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Προσθεὶς δὲ Ἐλιοῦς ἔτι λέγει

Μεῖνόν με μικρὸν ἔτι ἵνα διδάξω σε·

ἔτι γὰρ ἐν ἐμοί ἐστιν λέξις.

ἀναλαβὼν τὴν ἐπιστήμην μου μακράν,

¹²

ἔργοις δέ μου δίκαια ἐρῶ ἐπʼ ἀληθεἰς

καὶ οὐκ ἄδικα

ῥήματα·

ἀδίκως συνίεις.

γίγνωσκε δὲ ὅτι ὁ κύριος οὐ μὴ ἀποποιήσηται τὸν ἄκακον,

δυνατὸς ἰσχύι καρδίας

ἀσεβῆ οὐ μὴ ζωοποιήσει,

καὶ κρίμα πτωχῶν δώσει.

οὐκ ἀφελεῖ ἀπὸ δικαἰου ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ,

καὶ μετὰ βασιλέων εἰς θρόνον

καὶ καθιεῖ αὐτοὺς εἰς νῖκος, καὶ ὑψωθήσονται.

καὶ οἱ πεπεδημένοι ἐν χειροπέδαις συσχεθήσονται ἐν σχοινίοις

πενίας·

καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ αὐτοῖς τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν

καὶ τὰ παραπτώματα αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἰσχύσουσιν.

ἀλλὰ τοῦ δικαίου εἰσακούσεται·

καὶ εἶπεν ὅτι ἐπιστραφήσονται ἐξ ἀδικίας.

ἐὰν ἀκούσωσιν καὶ δουλεύσωσιν,

συντελέσουσιν τὰς ἡμέρας αὐτῶν ἐν ἀγαθοῖς,

καὶ τὰ ἔτη αὐτῶν ἐν εὐπρεπείαις.

ἀσεβεῖς δὲ οὐ διασώζει, παρὰ τὸ μὴ βούλεσθαι εἰδέναι αὐτοὺς

τὸν κύριον,

καὶ διότι νουθετούμενοι ἀνήκοοι ἦσαν.

καὶ ὑποκριταὶ καρδίᾳ τάξουσιν θυμόν·

οὐ βοήσονται, ὅτι ἔδησεν αὐτούς.

ἀποθάνοι τοίνυν ἐν νεότητι ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτῶν,

ἡ δὲ ζωὴ αὐτῶν τιτρωσκομένη ὑπὸ ἀγγέλων,

ἀνθ᾿ ὧν ἔδλιψαν ἀσθενῆ καὶ ἀδύνατον·

κρίμα δὲ πρᾳέων ἐκθήσει.

καὶ προσεπιηπάτησέν σε ἐκ στόματος ἐχθροῦ

ἄβυσσος, κατάχυσις ὑποκάτω αὐτῆς,

καὶ κατέβη τράπεζά σου πλήρης πιότητος.

⁴⁶

οὐχ ὑστερήσει δὲ ἀπὸ δικαίων κρίμα.

θυμὸς δὲ ἐπʼ ἀσεβεῖς ἔσται,

δι ἀσέβειαν δώρων ὧν ἐδέχοντο ἐπʼ ἀδικίαις.

μή σε ἐκκλινάτω ἑκὼν ὁ νοῦς

δεήσεως ἐν ἀνάγκῃ ὄνταων ἀδυνάτων,

καὶ πάντας τοὺς κραταιοῦντας ἰσχύν.

μὴ ἐξελκύσῃς τὴν νύκτα,

τοῦ ἀναβῆναι λαοὺς ἀντʼ αὐτῶν·

ἀλλὰ φύλαξαι μὴ πράξῃς ἄδικα·

ἐπὶ τοῦτον γὰρ ἐξείλω ἀπὸ πτωχείας.

δοῦ ὁ ἰσχυρὸς κραταιώσει ἐν ἰσχύι αὐτοῦ·

τίς γάρ ἐστιν κατʼ αὐτὸν δυνάστης;

τἰε δέ ἐστιν ὁ ἐτάζων αὐτοῦ τὰ ἔργας

ἡ τίς ὁ εἴπας Ἔπραξεν ἄδικα;

μνήσθητι ὅτι μεγάλα ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ τὰ ἔργα

ὧν ρξαν ἄνδρες·

πᾶς ἄνθρωπος εἶδεν ἐν ἑαυτῷ,

ὅσοι τιτρωσκόμενοί εἰσιν βροτοί.

δοῦ ὁ ἰσχυρὸς πολύς, καὶ οὐ γνωσόμεθαἀριθμὸς

ἐτῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπέραντος.

ἀριθμηταὶ δὲ αὐτῷ σταγόνες ὑετοῦ,

καὶ ἐπιχυθήσονται ὑετῷ εἰς νεφέλην·

ὄυήσονται παλαιώματα,

ἐσκίασεν δὲ νέφη ἐπὶ ἀμυθήτῳ βροτῷ.

ᵃ ὥραν ἔθετο κτήνεσιν,

οἴδασιν δὲ κοίτης τάξιν.

