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Ἔστιν γὰρ ἀργυρίῳ τόπος ὅθεν γίνεται,

τόπος δέ χρυσίου ὅθεν διηθεῖται·

σίδηρος μὲν γὰρ ἐκ γῆς γίνεται,

χαλκὸς δὲ ἴσα λίθῳ λατομεῖται.

τάξιν ἔθετο σκότει,

καὶ πᾶν πέρας αὐτὸς ἐξακριβάζεται·

λίθος σκοτίας καὶ σκιὰ θανάτου,

διακοπὴ χειμάρρου ἀπὸ κονίας·

οἱ δὲ ἐπιλανθανόμενοι ὁδὸν δικαίαν ἠσθένησαν ἐκ βροτῶν.

γῆ, ἐξ αὐτῆς ἐξελεύσεται ἄρτος,

ὑποκάτω αὐτῆς ἐστράφη ὡσεὶ πῦρ.

τόπος σαπφείρου οἱ λίθοι αὐτῆς,

¹³

καὶ χῶμα χρυσίον αὐτῷ.

τρίβος, οὐκ ἔγνω αὐτὴν πετεινόν,

καὶ οὐ παρέβλεψεν αὐτὴν ὀφθαλμὸς γυπός·

καὶ οὐκ ἐπάτησαν αὐτὸν υἱοὶ ἀλαζόνων,

οὐ παρῆλθεν ἐπʼ αὐτῆς λέων.

ἐν ἀκροτόμῳ ἐξέτεινεν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ,

κατέστρεψεν δὲ ἐκ ῥιζῶν ὄρη·

δίνας δὲ ποταμῶν ἔρρηξεν,

πᾶν δὲ ἔντιμον ἴδεν μου ὁ ὀφθαλμός·

βάθη δὲ ποταμῶν ἀνεκάλυψεν,

ἔδειξεν δὲ ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν εἰς φῶς.

ἡ δὲ σοφία πόθεν εὑρέθη;

ποῖος δὲ τόπος ἐστὶν τῆς ἐπιστήμης;

οὐκ οἶδεν βροτὸς ὁδὸν αὐτῆς,

οὐδὲ μὴν εὑρέθη ἐν ἀνθρώποις.

ἄβυσσος εἶπεν Οὐκ ἔνεστιν ἐν ἐμοί·

καὶ ἡ θάλασσα εἶπεν Οὐκ ἔνεστιν μετʼ ἐμοῦ.

οὐ δώσει συνκλεισμὸν ἀντʼ αὐτῆς,

καὶ οὐ σταθήσεται αὐτῇ ἀργύριον ἀντάλλαγμα αὐτῆς·

καὶ οὐ συνβασταχθήσεται χρυσίῳ Σωφείρ ,

ἐν ὄνυχι τιμίῳ καὶ σαπφείρῳ·

οὐκ ἰσωθήσεται αὐτῇ χρυσίον καὶ ὕαλος,

καὶ τὸ ἄλλαγμα αὐτῆς σκεύη χρυσᾶ.

μετέωρα καὶ γαβεὶς οὐ μνησθήσεται,

καὶ ἕλκυσον σοφίαν ὑπέρ τὰ ἐσώτατα·

οὐκ ἰσωθήσεται αὐτῇ τοπάζιον Αἰθιοπίας,

χρυσίῳ καθαρῷ οὐ συνβασταχτήσεται.

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ἡ δὲ σοφία πόθεν εὑρέθη;

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ποῖος δὲ τόπος ἐστὶν τῆς συνέσεως;

λέληθεν πάντα ἄνθρωπον,

καὶ ἀπὸ πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐκρύβη.

ἡ ἀπώλεια καὶ ὁ θάνατος εἶπαν

Ἀκηκόαμεν δὲ αὐτῆς τὸ κλέος.

ὁ θεὸς εὖ συνέστησεν αὐτῆς τὴν ὁδόν,

αὐτὸς δὲ οἶδεν τὸν τόπον αὐτῆς.

