥήγνυθ' ὑπερβασίη, δρυῒν ἰκέλη, ὄφρ' ἐν ὄρεσσι

Σὺν τ' Εὖρός τε, Νότος τ' ἔπεσε, Ζέφυρός τε δυσαής·

Αἳ δ' πρὸς ἀλλήλας ἔβαλον τανυήκεας ὄζους

Ἠχῇ θεσπεσίῃ, πάταγος δέ τε ἀγνυμενάων.

Ἡ δ' γυνὴ στεῖρ' ἔσκε, καὶ οὐκ εἰδυῖα τόκοιο,

Τὴν ῥα βίῃ ἤϊξας, τρύχεσκεν ἀπλωέϊ θυμῷ

Σχέτλιος, αἰὲν ἀλιτρός, ἐφυβρίζεσκε δὲ χήρῳ,

Καὶ κακὰ πόλλ' ἔρδεσκεν ὅσ' οὐ σύμπαντες οἱ ἄλλοι.

Ῥυσάζει βριαρὸς ᾧ κάρτεϊ· ὥς ὅγ' ἀνέστη,

Οὔτις δηθὰ πέποιθεν ἔτι ζῳοῖσι μετεῖναι,

Ἔλπετο δ' ὥς τότε οἱ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι

Λευγαλέῳ, ἐπειὴ ὅγε μαίνετ' οὐκέτ' ἀνεκτῶς.

Εἰ δ' οἱ δῶκε Θεὸς σόον ἔμμεναι, οὐδ' ἀπολέσθαι,

Εὔκηλόν τε μίνυνθα καὶ ἀρτεμέα ζώοντα,

Ἀλλά γε καὶ μετόπισθ' ἀτίω καὶ σχέτλια ἔργα

Τίννυθ' ὑπόδρα ἰδών, μάλα τ' ἔκδικον ὄμμα τιταίνων.

Τυτθὸν ἀείρονται, πάντων δ' ἔτ' ὑπέρτεροί εἰσι

Δυσσεβέες, τάχα δ' αὖ κατερήρειπον ἐν κονίῃσιν·

Οἴχονθ' ὥς τε καὶ ἄλλοι ὅσοι βροτοί εἰσ' ἐπὶ γαίῃ,

Πανσυδίῃ, νώνυμοι ἐν ἀνθρώποισιν ἐόντες,

Ἀκλειεῖς τεθνᾶσι, Θεὸς δ' ἀφέλετο κῦδος,

Ὡς ὅτε τις σταχύων ἀποκόψῃ ἄκρα κάρηνα.

Ἀλλ' εἰ τοῦτ' οὐκ ἔστιν ἐτήτυμον, ὡς ἀγορεύω,

Τίς θήν μοι τὸν μῦθον ὀνόσεται, ὅσσοι ἑταῖροι;

Ἠὲ πάλιν ἐρέει; τίς ἐν ὕμμι ψεῦδος ἐλέγξει,

Δείξει τ' εὐφραδέως, ὡς οὐ πεπνυμένα βάζω;

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 24 focus

Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, And they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor,

So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, Yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

These are of those who rebel against the light; They don’t know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me. He disguises his face.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth: They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters; So does Sheol those who have sinned.

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 24.1 focus

[1] Why is it, since the Immortal well knew all the seasons, both the portion and the portionless lot of mortal men, that nevertheless the evil day, in which the faithless transgressor is about to fall, a man has not known in his heart, nor understood, nor even if one knows God and reveres him in his spirit?

[2] One man moves boundary stones in a rich man's field, and another drives off by force and pastures others' flocks.

[3] Others drove off the orphan's donkey, and there was no longer any mercy, and they took in pledge the cattle of blameless widows.

[4] And yielding to violence and grievous transgression, they thrust aside the wayfarers who were worn down by poverty. But the poor are hidden alike beneath the recesses of the earth, from those who do violence to them; For pale fear seized them greatly.

[5] And they went out raging after their own wicked deeds, having in their breasts a pitiless and savage heart, like wild asses, which in the desert rush out from their caves at the appearing of dawn, in case they might find some prey that would be after their own heart; And the desert gave them food and to their children. Such arrogant and violent men, wanton outlaws, wandered over the blooming plains and the rich works of men, eating another's livelihood unpunished; They plundered their possessions, and drove off much plunder.

[6] They came to another's deep-corned field, and they came holding sharp sickles in their hands; They came to a fair vineyard heavy with grapes, not their own; and the clusters upon them were dark; And they, gathering it by force, held the honey-sweet fruit.