ᵇἐπὶ ὶ τούτοις πᾶσιν οὐκ ἐξίσταταί σου ἡ διάνοια,

οὐδὲ διαλλάσσεταί σου ἡ καρδία ἀπὸ σώματος

⁷⁸

καὶ ἐὰν συνῇ ἀπεκτάσεις νεφέλης, ἰσότητα σκηνῆς αὐτοῦ,

⁹

ἰδοὸ ἐκτενεῖ ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἡ ᾠδή,

καὶ ῥιζώματα τῆς θαλάσσης ἐκάλυψεν.

ἐν γὰρ αὐτοῖς κρινεῖ λαούς,

δώσει τροφὴν τῷ ἀκούοντι.

ἐπὶ χειρῶν ἐκάλυψεν φῶς,

καὶ ἐνετείλατο περὶ αὐτῆς ἐν ἀπαντῶντι·

ἀναγγελεῖ περὶ αὐτοῦ φίλον αὐτοῦ·

Κύριος κτῆσις καὶ περὶ ἀδικίας.

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).) — 36.1 focus

ὩΣ Ἔλιυς μὲν ἔφη· τὸν δ' ἔπεσ' ἀμείβετο μύθῳ·

Τούνεκα δ' αὖτις ἔνισπε, καὶ οὐκέτι λῆξ' ἀγορεύων·

Νωΐ μ' ὀλίγον ἄαρ ἔα, σιγῇ ποτιδέγμενος ἧσο,

Καί τοι ἐγὼ μάλα πᾶσαν ἀληθείην καταλέξω,

Ὡς ἔτι μοι πλέον ἐστὶ Θεοῦ ἕνεκ' ἀντίον εἰπεῖν.

Τηλόθεν ἀρξάμενος πεπνυμένα μήδε' ἐραννῶν

Φθέγξομαι ὧν πυθόμεσθα παλαίφατα θέσφατα φαίνων·

Ἐξαρέω δ' θέμιστας ἐπουρανίου Βασιλῆος

Τοῦ δ' δικαιοσύνην τε καὶ εὐνομίην καταλέξω,

Ὅς μ' ἄραρε φραδέως, εὖ εἰδὼς τεκτοσυνάων.

Ψεύσομαι, ἠὲ ἔτυμον ἐρέω; κέλεται δέ με θυμός·

Αἰσχρὸν γὰρ ψεύδεσσιν ἐπιστάμενον σάφα εἰπεῖν.

Νημερτέως ἔν τοι μυθήσομαι, οὐδ' ἐπικλώσω.

Πὰρ δέ τοι ἱδρύνθη, ὃς γνώσιος ἄκρον ἵκανεν,

Ὅς τ' ἤδη τά τ' ἐόντα, τά τ' ἐσσόμενα, πρό τ' ἐόντα.

Καρτερός ἐστι Θεὸς, τοῦ τε σθένος οὐκ ἀλαπαδνὸν,

Ἀλλ' οὐκ ἠπεδανῆς ἀνδρῶν ἀμέλησε γενέθλης,

Οὐδὲ βροτοὺς ἀθέριζεν ἀκιδνοτάτους πὲρ ἐόντας.

Ἦ μάλα καρτερός ἐστι, τίς οἱ μένος ἰσοφαρίζοι;

Ὡς πάντων πέρι τ' ἐστὶ βίῳ, πέρι τε φρένας ἐσθλὰς,

Ἀμφότερον, βασιλεύς τ' ἀγαθὸς, κρατερός τ' αἰχμητής.

Τῶν δ' δ' ἁμαρτηνῶν, οἷς σχέτλια ἔργα μέμηλε,

Ζωὴν οὐκ ἐφύλαξε, καὶ οὐκ ἐσάωσεν ἀλιτροὺς,

Αὐτοὶ δ' σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο.

Πτωχῷ λευγαλέῳ μάλα κήδεται, ἠδ' ἐλεαίρει,

Εὖ τε δίκην παρέχων, θυμαλγέα δ' ὕβριν ἀμύνων.

Οὔποτ᾽ ἀπ᾽ εὐσεβέων ἀγανὴν ἔτρεψεν ὀπωπὴν,

Ὀφθαλμοὶ δ᾽ ἑοὶ αἰὲν ἐπ᾽ ἀνέρας εἰσὶ δικαίους,

Ἰθυντάς τε καθῖσεν ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλοῖσι θρόνοισι,

Τιμὴν ὄφρα λάχωσι μετ᾽ ἰφθίμων βασιλήων,

Ἔνθά σφεας ἵδρυσε διαμπερὲς, οἱ δέ τ᾽ ἄερθεν.

Εἰ δέ ποτ᾽ ἐν κλοιοῖς καὶ ἀλυκτοπέδῃσι δέδεντο,

Μόχθου τ᾽ ἀργαλέοιο περί σφίσι δεσμὰ κέχυντο·

Τόφρα δ᾽ ὅγε σφ᾽ ἀνέφηνεν, ἀειφραδέως τ᾽ ἀπέδειξεν,

Ὅσσα κακὰ ῥέξεσκον ἀτασθαλίῃσι νόειο,

Ἄτην τε σφετέρην, καὶ ὑπερβασίην ἀλεγεινήν.