αὐτὸς γὰρ τὴν ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν πᾶσαν ἐφορᾷ,

εἰδὼς τὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ πάντα

ἐποίησεν,

ἀνέμων σταθμόν, ὕδατος μέτρα,

ὅτε ἐποίησεν·

οὕτως ἰδὼν ἡρίθμησεν,

καὶ ὁδὸν ἐν τινάγματι φωνάς.

τότε εἶδεν αὐτὴν καὶ ἐξηγήσατο αὐτῇ,

ἑτοιμάσας ἐξιχνίασεν·

εἶπεν δὲ ἀνθρώπῳ Ἰδοὺ ἡ θεοσέβειά ἐστιν σοφία,

τὸ δὲ ἀπέχεσθαι ἀπὸ κακῶν ἐστὶν ἐπιστήμη.

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).) — 28.1 focus

Ἀργύρῳ ἔστι μέταλλον ὑπὸ χθονὸς, ᾗ ἀνορύχθη,

Καὶ χρυσῷ ἕδος ἔστιν, ὃν ὕστερον ἐν χρόνοισι

Τέκτων ἀμφιπονεῖται ἰδυίῃσι πραπίδεσσι.

Μητέρος ἐκ γαίης ὀλοὸν τέκος ἤλυθε σίδηρος,

Ἐκ λίθου ἑλκομένου χωνεύεται ἐν πυρὶ χαλκός.

Ἧ γὰρ θνητὸς ἀνὴρ πολυϊδρείῃσι νόοιο

Βῆ ῥ' ἐς ὑποχθονίους τε μυχούς, δῦ δ' ἔγκατα γαίης

Σμερδαλέ', ἀχλυόεντα, φάος τ' ἐνὶ κάδθεσιν ἧκε,

Χρήματα μαστεύων, καὶ πᾶν πολύτιμον ἐραννῶν,

Ἢ χάλυβ', ἢ χαλκοῖο γονὴν, ἢ σπέρματα χρυσοῦ·

Τιμιῶτας δ' ὑπένερθε λίθους, καὶ πάντα μέταλλα

Δεινῆς ἐκ κόλποιο, καὶ ἐκ ψαμάθοιο βαθείης

(Τῶνπερ κεν φαίης σκιῇ ἐν θανάτοιο μελαίνῃ

Ἔμμεναι, ὅστις ὄρυξε· τόσον χάνεν εὐρεῖα χθών)

Ἐξάγαγε προφόωσδε, τὰ δ' ἠελίῳ ἴδεν αὐγάς.

Εἰ δέ ποτ' ἐξαπίνης ὕδωρ ῥέεν ἔνδοθι βόθρου

Ὑψόσ' ἀναβλύζον, (σφαραγεῦντο δὲ ὕδατα γαίης)

Εἰ τ' ἄλλως καὶ ὄρεσφιν ὀπαζόμενος Θεοῦ ὄμβρῳ

Χειμάῤῥυος ἐπόρουσε, καὶ ἔπως ὅτι πόδεσσι

Στήριγμα ἀμφοτέροις, μινύθει δέ τε ἔργ' ἀνθρώπων·

Ἔνθ' ὀχητηγὸς ἀνὴρ ποταμῶν στόματ' ἄλλυδις ἄλλο

Τράπεεν ἐπισταμένως ὕδατος ῥόον ἡγεμονεύων,

Χερσὶ μάκελλαν ἔχων, ἀμάρης δ' ἐξ ἔγματα βάλλων,

Ἢ διὰ σωλήνων· τὸ δέ τ' ὦκα ῥέον κελαρύζει,

Κῦμα παλιῤῥόθιον, φθάνει δέ τε καὶ τὸν ἄγοντα.

Γαῖα φίλη ἡμέτειρα πέλει θρεψίνοος ἄρτου,

Τῆς δ' ὑπὸ νηδύϊοις ἀνεραίγεται ἐνδόμυχον πῦρ.