[7] Whoever was naked, with no rag to throw around him, they sent him away all night long, unclad, in the season of winter.

[8] But the rain soaked him, when the rushing water flows with a roar down the mountains, raging with a dark whirlwind; who, when he has found shelter from the cold away from others, sleeps under a hollow rock, under the shelter of the north wind; and he clings fast to it, so that it may be a covering for him from the wind.

[9] And when you stretch out your loving hands to an orphan child, smiling sweetly at him in his grievous infancy, they snatch him from the breast and from the bosom of his nurse, having a pitiless heart; and they have stripped the poor man bare;

[10] And they give him no rag to cover him, and they send him out naked, and let him go naked. Those whose dear limbs had been loosed by grievous famine and by toil, and who never found life-sustaining handfuls of grain, but were plunderers, so that they might not even have enjoyment of gleanings.

[11] They gather shining olives in the threshing floors, and tread the grapes at the wine-vats dear to unmixed wine, gaining wages for themselves and their child, yet never, though drinking, did they put away their parching thirst.

[12] There together arose the wailing and the cry of men both dying and perishing. And the earth flowed with blood; The violence and force of those who struck the iron heaven with the sword reached up, and your plundering was not unseemly, O Cappolis, as you trampled; And an unceasing din had arisen. But God was soon about to punish the guilty one, and not with impieties, he would permit these deeds to be understood.

[13] Wretched men know from where the light is, nor where the dawn is, nor where the sun that shines on mortals goes over the earth, wrapped in mist and cloud; Nor does the shining Sun ever look upon them with his rays, nor when he goes toward the starry heaven, nor when he turns back again to the earth from heaven. But deadly night is spread out over wretched mortals.

[14] Man, man, bane of mortals, murderer, stormer of walls, you too before the sun, before the undying dawn appears, rise from your bed to slay a needy man, and like a thief you wander in the dead of night.

[15] The adulterer, wandering by night, rolled his deceitful eyes, and sat waiting in the halls until the bright eye of heaven should sink, and the friendly evening star should come, dragging black night over the life-giving earth. But when darkness comes, and all the streets are scattered abroad, he says that no eye, however sharp, shall see him; for he prayed to be covered by such a cloud.

[16] Others indeed (for the arts of evil are full of devices; But I would not tell of them all, nor name them, not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths, which through the murky night bored through the chambers, all that before, along with the day, they chose as spoil to diminish. They do not love the light, and the desire of darkness seizes them. The gloomy night came upon them all, most longed for.

[17] Truly for others the dawn brought light that gladdens mortals, but for these it is hateful, like the black shadow of death. But if anyone should see with his eyes, or learn of deeds, then in that way the dark cloud of death covered them, and murky fear gave over their dark-encircled minds. They were terribly afraid, and they shrank back. As when someone, seeing a serpent, starts back and stands away in the glens of a mountain, and trembling seizes his limbs; Thus they shuddered, whenever anyone might look upon them.

[18] And they, terribly frightened, each thought of flight, swift as rushing waters that flow quickly. But their allotted portion of wealth and all their possessions upon the earth, as much as they had before, a wicked touch destroyed, and it crushed them, and the smiting Fury scattered them at once. But they wander solitary, apart from others; they do not go in among mortals, nor do they openly work the fat fields, nor yet the unplowed ground of flourishing vineyards.

[19] As cold snow, which from water is ice, drought and heat, so the grave has seized the wicked man;

[20] The womb that bore him shall forget him; of him, even though he is dead and laid in the dust, worms shall make a rich feast in his inward parts, devouring his fat, cutting away what lies upon the surface. He has perished, so that not even his name is left among men, nor shall he have a memorial among later generations. Transgression breaks forth, like a boar, until in the mountains both the East Wind and the South Wind fell upon it, and the blustering West Wind too; And they hurled their long-pointed branches at one another with a wondrous roar, and there was a crashing of them as they were shattered.

[21] But she was a barren woman, and not knowing of childbirth; him, then, having rushed on with violence, the wretched one, ever sinful, kept wearing down with a witless spirit, and kept insulting the widow, and kept doing many evils, as many as all the others did not.

[22] He drags them off by his mighty strength; as he rose up, no one any longer trusts that he still lives among the living, but he hoped that then it was fated for him to be caught by loathsome death, since he raged no longer bearably.

[23] If God granted him to be safe and not to perish, both at ease for a little while and unharmed, alive — yet even afterward he would pay for his wanton and cruel deeds, glaring fiercely, stretching a very vengeful eye.

