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εἰ ἔγνως καιρὸν τοκετοῦ τραγελάφων πέτρας,

ἐφύλαξας δὲ ὠδίνας ἐλάφων;

ἠρίθμησας δέ μῆνας αὐτῶν πλήρεις τοκετοῦ,

ὠδίνας δὲ αὐτῶν ἔλυσας

ἐξέθρεψας δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ παιδἰα ἔξω φόβου

ὠδῖνας αὐτῶν ἐξαποστελεῖς;

ἀπορρήξουσιν τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν, πληθυνθήσονται ἐν γενήματι·

ἐξελεύσονται, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀνακάμψουσιν αὐτοῖς.

τς δέ ἐστιν ὁ ἀφεὶς ὄνον ἄγριον ἐλεύθερον,

δεσμοὺς δὲ αὐτοῦ τἰς ἔλοσεν;

ἐθέμην δὲ τὴν δίαιταν αὐτοῦ ἔρημον,

καὶ τὰ σκηνώματα αὐτοῦ ἁλμυρίδα.

καταγελῶν πολυοχλίας πόλεως,

μέμψιν δὲ φορολόγου οὐκ ἀκούων,

κατασκέψεται ὄρη, νομὴν αὐτοῦ,

καὶ ὀπίσω παντὸς χλωροῦ ζητεῖ.

βουλήσεται δέ σοι μονόκερως δουλεῦσαι,

ἢ κοιμηθῆναι ἐπὶ φάτνης σους;

δήσεις δὲ ἐν ἱμᾶσι ζυγὸν αὐτοῦ,

ἢ ἑλκύσει σου αὔλακας ἐν πεδίῳ;

πέποιθας δὲ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ, ὅτι πολλὴ ἰσχὺς αὐτοῦ,

ἐπαφήσεις δὲ αὐτῷ τὰ ἔργα σου;

πιστεύσεις δὲ ὅτι ἀποδώσει σοι τὸν σπόρον,

εἰσοίσει δέ σου τὸν ἄλωνα;

¹²

πτέρυξ τερπομένων, ἐὰν συλλάβῃ ἀσίδα καὶ νεσσά·

ὅτι ἀφήσει εἰς γῆν τὰ ᾠὰ αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐπὶ χοῦν θάλψει

καὶ ἐπελάθοντο ὅτι ποὺς σκορπιεῖ

καὶ θηρία ἀγροῦ καταπατήσει.

ἀπεσκλήρυνεν τὰ τέκνα ἑαυτῆς, ὥστε μὴ ἑαυτήν·

εἰς κενὸν ἐκοπίασεν ἄνευ φόβου.

ὅτι κατεσιώπησεν αὐτῇ ὁ θεὸς σοφίαν,

καὶ οὐκ ἐμέρισεν αὐτῇ ἐν τῇ συνέσει.

κατὰ καιρὸν ἐν ὕψει ὑψώσει,

καταγελάσεται ἵππου καὶ τοῦ ἐπιβάτου αὐτοῦ.

ἢ σὺ περιέθηκας ἵππῳ δύναμιν.

ἐνέδυσας δὲ τραχήλῳ αὐτοῦ φόβον;

περιέθηκας δὲ αὐτῷ πανοπλίαν,

δόξαν δὲ στηθέων αὐτοῦ τόλμης

ἀνορύσσων ἐν πεδίῳ γαυρξ.

ἐκπορεύεται δὲ εἰς πεδίον ἐν ἰσχύι

συναντῶν βασιλεῖ καταγελῶ,

καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποστραφῇ ἀπὸ σιδήρου.

ἐπʼ αὐτῷ γαυριᾷ τόξον καὶ μάχαιρα.

καὶ ὀργῇ ἀφανιεῖ τὴν γῆν·

καὶ οὐ μὴ πιστεύσῃ ἕως ἂν σημάνῃ σάλπιγξ.

σάλπιγγος δέ σημαινούσης λέγει Εὖγε·

πόρρωθεν δὲ ὀσφραίνεται πολέμου σὺν ἄλματι καὶ κραυγῇ

ἐκ δὲ τῆς σῆς ἐπιστήμης ἔστηκεν ἱέραξ,

ἀναπετάσας τὰς πτέρυγας ἀκίνητος, καθορῶν τὰ πρὸς νότον

ἐπὶ δὲ σῷ προστάγματι ὑψοῦται ἀετός,

γὺψ δὲ ἐπὶ νοσσιᾶς αὐτου (28)καθεσθεὶς αὐλἰζεται,

ἐπ᾿ ἐξοχῇ

πέτρας καὶ ἀποκρύφω;

⁴⁶

ἐκεῖσε ὢν ζητεῖ τὰ σῖτα,

πόρρωθεν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ σκοπεύουσιν·

νεοσσοὶ δὲ αὐτοῦ φύρονται ἐν αἵματι,

οὗ δ᾿ ἂν ὦσι τεθνεῶτες παραχρῆμα εὑρίσκονται.

