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Μετὰ δὲ τὸ παύσασθαι Ἐλιοῦν τῆς λέξεως εἶπεν ὁ κύριος τῷ

Ἰὼβ διὰ λαἰλαπος καὶ νεφῶν

Τἰς οὗτος ὁ κρύπτων με βουλήν,

συνέχων δὲ ῥήματα ἐν καρδία, ἐμὲ δὲ οἴεται κρύπτειν;

ζῶσαι ὥσπερ ἀνὴρ τὴν ὀσφύν σου.

ἐρωτήσω δέ, σὺ δέ μοι ἀποκρίθητι.

ποῦ ἧς ἐν τῷ θεμελιοῦν με τὴν γῆν;

ἀπάγγειλον δέ μοι, εἰ ἐπίστῃ σύνεσιν.

τις ἔθτο τὰ μέτρα αὐτῆς, εἰ οἶδας;

ἢ τίς ὁ ἐπαγαγὼν σπαρτίον ἐπʼ αὐτῆς;

ἐπὶ τίος οἱ κρίκοι αὐτῆς πεπήγασινς

τἰς δέ ἐστιν ὁ βαλὼν λίθον γωνιαῖον ἐπʼ αὐτῆς;

ὅτε ἐγενήθησαν ἄστρα, ᾔνεσάν με φωνῇ μεγάλῃ πάντες ἄγγελοί

μου.

ἔφραξα δὲ θάλασσαν πύλαις, ὅτε ἐμαίμασσεν ἐκ κοιλίας

μητρὸς αὐτὴ ἐκπορευομένη·

ἐθέμην δὲ αὐτῇ νέφος ἀμφἰασιν.

ὁμἰχλῃ δὲ αὐτὴν ἐσπαργάνωσα·

¹³

ἐθέμην δὲ αὐτῇ ὅρια, περιθεὶς κλεῖθρα καὶ πύλας·

εἶπα δὲ αὐτῇ Μέχρι τούτου ἐλεύσῃ, καὶ οὐχ ὑπερβήσῃ,

ἀλλ ἐν σεαυτῇ συντριβήσεταί σου τὰ κύματα.

ἡ ἐπὶ σοῦ συντέταχα φέγγος πρωινόν,

ἑωσφόρος δὲ ἴδεν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ τάξιν,

ἐπύλαβέσθαι πτερύγων γῆς,

ἐκτινάξαι ἀσεβεῖς ἐξ αὐτῆς

ἢ σὺ λαβὼν γῆν πηλὸν ἔπλασας ζῶον,

καὶ λαλητὸν αὐτὸν ἔθου ἐπὶ γῆς;

ἀφεῖλας δὲ ἀπὸ ἀσεβῶν τὸ φῶς,

βραχίονα δὲ ὑπερηφάνων συνέτριψας;

ᾖλθες δὲ ἐπὶ πηγὴν θαλάσσης,

ἐν δὲ ἵχνεσιν ἀβύσσου περιεπάτησας

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ἀνοἰγονται δέ σοι φόβῳ πύλαι θανάτου,

πυλωροὶ δὲ ἄδου ἰδόντες σε ἔπτηξαν;

νενουθέτησαι δὲ τὸ εὖρος τῆς ὑπʼ οὐρανόν; ἀνάγγειλον δή μοι

πόση τίς ἐστιν.

ποἰᾳ δὲ γῆ αὐλἰζεται τὸ φῶς,

σκότους δὲ ποῖος ὁ τόπος;

εἰ ἀγάγοις με εἰς ὄρια αὐτῶν;

εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐπίστασαι τρίβους αὐτῶν

οἶδα ἄρα ὅτι τότε γεγέννησαι,

ἀριθμὸς δὲ ἐτῶν σου πολύς.

ἦλθες δὲ ἐπὶ θησαυροὺς χιόνος,

θησαυροὺς δὲ χαλάζης ἑόρακας;

ἀπόκειται δέ σοι εἰς ὥραν ἐχθρῶν,

εἰς ἡμέραν πολέμων καὶ μάχης;

πόθεν δὲ ἐκπορεύεται πάχνη,

ἢ διασκεδάννυται νότος εἰς τὴν ὑπʼ οὐρανόν;

τἰς δὲ ἡτοἴμασεν ὑετῷ λάβρῳ ῥύσιν,

ὁδὸν δὲ κυδοιμῶν,

⁵⁶

τοῦ ὑετίσαι ἐπὶ γῆν οὗ οὐκ ἀνήρ,

ἔρημον οὗ οὐχ ὑπάρχει ἄνθρωπος ἐν αὐτῇ,

τοῦ χορτάσαι ἄβατον καὶ ἀοίκητον,

καὶ τοῦ ἐκβλαστῆσαι ἔξοδον χλόης;

τἰς ἐστιν ὑετοῦ πατήρ;

τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ τετοκὼς βώλους δρόσου;

ἐκ γαστρὸς δὲ τίνος ἐκπορεύεται ὁ κρύσταλλος;

πάχνην δὲ ἐν οὐρανῷ τίς τέτοκεν

ἢ καταβαίνει ὥσπερ ὕδωρ ῥέον;