Οὔατα δέ σφ᾽ ἀνέῳξε, καὶ ἐν φρεσὶ μήδεα πυκνὰ

Θῆκεν ἐπισταμένως, ἵνα μὴ ληθοῖατ᾽ ἐφετμέων,

Ἀλλὰ κακοῦ ἀπάτερθε παλίντροπον ἴχνος ἔχοιεν.

Εἰ μετόπισθε πίθωνται (ἐπεὶ πείθεσθαι ἄμεινον)

Ἁζόμενοι φρεσὶν ᾗσιν ἐφημοσύνας τε καὶ αὐτόν·

Δὴ τότ᾽ ἀναπλήσουσι βίον, θαλίῃ ἔνι πολλῇ,

Χάρμασί τε γλυκεροῖσι κυλινδομένων ἐνιαυτῶν·

Εἰ δ᾽ ἔμπης ἀπίθησαν ἐφ᾽ μυσοεικέϊ θεσμῷ,

Φθίσει σφεας ἄορ ὀξὺ, φίλης τ᾽ αἰῶνος ἀμέρσει,

Ἀκλειῶς τ᾽ ἀπολεῦνται ἀϊδρείῃσι νόοιο.

Οἱ δ᾽ δολοφρονέοντες ἀμήχανοι ἠπεδανοί τε

Μῆνιν νήσαντο κακοῦ ἐς μόρσιμον ἦμαρ·

Οὐδὲ γὰρ εὐχωλὰς εἰς οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἱεῖσιν,

Εἴ γέ ποτ᾽ Ἀθάνατος χαλεπόν σφισι δεσμὸν ἔθηκε.

Τῷ ἔπι προφθῖσθαι, πρὶν γήραος οὐδὸν ἱκέσθαι,

Αἰνόμοροι θνήσκουσι, μινυνθαδίως σφισι δ᾽ αἰὼν

Τήκεται ἐν μάχλοισι, μέσῳ πόρνων τ᾽ ἐν ὁμίλῳ.

Πτωχὸς αὖτε λύης καὶ ὀϊζύος ἐξανέλυσε,

Ἐν πάντεσσι πόνοισι παρεισάμενός τε φύλαξεν·

Οὔατα δέ σφιν ἀνῷγε, βίῃ ὅτ᾽ ἐπῆλθε καὶ ὕβρις.

Οὕτω καί κέ σε ῥεῖα μετήγαγεν ἐκ στενωποῦ

Χῶρον ἐς εὐρύτερον, τῷ οὐ στείνειας ἔμελλες·

Καὶ ἐπ᾽ ὀνείαθ᾽ ἑτοῖμα προκείμενα χεῖρας ἴαλλες

Ἔδων αἰγήης μυσοεκέα δαῖτα τραπέζης.

Τὼν δ᾽ πρόφρων ὀλοφώϊα δώε᾽ ἀλειτέων

Μήδεά τ᾽ ἐκτέλεσας, τῷ σ᾽ οὐ σόον ἔμμεναι ὀΐω,

Ἀλλά σε νῦν νέμεσίς τε κακὴ καὶ μοῖρα κιχάνει.

Αἰνὸς δὴ χόλος ἐστὶ, Θεοῦ δ᾽ ἐποπίζεο μῆνιν,

Μή σε βάλῃ, ἀπὸ δ᾽ γ᾽ μελιηδέα θυμὸν ἕληται·

Τόφρά μιν οὐ πείσεις γε φέρων ἀπερείσι᾽ ἄποινα·

Οὐδ’ εἰ οἱ δεκάκις τε καὶ εἰκοσάκις τόσα δοίης,

Ὅσσά τέ σοι πάρος ἔσκε, καὶ εἰ πόθεν ἄλλα γένοιτο,

Ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὣς ἔτι θυμὸς ἑὸς πείσεσθαι ἔμελλε,

Ψυχήν τοι λῦσαί τε φίλην, τά τ’ ἄποινα δέχεσθαι.

Πάντα δ’ ἀπόβλητ’ ἐστὶ Θεῷ ἐρικυδέα δῶρα,

Ὅσσά κό τις δώῃ μεμαὼς ψυχὴν ἐρύσασθαι,

Μάψ’· ὃ γὰρ οὐκ ἀλέγει, ἐπεὶ οὐ πλούτοιο μεμηλώς,

Οὐδ’ ἄρα οἱ φίλα εἰσὶ τόσα χρυσοῖο τάλαντα·

Ἀλκή οἱ ἠδὲ βίη οὐδ’ ἐν λόγῳ οὐδ’ ἐν ἀριθμῷ·

Λίην γὰρ κρατερὸς πέλει πάντων ἔστ’ ἀνθρώπων.

Μήπω ἱμείρεο νυκτὸς, ὅτ’ αἰφνιδίῳ τινὶ πότμῳ

Λαοὶ ἀποφθινύθουσιν ἅμα σφετέρῳ ἐνὶ χώρῳ·

Οὐ γάρ τις θεόθεν φυγέειν κακὸν, οὐδ’ ἀνὰ νύκτα.