Καὶ ἀπεκρίθη Κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἰὼβ καὶ εἶπεν

Μὴ κρίσιν μετὰ Ἱκανοῦ ἐκκλινεῖς

ἐλέγχων δὲ θεὸν ἀποκριθήσεται αὐτήν;

Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ἰὼβ λέγει τῷ κυρίῳ

Τί ἔτι ἐγὼ κρίνομαι, νουθετούμενος καὶ ἐλέγχων Κύριων.

ἀκούων τοιαῦτα οὐθὲν ὤν;

ἐγὼ δὲ τίνα ἀπόκρισιν δώσω πρὸς ταῦτα;

χεῖρα θήσω ἐπὶ στόματί μου.

ἅπαξ λελάληκα, ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ οὐ προσθήσω.

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).) — 39.1 focus

Οἶσθας ὅταν τίκτωσιν ἰονθάδες ἄγριοι αἶγες;

Ἦ ὅτε νεβροτόκων ἐλάφων γένος ὠδίνωσι;

Μηνῶν οἶσθας ἀριθμὸν, ὃν ἔγκυοι ἐκτελέουσι,

Ποσσῆμαρ κυέουσι, καὶ ὥρην οἶσθα τόκοιο;

Ὀκλαδὸν ὠδίνουσι λοχευόμεναι φίλα τέκνα,

Τὰς δέ τ᾽ ἔχει βέλεος ὀξὺ μογοστόκος εἰλειθύης,

Δειμό τε καὶ κρατερὴν, πικρὰς ὠδῖνας ὀφέλλον.

Ζατρεφέα σφίσι τέκνα, καὶ εὖ κεκορεσμέν᾽ ἐδωδῆς,

Ῥεῖά τ᾽ ἀεξόμενα λιπαροῖς στίλβουσι μέλεσσιν,

Ἠρέμα δ᾽ ἐκ κοίτης τυτθοῖς ἕρποντα πόδεσσιν,

Νηπιέη τ᾽ ἀλεγεινῇ ἀποπλαγχθέντα γονήων

Οὐκέτι μιμνήσκονται ὑπότροπον ἴχνος ἐπείγειν.

Τίς τὸν ὄναγρον ἀφῆκεν ἀδέσποτον, ἅμματα λύσας,

Κραιπνὸν, ἀελλοπόδην, κρατερώνυχον, αἰπὺν ὄναγρον;

Τῷ μὲν ἐγὼ ποίησα δόμους ἐν ἐρημάδι γαίῃ,

Οἰοπόλος δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔναιεν ἐπὶ χθονὸς ἀτρυγέτοιο·

Τῆλε δ᾽ ἀπὸ πληθῦος μισόπτολις αἶψ᾽ ἀλᾶται,

Δῆμον ἀλυσκάζων, κτῦπον δ᾽ ἔφυγε πολὺν ὁμίλου,

Οὐδέ ποθ᾽ ὑβριστέω κρατερῆς αἴεσκεν ὁμοκλῆς,

Ποιμένος· οὔτε βοῆς ἐμπαάζεται, οὔτ᾽ ἐλατῆρος.

Οὔρεος ἐν βήσσῃσιν ἀεὶ νεοθηλέα ποίην

Μαστεύων ἀλάληται, ἀπὸ χλοεροῦ τε χόρτου

Εἶχε νομήν, φέρβει μιν ἅδην πασίτροφος αἶα.

Νηπύτι᾽, ἦ ὄιεις ὅτι μονοκέρωτα δαμάσσαι

Ἀγρότερον δυνάσαι, ἵνα τοι περιώσιος εἴη,

Καὶ σῇῃ, κρῖ λευκὸν ἔδων ὡς βοῦς ἐπὶ φάτνῃ;

Ἦ, βοῒ ὥς, οἱ ἄν᾽ ὄγμον ὑπὸ ζυγὸν αὐχένα θήσεις,

Ἑλκέμεναι, ἵνα τ᾽ ὦλκα διηνεκέα προτάμοιτο

Νειῷ ἐν εὐρείῃ, εἴκοι δ᾽ ὑπὸ βῶλος ἀρότρῳ;

Τῷ ῥ᾽ βίηφι πέποιθας, ὅτι κράτεϊ προβέβηκεν;

Οὕνεκά τ᾽ ἄλκιμός ἐσθ᾽, οἱ ἐπιτρέψεις τὰ σὰ ἔργα;

Φῄς ῥά μιν ἐκ τελείους σέο μήλοπα καρπὸν ἀποίσειν;

Οἴκαδέ τ᾽ ἀξέμεναι, φέρεται περιτελλομένοιο,

(Ἦ δμώων δίκην ἐστὶ, βοῶν τ᾽ ὀρθοκραιράων)

