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οὐδὲ ἐπὶ τοῖς λεγομένοις τεθαύμακας

(²) οὐδὲ δέδοικας ὅτι ἡτοίμασταί μοι

τίς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ἐμοὶ ἀντιστάς;

ἢ τίς ἀντιστήσεταί μοι καὶ ὑπομενεῖ;

εἰ πᾶσα ἡ ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν ἐμή ἐστιν,

οὐ σιωπήσομαι διʼ αὐτόν,

καὶ λόγον δυνάμεως ἐλεήσει τὸν ἴσον αὐτοῦ.

τίς ἀποκαλύψει πρόσωπον ἐνδύσεαος αὐτοῦ;

εἰς δὲ πτύξιν θώρακος αὐτοῦ τίς ἂν εἰσέλθοι;

πύλας προσώπου αὐτοῦ τίς ἀνοίξει;

κύκλῳ ὀδόντων αὐτοῦ φόβος.

τὰ ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ ἀσπίδες χάλκειαι,

σύνδεσμος αὐτοῦ ὥσπερ σμιρίτης λίθος·

εἰς τοῦ ἑνὸς κολλῶνται,

¹²

πνεῦμα δὲ οὐ μὴ διέλθῃ αὐτόν·

ἀνὴρ τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ προσκολληθήσεται·

συνέχονται, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποσπασθῶσιν.

ἐν πταρμῷ αὐτοῦ ἐπιφαύσκεται φέγγος.

οἱ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ εἶδος ἑωσφόρου.

ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύονται λαμπάδες καιόμεναι,

καὶ διαρριπτοῦνται ἐσχάραι πυρός.

ἐκ μυκτήρων αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύεται καπνὸς καμίνου καιομένης

πυρὶ ἀνθράκων·

ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ἄνθρακες.

φλὸξ δὲ ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύεται

ἐν δὲ τραχήλῳ αὐτοῦ αὐλἰζεται δύναμις.

ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ τρέχει ἀπωλία.

σάρκες δὲ σώματος αὐτοῦ κεκόλληνται

καταχέει ἐπʼ αὐτόν, οὐ σαλευθήσεται.

ἡ καρδἰα αὐτοῦ πέπηγεν ὡς λίθος,

ἕστηκεν δὲ ὥσπερ ἄκμων ἀνήλατος.

στραφέντος δὲ αὐτοῦ φόβος θηρίοις τετράποσιν ἐπὶ γῆς

ἁλλομένοις.

ἐὰν συναντήσωσιν αὐτῷ λόγχαι, οὐδὲν μὴ ποιήσωσιν

δόρυ καὶ θώρακα·

ἤγηται μὶν γὰρ σίδηρον ἄχυρα.

χαλκὸν δὲ ὥσπερ ξύλον σαθρόν.

οὐ μὴ τρώσῃ αὐτὸν τόξον χάλκειον·

ἥγηται μέν πετροβόλον χόρθον,

ὡς καλάμη ἐλογίσθησαν σφυρά,

καταγελῶ δὲ σεισμοῦ πυρφόρου.

ἡ στρωμνὴ αὐτοῦ ὀβελίσκοι ὀξεῖς.

³⁵

πᾶς δέ χρυσὸς θαλάσσης ὑπʼ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ πηλὸς

ἀμύθητος.

ἀναζεῖ τὴν ἄβυσσον ὥσπερ χαλκεῖον·

ἥγηται δὲ τὴν θάλασσαν ὥσπερ ἐξάλιπτρον,

τὸν δὲ τάρταρον τῆς ἀβύσσου ὥσπερ αἰχμάλωτον·

λογίσατο ἄβυσσον εἰς περίπατον.

οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὅμοιον αὐτῷ, πεποιημένον

ἐνκαταπαίζεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγγέλων μου·

πᾶν ὑψηλὸν ὁρᾷ,

αὐτὸς δὲ βασιλεὺς πάντων τῶν ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν.