πρόσωπον δὲ ἀσεβοῦς τἰς ἔπτηξεν;

συνῆκας δὲ δεσμὸν Πλειάδος,

καὶ φραγμὸν Ὠρἰωνος ἤνοιξας

ἢ διανοίξεις Μαζουρὼθ ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ,

καὶ Ἕσπερον ἐπὶ κόμης αὐτοῦ, ἄξεις αὐτά

ἐπίστασαι δὲ τροπὰς οὐρανοῦ

ἢ τὰ ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν ὁμοθυμαδὸν γινόμενα;

καλέσεις δὲ νέφος φωνῇ, καὶ τρόμῳ ὕδατος λάβρῳ ὑπακούσε-

ταί σου;

ἀποστελεῖς δὲ κεραυνοὺς καὶ πορεύσονται

ἐροῦσν δέ σοι Τί ἐστιν;

τίς δὲ ἔδωκεν γυναιξὶν ὑφάσματος σοφίαν ἢ ποικιλτικὴν ἐπι-

στήμηνς

τίς δὲ ὁ ἀριθμῶν νέφη σοφίᾳ.

οὐρανὸν δὲ εἰς γἢν ἔκλαενς

κέχυται δὲ ὥσπερ γῆ κονία.

κεκόλληκα δὲ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ λίθῳ κύβον.

θηρεύσεις δὲ λέουσν βοράν,

ψυχὰς δὲ δρακόντων ἐμπλήσεις

δεδοικόσιν γὰρ ἐν κοίταις αὐτῶν,

κάθηνται δὲ ἐν ὕλαις ἐνεδρεύοντες

⁷⁹

τἰς δὲ ἡτοίμασεν κόρακι βοράν;

νεοσσοὶ γὰρ αὐτοῦ πρὸς Κύριον κεκράγασιν, πλανώμενοι τὰ

σῖτα ζητοῦντες.

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).) — 38.1 focus

ὩΣ φάτ' ἀπηλεγέως· ἄνεῳ δ' ἔστησαν ἑταῖροι

Μῦθον ἀγασσάμενοι· μάλα γὰρ κρατερῶς ἀπέειπεν.

Ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸς ἔπειτα Θεὸς προσέειπεν Ἴωβον

Μεσσόθεν ἐκ στροβίλοιο, μέγαν δ' ἐλέλιξεν Ὄλυμπον·

Τίς ῥ' ὅγε κλέψας μῆτιν ἀϊδρείῃσι νόοιο,

Νήπιος, οὐδέ τ' ἐπιστάμενος φρεσὶν ἄρτια βάζειν;

Οὐ γὰρ καλὸν ἔειπε· δοκεῖ ἄρα μοι ἀπνύσειν.

Δαιμόνι', ἦ χαλεπόν σε Θεοῦ αἰειγενέταο

Δήνεα εἴρυσεαι, μάλα πὲρ πολύϊδριν ἐόντα.

Ἀλλ' ἄγε νῦν, θάρσει, περὶ δὲ ζώνην βαλέ' ἰξυῖ,

Ἀνὴρ ἴσθι, φίλε, μνήσαιο δὲ θούριδος ἀλκῆς.

Εἰπέ μοι εἰρομένῳ νημερτέα, μηδ' ἐπικεύσῃς,

Θυμὸς ἐπεί σε ἀνῆκε Θεῷ ἔριδα προφέρεσθαι.

Εἰπέ μοι, εἰ ξυνίεις, Πῇ ἔπλεο, ὁππότ' ἔγωγε

Καββαλλόμην στυφελῆς ἀτίνακτα θεμείλια γαίης;

Τίς δ' ἄρα θῆκεν ὅρους; τίς σχοίνῳ (εἰ τόγε οἶσθα)

Αὐτὴν μέτρησεν, καὶ ἐπὶ στάθμην ἴθυνεν

Εὖ καὶ ἐπισταμένως; ἦ ᾗ κρέματ' ἰσοτάλαντος

Βριθοσύνῃσιν ἔησι, καὶ οὐ ῥέπει ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα.

Πῶς οἱ ἐρηρέδαται τὰ θεμείλια; τίς τε κατ' ἀρχὰς

Πρῶτον λᾶαν ἔθηκε, καὶ ἐρρίζωσεν ἔνερθεν;

Ὁππότε θεσπεσίῃσιν ὁμοῦ κελάδησαν ἀοιδῇς

Φωσφόροι, οἱ κάλλιστοι ἐν οὐρανῷ ἀστέρες εἰσί;

Καὶ πάντες Θεοῦ υἷες ἅμ' ἐκπάγλως ἀλάλαξαν,

Χάρμῃ γηθόσυνοι, σφέτερον πατέρ' ὑμνείοντες,

Ἀμφὶ δὲ σάλπιγξεν μέγας οὐρανὸς, οἱ δ' ἐπάεισαν.