Εὖ τ᾽ ἀποθησεύμεναι μιν ἐϋκτιμένῃ ἐν ἀλωῇ;

Σὺ πτερὰ καλλιπέτηλα καὶ ἀγλαὰ εἵματ' ἔδωκας

Ὀρθοπυγιστίοισι τανυπτερύγεσσι ταῶσιν;

Ὧι δέ τ' ἀγαλλόμενοι πτερύγεσσί τε κάλλεΐ τε σφῷ

Κύκλῳ ἐπισκιόωσιν ὅλον δέμας αἰολομόρφῳ,

Πυκνοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖσι πεπασμένῳ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα,

Θαῦμα ἰδεῖν· πτερὰ σὺ πτέρυγάς τε στρουθοκαμήλῳ;

Ἦδ' ἐπεὶ ἓν τέκεν ὠὸν, χαμαὶ λίπεν, οὐδέ τι θάλπει

Ὅν τόκον ἀμφικαλυψαμένη πτερύγεσσι φίλῃσιν,

Ὡς ἔθος ὀρνίθεσσι· τὰ δ' ἐν λιαρῇσι κονίῃς

Θάλπεται ἀκτίνεσσι καὶ ἐκλέπετ' ἠελίοιο.

Νηπίη, οὐδὲ τό γ' οἶδεν ἐνὶ φρεσὶν, οὐδ' ἐνόησε

Θῆρες ὅτ' ἐγκύρσαντες ἑλὼ ἀποφώλιον εὐνὴν

Τειψέμεναί που ἔμελλον ὑπαὶ ποσὶ, ῥαισέμεναί τε.

Μήτηρ δυσμήτηρ, καὶ ἀπηνέα θυμὸν ἔχουσα,

Ἧ ὥστε τεκέων νοσφίζετ', διὰ ὄφ' αὑτῇ

Ὀυκ εἰδυῖα τόκοιο· σιδήρειόν νύ οἱ ἦτορ·

Ἧ ὅτε μὰψ αὔτως κρατερὰς ὠδῖνας ἄλυξε

Δυσπονέος τοκετοῖο, ἐῶν ἀμέλησε νεοσσῶν

Σχετλίη, οὐδέ σφιν φειδείδετο μή τι πάθωσιν·

Ὀυ γάρ οἱ οὐδὲ Θεὸς νόον ἐν στήθεσσιν ἔδωκεν,

Ἰδρείην δ' ἀνένωσε, καὶ ἐκ ὄπασσε φρένας ἐσθλάς.

Ἦ δ' ὅτε ἀμφιποτᾶται ἐν αἰθέρι καὶ νεφέλῃσιν,

Ἧτ' ἄλλων θέμις ἐστὶν ὑπερανίων πετεινῶν,

Ὑψι δ' λαχνῆέν τε κάρη καὶ στήθε' ἄειρεν

Ἴσον ὅπως, πτέρυγας λαῖφ' ἱστία δ' ὡς πετάσασα

Ῥίμφα θέει διὰ γαῖαν ἅμα πνοιῇς ἀνέμοιο,

Ὁίᾴ τις αὐτομάτη πεζὴ νηῦς, τῇ ἄρα μοῦνοι

Ἔκκλυτοι ἔργων ὄπισθε κυβερνητῆρες ἔασιν·

Πὰρ δ' ἐλάσασα γελοῖάσ' ὁμῶς ἱππῆα καὶ ἵππον,

Ἀμφοτέρων, θάσσων τε θέειν, μείζων δ' ὀρεγούσης.

Ἦ ῥα σὺ κάρτος ἔδωκας ἀρηΐῳ ἀλκίμῳ ἵππῳ,

Ὠκέϊ, χαλκόποδι, κρατερώνυχι, κυανοχαίτῃ;

Ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ φρικτὴν ἔσαται παχὺν αὐχένα βροντώης

Πολλὺ δέ οἱ στέρνον, δολιχὸν δέμας, εὐρέα νῶτα,

Γυραλέην σειρὴν, διὰ δ' αΐσσει πεδίοιο

Κυδιόων, ὕψι τε κάρη ἔχει, ἀμφὶ δ' χαῖται

Ὤμοις αΐσσονται, ὁ δ' ἀγλαΐῃφι πεποιθὼς,

Ῥίμφα ἓ γῦνα φέρει, νόσφιν τε δεινὸν ἔθειραι.

Ἦ ῥά μιν ὡς τέττιγα δεδίξεαι, ὅς τε καθ' ὕλην

Δενδρέῳ ἐφεζόμενος ὄπα λειριόεσσαν ἵησιν,

Ἧν δέ τιν' ἢ ἐλθόντα ἴδῃ, ἢ δῦπον ἀκούσῃ,

Δεῖσεν ὀπιζαφελῶς, μάλα τε χλωρὸν δέος εἷλεν.