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).) — 41.1 focus

Ἦ σύ μιν ἐκ πόντοιο λίνῳ, καὶ ἤνοπι χαλκῷ

Ἑλκύσσαι δύνασαι, κάθετόν τε βαλεῖν περὶ γλώσσῃ;

Γναμπτοῖς τ' ἀγκίστροισιν ἐλὺν πολυχανδέα ῥῖνα

Τετρῆναι, πῆξαί τε μέγαν σκύλοπ' ἀμφὶ γένυσσιν;

Αὐτὰρ ὅγ' εὐχωλῇσι λιτῇσί τε μειλιχίῃσι

Θέλξει ἱλασκόμενος σ'; ἱκέτης δέ τοι εὔξεται εἶναι,

Παρφάμενος μαλακοῖσι καὶ αἱμυλίοισι λόγοισιν;

Ἦ ῥά νυ τοι ἐπίηρα φέρων μειλίγματα θυμῷ

Δώσει; συνθεσίας ποιήσεται, ὅρκια τάμνων,

Ὄφρα ζωγρήσας μιν ἔχοις θεράποντος ἐν αἴσῃ;

Ἦ ῥά νυ ποιήσεις μιν ἀθύρματα νηπιέῃσιν;

Ὄρνιθ' ὥς λιγυρῶς δήσεις μέρμιθι φαεινῇ,

Καὶ δώσεις κόρῃσιν, ἵνα σφίσι παίγνιον εἴης;

Ἦ μιν ἐν εἰλαπίνῃ βρώσουσ' ἐρίηρες ἑταῖροι,

Τοῖό τ' ἀπὸ χρειῶν τάμξουσ' ἐρικυδέα δαῖτα;

Ἦ, ἐπεὶ ἢ μέγας ἐστὶ, διαμελεϊστὶ ταμόντες

Ἰχθυοπώλῃσιν πέμψουσί μιν ἄλλυδις ἄλλῃ,

Οἵ τ' αὖθις πράσωσι, καὶ ἄσπετον ὦνον ἕλωνται;

Ἀμφιπεριξέψεις ῥινὸν δεινοῖο πελώρου

Ὀξέσ' ἀκόντεσσίν τε καὶ ἔγχεσιν ἀμφιγύοισιν;

Ἦ χροῒ καρχαρόδοντι πολυγλώχινι σιδήρῳ

Οὐτήσεις, κεφαλήν τε τανυγλώχισι τριαίνῃς;

Ἀλλ' ἄγε, χερσὶ φίλῃς λίγδῳ ἐπιμαίεο νῶτα

Μειλιχίῃς, ἐπεί κε βίῃ σε δαμασσέμεν οἴων·

Χάζεο, μηδὲ μάχης μιμνήσκεο, παῦε δ' ἐρωήν·

Ἔι τις μιν κλίνειν ἐθέλει δόλῳ ἠὲ βίηφι,

Ἀλλ' ἄκ ἐξανύει, ἄχρης δὲ οἱ ἐλπὶς ὄλωλεν,

Ἀργαλέος γάρ τ' ἐστὶ πέλωρ κακὸς ἀνδρὶ δαμῆναι,

Σμερδαλέος, βλοσυρωπός, ἀμείλιχος, οὐδέ κέ τις μιν

Γηθήσειεν ἰδὼν, τόσσος πέλεν εἰσοράασθαι.

Ἦ μήτις ἔς τινι τόσσον ἐνὶ στήθεσσι φίλοισιν,

Ὥστέ μιν ὀρσέμεναι, ὅς' ἰὼ θρασυκάρδιος ᾖσι;

Τολμήεις τε μάλιστα· τίς ἂν ἐμεῦ, ὅς μιν ἐταύξαι

Ἀντίον ἑστάμεναι τλαίη μεγαλήτορι θυμῷ;

Τίς φθάμενος μοι ἔδωκεν ἐνάισιμον, ὄφρα καὶ αὐτῷ,

( Ἦ, θέμις ) οἷ' ἔοργε, διπλῆις, χαρίεσσαν ἀμοιβὴν

Τίσω, ὅ, τ' ἐξ ἐμέθεν θυμήρεα μισθὸν ἄρηται;

Πάντ' ἐμὰ πάντα γάρ ἐστιν, ὅσ' οὐρανὸς ἀμφιβέβηκεν.

Ἀλλ' ἔτι τοι ἐρέω κῆτος μέγα, θαῦμα θαλάσσης,

Οὐδ' ἄρα μιν κλείσω, ἔτ' ἄρ μῦθον, ὄτε τι γυῖα,

Οὐ κρατερὸν δέμας, ὄτε φυὴν, ὄτ' εἶδος ἀγητόν.