Φράζεο, μὴ ματίης ὄθεο φρεσὶ, μηδ’ ἀλίτημα

Σοὶ μελέτω περὶ κῆρι, τὸ γάρ ῥ’ ὄϊτυς προβεβούλῃ.

Ῥεῖα δ’ ἀείγνωτος Θεῷ ἀνδράσι γίνεται ἀλκὴ,

Οἷσίν τ’ ἤθελε κῦδος ὑπέρτερον ἐγγυαλίξαι.

Τίς κεν ἀλεξίκακον βουλὴν, ὡς αὐτὸς, ὑφαίνοι;

Τίς κέν οἱ ἰδρείῃ τε διδάσκαλος ἰσοφαρίζοι;

Τίς μὲν οἱ, ἠΰτε πομπὸς, ἑὴν ὁδὸν ἡγεμόνευσε;

Τίς δέ μιν εὖ ἐδίδαξεν, ὅπως ὄχ’ ἄριστα γένηται;

Ἠὲ τίς οἱ ποτὲ ἔργον ὀνόσσεται, ὅσσ’ ἔοργεν,

Ἀντία νεικείων, Ὡς οὐ τόδε καλὸν ἔρεξας;

Ἀλλὰ σὺ μήποτε λήθου ἀγάσσασθαι τὰ ἃ ἔργα,

Καὶ μεγαλίζεσθαι, τά περ ἀνέρες αἰὲν ὁρῶνται·

Πᾶσι γὰρ ἐστ’ ἀρίδηλα· τίς ἂν βροτὸς ἀγνώσσοι;

Ῥεῖα δ’ ἀνὴρ ἐθέλων κε διασκοπιὴν ἀθρήσειεν,

Οὔ τε κῃ ἀμβλύτατον κεφαλῆς ἐκδέρκεται ὄσσε.

Παμμεγέθης ὁ μέν ἐστι, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἔτι μιν ἴδμεν·

Οἷός καὶ ὅσσος ἔπλεθ’, ὁμῶς ἠΰς τε μέγας τε·

Ἀργαλέος γάρ τ’ ἐστὶ Θεὸς βροτῷ ἀνδρὶ δαῆναι·

Ἄφθιτος οἱ ζωή, ἐτέων δ’ τίς οἶδεν ἀριθμόν;

Λεπτοτάτας μὲν προΐκας ἐϋρραθάμιγγος ἐέρσης,

Ὑδατοέσσας τε ψακάδας κατέχευεν ἔραζε·

Αἰθὴρ δ’ ἐκ ἀχάριστος, ἐπεὶ πέσεν ἰκμάδα γαίης,

Αὖθις ἀναῤῥοιβδεῖ, πίων ἐπεικὲς ἀμοιβὴν,

Ὑετὸν ἄλλ’ ὅτε διδῷ, περιόγιον ἀντάξιον ἀτμοῦ,

Ὑγρὸν ἀποβλύζων, τό,τε πρὶν χθονὸς ἐκμύζησε·

Τήκεται ἠελίῳ νέφος ὄγκιον, αἶψα δ’ ἐπ’ ἄνδρας

Ταρφειὰς ῥανίδας, καὶ λαβρότατον χέει ὕδωρ.

Τίς κ᾽ ἔργον ξυνιῇ νεφεληγερέταο ἄνακτος,

Οἵοισι νεφέεσσι περιστρέφει οὐρανὸν εὐρύν,

Ὡς νεφέλην ἐπέτασεν ἐπ᾽ αἰθέρος δῖα τάπητα

Αὐτοῦ ἐνὶ κλισίῃ, μέγα δ᾽ ἐσμαράγησεν Ὄλυμπος;

Ἄλλοτε μὲν σκιόεις πέλεν οὐρανὸς, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αἴθρη

Πέπταται ἀκνέφελος, λακὴ δ᾽ ἐπιδέδρομεν αἴγλη·

Ἄλλοτε κυανέῃ νεφέλῃ ἐκάλυψε θαλάσσης

Βένθεα καὶ ῥίζας, ἤχλυσε δὲ πόντος ὑπ᾽ αὐτῆς.

Πολλάκι γάρ τ᾽ εἴωθε Πατὴρ πυκινοῖσι νέφεσσιν

Ἀνθρώπους τίσασθαι ὑπερβασίης ἀλεγεινῆς,

Ἤματ᾽ ὀπωρινῷ, ὅτ᾽ ἐπιβείσῃ μέγας ὄμβρος

Λαίλαπι θεσπεσίῃ, μινύθει δέ τε ἔργ᾽ ἀνθρώπων·

Πολλάκι δ᾽ αὖ νέφεσι τρεφίμνορα σῖτον ὀφέλλει·

Ὄφρα γε ἀρδμοὶ εἰσὶ διὰ ψακάδων ἁδινάων

Κοίλης ἐκ νεφέλης αἰεὶ νέον ἐρχομενάων,

Οὐρανόθεν δὲ πέτονται ἐπ᾽ ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσιν,

Αἱ μὲν τ᾽ ἔνθα ἅλις πεποτήαται, αἱ δέ τε ἔνθα,

Τόφρα μάλ᾽ εὐθενίη μέλλει μετόπισθε γενέσθαι

Καρπῶν παντοίων, μέγα δ᾽ βρίθουσιν ἀλωαί.