Μνήσατο μὲν φύζης, θαλερῆς δέ τε λήσατ' ἀοιδῆς·

Ὡς σύ γ' οἱ ἐν στήθεσι φόβον καὶ τάρβος ἐνόρσεις;

Ἀλλ' ὅγε φυσιώων ἀναροιβδεῖ πωλὺν ἀυτμὴν

Πλιῶσιν ἄγκεα ποσσὶν ὀρώρυχεν ἀλκὶ πεποιθώς,

Καππεδίον στιχόων πυκινῆς ἤντησε φάλαγγος,

Δεινὸν τῷ σάκεσίν τε καὶ ἔγχεσι πεφρικυίης,

Ἀρξεῖται δ' τάχιστα μιγήμεναι ἐν δαῒ λυγρῇ.

Οὐτ' ἄρα μιν δέος ἴσχει ἀκήριον, οὐδέ τι λίην

Ταρβεῖ, ἐπειδὰν πρῶτον ἐσίζηται λόχον ἀνδρῶν.

Οὐδὲ γάρ οἱ γυμναῖον ἀλυσκάζοντι μάχεσθαι,

Οὐ πλιώσσειν, καὶ ὀπιπτεύειν πολέμοιο γεφύρας

Χαλκοῦ ὑπὸ στεροπῆς, ξίφεός θ' ὑπὸ μαρμαρυγάων.

Αἰνὰ μάλ' ἄντα δέδορκεν ἀσκαρδαμύκτοισιν ὀπωπῆς

Αἰζηοῖσι λόχον πεπυκασμένον αἰχμητῇσι,

Καὶ χαλκὸν σελαγεῦντα, καὶ ἀστράπτοντα σίδηρον.

Βῆ δὲ διὰ προμάχων, τότε δὴ κατεναντίον αὐτοῦ

Λίγξε βιὸς, κανάχησε φαρέτρη, κλάγξε δ' ὀϊστὸς,

Ἀμφὶ δ' ἄρ' ὤμοισι βράχε τεύχεα παμφανόωντα,

Αἴγλη δ' οὐρανὸν ἵκεν, ἐκίνηθεν δὲ φάλαγγες,

Στὰν δ' αὐτοῦ κατέναντι ἀολλέες ἀγχεμαχηταὶ

Φράξαντες δόρυ δρί, σάκος σάκεϊ προθελύμνῳ·

Ἀλλ' ὅ μὲν ἐν πρώτοισι κίε σθένεϊ βλεμεαίνων,

Ὄσσε δέ οἱ βλοσυροῖσιν ἐπισκυνίοισι δαφοινὼ

Λαμπέτην ὡσεὶ τε πυρὸς σέλας αἰθομένοιο,

Ἀφλοισμὸς δὲ περὶ στόμα γίνετο μαρναμένοιο.

Ποσσὶν ὀρώρεκται πολεμιζέμεν, ἔνθα κονίῳ

Ῥοιβδεῖ πνυείων, χθόνα τε ῥώθωσι λαφύσσει.

Ἄφρεε δὲ στήθεα, ῥώοντ' ἐφύπερθε δὲ χαῖται,

Ὁπλάων δ' ὑπένερθε κονίασαλος ὤρνυτ' ἀελλής.

Αὐτὰρ ὅτε πτολέμοιο προάγγελος ἴαχε σάλπιγξ,

Φωνήν τ' ἐγρεκύδοιμον ἀρήϊος αὐλὸς ἔηκε,

Δή τότε κατ' ὄρεξεν, ἐελδόμενος πολέμοιο,

Ἔχρετο δ' ὀρθωθεὶς, οὐδ' ἔσταεν οἷσι πόδεσσιν,

Σάλπιγγος δ' ἔπω λιγέα ψόφον ἱεμένοιο ἄρ

Φησὶν ἀκουάζειν, κρατερὴ γάρ ἑ λύσσα δέδυκεν.

Ἐν σάλπιγξι μέσησι μάλα μεγάλως χρεμετίζει,

Δεινὸς, καγχαλόων· γάνυται δ' ἄρα τε φρένα χάρμῃ,

Τηλόθεν ὀσφρόμενος κλαγγῆς καὶ δηϊοτῆτος,

Βροντῆς θ' ἡγεμόνων καὶ μαρναμένων ἀλαλητοῦ.