Σαπφείρων ἕδος εἰσὶ λίθοι ὑπὸ κόλπεσι γαίης

Μητέρος, ἣ πολύχρυσον ἔχει ἐνὶ γαστρὶ κονίην.

Ἔστι μὲν ἀτραπιτὸς τὴν οὔ ποτ' ὄρνεον ἴδεν,

Οὐδέ ἑ αἰγυπιὸς ἴδεν ὄμμασιν, ὅν ῥά τε φασὶν

Ὀξύτατον δέρκεσθαι ὑπερανίων πετεηνῶν.

Τὴν ὁδὸν οὔτ' ἄρ' ἴσαν σκύμνοι χαροποῖο λέοντος,

Οὔτε λέων βλοσυρὸς σείει δεινοῖσι πόδεσσι·

Τὴν δ' ἐπάτησεν ἀνὴρ γαίης κειμήλια διψῶν.

Ὅς τ' ἐπεὶ οὖν θησαυρὸν ἐέλπετο νέρθεν ἐόντα,

Πέτρας ἐδνοπάλιξε, βίῃ καὶ χερσὶ πεποιθώς,

Πέτρας ἐστυφέλιξε, κατέστρεψεν δ' κάρηνα

Ἠλιβάτων ὀρέων, τὰ δ' ῥιζόθεν ἐξεείποντο

Κάσπεσε ῥοιζηδὸν, βυθοὶ δ' ἀνεκυμβαλίαζον.

Ἐν σκοπέλοισι μέσσοις ποταμὸς βαθυδινήεντας

Ὤρυξε, πᾶν πολύτιμον ἑός τ' ὀφθαλμὸς ὄπωπεν.

Εἴργει πληθύντων ποταμῶν ἀλεγεινὰ ῥέεθρα·

Ἰχανάᾳ μέγα κῦμα, τὸ δ' ἐκ ὑπεράλλεται ὄχθης.

Εἴ τι καλακρυφθῇ, τάχα δ' ἤγαγεν αὐτὸ φόωσδε.

Πῆ δ' ἄρα τις δύναται σοφίην διζήμενος εὑρεῖν;

Ἢ κὴ τίς πέλε χῶρος ἐχεφροσύνης ἐρατεινῆς;

Οὐ γάρ τις ποτὲ ἴδεν ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων

Ὡς ἐείτιμος ἔη, πάντων τ' ἀντάξιος ἄλλων.

Οὐ βροτῷ εὑρετός ἐστι, κᾀ ὐ ζωοῖσιν ὀπηδεῖ.

Οὐκ ἐν ἐμοί, φάμενος, στερεῶς ἀπανήνατο βυσσός,

Οὐ παρ' ἐμοί, φαμένη, κρατερῶς ἀπέειπε θάλασσα.

Οὔ τις μιν χρυσῷ πρίαται κᾀν μνεῖα δοίη,

Οὐδέ ποτ' ἀργυρίῳ, κᾀν ἄσπετον ὦνον ἐνείκοι.

Οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐξ ἄμφω σοφίῃ ἀτάλαντα γένοιντο,

Οὐδ' εἴ τις τόσα δοίη, ὅσα ψάμαθός τε κόνις τε,

Οὐδ' εἴ κεν δεκάκις τε καὶ εἰκοσινήριτα δῶρα.

Χρυσὸς ὁ ὄβρυζος μέγ' ἀνάξιος ἔστιν ἐκείνης,

Οὐδὲ τόση τιμὴ ὄνυχος καὶ σαπφείρου.

Τῇ ἔτε χρυσὸς πολυδαίδαλος ἰσοφαρίζοι,

Οὔτε κρύσταλλος καθαρός· τὴν δ' ἔτις ἀμείβοι

Καλῶν ἀντὶ λίθων ἐριτίμοιο χρυσοῖο.