[24] For a little while they are lifted up, and the impious are still superior to all; but presently again they were dashed down in the dust. They are gone, just like all the other mortals who are upon the earth, utterly swept away, nameless among men, inglorious they have died, and God has taken away their glory — as when one cuts off the topmost heads of the ears of grain.

[25] But if this is not true, as I declare, then who will reproach me for my speech, as many companions as there are? Or will he speak again? Who among you will convict me of falsehood, and show plainly that I do not speak with understanding?

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 24.1 focus

QUare, cùm Immortalis tempora ſat novit omnia,

Fatúm q; que & infortunium mortalium hominum;

Tamen malum diem, in quo puniturus eſt ſceleratos,

Vir non novit in animo, ne q; que obſervavit,

Nec ſi quis Deum cognovit, & veneratur animitus.

Unus quidem limites movet locupletis viri in agro,

Alius verò vi abigens alienos greges paſcit.

Alii autem orphanorum aſinum abegerunt, ne q; que ſibi-temperârunt,

Et bovem viduarum infirmarum pro-pignore-abſtulerunt.

Atque injuriæ cedentes iniquitatí q; que gravi,

Afflictos egeſtate deturbârunt è via.

Occulti autem ſunt pauperes ſimul ſub penetralibus terræ

His oppreſſi: valde enim pallidus metus occupavit.

Exierunt autem incitati ad ſua nefaria opera,

Crudele in pectoribus & ferox cor habentes,

Agreſtibus aſinis ſimiles, qui in deſerto

Ex antris proruunt quam-primum luceſcit,

Sicubi prædam deprehendere-queant, quæ ipſis grata ſit:

Et iis eremus eſcam præbet, & eorum proli.

Tales ſuperbi & inſolentes oppreſſores

Per campos florentes & hominum pinguia culta

Vagantur, alienum victum impunè edentes:

Poſſeſſiones quidem vaſtârunt, multam autem prædam abduxerunt.

Intrarúnt q; que campum altæ-ſegetis, alienum licèt,

Metebántque, acutas falces in manibus habentes:

Intrarúnt q; que racemis valde oneratam vineam,

Pulchram, non ſuam; nigri verò botri inerant;

Eam autem per-vim vindemiantes habebant dulc ẽ em fructum.

Qui nudus fuerat, neque ei panniculus, quo indueretur,

Totâ nocte eum dimiſerunt ſine-veſte hyberno tempore.

Illum autem imber rigavit, cùm copioſa fluxerit aqua

Cum ſonitu de montibus atro turbine ruens,

Qui quando non aliud invenit à frigore refugium,

Petra ſub concava dormit boreæ ſub tegmine,

Hanc autem tenet adhærens, ut ei munimentum ſit à vento.

Orphanum autem puerum, charas cùm manus extendat

Suave quid ſubridens in infantia miſeranda,

Ab ubere avulſerunt vel è ſinu nutricis,

Immâne cor habentes : pignus autem acceperunt à paupere:

Neque illi ullum dant panniculum, qui ipſum tegar,

Nudum autem venire, nudúm q; que ſinunt redire.

Quibúſque gravi fame chara membra ſoluta ſunt,

Et labore, ab iis almos manipulos abſtulerunt

Noxii, ut nec manipulis frui-queant meſſores.

Qui autem in pomariis pingues vindemiant olivas,

Et uvas calcant meri amantibus in torcularibus,

Promerentes mercedem ſibíque ipſis & proli ſuæ,

Nunquam bibentes valde-aridam ſitim exemerunt.

Tunc verò ſimul ejulatus & inſultatio erat virorum

Perdentium & pereuntium: fluebat autem ſanguine terra:

Horum injuriá q; que víſ q; que ad ferreum cœlum pervenit .

Gladio percutientium, illorum .a. gemitus excitabatur miſerandus

Per urbem vulneratorum; tumultus autem ingens ortus eſt.

Verùm non ſtatim Deus noxam puniturus erat,

Neque ſtultitiam, etſi hæc opera obſervaverit.

Improbi non nôrunt ubi lux, aut ubi aurora,

Aut ubi ſol hominibus-affulgens vadit ſuper terram,

Caligine & nebulâ tecti: neque unquam eos

Sol lucidus aſpicit radiis,

Nec quando progreditur ad cœlum ſtellatum,

Nec quando rurſus ad terram de cœlo defertur;

Sed nox pernicioſa ſuperfuſa eſt miſeris mortalibus.