Σεῖο ἕκηθ' ἴρηξ ὠκύπτερος ὦρτο πέτεσθαι

Κίρκος, ὅτε σμικρῇσι φόνον φέρει ὀρνίθεσσι,

Καὶ νότον ἀμφιποτᾶται ἀγαλλόμενος πτερύγεσσι;

Σεῖο δ' ἐφημοσύνῃ μέγας αἰετὸς αἰθέρα τέμνει

Ὑψιπέτης, ὃς πᾶσι μεταπρέπει οἰωνοῖσιν,

Ὑψοῦ δ' ἐν νεφέλῃσιν ἀναιδέα πῆξε καλίην;

Ναίει ἐπὶ προβλῆτι καὶ ἠεροειδέϊ πέτρῃ,

Ἠλιβάτῳ, μεγάλῃ, μίμνει δ' ἐπὶ ῥωγάδι πέτρῃ,

Αἰγίλιπι, στιβαρῇ, ὅθι οἱ δόμος ἐστὶ καὶ εἶλαρ.

Ἔνθα μὲν οὐχ ἅλιος σκοπὸς ἵζεται, οὐδ' ἀπὸ δόξης,

Πάντοσε παπταίνει, εἴπερ μέγα κύρμα κιχείη,

Τῆλε δ' ἀπὸ σκοπιῆς εἶδεν νέκυν ὄμματι γοργῷ,

Ὀξύτατον γὰρ δέρκεθ' ὑπερανίων πετεεινῶν.

Ὠμηστέας ἔθρεψε νεοσσοὺς ἀργέτι δημῷ

Σαρκοφάγους, τῷ αἰὲν ὁμίλησαν νεκύεσσιν.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 39 focus

Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They end their labor pains.

Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don’t return again.

Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

He scorns the tumult of the city, Neither hears he the shouting of the driver.

The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.

Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, And gather the grain of your threshing floor?

The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

For she leaves her eggs on the earth, Warms them in the dust,

And forgets that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild animal may trample them.

She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has he imparted to her understanding.

When she lifts up herself on high, She scorns the horse and his rider.

Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: He goes out to meet the armed men.

He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed; Neither does he turn back from the sword.

The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and the javelin.

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, Neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, Aha! He smells the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, And stretches her wings toward the south?

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high?

On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, On the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 39.1 focus

[1] Do you know when the wild rock-goats give birth? Or when the race of fawn-bearing does are in labor?

[2] Do you know the number of the months which they fulfill, being pregnant, bearing every month, and do you know the season of their bringing forth?

[3] They crouch down and give birth, bringing forth their dear young; and the sharp shaft of the birth-pangs' Eileithyia holds them, both Fear and mighty Terror, bringing on bitter pangs.

[4] Their children are well-fed and fully satisfied with food, and growing easily they shine with sleek limbs, and gently from their bed they creep on tiny feet, and when by grievous childishness they have wandered away from their parents, they no longer remember to urge their step back home.

[5] Who set the wild ass free, unmastered, having loosed its bonds—the swift one, storm-footed, strong-hoofed, the steep-dwelling wild ass?

[6] For him I made a home in a desert land, and he dwelt alone upon the barren earth.

[7] Far from the crowd the city-hater straightway wanders, shunning the people, and he has fled the great din of the throng, nor ever did he heed the mighty threat of a violent master, a shepherd's; nor does he pay heed to the shout, nor to the driver.

[8] In the glens of the mountain he ever wanders seeking the newly-sprouted grass, and from the green herbage he had his pasture; the all-nurturing earth feeds him to satiety.

[9] Fool, do you think that you can tame the wild unicorn, so that it might be your own exceedingly great possession, and your own, eating white barley like an ox at the manger?

[10] Or, like an ox, will you put a halter on it along the furrow under the yoke, to draw, so that it might cut the straight furrow in the broad fallow land, and the clod might yield under the plough?

[11] In this, then, do you trust in its strength, because its power is pre-eminent? Because you are strong, will you entrust your works to him?

[12] Do you say that he will carry off the fruit of your perfect harvest? And to bring it home, as the year rolls round, (is it the way of slaves, and of straight-horned oxen) to thresh it well in a well-built threshing floor?

[13] Did you give beautiful broad-feathered wings and shining plumage to the straight-rumped, long-winged peacocks? With which, exulting in their wings and in their own beauty, they overshadow the whole body with a circling, dappled form, sprinkled with thick eyes here and there, a wonder to behold; Do you give wings and feathers to the ostrich?

[14] But when she has laid a single egg, she leaves it on the ground, and does not warm her offspring, covering it round with her dear wings, as is the custom for birds; But these are warmed in the soft dust by the rays and are stolen away by the sun.

[15] Foolish one, she does not know this in her mind, nor did she understand when the wild beasts, meeting her, would have seized her as a hapless bed, and would have dashed her down under their feet.

[16] A mother, a cruel mother, and having a harsh spirit, who as it were is bereft of her children, so that she does not know her offspring. her heart is iron indeed. Because when she had in vain, just so, escaped the mighty pangs of grievous childbirth, the cruel one neglected her young, nor did she spare them lest they suffer anything.

[17] For God did not give her understanding in her breast, nor did he allot her skill, and he did not grant her good wits.