Πορφυρέῃς νεφέλῃσιν Ὄλυμπον ἀμφεκάλυψεν

Ἠελίοιο δέμας, περί τε σκιόεσσαν ὀμίχλην

Ἔσσε μιν, ἠΰτε λεπτόν ἐϋννητόν τε χιτῶνα,

Καί τ᾽ ἀνέδυσε φάειν νέφεος δ᾽ ἐξερχομένοιο·

Τῷ καὶ ῥηγνυμένοιο καὶ ἀλλυμένοιο κεραυνοῦ

Σμερδαλέος κτύπος ὦρτο, μέμυκεν δ᾽ οὐρανὸς εὐρύς·

Κτήνεα δ᾽ ἀγγέλλουσι ὁμοφθόγγῳ τινὶ φωνῇ

Ἀτμὸν, τὸν νοέουσιν ἀπὸ χθονὸς ὕψοσ᾽ ἰόντα.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 36 focus

Elihu also continued, and said,

Bear with me a little, and I will show you; For I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

I will get my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, But with kings on the throne, He sets them forever, and they are exalted.

If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,

Then he shows them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

He also opens their ears to instruction, And commands that they return from iniquity.

If they listen and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

But if they don’t listen, they shall perish by the sword; They shall die without knowledge.

But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, Into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, Or all the might of your strength?

Don’t desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; For this you have chosen rather than affliction.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, You have committed unrighteousness?

Remember that you magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.

Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

For he draws up the drops of water, Which distill in rain from his vapor,

Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, And the thunderings of his pavilion?

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

He covers his hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark.

The noise of it tells about him, And the cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 36.1 focus

[1] Thus Elihu spoke; and he answered him with a word, falling upon him: Therefore speak again, and do not cease any longer from declaring;

[2] Bear with me a little while, wait in silence, and I will recount to you the whole truth, since I still have more to say on God's behalf face to face.

[3] Beginning from afar, uttering wise counsels, I will speak, revealing the ancient oracles of which we have learned; I will set forth the ordinances of the heavenly King, and I will recount his justice and good order, who fitted me together skillfully, knowing well the crafts of building.

[4] Shall I lie, or shall I speak the truth? My heart urges me on. For it is shameful for one who knows clearly to speak with lies. Truly I will speak to you, and I will not weave falsehood. And beside you is set one who has reached the summit of knowledge, who knows both the things that are, and the things that will be, and the things that were before.

[5] God is mighty, and his strength is not feeble; but he has not neglected the lowly race of men, nor did he despise mortals though they be ever so weak. Truly he is very mighty; who could match his fury? So he is over all in life, and over noble minds, both a good king and a mighty warrior.

[6] But of the sinners, whose cruel deeds are their care, he did not preserve their life, and he did not save the wicked, but they themselves perished by their own reckless follies. For the wretched poor man he cares greatly, and he pities him, rendering justice well, and warding off heart-grieving outrage.

[7] Never did he turn his gentle gaze away from the pious, and his eyes are always upon righteous men, and he set the upright on lofty thrones, so that they might obtain honor among mighty kings; there he established them continually, and they were raised up.

[8] And if ever they were bound in collars and in fetters, and bonds of grievous toil were poured around them;

[9] Meanwhile he revealed it to them, and wisely showed forth all the evils they had done in the follies of their mind, both their ruin and their grievous transgression.

[10] And he opened their ears, and skillfully placed dense counsels in their hearts, so that they might not forget his commandments, but might keep their step turned back away from evil.

[11] If thereafter they obey (since to obey is better), reverencing in their own hearts both his commandments and himself; Then indeed they shall fill up their life, in much festivity, and with sweet joys as the years roll on;

[12] But if they disobeyed utterly against his hateful-like decree, a sharp sword shall destroy them, and shall deprive them of dear life, and they shall perish ingloriously through follies of mind.

[13] But those who devise deceit are helpless and worthless, and they spun wrath for the evil man unto his fated day; For they do not even send up prayers to broad heaven, if ever the Immortal has laid a grievous bond upon them.

[14] By this they are cut off beforehand, before they come to the threshold of old age; the ill-fated die, and their life wastes away swiftly amid the vile, in the midst of a crowd of fornicators.

[15] But he delivered the poor man from affliction and misery, and in all his toils he stood by him and guarded him. And he opened their ears, when violence and insolence came upon them.

[16] So too would he have led you easily out of the narrow place into a broad room, and that which was set before you would have been full of fatness. And you kept casting your hands upon the ready viands set before you, eating the goat's fly-defiled feast of the table.

[17] But you eagerly accomplished the baneful counsels of the wicked; therefore I do not think you are safe, but now evil nemesis and fate overtake you.