"Ἦ τίς ἀμαιμάκετον πέλαγος περιεῖρξε θύρῃσιν,

"Ὄφρ' ἔτι γ' ἔμβρυον ἦεν, ὑποχθονίων δ' ἀπὸ κόλπων

"Ἀμβολάδην ἀνέβλυζε, καὶ ὡς ἐκ γαστρὸς ὄρουσε·

Δεινὸς δὲ φλοῖσβος πόντοιο βρεμομένοιο

Σμερδαλέος τ' ὤρωρε νεηγενέος προέοντος;

"Ἀμφί μιν, ὡς χλαῖναν, νεφέλην βάλον, ἠδὲ χιτῶνα·

Σπάργανον ὡς αὐτῷ ἦν κυανόπεπλος ὁμίχλη.

"Ἔνθα μιν, ὡς πρὶν ἔταξα, πύλαι καὶ ὀχῆες ἔδησαν,

"Ἀκταί τε προβλῆτες ἐρυμνίαι, ἀμφὶ δὲ κῦμα

Βέβρυχεν ῥόθιον, λιαρὴ δ' ἀναδέδρομε πέτρη·

"Καὶ μάλα προπάφλαζεν ὕδωρ, μόρμυρε δὲ πόντος·

"Αἰγιαλῷ μεγάλῳ πεπεδημένος, ὅς ῥα καὶ αὐτὸν

"Ἰχανάᾳ, τῷ ῥ' ἐν πρώτῳ ῥέεν ἱέμενός περ.

"Ὡς γὰρ ἐγὼ ἐπέτελλον, ὁμοκλήσας τε προσηύδων,

"Ὠκεανὲ, ἴσχε μένος, τί δὲ μαίνεαι ὐκέτ' ἀνεκτῶς;

Δεῦρ' ἄγ' ἰὼν, πολύφλοισβ', ἰδὲ μὴ τάδε τέρματα πεῖρε;

"Ἔνθα μάλ' ἴσχε ῥοὴν, ὑπερόπλικα δὲ κύματα παῦε·

"Εἰ δέ σ' ἐγὼ τόνδ' ἕρκος ὑπερβαίνοντα κιχήσω

Κύματι θαρσαλέῳ, τό δέ τοι καὶ ῥίγιον ἔσται.

"Ὡς ἐφάμην· ὁ δὲ παῦσεν ἑὸν ῥόον, ἔσχε δὲ κῦμα.

"Ἦ σύ ποτ' ἀντολίῳ τάξας, λυκόφως τε κέλευσας

Γινώσκειν ὃν χῶρον ὁμῶς ὡρίῳ τε φυλάσσειν;

"Ἠῶ τε κροκόπεπλον ἀπ' οὐρανόθεν προέηκας,

"Ὄφρά κε τηλεδαποῖς ἐπιφώσκῃ πείρασι γαίης,

"Ὡς ἂν φραδμοσύνῃσι τεῇς ἀποφαινομενάων

"Ἀμπλακιῶν, νώνυμνοι ἀτάσθαλοι ἀνέρες αἶψα

Πρόχνυ κακῶς ἀπολοίατ' ἀπὸ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης;

"Ἦ τ' ἐπεὶ ἓν νυκτὸς νεφέλην ἀπέδυσε μέλαιναν,

"Αὐτίκα παντοίη πέλεται, μέγα θαῦμα ἰδέσθαι,

Παντοδαπῆς χροιῇσι καὶ εἴδεσι μειδιόωσα·

"Ἀγλαομόρφοισιν, πολυποίκιλος, ἠΰτε πηλὸς,

"Ὅν κεραμεὺς δαίδαλλεν ἐϋϊήσει προπρόσω·

Καλοὶ δὲ λειμῶνες ἄδην γελόωσι, φορεῦντες

Χλαῖναν πορφυρέην τε καὶ ἀνθεμόεντα χιτῶνα.

"Ἔνθ' ἀνδρῶν ὕβρις καὶ λόιγια ἔργα πέφανται.

"Ὡς γὰρ ἐμεῦ ἰότητι φάος τ' ἀπὸ πάμπαν ὄλωλε

Δυσσεβέσι, στιβαρός τ' ἄγη ἐξ ὤμοιο βραχίων.

Ἦ σύ ποτ' ἐς πηγὰς κατελήλυθας ὠκεανοῖο;

Βένθεά τ' ἀσήϊκτα καὶ ὑγρὰ θέμεθλα θαλάσσης;

Ἠὲ βυθὸν πόντοιο καὶ ἄχριον οἶδμα πάτησας;

Ἦ ῥά τοι ὤϊγνυντο πύλαι σκιόεντος ὀλέθρου;

Κηρός τε στυγερῆς ἴδες ἀχλυόεντα θύρετρα;

Ἦ, σκιὴ ὀλομένη ναίει μέλαθρος θανάτοιο;

Ἀλλ' ἄγε μοι τόδε εἰπὲ, κᾀτρεκέως κατάλεξον,

Εἰ κόσμου πλάτος οἶσθα, καὶ εἴ σοι τοῦτο μέμηλεν,

Εἰς ὅσον εὐρείης κύκλος περιδέδρομε γαίης;

Πῆ δ' φάος ναίει; πόθι οἱ δῆμός τε πόλις τε;

Πῆ ζόφος οἶκον ἔχει; πόθι δ' ἀχλύος ἐστὶ μέλαθρον;

Ὄφρά μιν οἴκαδ' ἄγῃς δεδαημένος ἧχι κέλευθος,

Εἴποτ' ἀποπλαγχθεῖσαν ἴδοις ἀπὸ πατρίδος αἴης.