Τίς μιν ποντόθεν εἷλκε ποτὶ ξερὸν ἠπείροιο,

Ῥιγεδανόν τ' εἶδος λεπιδωτῷ δεῖξε χιτῶνι;

Τίς δέ οἱ ἐγχειρισθεὶς περὶ διχθάδα βάλλε χαλινόν;

Τίς σκόλοπας κατέπηξεν ἐνὶ γναμπτῇσι γένυσι,

Καὶ ἐνὶ γαμφηλῇς; αἵ δ' ὤιγνυντο πύλαι ὥς

Δικλίδες, ὑψηλαί τε, μύκον δ' ἄρα χάσματι δεινῷ

Γναθμοὶ σμερδαλέοι, φρικτοὶ σὰν δ' ἀμφὶς ὀδόντες

Πυκνοὶ καὶ θαμέες, πλέιοι μέλανος θανάτοιο.

Χαλκείῃσιν λεπίδεσσιν ἀγάλλεται ἐμπεδοκύκλοις,

Ἠΰτε σημαντήροιο χαράγμασιν εὖ ἀραρυίης·

Αἱ μέν τ' ἀγχιτῖναι ἐπ' ἀλλήλῃσι κέχυνται,

Ὥστε παρεσδῦναι μήτ' ἠέρα λεπτότατον πρός.

Ὡς δ' ὅτε τοῖχον ἀνὴρ ἀρέρῃ πυκινοῖσι λίθοισι

Δώματος ὑψηλοῖο, βίας ἀνέμων ἀλεείνων·

Ὡς τ' ἄραρον κόρυθές τε καὶ ἀσπίδες ὀμφαλόεσσαι,

Ὄφρά τ' ἐνὶ πτολέμῳ πυκιναὶ κλονέοντο φάλαγγες,

Ἀσπὶς ἄρ' ἀσπίδ' ἔρειδε, κόρυς κόρυν, ἠὲ χελώνη

Ἄρθην· ὡς τῷ μὲν λεπίδες περὶ χάλκεα νῶτα

Ἔπλιντ' ἀλλήλῃσιν, ἔρεισε δὲ γείτονα γείτων,

Ὡς πύκα συμπεφύασι διηνεκέϊ ξυνοκωχῇ.

Εὖτε δ' ἀπὸ ῥινῶν βαρυηχέα ῥόγχον ἐράγῃ,

Λάμπετο πῦρ, δεινὸν δὲ σέλας φλογμοῖο φαάνθη,

Ὅσε δ' οἱ ἀστράπτοντ' ἠὓς βλεφάροιν ἐΐκτην.

Ἐκ στόματος δαΐδές τε καὶ ἀσβέστη κέχυτο φλόξ

Ἠλίθα, τῷ δέ τε πολλοὶ ἀπὸ σπινθῆρες ὄρουσαν.

Ὡς δ' ὅτ' ἀπὸ τρίποδος καπνὸς ῥέεν, ἠὲ λέβητος,

Ὅς τε μάλα ζεῖ ἔνδον ἐπειγόμενος πυρὶ κηλέῳ,

Κνίσηι μελδόμενος, τάχα δ' οὐρανὸν ἵκεν ἀϋτμή·

Ὡς οἱ ἀπὸ ῥινῶν καπνὸς ῥέε δεινὸν ἀέντι.

Ἀν στόμα τε ῥῖνάς τε πυριπνόος ἆλτο κάμινος,

Ἀμφὶ δὲ κήκιε φλόξ, δαλὸς δέ τε ὠκὺς ἀνῆπται.

Ἲς δέ οἱ ἐν δειρῇ, ἠδὲ σθένος οὐκ ἀλαπαδνόν,

Αὐχένι τε στιβαρῷ ἀμφ' ἄσπετος ἱζάνει ἀλκή.