Οὐδέ τις ἔσται μνήμη ἐρυθρῷ κεραλλίου,

Μάργαρα τηλεφανῆ· οὐδ' ἐν λόγῳ, οὐδ' ἐν ἀριθμῷ·

Τοῦτο δὲ λωΐτερον πάντων πέλε μαργαριτέων,

Δῖα φρένις, πινυτός τε νόος, καὶ θυμὸς ἐχέφρων.

Ἀξίη οὐ τόση πέλεται ξανθοῖο τοπάζου,

Ὃς καὶ ἀπ' Αἰθιόπων μετενείσατο τηλόθ' ἐόντων·

Οὐ χρυσὸς καθαρὸς πρὸ ἐὼν καὶ πολλὸν ἄπεφθος

Ἰσοπαλὴς, ἐπεὶ οὔποθ' ὁμοίης ἔμμορε τιμῆς.

Τούνεκα ἡ σοφίη πόθεν ἤλυθε πότνια μήτηρ;

Ἦ καὶ τίς πέλε χῶρος ἐχεφροσύνης ἐρατεινῆς;

Παντὸς ὅτι ζῶντος καὶ ἐπὶ χθονὶ δερκομένοιο

Ῥηϊδίως λάθεν ὄμμα, καὶ ἐκ ἤντησεν ὀπωπῆς·

Οὐδέπω ἔστ' ἀείδηλος ὑπερουρανίοις πετεινοῖς,

Οἷσι καὶ ὀξύτατον κεφαλῆς ἐκδέρκεται ὄσσε.

Πότμος καὶ θάνατος διδυμάονες ἠρνήσαντο,

Καὶ ἕνα θυμὸν ἔχοντες ὁμόθροον ἴαχον αὐδήν,

Ἡμεῖς μὲν κλέος οἷον ἀκούομεν, οὐδέ τι ἴδμεν.

Ἀλλὰ Θεὸς καὶ ὁδὸν νοέει, χῶρόν τε γινώσκει,

Πῇ σοφίη μίμνει σάφα οἶδε, καὶ ὁππόθι ναίει.

Πάντοσε γὰρ παπταίνει ἑῶν ἐπ' ἔσχατα πείρατα γαίης,

Τῆλε δ' ἀπ' οὐρανόθεν πανεπίσκοπον ὄμμα τιταίνει.

Ὁππότε βυκτάων ἀνέμων λαιψηρὰ κέλευθα

Θῆκεν, ὅπως βομβηδὸν ὑπὸ νέφεσι κλονέωνται,

Στῆσε δ' ἐνὶ πλάστιγγι βαρυπνείοντας ἀήτας,

Τοὺς δὲ ταλαντάεσκε, καὶ ὕδασι μέτρον ἔδωκεν

Εὖ καὶ ἐπισταμένως, στάθμῃ δ' ἴθυνε θάλασσαν,

Καῤῥόον ὄφρα φέροιτο, καὶ μὴ ἐπὶ χέρσον ὀρούσαι·

(Πείρατα γὰρ τούτων εἰ μὴ κατὰ κόσμον ἄρηρεν,

Αὐτίκα σύγχυτο πάντα, καὶ αἰθέρι μίσγετο πόντος)

Καί τ' ὄμβροιο ῥοῇσιν ἀτέρμονα θεσμὸν ἔθηκεν,

Ὄφρ' ἀδινῆς ψεκάδεσσιν ἄλις δευοίατ' ἄρουραι·

Βροντῇ τε στεροπῇ τε δίηξε δῖαν ἀταρπὸν,

Ὄφρα σμερδαλέῳ πάταγος καθ’ Ὄλυμπον ὀρώρῃ,

Ἀλλουδίοιο πυρὸς νέφεϊ διὰ ῥηιστεμβόλοιο.