Ἦ ῥά νυ ταῦτ' εὖ οἶδας, ἐπεὶ πολυήμερός ἐσσι,

Πάντων τε πρῶτος γέγονας, καὶ πλεῖστα γινώσκεις;

Θησαυροὺς νιφετοῖό ποτ' ἔδρακες ὀφθαλμοῖσιν;

Ἢ κειμήλια τόσσα πολυσμαράγοιο χαλάζης;

Δήϊον ἐς πόλεμον τά γέ μοι στονόεντα βέλεμνα

Κεῖται αἰὲν ἑτοῖμ', οἷς ἀνδρῶν κράατα βάλλω

Ἀντιβίων, τοῖσίν τε κοτέσσομαι ἤματι λυγρῷ.

Πῆ δ' φάος μεμέρισται ὑπ' οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος,

Πῆ τανυσίπτερος εὖρος ἐπείγεται; ἢ πόθεν ἐλθὼν

Σκίδναται ἠελίοιο βίη, ὅτε λαίλαπι θύων

Θεσπεσίῃ μέγ' ὄρωρε δ' αἰθέρος ἀτρυγέτοιο;

Τίς δ' ὀχετοὺς ὄμβροισι καὶ ὑετῷ δρόμον ἔδωκεν,

Δεινῇ τε βροντῇ, ὅτ' ἀπ' οὐρανόθεν παταγήσῃ,

Βροντῇ τε στερεῇ τε διέγλασε δῖαν ἀταρπόν;

Ὄφρ' ἄβατον πεδίον, λυπρήν τε καὶ ἐρημάδια γαῖαν,

Δεύσῃ πολυή τε ῥανὶς, τεθαλυῖά τ' ἔερση.

Γῆ ἵνα διψαλέη πρότερόν περ ἄοιμος ἐοῦσα,

Ἤδη καρποτόκοιο κόρεσται ἁδρὸν ὄμβρου

Ὥρῃ ἐν εἰαρινῇ βλαστήματα καλὰ φυτεύσῃ

Ἄνθεσι παντοίοισιν ἐπισταδὸν γανόωσα.

Τίς δ' ὄμβροιο πατήρ; τίνα δ' ὑετὸς οἶδε γενῆα;

Ποίης τοι χυσῆς τε καὶ αἵματος εὔχεται εἶναι;

Ἠὲ τίς ἀμβροσίης ἔτεκεν ῥαθάμιγγας ἐέρσης;

Κρύσταλλον τίς ἔτικτε καὶ ἔτρεφε τοῖον ἐόντα;

Τίς δέ τέ οἱ μήτηρ; τέο δ' αὖτ' ἐκ γαστέρος ἦλθεν

Νὺξ ὅτε πηγυλὶς ἦν, ψυχρὴν τίς ἐγείνατο πάχνην;

Ὥστε λίθῳ ἐβέβυστο καὶ ἔστη λάϊνα ῥέεθρα

Ψύχεϊ παχνωθέντα, πέπηγε δ' στέρεον ὄμμα,

Καὶ τότε δ' ὕδωρ ἔτι κυλίνδεται ἐϋσύμβυλον ὥρῃ.

Πληϊάδας δ', Ὑάδας τε, κᾐ ὀψὲ δύοντα Βοώτην,

Ἄρκτον θ', ἣν καὶ Ἄμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέεσκον,

Ἤ τ' αὐτὴ φέρεται, καὶ τ' Ὠρίωνα δοκεύει,

Ἀλλά τε τείρεα πάντα τά τ' οὐρανὸς ἐστεφάνωται,

Ὥρῃ ἐνὶ σφετέρῃ ἀνατελλέμεναι σάφα οἶσθα;

Πληϊάδων δ' μειλιχαγέων ἐπιτελλομενάων

Σφίγξαι ἐπιρροίβδῳ δύνασαι, ἢ δυσομβριάων

Στάξαι ὡς γλυκὺ νᾶμα, τό, τε σθένος Ὠρίωνος

Λῦσαι, καὶ στιβαρῆς δυςχείμερα δεσμὰ Βοώτεω;

Ζώδιά τ' εὖ ἰθῦναι ἐν ἀστεροφεγγέϊ κύκλῳ,

Ἀρκτοῦρόν τε γέροντα σὺν υἱάσιν, ὥστε καθ' αἶσαν

Οὐρανὸν εἰσανιόντας ἑὸν δρόμον ἐκτολυπεῦσαι;

Αἰθέρος ἀκαμάτοιο διηνεκέα τροχὸν ἔγνως,

Ὡς σφαῖραι πόλον ἀμφὶ κυλινδόμεναι φορέονται;

Ἐν δέ τ' ἐπιχθονίοις ἔργων χαρίεσσαν ἀμοιβὴν

Νωλεμέως ἀνύσει περιπλομένων λυκαβάντων;