Χάρμα μέγ' οἱ ἄμυδις πέλεται, ναύτῃσι δὲ πένθος·

Τέρπετ' ἐπεμβεβαὼς νώτοις ἁλός, ἔνθα περ ἀέλλῃ

Λυγρῇ ἀταλλέμεναι μεμαώς, θρώσκει δ' ἀνὰ κῦμα

Πορφύρεον, σκιρτᾷ δὲ μέσῳ ἐνὶ οἴνοπι πόντῳ,

Αὔτως κυδιόων, εἰ καὶ δυσπέμφελος ἐστίν.

Ἄρρηκτοι ἄλυτοι σαρκῶν πτύχες ἀμφὶ μέλεσσι,

Καὶ δέμας εὖ ἄραρε, στιφαρὸς δ' ἀναδέδρομε κόλπος

Στέρνον ἐπὶ κρατερόν, παγχάλκεον, ἀσφαλὲς αἰεί.

Αὐτοῦ δὲ κραδίη στερεωτέρη ἐστὶ λίθοιο,

Ὡς τε μύλαξ ἀτέραμνος, ἐπὶ φρένες ἀμφιμέλαιναι.

Εἴσατο δ' ἠΰτε πύργος ὑπὲρ ἁλός· ὄφρα δ' ἀνέστῃ,

Σμερδαλέος τ' ἐφάνη, τρομέεσσιν ἄφαρ φρένα ναῦται,

Δειδιότες, τυτθὸν γὰρ ὑπ' ἐκ θανάτοιο φέρονται,

Ἴφθιμοί περ ἐόντες, ἐπεὶ ἴδον ὄμβριμον ἰχθῦν,

Σφέας τ' αὐτοὺς ἐκάθηραν, ἐπεὶ τάμψεν ἁλμυρὸν ὕδωρ,

Κύματά τε τροφόεντα διέχλισε κῆτος ἄλαστον.

Ἤν τις μιν ξίφεϊ πλήξεν δέμας, οὐ φρόνησεν,

Οὐδ' ἔρρηξεν ῥινόν· ἀνεγνάμφθη δέ τ' ἀκωκή·

Ἤι ἢ βέλος προέηκεν, ἐτώσιον ἔκφυγε χειρός·

Αἰχμαὶ χαλκεῖαι, δολίχ' ἔγχεα, δούρατ', ἄκοντες

Ἐν χροῒ ἐρραίσθη, πλάγχθη δ' ἀπὸ χαλκόφι χαλκίς.

Ὡς ἴκελον καλάμῃ ὄϊεται αἴθωνα σίδηρον

Ἔμμεναι, ὡς ξύλον αὖον ὅϊς ἔπλετο χαλκὸς ἀτειρής.

Οὐ τρεῖ, οὐδὲ φοβεῖται ἀπὸ πτερόεντος ὀϊστοῦ·

Οἷαι δ' ἄχναι εἰσὶν εὐτροχάλους κατ' ἀλωὰς,

Ἅς τ' ἄνεμος φορέει καὶ λικμητῆρος ἐρωή.

Ὡς λίθοι οἳ δοκέουσ' ἔμμεναι, οὓς σφενδόνῃ ἀνὴρ

Ἧκεν ἀκοντίζων, μελέη δέ οἱ εἴσατο ὁρμή.

Ὡς ὃ μὲν ἐπ' ἰῶν ἐμπάζεται, οὐδέ τ' ἀκόντων,

Τοὺς δ' ἴσους ἄχνῃσιν ὀΐεται, ἢ αἰθέρεσσιν

Ἔμμεναι, ὥς δέ τ' ἀπὸ πλυόφιν σκέδασ' ἲς ἀνέμοιο.

Εἰ δέ τις ἀμπεπαλὼν προΐει δολιχόσκιον ἔγχος,

Αὐτὰρ ὃ καγχαλάων ἐγελοίασεν ἀνδρὸς ἐρωὴ,

Οὐκ ἀλέγων, ὡς εἰ ἓ γυνὴ βάλοι, ἢ παῖς ἄφρων.

Νέρθεν ἐρήρεισται πάγοι ὀξέες, ἀμφὶ δὲ πέτραι

Καὶ σκόπελοι καὶ λᾶες ἀκαχμένοι ὀκριόεντες,

Τοὺς ὑπὲρ ἰλυόφιν τόρεσεν, λέχος ὣς ἐνὶ πόντῳ

Εὐρέϊ, τοῖς ἔπι λέκτο μέγας μεγαλωστὶ τανυσθείς.