Ταῦθ’ ὅτε μὲν τὰ πρῶτα Θεὸς κοσμήσατο πάντα,

Δὴ τότε μιν θηεῖτο, καὶ ᾧ πεμπάζετο θυμῷ

Εὖ διαγνώσκων, καὶ ἐρευνήσας μιν ἔτετμυ.

Ἀνέρι δ’ εἶπεν· Ἰδὲ, σοφίη πέλε δεῖμα Θεοῖο,

Ἢ δὲ φυγὴ κακότητος, ἐχεφροσύνη ἐρατεινή.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 28 focus

Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is smelted out of the ore.

Man sets an end to darkness, And searches out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, And he overturns the mountains by the roots.

He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

He binds the streams that they don’t trickle; The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

The deep says, It isn’t in me. The sea says, It isn’t with me.

It can’t be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Gold and glass can’t equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?

Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the sky.

Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.

God understands its way, And he knows its place.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, And sees under the whole sky.

He establishes the force of the wind; Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

Then did he see it, and declare it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

To man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 28.1 focus

[1] Silver has a mine beneath the earth, where it is dug out, and gold has a place, which later in time a craftsman works with skilled mind.

[2] From the mother earth came iron, a deadly offspring; from stone drawn out, bronze is smelted in fire.

[3] For a mortal man, by the deep cunning of his mind, went into the subterranean recesses, and plunged into the dread, murky depths of the earth, and cast light in the shafts, seeking treasures and gathering up everything precious, whether steel, or the offspring of bronze, or the seeds of gold. And precious stones beneath, and all metals out of the dread hollow, and out of the deep sand (of which you might say they are in the black shadow of death, whoever dug them; so wide did the earth gape) he brought them forth to the light, and they saw the sunbeams with the sun.

[4] If ever suddenly water flowed from within a pit, gushing upward, (and the waters of the earth swelled), and if otherwise, driven among the mountains by God's rain, a torrent rushed forth, and in such a way that it is a support for both feet, and it diminishes the works of men; There a man skilled in channeling turned the mouths of rivers now this way, now that, expertly guiding the stream of water, holding a mattock in his hands, and casting out the refuse of the channel, or through pipes; And it, flowing swiftly, murmurs — a wave rushing back again — and it even outruns the one who leads it.

[5] Our dear earth is a nourisher of bread, and beneath its belly a fire hidden within is stirred up.

[6] Stones are the seat of sapphires beneath the bosoms of Mother Earth, who holds gold-rich dust in her belly.

[7] There is a path which no bird has ever seen, nor has the vulture beheld it with its eyes, which they say is the sharpest-sighted of the birds above.

[8] That path the cubs of the tawny lion have not known, nor does the grim lion tread it with his terrible feet. But a man thirsting for the treasures of the earth has trodden it.

[9] He, when he hoped for a treasure being beneath, smote the rocks, trusting in force and hands; he struck the rocks, and overturned the heads of the lofty mountains, and they from the root were dashed down headlong with a rush, and the depths surged up.

[10] Among the midst of the crags a river of deep-eddying waters he dug out; every precious thing his eye has seen.

[11] He checks the grievous streams of overflowing rivers; a great wave he holds back, and it leaps over the bank. If anything has been hidden away, he quickly brought it to light.

[12] Where then can one, seeking wisdom, find it? Or where is the place of lovely understanding?

[13] For no one of earth-dwelling men ever saw how honored it is, and worthy of all others. It is not findable by a mortal, nor does it attend the living.

[14] "It is not in me," said the deep, firmly refusing; "It is not with me," said the sea, strongly denying. No one can buy it with gold, nor give it in exchange, nor ever with silver, even if he should bring countless purchase-price.

[15] For neither of the two could be weighed equal in wisdom, nor if one should give as much as sand and dust, nor even ten times and twenty-times-counted gifts.

[16] Gold of Ophir is far unworthy of her, nor is the value of onyx and sapphire so great.

[17] With it neither intricately-wrought gold could compare, nor pure crystal; nor could anyone exchange it for fair stones of highly-honored gold.