[18] Or when she flutters in the air and in the clouds, as is the custom of other birds that soar aloft, and lifts her shaggy head and breast on high, as it were equal, spreading her wings like sails and canvas, she runs swiftly over the land with the blasts of the wind, like some self-moving ship on foot, for which alone, renowned for their deeds, there are steersmen behind. And having driven alongside, she laughs alike at horseman and horse, swifter than both to run, and greater than the one in pursuit.

[19] Is it truly you who gave strength to the warlike, valiant horse, swift, bronze-hoofed, strong-clawed, dark-maned? Around him it bristles a shaggy neck with thunder; and his breast is massive, his frame long, his back broad, his tail curved like a scorpion's; and he darts exulting through the plain, and holds his head on high, and around his shoulders the manes stream, and he, trusting in his splendor, swiftly bears himself along, and far off his hairs are terrible.

[20] Do you really terrify it like a cicada, which, sitting on a tree throughout the wood, sends forth its lily-like voice, and whenever it sees any one coming, or hears a noise, it is terribly frightened, and pale fear seizes it? It remembers flight, and forgets its lively song. How do you stir up fear and terror in its breast? But he, snorting, snorts up a great blast; with his feet he has dug out the glens for the horses, trusting in his strength; marching over the plain he has met a dense phalanx, dread, bristling with shields and spears; and he rushes to mingle in the baneful battle as quickly as possible.

Πλιῶσιν ἄγκεα ποσσὶν ὀρώρυχεν ἀλκὶ πεποιθώς,

Καππεδίον στιχόων πυκινῆς ἤντησε φάλαγγος,

Δεινὸν τῷ σάκεσίν τε καὶ ἔγχεσι πεφρικυίης,

Ἀρξεῖται δ' τάχιστα μιγήμεναι ἐν δαῒ λυγρῇ.

[22] Nor then does fear hold him, harmless as he is, nor does he tremble overmuch, as soon as he has settled himself against a band of men. For neither can he, as he shies away, fight with a naked foe, nor strike, nor watch for the bridges of war, beneath the flash of bronze and the gleam of the sword.

[23] Terribly, right before them, he glares with unblinking eye upon the warriors, at the ambush thickly set with spearmen, and at the gleaming bronze and the flashing iron. And he went through the front ranks; then indeed, facing him, the bow twanged, the quiver rattled, and the arrow rang out; and around his shoulders the all-shining armor crashed, and the gleam reached heaven, and the phalanxes were stirred; and they stood there massed against him, close-fighters, having thrust spear against spear, shield against shield set layer on layer.

[24] But he went among the foremost, exulting in his strength; and his eyes blazed fiercely beneath his scowling brows, flashing like the gleam of burning fire, and foam came about his mouth as he fought. With his feet he has been roused to wage war, where he snorts in the dust, and with his nostrils he gulps down the ground. And his chest was stirred, and his mane tossed on high, and beneath his armor a dust-storm rose rushing. But whenever the trumpet, herald of war, cried out, and the warlike pipe sent forth its battle-stirring voice, then he pawed the ground, longing for war, and was roused standing upright, and did not stand still on his feet, and at the clear sound of the trumpet rushing on, he says he hears it, for fierce madness has entered him.

[25] Amid the trumpets he neighs very greatly, terrible, exulting; And he exults in his heart with joy, smelling the battle-cry and the fray from afar, the thunder of leaders and the war-shout of those fighting.

[26] By your wisdom does the swift-winged hawk rise to fly, the kestrel, when it brings slaughter to the little birds, and flutters toward the south exulting in its wings?

[27] And at your command the great eagle, the high-flyer, cleaves the sky, which is preeminent among all birds, and high in the clouds it has fixed its shameless nest?

[28] He dwells on a jutting rock and a misty crag, on a lofty, great one, and he abides on a cleft rock, on a steep, sturdy one, where his home and shelter are.

[29] There no sea-watching lookout sits, nor from expectation does he peer in every direction, if perhaps he might catch a great prey; but from afar from a lookout he saw a corpse with his keen eye, for he gazes sharpest of the birds above.

[30] His flesh-eating young he fed with glistening fat, and they have always consorted with the dead.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 39.1 focus

NOſti, quando pariunt villoſæ ſylveſtres capræ?

Aut quando hinnulos-ferentium cervarum genus parturiunt?

Menſium nôſti numerum, quem prægnantes implent,

Quoto die fœtant, & tempus nôſti partûs ?

Incurvando-ſe parturiunt enitentes charam prolem,

Eas autem tenet telum laborem-afferentis partûs

Acre & validum, amaros dolores augens.

Pingues ipſis filii, & bene ſaturati cibo,

Facilé q; que creſcentes nitidis renident membris,

Senſim verò è cubili parvulis repentes pedibus,

Infantiâ q; que præ miſeranda aberrantes à parentibus

Non-ampliùs meminerunt reducem greſſum incitare.