Ὡς δ' ὅτε ζέσειεν ὕδωρ μέσσω ἐνὶ ἤνοπι χαλκῷ

Πάντοθεν ἀμβολάδην, ὑπὸ δὲ ξύλα κάγχανα κεῖται·

Τάρφιν δὲ τρίποδος πῦρ ἄμφεπε, θέρμετο δ' ὕδωρ·

Ὡς τε λέβης· ζεῖ ἔνδον ἐπειγόμενος πυρὶ πολλῷ,

Ἀμβλύζων τε μύρῳ καὶ ἀλείφατος ἐννεώρειο·

Ὡς τοῦ νηχομένοιο κυκώμενον ὑψόσε θῦε

Κῦμα πολυφλοίσβοιο ἁλός, πάφλαζε δὲ πόντος

Ἀφρῷ μορμύρων, ἀνὰ δ' ἔφλυεν ἁλμυρὸν ὕδωρ,

Ὑψὶ δὲ κορθύετο, ζέε δ' ἄγριον οἶδμα θαλάσσης.

Ὃς δ' ἴεν, αὐτὰρ ὄπισθε φαεινείῃ μέγα λαῖτμα,

Τῷ καὶ ῥηγνυμένῳ μεγάλα βρέμει, ἀμφὶ δὲ κῦμα

Κυρτὸν ἑὸν κορυφῇ, ἀποπτύει δ' ἁλὸς ἄχνην,

Ἀφειδέατι δὲ φαίνεθ' ἁλὸς πολιοῖο κέλευθος,

Φαίης κέν σε κάρη πολιοκροτάφοιο γέροντος

Λεύσσειν, ἠὲ γαλακτίχροον καὶ ἐν ὕδασι κύκλον.

Oὔτι κνώδαλον ἦτελ' ἐπὶ χθονὶ πολυβοτείρῃ

"Οὐδ' ἁλὸς ἐν βένθεσσιν ὁμοιωθήμεναι αὐτῷ,

"Οὐ δέμας, ὔτε φυὴν, ὔτ' ἄρ μένος, ὔτέ τι εἶδος·

"Ὡς οἱ θαρσαλέον πέλε τ' ἄτρομον ἐν φρεσὶν ἦτορ.

Κάρτεΐ τε σθένεΐ τε μέγα φρονέων ἀνόρουσε,

Πάντα δ' ὀπιπεύεσκε μετήορα, ἐν δ' ἀγερώχοις

"Εὔχετ' ἄναξ ἐμμέναι, μέγα τ' ἔξοχος εἰνὶ πελώροις.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 41 focus

Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Will he make many petitions to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?

Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a servant forever?

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?

Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

Strong scales are his pride, Shut up together with a close seal.

One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.

They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.

His sneezing flashes forth light, His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Out of his mouth go burning torches, Sparks of fire leap forth.

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, As of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

In his neck there is strength. Terror dances before him.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.

His heart is as firm as a stone, Yes, firm as the lower millstone.

When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

If one lay at him with the sword, it can’t avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

He counts iron as straw; And brass as rotten wood.

The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, Leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

He makes a path to shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

On earth there is not his equal, That is made without fear.

He sees everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 41.1 focus

[1] Can you draw him out of the sea with a line, and with gleaming bronze, and put a hook around his tongue?

[2] Can you pierce his nose, so full of gulfs, with curved hooks, and fix a great spike around his jaws?

[3] But will he, being appeased, charm you with vows and gentle supplications? And will he vow to you to be a suppliant, speaking with soft and wheedling words?

[4] Will he indeed, bringing you favors, give soothing charms to your heart? Will he make a covenant, cutting oaths, so that after catching him alive you may hold him in a servant's lot?

[5] Will you really make him a plaything for infants? Will you tie him up like a bird, sweetly, with a shining cord, and give him to maidens, so that you might be a plaything for them?

[6] Will your loving comrades devour him at a feast, and will they carve a glorious banquet from his flesh? Or, since he is great, will they cut him limb from limb and send him to the fishmongers, one place and another, who in turn will sell him and take a vast price?

[7] Will you pierce all around the hide of the dread monster with sharp javelins and with two-edged spears? Or will you wound his flesh with jagged-toothed, many-barbed iron, and his head with far-barbed tridents?