[18] Dreadful indeed is his wrath; so fear the anger of God, lest he strike you and take away your honey-sweet life.

[19] For all that, you will not persuade him by bringing countless ransom. Not even if you gave him ten times and twenty times as much, as much as ever was yours before, and even if other things came from somewhere; but not even so was his own heart ever going to consent, to release his dear soul, and to accept the ransom. But all are to be rejected by God, his glorious gifts, as many as one might give eager to draw out his soul — in vain. For he does not care for that, since he has no concern for wealth, nor indeed are so many talents of gold dear to him; His strength and might count neither in word nor in number; For he is exceedingly mighty, more than all men.

[20] Do not yet long for the night, when peoples perish by some sudden fate together in their own land; For no one can escape evil from God, nor through the night.

[21] Consider, do not in your mind look upon worthless things, nor let transgression be a care to you in your heart, for you have chosen folly instead.

[22] Easily and ever-known to God does strength become for men, those to whom he wished to grant surpassing glory. Who could weave a counsel that wards off evil, as he himself does? Who could match him as a teacher in knowledge?

[23] Who guided his path for him like a escort? And who taught him well, so that it might turn out far the best? Or who will ever reproach him for his work, for all that he has done, contending against him, saying, 'Because you did not do this well'?

[24] But you, never forget to marvel at his works, and to magnify them, which men always behold;

[25] For they are manifest to all; what mortal could fail to know them? Easily indeed a willing man might survey them from afar, and nowhere does he gaze with dimmer eye from his head.

[26] He is exceedingly great, and we still know him; Such and as great as he was, alike good and great; For God is hard for a mortal man to know; His life is imperishable, but who knows the number of his years?

[27] He poured down the finest gifts of finely-dropping dew, and watery drops to the earth; But the air, thankless, after the moisture of the earth has fallen, sucks it back up again, fattening a fitting recompense, whenever it gives rain, a surplus equal to the vapor, pouring out the wetness which it had before drained from the ground.

[28] The massy cloud is melted by the sun, and straightway it pours thick drops upon men, and a most violent water.

[29] Who could understand the work of the cloud-gathering lord, with what kind of clouds he whirls the wide heaven around, how he spread out a cloud over the sky like a divine tapestry in his own tent, and great Olympus thundered?

[30] At one time the sky was shadowy, and at another the clear air spreads out cloudless, and a bright gleam has run over it. At another time with a dark cloud he covered the depths and roots of the sea, and the deep grew murky beneath it.

[31] For often the Father is accustomed to punish humans with thick clouds for grievous transgression, on a summer day, when a great rainstorm with a wondrous squall comes upon them, and the works of humans diminish. And often again he nourishes the life-giving grain with clouds. As long as there are waterings through thick drops ever freshly coming from a hollow cloud, and they fly from heaven upon the spring flowers, and some swarm here in abundance, and others there, so long will great abundance of all fruits be about to come afterward, and the threshing floors weigh heavy greatly.

[32] With purple clouds he wrapped Olympus around the body of the Sun, and he cast about it a shadowy mist, like a fine well-spun tunic, and drew it up into the light as the cloud went forth;

[33] At this, both as the thunderbolt bursts and is destroyed, a dreadful crash arose, and the wide heaven bellowed; And the cattle announce with a single-voiced cry the vapor, which they perceive rising up from the earth.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 36.1 focus

Sic Elius fatus eſt; ei autem nemo reſpondit ſermonem:

Ideo rurſus inſit & nondum deſtitit verbis.

Nunc me paululùm ſine, tacitè expectans ſede,

Et tibi ego valde omnem veritatem dicam,

Adeò adhuc mihi pl ⁹ us¹ eſt quod Dei gratiâ ex-adverſo urgeam.

Longè exordium-ſumens prudentia conſilia ſcrutans

Eloquar, quæ fando accepimus, vetera oracula pandens;

Enunciabo autem jura cœleſtis Regis,

Ejus autem juſtitiám q; que & æquitatem declarabo,

Qui me fabricavit ſapienter, peritus artifex.

Mentiar, aut verum dicam? movet verò me animus:

Turpe enim mentiri ſcienti vera dicere.

Vere igitur tibi loquar, neque occultabo.

Juxta te autem ſitus eſt, qui ad cognitionis apicem pervenit,

Quí q; que novit præſentia, & futura, & præterita.

Fortis eſt Deus, ejúſ q; que robur non debile,

At non infirmum hominum neglexit genus,

Ne q; que mortales contempſit, impotentiſſimi licèt ſint.

Certè admodum fortis eſt; quis ei viribus æquiparetur?

Adeò omnes excellit potentiâ, menté q; que ſanâ,

Utrumque, réx q; que bonus, validúſ q; que bellator.

Peccatorum autem, quibus nefaria opera curæ-ſunt,

Vitam non ſervavit, & non ſalvavit tranſgreſſores;

Ipſi autem ſuis flagitiis perierunt.

Pauperis miſeri admodum curam-gerit & miſeretur,

Bené q; que jus præbens, moleſtám q; que injuriam propulſans.