[18] Nor shall there be any mention of red coral, or of pearls shining afar; nor in account, nor in number; But this is better than all pearls — a godlike mind, and a prudent understanding, and a wise-hearted spirit.

[19] Not so worthy is the yellow topaz, which even from the Ethiopians who dwell afar has been brought hither; Pure gold that existed before, and much refined gold, is not equal to it, since it has never obtained a like honor.

[20] Therefore, from where has wisdom come, the queenly mother? Or indeed, what place is there of lovely self-restraint?

[21] Because it has easily escaped the eye of every living being and of one that looks upon the earth, and it has eluded sight; It is not yet unseen by the birds of the sky, whose eye also looks out most sharply from its head.

[22] Destiny and death, twins, have denied it, and having one spirit they cried out with a concordant voice: 'We indeed hear only a rumor, and we know nothing.'

[23] But God understands the way, and he knows the place; where wisdom abides he clearly knows, and where she dwells.

[24] For he gazes everywhere to the farthest ends of his earth, and from heaven afar he stretches his all-seeing eye.

[25] When he made the swift paths of the blustering winds, so that they are dashed with a roaring beneath the clouds, he set in a balance the heavy-breathing blasts, and weighed them, and gave measure to the waters well and skillfully, and with a plumb-line he directed the sea, so that its stream might flow, and not rush upon the dry land; (For if the bounds of these things had not been fitted according to order, all things would at once have been confounded, and the sea would have mingled with the upper air.) And he set a boundless ordinance for the streams of rain, so that the fields might be drenched enough with thick drops.

[26] And with thunder and lightning he drove a wondrous path, so that with a dreadful crash the din might arise throughout Olympus, through the cloud of the lightning-flashing fire of God.

[27] When God first adorned all these things, then he beheld it, and with his own spirit pondered it, discerning well, and having searched it out he cut it off.

[28] And he said to the man: Behold, wisdom is the fear of God, and to shun evil is understanding, lovely.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 28.1 focus

Argento eſt vena ſub tellure, ubi effoditur,

Et auro locus eſt, quod poſtea in vaſis-fuſoriis

Faber elaborat peritâ mente.

Matre è terra pernicioſa proles venit ferrum,

E lapide extractum conflatur in igni æs.

Certè enim mortalis homo prudentiâ mentis,

Intravit ſubterraneos ſpecus,penetravit .a. in viſcera terræ,¹

Horrenda, tenebricoſa, lucémq; lucémque cavernis immiſit,

Divitias inquirens, & et omne pretioſum ſcrutans,

Aut chalybem, aut æris venam, aut ſemina auri:

Pretioſos autem ſubtèr lapides, & et omnia metalla

Vaſto è ſinu, & et ex arena profunda

( Hunc certè diceres umbra in mortis nigra

Eſſe, qui fodit, adeò dehiſcit lata terra )

Eduxit in lucem; ea autem ſolis viderunt jubar.

Quòd ſi quando repentè unda fluat intra fodinam,

Surſum ſcaturiens, (diſtenta enim erant ubera terræ)

Sive aliter de montibus auctus Dei imbre

Torrens ingruat, & nullo-modo licet pedibus

Stare ambobus, minuuntur autem opera hominum :

Tum aquæ-ductor homo fluviorum oſtia aliò aliud

Avertit ſcienter, aquæ rivum deducens,

Manibus ligonem habens, & ex alveo obices amovens,

Aut per tubos; celeriter autem fluens immurmurat

Unda retrograda, præcurrit autem & ipſum ductorem.

Terra amica parens eſt homines-nutrientis panis,

Ejúſ q; que ſub viſceribus eructatur inteſtinus ignis.

Sapphirorum locus ſunt lapides ſub penetralibus terræ

Matris, quæ auro-abundantem geſtat in utero pulverem.

Eſt quidem ſemita, quam nulla unquam avis novit,

Ne q; que vultur conſpexit oculis, quem etiam aiunt

Acutiſſimè cernere inter aërias volucres.