Ἦ ῥα σὺ χαλκεόφωνος; ἐς αἰθέρα δ' ἄγχεϊ αὔσεις,

Ὅσσον τ' ἐννεάχιλοι ἐπίαχον, ἢ δεκάχιλοι,

Σμερδαλέα βοόων, ἵνα σ' ὕδατα πολλὰ καλύψῃ

Πεπλεότ' οὐρανόθεν νεφελέων κατατηκομενάων;

Ἄγγελον ἐς γαῖαν πέμψεις ψολόεντα κεραυνὸν,

Βάσκ' ἴθι ἔλε, λέγων; σὺ δ' ἀκόντισας ἐκ νεφελάων

Θούριδά τε στεροπὴν ἠδὲ φλογόεντα βέλεμνα;

Τίς νόον ἐν πραπίδεσσι, τίς ἣ φρένας ἐντὸς ἔθηκεν;

Ἠὲ τίς ἰδυίῃ ἔδωκε δρυῶν φύσιν, ἔργά τε ζώων;

Ὀμβροτόκων νεφέων τίς ἀθέσφατον οἶδεν ἀριθμόν;

Ἦ τίς ἐπουρανίους ὑδάτων ἐγκύμονας ἀσκοὺς

Ἔγχανδα, ἵνα μή τι καταβρέξωσιν ἀρούρας

Στάγμασιν ἀμβροσίοισι, κίων ὅτε λάμψε πυραυγής;

Εὖτε πέπηγε χθὼν, θρομβεῦντο δὲ βώλακες αἴης,

Ἤματι τῷ, ὅτε τε πλείστη κόνις ἀμφὶ κεκάλυψεν;

Ἀγρεύσεις κρατεροῖσιν ἕλωρ καὶ κύρμα λέουσιν;

Αὐτοῖς καὶ τέκεσιν τάξεις λιμοικτέα δαῖτα;

Καὶ σκύμνων πόσιος καὶ ἐδητύος ἔξ ἔρον ἥσεις,

Ὄφρα κατὰ κρύβδην κέαται πυκινῇ ἐνὶ λόχμῃ

Σίνται, ὑποχθονίοις ἄντροις ἔνι φωλεύοντες;

Τίς δ' ὡπλίσσατο δόρπον ἀπάστοισιν κοράκεσσιν,

Ὁππότ' ἀνὰ λειμῶνα νεοσσοὶ, νήπια τέκνα,

Χητεί τε βρώμης ἀλαλήαται ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα,

Καὶ Θεὸν ἱλάσκονται ὄπα τρηχεῖαν ἱέντες;

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 38 focus

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?

Brace yourself like a man, For I will question you, then you answer me!

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

Whereupon were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb,

When I made clouds the garment of it, Thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

Marked out for it my bound, Set bars and doors,

And said, Here you may come, but no further; Here shall your proud waves be stayed?

Have you commanded the morning in your days, And caused the dawn to know its place;

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And shake the wicked out of it?

It is changed as clay under the seal, And stands forth as a garment.

From the wicked, their light is withheld, The high arm is broken.

Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,

That you should take it to the bound of it, That you should discern the paths to the house of it?

Surely you know, for you were born then, And the number of your days is great!

Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?

By what way is the lightning distributed, Or the east wind scattered on the earth?

Who has cut a channel for the flood water, Or the path for the thunderstorm;

To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man;

To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?

Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

The waters become hard like stone, When the surface of the deep is frozen.

Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loosen the cords of Orion?

Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion of it over the earth?

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, Here we are?

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of earth stick together?

Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

When they crouch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket?

Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, And wander for lack of food?

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 38.1 focus

[1] Thus he spoke bluntly; and his companions stood speechless, marveling at the speech; for very mightily he had spoken out. But then God himself also spoke to Job out of the whirlwind, and he shook great Olympus;

[2] Who is this that hides counsel by words without knowledge, foolish, and not knowing how to speak aright with his mind? For he did not speak well; so it seems to me he will recover his senses. O blessed one, is it hard for you to draw out the counsels of the ever-living God, though you are very knowing?

[3] But come now, take courage, and cast your belt about your waist; be a man, dear friend, and remember your furious valor. Tell me, who am asking, the truth, and do not conceal it, since your spirit urged you to bring strife against God.

[4] Tell me, if you understand, where were you when I laid the unshaken foundations of the rugged earth?

[5] And who then set its boundaries? Who measured it with a measuring-line (if indeed you know), and stretched it out upon a level, well and skillfully? Or where were its balances hung, equal in weight, and it does not tilt this way and that?

[6] How were its foundations fastened? Who at the beginning laid its first stone, and rooted it beneath?

[7] When the morning stars sang together with wondrous songs, which are the fairest stars in heaven? And all the sons of God together shouted aloud exceedingly, rejoicing in joy, hymning their own father; and around them the great heaven trumpeted, and they echoed back.

[8] Truly who shut in the resistless sea with doors, while it was yet an embryo, and from the subterranean hollows it gushed forth in a stream, and as from a womb it rushed out? And a dreadful roar of the resounding sea, terrible, arose as the newborn one rushed forth?

[9] Around it, as a cloak, they cast a cloud, and a tunic; Dark-mantled mist was like a swaddling-band for it.