Nunquam à piis mitem avertit vultum,

Oculi autem ejus ſemper ſuper juſtos ſunt viros,

Rectǽque-mentis-viros collocavit in excelſis thronis,

Honorem ut nancifcantur cum validis regibus;

Ibi eos conſtituit perpetuò, ii verò exaltati ſunt.

Quòd ſi unquā unquam in collaribus & compedibus vincti fuerint,

Ærumnǽque gravis iis vincula circumfuſa ſint:

Tum verò ille ipſis oſtendit, manifeſtóque declaravit,

Quanta mala patraverint improbitate mentis,

Noxámque ſuam, & tranſgreſſionem gravem.

Aures autem iis aperuit, & in mente conſilia prudentiæ

Poſuit ſcienter, ut non obliviſcantur mandata,

Sed à malo ſeorſum retrogradum veſtigium habeant.

Si poſtea obtemperent ( quandoquidẽ quandoquidem obtemperare præſtat)

Reverentes animis ſuis præceptáque & ipſum;

Tum verò exigent vitam, proſperitate in multa,

Gaudiíſque dulcibus volventibus annis:

Sin verò non obediant ejus placidæ legi,

Perdet eos gladius acutus, charâque vitâ privabit,

Turpitérque peribunt inſcitiâ mentis.

At doloſi verſuti hypocritæ

Iram accumulant malam in fatalem diem:

Neque enim preces in cœlum amplum mittunt,

Siquando Immortalis grave iis vinculum imponit.

Quare adhuc puberes, priuſquam ſenectutis limen contingant,

Infauſti moriuntur, breve autem eorum ævum

Conſumitur inter libidinoſos, medióque cinædorum in cœtu.

Pauperes verò contrà ærumnâ exolvit & calamitate,

In omnibus laboribus præſénsque ſervavit:

Aures autem iis aperuit, oppreſſio cùm venerit & injuria.

Ità etiam te facilè transferre-poterit ex anguſta-viâ

Locum in ampliorem, ubi non arctatus fores:

Et in eſcas paratas appoſitas manus extenderes

Edens pinguis gratum convivium menſæ.

Tu autem promptus peſtifera conſilia peccatorum

Cogitationéſque perfeciſti; ideo te non ſalvum eſſe puto,

At te nunc Nemeſis mala, & Parca aſſequitur.

Gravis jam ira eſt; Dei autem verere furorem,

Nè te percutiat, & dulcem vitam abripiat:

Tum eum non flectes ferens licèt infinita dona;

Neque ſi ei decies ac vicies totidem dares

Quot tibi antea fuerunt, & ſi alicunde alia acceſſerint.

At nec dum ità futurum eſt, ut animus ejus perſuadeatur

Animam tibi liberare charam, & redemptionis-pretium accipere.

Omnia autem rejectanea ſunt Deo inſignia dona,

Quæcunq; Quæcunque quis dederit valdè-cupiens animã animam ſuam redimere,

Fruſtrá: ille enim ea non curat, quandoquidem non eſt divitiarum ſtudioſus,

Nec utiq: utique illi grata ſunt tot auri talenta:

Robur ei & vires neque in ratione neque in numero ſunt;

Valde enim fortis præ omnibus eſt hominibus.

Nondum deſidera noctem, quando repentino quodam interitu

Populi diſpereunt ſimul ſuo in loco;

Nec enim quis divinitùs-miſſum fugiet malũ malum, neq; neque per noctem.

Conſidera, nè reſpice vanitatem in animo, nec iniquitas,

Tibi curæ-ſit in corde, hoc enim miſeriæ prætuliſti.

Facilè autem notum Dei hominibus fit robur,

Quibus velit gloriam præſtantiorem præbere.

Quis ſalutare conſilium, ſicut ille, texere-queat?

Quis eo ſcientiâ doctor ſe-conferre-audeat?

Quis ei, velut dux itineris, ſuam viam præivit?

Quis autẽ autem eum benè docuit, quomodo quàm optimè res fiant?

Aut quis ei unquam opus reprehendet eo-quòd-tale fecit,

Coram ſic objurgans, Quàm hoc non rectè feciſti?

At tu nunquam obliviſcere admirari ejus opera,

Atque magnificare, quæ homines ſemper vident:

Omnibus enim ſunt manifeſta; quis mortalis ignoraverit?

Facilè enim vir, ſi velit, ad diſtantiam intueatur,

Cujus vel obtuſiſſimè ex capite cernunt oculi.

Permagnus hic eſt, & nos neutiquam eum ſcimus,

Qualis & quantus eſt, pariter bonúſque magnúſque:

Difficilis enim eſt Deus mortali homini cognitu:

Incorruptibilis ei vita, annorum verò ejus quis novit numerum?

Minutiſſimas guttulas bene-ſtillantis roris,

Aqueáſque guttas defudit in terram.

Aër verò non ingratus, poſtquam bibit humorem terræ,

Iterum regerit, rependens decentem compenſationem,

Pluviámque viciſſim dat, progenitore condignam vapore,

Humidum rejectans, quod priùs è terra ſuxit.