Hanc viam nec iverunt catuli fulvi leonis,

Neque leo torvus calcat horrendis pedibus;

Eam tamen calcavit homo terræ theſauros ſcrutans.

Qui cùm theſaurum ſperaverit ſubtus exiſtentem,

Petras concuſſit vi & manibus fretus,

Petras dimovit, ſubvertítque cacumina

Celſorum montium, hi autem radicitus collapſi

Cecidere cum-ſonitu, colles autem ſubvertebantur.

In rupibus mediis fluvios profundi-vorticis

Fodit, omne pretioſum ejus oculus vidit.

Coërcet inundantium fluviorum gravia fluenta,

Siſtit magnum fluctum, hic autem non tranſilit ripas.

Siquid abſconditum ſit, ſtatim eduxit illud in-lucem.

Ubi autem quis poteſt ſapientiam quærens invenire?

Aut quis eſt locus prudentiæ amabilis?

Nec enim quis unquam novit terreſtrium hominum

Quàm pretioſa ſit, omniúm q; que rerum inſtar aliarum :

A mortali inveniri non poteſt, & vivis non adeſt.

Non eſt in me, dicens, ſtrenuè abnegavit abyſſus,

Non apud me, dicens, fortiter recuſavit mare.

Nemo ipſam auro emit, etſi innumera det,

Necdum argento, licèt immenſum pretium ferat.

Neque enim ambo ſapientiæ æquiparanda ſunt,

Nec ſiquis tot daret, quot arenáque pulvíſque,

Neque ſi deciéſque, & vicies-infinita dona.

Aurum obryzum valde indignum eſt illâ,

Neque tantum pretium eſt onychis & Sapphiri.

Cum ea nec aurum affabre-factum comparari-queat,

Nec cryſtallum purum; eam autem nequis permutare-velit

Pulchris pro lapidibus pretioſi auri.

Ne q; que ulla erit mentio rubri coralii,

Gemmæ pellucidæ nullo in pretio nec numero :

Hoc autem præſtantius omnibus eſt margaritis,

Divina prudentia, ſolérs q; que animus, & mens ſapiens.

Valor non tantus eſt flavi topazii,

Qui ab Æthiopibus venit longè ſemotis :

Non aurum, purum licèt ſit & multùm excoctum,

Par ei eſt, quia nunquam ſimile fortitum eſt pretium.

Ergò ſapientia unde venit veneranda mater?

Aut quis locus eſt prudentiæ amabilis?

Cujuſque liquidé viventis, & ſuper terram lucem videntis.

Facilè latuit oculum, & non occurrit in conſpectum:

Necdum eſt conſpicua aëriis volucribus,

Quibus acutiſſimè ex capite cernunt oculi.

Perditio & mors gemellæ abnegârunt,

Et unum animum habentes concordem ediderunt vocem,

Nos quidem famam tantùm accipimus, nihil ſcimus.

At Deus & viam intelligit, locúm q; que cognoſcit,

Ubi ſapientia manet clarè novit, & ubi habitat.

Undi q; que enim circunſpicit in extremos fines terræ,

Longè de cœlo omniſcium oculum extendit.

Quando procelloſorum ventorum celeres vias

Poſuit, ut cum-ſtrepitu ſub nubibus tumultuarentur,

Statuit autem in lance graviter-ſpirantes ventos,

Eóſque libravit, & aquis menſuram dedit

Bene & ſcienter, amuſſi autem æquavit mare;

Per alveum ſuum ut flueret, & non in terram erumperet:

(Limites enim horum niſi ſecundùm ordinem fixi eſſent,

Statim confunderentur omnia, & ætheri miſceretur mare)

Etiam & pluviæ ſtillationibus æternam legem poſuit,

Ut crebris guttis ubertim rigarentur arva;

Tonitruó q; que fulgetró q; que diſcidit divinam ſemitam,

Ut horrendus fragor per cœlum excitaretur;

Saliente igni nubem per diſruptam.