[10] There gates and bars bound it, as I appointed before, and jutting headlands, strong defences, and around it the wave roared with rushing surge, and a smooth rock ran up; And the water bubbled greatly, and the sea murmured; Bound by a great shore, which indeed held even itself back, though it rushed eagerly in the foremost place.

[11] For when I gave command, and rebuked and addressed you, "O Ocean, hold your fury — and why do you rage no longer bearably?" Come now, going forth, much-resounding one, and see — do you not pierce through these bounds? There hold your stream fast, and check your over-swollen waves; But if I catch you overstepping this barrier with a bold wave, then this too shall be even worse for you. So I spoke; and he checked his stream, and held back his wave.

[12] Was it you who once appointed the dawn, and commanded the twilight to know its place and likewise to keep its appointed hour? And have you sent forth the saffron-robed dawn from heaven, so that it might shine upon the far-distant ends of the earth, so that by your wise directions the wicked, nameless, reckless men might quickly perish miserably headlong from the broad-wayed earth?

"Ὄφρά κε τηλεδαποῖς ἐπιφώσκῃ πείρασι γαίης,

"Ὡς ἂν φραδμοσύνῃσι τεῇς ἀποφαινομενάων

"Ἀμπλακιῶν, νώνυμνοι ἀτάσθαλοι ἀνέρες αἶψα

Πρόχνυ κακῶς ἀπολοίατ' ἀπὸ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης;

[14] Or when it has stripped off the one black cloud of night, immediately it becomes all-manner of things, a great wonder to behold, smiling with all-varied hues and shapes; with bright-gleaming forms, much-embroidered, like clay which a potter cunningly fashions with well-fitting front; And the fair meadows laugh their fill, wearing a purple cloak and a flowery tunic.

[15] There the insolence of men and baneful deeds are revealed. For by my will the light has utterly perished from the impious, and the strong arm has been broken from the shoulder.

[16] Have you ever gone down to the springs of the Ocean? And the unsearchable depths and the watery foundations of the sea? Or have you trodden the abyss of the sea and the boundless swell?

[17] Were the gates of shadowy destruction opened for you? And have you seen the misty portals of hateful night? Or does the perishing shadow dwell in the hall of death?

[18] But come, tell me this, and recount it exactly: do you know the breadth of the world, and does this concern you, to how far the circle has run round the wide earth?

[19] And where does the light dwell? Where are its people and its city? Where does the darkness have its home? And where is the chamber of the mist?

[20] So that you may lead it home, having learned where its path is, if ever you might see it wandered away from its native land.

[21] Do you really know these things well, since you are long-lived, and were born first of all, and know the most?

[22] Have you ever seen the storehouses of snow with your eyes? Or the treasures of much-resounding hail?

[23] For hostile war these grievous missiles of mine lie always ready, with which I strike the heads of enemy men, and against whom I am angry on a baneful day.

[24] Where then is the light divided under the starry heaven, and where does the broad-stretched east wind hasten? Or whence, having come, is the sun's strength scattered abroad, when, raging with a wondrous storm, it has risen greatly from the unharvested ether?

[25] Who has given channels to the rains and a course to the shower, and to the dread thunder, when it crashes from heaven, and to the solid thunder, and has driven a shining path?

[26] So that it may wet the untrodden plain, and the grievous and desolate land, with abundant rain and blooming dew.

[27] The earth, which before was thirsty and pathless, has now been satiated with the rich fruit-producing rain, so that in the spring season it may plant beautiful shoots, rejoicing with flowers of every kind.

[28] Who is the father of rain? Whose offspring does the rain know? From whose womb and blood does it claim to be?

[29] Or who has begotten the immortal drops of dew? Who gave birth to the ice and nourished it, being such? And who is its mother? And from whose womb did the frost come forth, when the frosty night was, who gave birth to the cold hoarfrost?

[30] As if with stone the waters were stopped up, and the stony streams stood frozen by the cold, and the hard surface was fixed fast; and then still the water rolls, well-closed, in its season.

[31] Do you know clearly how to make the Pleiades rise, and the Hyades, and the late-setting Boötes, and the Bear, which they also called by the name Wagon, which turns itself and watches Orion, and all the other constellations with which the sky is crowned, each in its own season? Can you bind the sweet-shining Pleiades as they rise with a rushing chain, or pour down as a sweet stream the rainy Hyades, or loose the strength of Orion, and the wintry bonds of sturdy Boötes?

[32] Can you guide the zodiac signs well in the star-shining circle, and the old Arcturus with his sons, so that they, entering heaven, may fulfill their course according to due order?

[33] Do you know the unwearying wheel of the aether, how the spheres are borne rolling around the pole? And will he accomplish among earth-dwellers a gracious recompense of deeds unceasingly as the years roll round?

[34] Are you then bronze-voiced? Will you lift up your voice to the sky with a spear, as much as nine thousand or ten thousand bellow terribly, so that the many waters may cover you, Peploe, as the clouds melt from heaven?

[35] Will you send a messenger to the earth, a blazing thunderbolt, saying, 'Go, speak'? And did you hurl from the clouds the rushing lightning and fiery bolts?

[36] Who put understanding in the breast, who placed the mind within? Or who gave to the knowing mind the nature of oaks, and the works of living creatures?