Diſſolvitur ſole nubes gravida, mox autem ſuper homines

Crebra ſtillicidia, & abundantem fundit aquam.

Quis opus intelligat nubium-congregatoris regis,

Qualibus nubibus cingit cœlum latum,

Quemadmodum nebulam expandit ſuper aërem tanquam tapetem

Ibi in tentorio ſuo, valdè autem reboat cœlum.

Modò caliginoſum eſt cœlum, modò ſerenitas

Panditur abſ q; que nube, candidus autem circumfulget ſplendor:

Interdum cæruleâ nube obtexit maris

Profunda & radices, obſcuratus autem pontus eſt ſub ipſa.

Sæpe enim ſolet Pater denſis nubibus

Homines punire ob transgreſſionem gravem,

Die autumnali, cùm ingruit magnus imber

Turbine ingenti, minuuntur autem opera hominum:

Sæpe autem viciſſim nubibus viros-alentem cibum auget:

Quando enim irrigationes ſunt per guttas frequentes

Cava ex nube ſemper recèns venientes,

Cœlitus autem volant ſuper floribus vernis,

Et aliæ hàc confertim volant, aliæ illàc,

Tum admodum abundantia poſtmodum futura eſt

Fructuum omnigenorum, affatim autem onuſta-ſunt arva.

Obſcuris nebulis Cœlicola circuntexit

Solis corpus, umbroſámque caliginem

Induit illi, quaſi tenuem & bene-netam tunicam,

Et prohibuit lucere per nubem ſupervenientem:

Quâ etiam ruptâ, & exiliente fulmine,

Horribilis fragor oritur, remugit verò cœlum amplum;

Jumenta autem nunciant unanimi quâdam voce

Vaporem, quem ſentiunt à terra ſurſum euntem.

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3. B

4. U+05D0A

4. 3 αληθιας U+05D0A 5 γιγνωσκε δε] γινωσκω δε εγω A 6 ασεβων U+05D0 c.a)A ⁴ 7 οφθαλμον A | βασιλεως U+05D0* ( λεων U+05D0c.a α⁽ᵛiᵈ) | om και2⁰ U+05D0A | εις νικος και και εις ν. A | υψωθησεται A 8 συνσχεθησονται A | σχοινιοις] συχοινιοις U+05D0* (improb υ U+05D01 postea ras) σχοινιω U+05D0 c.a) α 9 ουτων 1⁰] αυτοις U+05D01 | om και τα παραπτ. ουτων U+05D0* (hab U+05D0 c.a) | οτι] οταν A | ισχυσωσιν A 10 om εξ U+05D0* (hab B ᵃ) | αδικιας] ακακιας U+05D0* (αδικ. U+05D0 c.a) 11 ευπρεπιαις U+05D0 12 αυτους ιδεναι A 13 εδεησεν U+05D0* (εδησεν U+05D0c.a) 14 αποθανη A | υπο] | pr ειη A 16 προσεπιηπατησεν ΒU+05D0*A] προσετι \ηπατησεν U+05D0c.a) | κατα- κεσεις Α

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7. U+05D0A

8. 17 ουχ] pr και A 18 εσται] ηξει A | δι] δια A | ασεβείας U+05D0 | αδικειας A 19 εκκλινη A | ο νους εκων A | εναγκη B* (εν αναγκη Bᵃᵇ) | ὄντων] ων τῶν U+05D0* (οντ, U+05D0 c.a) | αδυνατων εν αναγκη οντων A | και] pr αλλα φυλαξοι μη πραξης ανομα A | κρατουντας U+05D0* (κραταιουντας U+05D0 c ᵃ) 20 λαους] αδους A viᵈ 21 om αλλα φυλαξοι μη πρ. αδικα A | αδικα] ατοπα U+05D0 c.a) | επι] απο U+05D0 c.a) | του- των U+05D0 | πτωχιας A 23 κραταιώσει εν] κραταιως εν U+05D0 κραταιώσει σε ρν A 23 om η U+05D0 | ειπας] ειπων A 24 μνησθητι] + ουν· Ἰὼβ A | αυτου αατιν A ων] ης (ων U+05D0 c.a8 25 ιδεν A | εαυτω] αυτω U+05D0 | τιτρωσκομενοι] τιτ rescr 22 ο 26 om ου U+05D0* (hab U+05D0 c.a) | αριθμος] αριθμητος U+05D0 c.a) 27 αριθμηται] αναριθμητοι Κ* αριθμητοι U+05D0 c.a) ᵃ αριθμηται U+05D0 c | υετου σταγονες A | επιχθησον- ται U+05D0* (επιχυθ. U+05D0 c.a) 26 επι αμυθητω] επιθυμητα ω U+05D0 * (om ω U+05D01 αμυ- θητων U+05D0c.aA |βροτω U+05D0¹ (vid)c.afort βροτων A 28 α οιδασιν δε] και οιδασν A 28 b εξιστατο A | διαλλασεται B* (διαλλασσ. Bᵃᵇ) | σωματος] pr του A

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ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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