Vir, vir, homicida, inquinate-cæde, murorum-deſtructor,

Et tu ante ſolem, priuſquam appareat immortalis aurora,

Surgis è lecto, egenum hominem occiſurus,

Veluti autem fur erras mediâ nocte.

Mœchus noctivagus doloſos torſit oculos,

Sedit autem in ædibus expectans, donec occiderit

Cœli ſplendidus oculus, amicúſque heſperus ſupervenerit,

Trahens noctem nigram in almam terram.

Quando autem tenebræ erant, obumbrabantúrq; obumbrabantúrque omnes viæ,

Putat, quòd nullus oculus eum cernet, acutiſſimus licét;

Tali enim nebulâ obtectum ſe gloriatur eſſe.

Alii quidem (Technæ verò malorum multarum-machinarum ſunt:

Omnes autem non ego dixero, neque nominavero,

Etiamſi mihi decem linguæ, decémque ora eſſent. )

Tenebricoſam per noctem perfoderunt domos,

Quas priùs ſibi interdiu prædam elegerunt eſſe.

Non amant lucem, tenebrarum verò eos deſiderium capit.

Aliis quidem invitis occidit lumen, ſed iis

Grata multoties-rogata venit nox obſcura.

Quæ'que aliis lucem mortales delectantem duxit, aurora

Inviſa his eſt, umbra velut mortis nigra.

Quòd ſiquis oculis aſpiciat, aut opera reſciſcat,

Denſa certè eos nubes mortis texit;

Caliginoſúſque timor ſubiit præcordia nigra:

Metuerunt quidem vehementer, receſſerúntque retro.

Ut cùm quis draconem conſpicatus refiliens fugit

Montis in ſaltibus, tremórq; tremórque occupavit artus:

Sic hi quidem horruerunt, poſtquam quis eos conſpexerit.

Gravitérque metuentes fugam cogitârunt unuſquiſque,

Velocibus undis ſimiles ocyùs fluentibus. (terram,

Eorum verò ſortem omnem & et poſſeſſiones cunctas ſuper

Quæcunque ipſis priùs fuerunt mala perdet execratio,

Occupátq; Occupátque & et diſſipat citò ſæva erinnys:

Solitarii autem hi vagantur ſeorſum ab aliis,

Non cœtum ingrediuntur hominum, non pinguia ſata

Propalam, nec viam vinearum florentium.

Sicut nivem frigidam, aut ex unda glaciem,

Æſtus & et calor, ſepulcrum ſic celeriter opprimit peccatorem.

Uterus qui ipſum peperit, oblitus erit ejus,

Cujus etiam mortui & et in pulveribus poſiti

Apparabunt vermes in viſceribus convivium lautum,

Adipem rodentes, & et renibus-obtenſum carpentes.

Periit, (ità) ut nec nomen ejus inter homines relinquatur,

Neque ei apud poſteros monumentum erit.

Frangitur iniquitas, arboribus ſimilis, cùm in montibus

Simul eurúſ q; que notíſ q; que ingruit, zephyrúſ q; que graviter-ſpirans:

Hæ autem inter ſe concutiunt extenſos ramos

Sonitu immani; fragor autem fit fractarum.

Quæ autem mulier ſterilis fuit, & neſcia partûs,

Eam violentiæ impotens vexavit immiti animo

Durus, ſemper peccans, injuriâ autem affecit viduam,

Et mala multa patrabat, quot non univerſi alii.

Per-vim-trahit ſtrenuos ſuo robore: poſtquam hic ſurrexerit,

Nemo diu confiſus eſt ſe ampliùs vivis interfuturum,

Expectat autem quòd ſibi morte decretum eſt occupari

Triſti: quandoquidem hic furit non ampliùs tolerabiliter.

Quòd ſi ei det Deus ſalvum eſſe, nec perire,

Securúm q; que paululum, & incolumem viventem,

Nihilominùs poſtea noxam, & ſcelerata opera

Punit torvè intuens & admodum vindicé oculum intendens.

Paululum exaltantur, omnibúſque ſuperiores ſunt

Impii, ſtatim verò collapſi ſunt in pulvere;

Abeunt ſicut & alii, quotquot mortales ſunt ſuper terram,

Prorſus, ignobiles inter homines exiſtentes,

Inglorii moriuntur; Deus autem decerpſit gloriam,

Sicut cùm quis ariſtarum amputaverit ſumma cacumina.

Quod ſi hoc non fit verum, ut dico,

Quis mihi ſermonem reprehendet, quotquot eſtis ſocii,

Aut contradicet? quis inter vos mendacium redarguet,

Oſtendét q; que manifeſtè, quòd non prudentia loquor?

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ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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