[37] Who knows the unspeakable number of the rain-bearing clouds? Or who tilts the heavenly water-jars, pregnant with waters, so that they may not sprinkle the fields with ambrosial drops, when the fiery-bright pillar flashes?

[38] When the earth was frozen fast, and the clods of the land were clotted, on the day when the most dust covered all around?

[39] Will you hunt prey and booty for the mighty lions? Will you appoint for them and their cubs a hunger-mingled feast? And will you satisfy the craving of the cubs for drink and for food, while they lie hidden in a thick thicket, lurking in subterranean caves?

Ὄφρα κατὰ κρύβδην κέαται πυκινῇ ἐνὶ λόχμῃ

Σίνται, ὑποχθονίοις ἄντροις ἔνι φωλεύοντες;

[41] Who has prepared a meal for the ravens that lack it, when through the meadow the nestlings, helpless young, wander to and fro for want of food, and call upon God, sending forth a harsh cry?

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 38.1 focus

Sic dixit intrepidè; taciti autem ſteterunt ſocii

Sermonem mirati: admodum enim ſtrenuè fatus erat.

Verùm & et ipſe deinde Deus affatus eſt Jobum

Turbine de medio, & et magnum quaſſavit cœlum.

Quis ille eſt qui abſcondit conſilium imperitiâ mentis,

Inſipiens, neſciúſque in animo ſana dicere?

Non enim rectè dixit: videtur utique mihi imprudens-eſſe.

Infelix, certè difficile eſt tibi Dei æterni

Conſilia ſcrutari, valde licèt multarum-rerum-peritus fueris.

Quin agè nunc, bono-animo-fis, zonâ autem cinge lumbos,

Vir eſto, amice, memineris autem ſtrenuæ virtutis.

Dic mihi interroganti vera, neque occultes,

Animus quandoquidem te compulit Deo litem offerre.

Dic mihi, ſi intelligas, Ubi eras, quando ego

Jeci ſtabilis inconcuſſa fundamenta terræ?

Quis ejus poſuit terminos? quis fune (ſi id ſaltem nôſti)

Ipſam menſuravit, & et ad perpendiculum direxit

Bene & et ſapienter? ea autem pendet æquilibris

Ponderibus ſuis, & et non vergit huc & et illuc.

Quomodo ei fixa-ſunt fundamenta? quis in principio

Primum lapidem poſuit, & et radicavit inferné?

Quando divinis ſimul ſonuerunt cantilenis

Phoſphori, qui pulcherrimæ in cœlo ſtellæ ſunt;

Et omnes Dei filii ſimul mirificè jubilârunt

Gaudio læti, ſuum patrem hymno-celebrantes,

Circùm autem reſonuit magnum cœlum, hi .v. accinuerunt.

Aut quis indomitum pelagus circunclauſit oſtiis,

Cum adhuc embryo fuit, ſubterraneis autem à cavitatibus

Ferventer ebulliit, & velut ex utero erupit:

Horrendus autem ſonitus ponti efferveſcentis

Terribilíſque excitatus eſt quantumvìs recèns-nati?

Ei quaſi pallium nubem indui, & tunicam;

Velut faſciæ ei erat atrata caligo.

Deinde eum,ut priùs ordinavi, januæ & vectes ſtrinxerunt,

Litoráque prominentia munita, undique autem fluctus

Fremuit impetuoſus, lævis autem eminuit petra:

Et valde licèt efferbuerit unda, murmuraverítque mare

Litore magno præpeditum, id verò ipſum

Coërcuit, ideóque non ultrà fluxit cupiens licèt.

Ità enim ego mandavi, increpánſque affatus ſum,

Oceane, fiſte impetum, quid verò furis non-ampliùs tolerabiliter?

Huc ades, grandiſone, & nè hoſce limites tranſeas,

Hîc fiſte fluxum, tumidóſque fluctus compeſce.

Quòd ſi te egó hunc terminum tranſilientem deprehendero

Fluctu audaci, id verò tibi durius erit.

Sic dixi; ille autem ſedavit ſuum fluentum, fiſtebát q; que fluctum.

Anne tu unquam Orientem diſpoſuiſti,diluculúm q; que juſsiſti

Scire ſuum locum ſimul & tempus obſervare?

Aurorám q; que croceum-peplum-geſtantem de cœlo miſiſti;

Ut longinquis illuceſceret finibus terræ,

Ut conſilio tuo detectis

Peccatis, ignobiles improbi homines ſtatim

Funditus male perirent de terra ſpatioſa?

Quæ ſimul ac noctis nebulam exuit atram,

Statim omnifaria fit, valdè mirabile viſu,

Omnigenis coloribus & ſpeciebus renidens

Splendidis, multiformis, veluti argilla,

Quam figulus variegavit ſcienti animo.

Pulchra autem prata affatim rident, geſtantes

Palliúmque purpureum & floridam tunicam.

Tum hominum inſolentia,& immania facinora apparuere.

Sic enim meo conſilio & lumen prorſus defecit

Impios, & rigidum fractum eſt ab humero brachium.

Túne unquam in fontes deſcendiſti Oceani ?