Hæc cùm in-principio Deus ordinavit omnia,

Jam tum ipſam aſpexit, & in ſuo perpendit animo

Bene diſcernens, & ſcrutatus eam invênit.

Homini autem dixit; Ecce, ſapientia eſt timor Dei,

Fuga autem máli, prudentia amabilis.

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1. 15 χηρας δε] και χ. A χ. τε C | ουθεις] ουδεις A ου.... C 16 χρυσιον ¹ τοιμαση A 17 ταυτα] + δε U+05D0 18 σητος A | αραχνη (-ναι U+05D0)] + ο πλου- ος αυτου A 19 κοιμηθεις] κοιμηθησεται U+05D0c.ᵃ C | om και 1° A | ου] + μη U+05D0 | φθαλμους (μος A)] + δε U+05D0 20 συνηντησαν] κοιμηθεντι συναντησονται A | υδωρ] σητες U+05D0* (υδ. U+05D0c.c) | αι οδυναι] om αι A | υφιλατο U+05D0A | γνοφος] αιλαψ U+05D0 21 αναλημψεται (αναλαμψ. C ) δε] και αναλημψ. U+05D0 om δε AC 2 επιριψει] απορειψει A | αυτον] pr επ U+05D0c.ᵃC | φεισεται] γνωσεται C 3 αυτου 1°] αυτους U+05D0* αυτον U+05D0c.ᵃ (mox revoc -τους) A | ουτων] αυτου AC XXVIII 1 αργυριου U+05D0* (-ριω U+05D0c.c) | χρυσιω U+05D0c.cAC 3 παν] καιρων A | υτος] αυτους A | σκοτιας] σκοτια U+05D0AC 4 επιλαθανομενοι C | οδον ικαιαν] οδους δικαιοσυνης A 5 ωσει] ως A 6 οι λιθοι] pr και A

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4. U+05D0AC

5. 6 χρυσιον] χρυσιουν U+05D0* (-σιον U+05D0¹) χρυσαιον U+05D0c.ᵃ (mox revoc -σιον) | αυτω] αυτη U+05D0c.ᵃ (restit αυτω) 7 τριβος c praec coniung vid U+05D0 | πετεινωl A 8 om και U+05D0c.ᵃAC | ουκ επατησαν] ου κατεπατησαν U+05D0 | αυτον] αυτην U+05D0AC | παρηλθεν] γαρ ηλθεν A 10 δινας (θεινας U+05D0A θινας C)] adnot τα κοιλωματα των υδατων· τας ιλιγγας Bᵃ ᵐᵍ inf | εντιμον] τιμιον AC | ιδεν (ειδ. Bᵃᵇ U+05D0)] ιδειν C | μου] αυτου U+05D0c.ᵃA 11 βαθη δε] και βαθη A | εαυτου] αυτου A ουτων C 16 της επιστημης] om της A 13 οδον] pr την C | μην] μη U+05D0c.ᵃAC 14 ενεστιν bis] αστιν U+05D0AE | η θαλασσα] om η U+05D0AC 15 συγκλεισμον BᵇC | om αυτη BᵃᵇU+05D0AC | αυτης 2°] pr αντ U+05D0* (improb U+05D0c.ᵃ) 16 συμβασταχθ. B? | Σωφειρ (-φιρ U+05D0)] Ωφειρ AC 17 ουκ] pr και A | ισοθησεται B | αλλαγμα] ανταλλαγμα C | χρυσα] ρ sup ras Aa 18 γαβεις ου] γαβεις sup ras A εις ου sup ras Cᵃ | ου] + μη U+05D0* (improb U+05D0c.ᵃ) | om και 2° U+05D0* (hab ӄ U+05D0c.ᵃ) | εσωτατα] εσωτα A 19 συμβασταχθ. B?A

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ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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