Quis onagrum dimiſit liberum, vincula ſolvens,

Velocem, rapidum, validis-ungulis, procerum onagrum ?

Cui ego feci domos in deſerta terra,

Solivagus verò hic habitat in ſolo infructuoſo :

Procul à multitudine oſor-urbis ſolus vagatur,

Populum vitans, abhorrét q; que à multo cœtu,

Nec unquam exactoris rigidas audit minas,

Paſtoris nec clamorem curat, nec agaſonis.

Montis in ſaltibus ſemper recèns-virentem herbam

Perquirens vagatur, de viridí q; que gramine

Habet paſtum, paſcit eum copioſè herbida tellus.

Inepte, putáſne te unicornem domare

Sylveſtrem poſſe, ut tibi obediens ſit,

Et ſtet, hordeum album edens tanquam bos ad præſepe?

Num, ut bovi, ei ad ſulcum jugo collum ſubjicies,

Ad trahendum, ut & ſulcum continuum findat

Novali in amplo, cedat autem gleba aratro ?

Ejus autem viribus confiſus es, quoniam robore excellit?

Et quia robuſtus eſt, ei committes tua negotia ?

Putáſne eum ex agro tuum pomacei-coloris frumentum laturum,

Domúm q; que adducturum, æſtate circumvertente,

(Qui ſervorum mos eſt, boúm q; que erecta-capita-habentium) :

Tutó q; que repoſiturum illud bene-extructa in area ?

Túne pennas pulchrè-expanſas & et ſplendidas veſtes dediſti

Orrhopygium-notis-diſtinct ũ um-habentibus, extenſis-alis pavonibus?

Hi .a. autem ſuperbientes plumíſ q; que pulchritudiné q; que ſuâ

Circulo obumbrant totum corpus variegato,

Frequentibus oculis conſperſo hinc & et indè,

Mirum viſu: pennáſne tu plumáſque dediſti ſtruthiocamelo?

Quæ poſtquam peperit ova, humi relinquit, ne q; que fovet

Suum fœtum circuntegens alis charis,

Ut mos eſt volucribus: illa autem in tepido pulvere

Foventur radiis & et excluduntur ſolaribus.

Inſipiens, neque id novit in animo, ne q; que animadvertit

Feræ quòd ingruentes ejus irritum cubile

Conterere fortean futuræ ſint ſub pedibus, diſperderéque.

Mater mala-mater, & et durum animum habens,

Quæ ſic à prole alienata eſt, quaſi ipſa

Neſcia partûs: ferreum certè ei cor:

Quæ cùm fruſtrà adeò validos dolores vitavit

Laborioſi partûs, ſuos negligit pullos

Improba, nec de iis metuit, nequid patiantur.

Neque enim ei Deus intelligentiam in pectoribus dedit,

Scientiam verò negavit, & et non præbuit mentem ſanam.

Ea autem non circumvolitat in æthere & et nubibus,

Qui aliarum ritus eſt æriarum volucrum,

Surſum verò villoſúm q; que caput & et pectora erigit

Malum ceu navis; aláſ q; que veluti alba vela expandens

Celeriter currit per terram pariter cum flamine venti,

Quaſi quædam automata pedeſtris navis, cui ſoli

Secundi venti à-tergo gubernatores ſunt:

Præteriens autem deridet pariter equitém q; que & et equum,

Utrumque, velociór q; que curſu majór q; que viſu.

Nunquid tu robur dediſti bellicoſo forti equo,

Celeri, æripedi, ſolidam-ungulam-habenti, nigris-ſetis?

Ejúſne horrendo induiſti craſſam cervicem tonitruo?

Amplum ei pectus, oblongum corpus, lata terga,

Reflexum collum, pertranſit verò campum

Exult ã anſ, altéque caput tollit, circum autem jubæ

Humeros diffunduntur, ille autem ſplendore fretus,

Celeriter ipſum genua ferunt, nutant autem horrendùm comæ.

Eúmne tanqu ã am cicadam terrefacies, quæ in ſylva

Arbori inſidens vocem ſuavem emittit,

Sin verò aliquem aut venientem videat, aut ſonum audiat,

Timet vehementer, valdéq; valdéque pallidus metus eam occupat;

Meminit quidem fugæ, floridi autem obliviſcitur cantûs:

Ità tu illi in pectoribus timorem & metum incuties?

At ille anhelans eructat multum vaporem

Calidum ab ore & terribilibus à naribus.

Tolutim-incedens valles pedibus fodiit, robore confiſus,

Per planitiem gradiens denſæ occurrit phalangi,

Terribiliter licèt ſcutíſq; ſcutíſque & lanceis horreſcenti,

Optat autem primo-quoq; primo-quoque tempore miſceri in prælio triſti.

Nec certè eum timor cohibet excors, nec omnino

Metuit,poſtquam primùm ingreſſus fuerit cohortem virorum.