Profunditatéſ q; que inſtabiles & humida fundamenta maris,

Aut abyſſum ponti & ſævam undam calcâſti?

Nunquid tibi apertæ ſunt januæ umbroſæ necis?

Parcæ' q; que inviſæ vidiſti tenebricoſa oſtia,

Ubi umbra pernicioſa habitat nigræ mortis?

Sed agè, mihi illud dic & verè narrá,

Si mundi latitudinem nôſti, & ſi tibi hoc curæ-ſit,

In quantum amplæ ambitus circuncurrit terræ ?

Lux ubi habitat? ubi ei populíſ q; que civitáſ q; que?

Ubi tenebræ ædes habent? ubi caliginis eſt domus?

Ut eam domum reducas edoctus ejus ſemitas,

Siquando aberrantem videas à natali ſolo.

Nunquid hæc bene nôſti, quoniam multorum-dierum es,

Omniúm q; que primus natus-es, & plurima cognoſcis ?

Theſauros nivis unquámne vidiſti oculis?

Aut tot acervos reconditos crepitantis grandinis?

Funeſtum in bellum quæ mihi gravia tela

Jacent ſemper parata, quibus hominum capita vulnero

Inimicorum, quibus iratus fuero die ſævo.

Quà autem lux diſpertitur ſub cœlo ſtellato?

Quà expanſis-alis Eurus impellitur ? aut unde progreſſus

Spargitur ſolis vi, quando procellâ ruens

Ingenti valdè oritur per aerem ſterilem ?

Quis canales imbribus, & pluviæ viam dedit,

Horrendó q; que tonitruo, quando de cœlo fragorem-dat,

Tonitruó q; que fulgetró q; que diviſit divinam ſemitam?

Ut imperviam terram, ſterile & deſertum ſolum

Riget pinguis gutta, floridíſ q; que ros.

Tellus ut ſitibunda, antea quantumvìs deſolata fuerit,

Modò frugifero ſatiata imbre

Tempore verno germina pulchra progeneret

Floribus omnifariis affatim reſplendens.

Quis imbris pater ? quem pluvia novit paren

Quali ex genere & ſanguine gloriatur ſe eſſe?

Aut quis ſuavis genuit guttas roris?

Glaciem quis genuit & nutrivit vel condenſavit,talem exiſtentem?

Quænam autem ei mater fuit? cujus etiam ex utero venit?

Nox cùm gelida fuerit, frigidam quis genuit pruinam?

Veluti lapide obſtructa ſunt & ſtant limpida fluenta

Frigore concreta, congelatúr q; que abyſſi facies,

Et tum aqua haud-quaquam volvitur cupiens licet.

Pleiadéſque, Hyadéſque, & ſerò occidentem Bootem,

Urſámque, quam & Plauſtrum cognomine vocant,

Quæ ibidem vertitur, at q; que Orionem obſervat,

Aliá q; que ſidera omnia quibus cœlum coronatum eſt,

Tempore ſuo educere certò nôſti?

Pleiadum autem mellifluarum orientium

Cohibere influentiam potes, aut occidentium

Stillare velut dulcem laticem, vím q; que Orionis

Solvere, & robuſti tempeſtuoſa vincula Bootæ?

Signá q; que zodiaci bene dirigere in ſtellifero circulo,

Arcturúm q; que ſenem cum filiis, ut ordine

Cœlum conſcendentes ſuum curſum abſolvant?

Ætheris indefeſſi ſempiternam rotam nôſti,

Quomodo ſcilicet ſphæræ circa polum volubiles vertuntur,

Et in ſublunaribus rerum gratam viciſſitudinem

Perpetuò præſtant circunlabentibus annis.

Túne ferream-vocem habes? ad ætherem autem uſ q; que vociferaberis,

Quantùm novies-mille clamant, vel decies-mille,

Horrendùm vociferans, ut te aquæ multæ tegant

Cadentes cœlitus nubibus liquentibus?

Nuncium in terram mittes fuliginoſum fulmen,

Vade agè, nequàm, dicens? túne jaculatus es è nubibus

Impetuoſúm q; que fulmen & flammantia tela?

Quis intelligentiam in præcordiis, quíſve mentẽ mentem intus poſuit?

Aut quis ſcire dedit arborum naturam, operá q; que animantium?

Imbriferarum nubium quis ingentem novit numerum?

Vel quis cœleſtes aquis gravidos utres

Cohibuit, ut nec omnino irrigent agros

Stillicidiis dulcibus, canis cùm fulſerit rutilus;

Quando concreſcit humus, in-grumos-coëunt autem glebæ

Die illo, quo plurimus eſt pulvis in viis? (terræ,

Venaberis fortibus prædam & eſcam leonibus?

Ipſis & proli apparabis gratas epulas?

Et catulis potûs & cibi deſiderium eximes,

Dum latenter cubant denſa in ſylva

Noxii, ſubterraneis in antris deliteſcentes?

Quis autem paravit cœnam impaſtis corvis,

Cùm per pratum pulli, parvula proles,

Præ q; que inopiâ cibi vagantur huc illuc,

Et Deo ſupplicant, vocem raucam edentes ?

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ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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