Neq; Neque enim ei honeſtum fugitanti pugnare,

Non trepidare, & circunſpicere belli tranſitus

Æris præ fulgure, enſíſq; enſíſque præ fulgure.

Torvè admodum coràm tuetur inconnivis oculis

Juvenibus cohortem condenſam haſtatis,

Et æs fulgidum, & ſcintillans ferrum.

Pergit autem per primam-aciem; tum etiam adverſùs illum

Crepuit arcus, ſonuit pharetra, ſtridit ſagitta,

Circa humeros reſonuerunt arma ſplendida,

Fulgor ad cœlum pervenit, commotæ autem ſunt phalanges,

Stant ei ex-adverſo conferti propugnatores

Munientes lanceas lanceis, clypeos clypeis denſis.

At ille inter primos incedit robore ſuperbiens,

Oculi autem ejus torvis ſuperciliis truculenti

Splendent veluti ignis flamma ardentis;

Spuma autem circa os oritur pugnantis.

Pedibus porrigitur ad-pugnandum, tum pulverem

Abſorbet anhelans, & terram naribus haurit.

Spumat autem pectus, quaſſantur verò ſupernè jubæ,

Sub ungulis autem pulvis excitatus eſt turbineus.

At cùm belli prænuncia ſonat tuba,

Vocémq; Vocémque pugnæ-excitatricem mavortia buccina emittit,

Utíq; Utíque tum aures arrigit cupiens belli,

Surgit autem erectus, neq; neque ſtat ſuis pedibus,

Tubæ autem nondum canorum clangorem cupiens licet,

Putat ſe audire, valida enim eum rabiis ſubiit.

Inter tubas medias valde altùm hinnit,

Terribilis, exultans-præ-lætitia: geſtit autem in animo præ

pugnâ,

A-longinquo olfaciens clangorem & prælium,

Tonitrú q; que ducum, & pugnantium clamorem.

Tuóne arbitrio accipiter pernicibus-alis concitatur ad volandum

Circus, qui parvis cædem adfert avibus,

Et notum circumvolat exultans pennis ?

Tuóne præcepto magna aquila aërem ſcindit

Altivolans, quæ omnes excellit volucres,

Surſum autem in nubibus impudentem fixit nidum ?

Habitat in prominenti & obſcura rupe,

Sublimi, magna, manét q; que in prærupta petra

Excelſa, firma, ubi ei domus eſt & præſidium.

Ibi non vana ſpeculatrix ſedet. nec citra opinionem (ſuam

Undi q; que circunſpiciens ſicubi magnam prædam deprehendere

Longè autem à ſpecula vidit cadáver oculo acri, (queat,

Acutiſſimè enim cernit inter aërias volucres.

Crudis-veſcentes alit pullos adipe candido

Carnivoros; ideo ſemper verſatur inter cadavera.

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4. 13 τερπομενων] + νεελασα U+05D0c.c A | συνλαβη U+05D0 | ασιδα] ασειδα U+05D0 ασσιδα A*⁴ ασιδα Aa) pr η U+05D0 | νεσσα (νεεσσ. A)] + ελαλησαν A 14 ωα] ωτα U+05D0A | θαλ. ψει] θαιψειU+05D0*ᵛiᵈ (θαλψ. U+05D0¹) 15 επελαθοντο] ἐεελθοντος U+05D0* (επελαθ. U+05D0c.a) ' πελαθετο A | πους U+05D0* που BU+05D0c.asο 16 εαυτης] αυτης U+05D0A 17 κατεσιω- |τησεν] κατεπηξεν U+05D0* (κατεσιωπ.U+05D0c.a) | om ουκ U+05D0* (hab U+05D0c.a) | αυτη 2⁰] αυτης 1 U+05D0* (-τη U+05D0c.a ᵃ) + ο θς A 18 καιρων A | om ἐε U+05D0* (hab U+05D0c.a) | υψωσει ψει U+05D0* υψωσει εν υψει U+05D0c ᵃ | ιππου] αυτου U+05D0* (ιππ. U+05D0c.a) 19 ενεουσας δε αι ενεουσας A 20 δοξαν δε] και δοξη A | τολμη | A 21 ανο- υσσων] α ορυσσων Bᵇ | πεδιω] ποθι U+05D0c.a) ᵃ (postea revoc πεδ.) 22 βα- πιλει] βελει U+05D0c.aA (- λι) | απο σιδηρου] σιδηρον A 23 επ αυτω] +γαρ U+05D0 | μαχαιρα] pr οξυσθενης A 24 σημανῃ] σημανιει (sic) A 25 λεγει] ρπι A | συν] pr και A | και] om και U+05D0* (hab κ U+05D01(vid)c.a) | κραυγης U+05D0* (-γη U+05D01 + εκπορευεη A 27 επι δε] η επι A | σω] pr τω A | νοσσιὰς Bᵇ

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ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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