[8] But come, with your own hands lay hold of his back with a mattock, since with gentle force you would only subdue him alone; Give way, and do not remember the battle, but cease from your rush.

[9] If anyone wishes to lay him low by guile or by force, yet he fails utterly, and his hope is lost; for the beast is a grievous evil for a man to subdue, dreadful, grim-eyed, implacable, nor would anyone rejoice to see him, so great is he to look upon.

[10] Is there no one with such a heart in his own breast as to rouse him, whoever is so bold-hearted? and boldest of all; who of me, who could endure to stand Antion before him with a great-hearted spirit?

[11] Who, having come first, gave me a fitting answer, so that I too, (truly, as is right,) might repay him a twofold, gracious recompense for what he has done, and that he might receive from me a heart-pleasing wage? For all things are mine, all that heaven has encompassed.

[12] But still I will tell you of the great sea-monster, the wonder of the sea, and I will not hide it from you, nor yet the tale — how its limbs, how its mighty frame, how its growth, how its wondrous form.

[13] Who dragged it from the sea to the dry shore of the mainland, and showed its dread form in its scaly coat? And who, having put his hand upon it, casts a double bridle around it?

[14] Who has fixed stakes in its curved jaws, and in its gullet? And its gates were opened like double-folding doors, and they were lofty; and its dreadful jaws bellowed with a terrible gaping, and fearsome teeth stood round about on both sides, close-packed and crowded, more numerous than black death.

[15] He exults in his bronze scales, firmly rounded, like the engravings of a well-fitted seal.

[16] And these are poured close upon one another, so that not even the finest air can slip in between.

[17] As when a man fits a wall with close-set stones of a lofty house, shunning the violence of the winds; As then helmets and bossed shields were fitted together, so that in war the close-packed ranks were thrown into confusion, shield pressed on shield, helm on helm, or tortoise-shell on Arthēn; as on it the scales were fitted around its bronze back, each to the other, and neighbor pressed on neighbor, so closely are they grown together in unbroken union.

[18] And when from his nostrils a deep-roaring snorting was burst forth, fire blazed, and a terrible flash of flame appeared, and his eyes that flashed like the dawn were like them in his eyelids.

[19] From his mouth torches and unquenchable flame were poured forth in vain, and from it many sparks leaped out.

[20] As when smoke flows from a tripod or a cauldron, which seethes greatly within, urged on by the soothing fire, melting with fat, and quickly its blast reaches heaven; Thus from his nostrils smoke flows as he breathes terribly.

[21] Into his mouth and nostrils a fire-breathing furnace leaps, and flame gushes around, and a swift torch is kindled.

[22] His strength is in his neck, and his might is not feeble; and around his sturdy neck boundless valor settles. A great joy comes to them all at once, but grief to sailors. He delights, treading upon the back of the sea, where, eager to sport in the grim storm, he leaps over the purple wave, and frisks in the midst of the wine-dark deep, exulting just so, even if he is ill-tempered.

[23] The folds of his flesh are unbroken and unloosed around his limbs, and his frame is well fitted together, and a firm belly has risen up over his mighty breast, all of bronze, ever secure.

[24] And his heart is firmer than stone, like an unyielding millstone, and his mind is dark all around.

[25] And he was like a tower above the sea. But when he rose up, a dreadful one appeared; at once the sailors trembled in their heart, terrified, for they are borne but a little away from death, mighty though they be, when they saw the mighty fish; and they cleansed themselves, when the salt water cut them, and the monstrous sea-monster broke through the nourishing waves.

[26] If anyone struck him in the body with a sword, he did not notice, nor did he break his hide. and the point was bent back. Or he hurled a missile, and it fled from his hand in vain. Bronze spears, long lances, shafts, and javelins were dashed against his skin, and the bronze blade was driven off from the bronze.

[27] He thinks the blazing iron is like a reed, and unyielding bronze is like a dry stick of wood.

[28] He does not flee, nor is he frightened by the feathered arrow. Like chaff that is on well-rolled threshing floors, which the wind and the rush of the winnower carry away. As stones which they seem to be, which a man hurled with a sling, shooting them; and his onset seemed to him vain.

[29] As he, going on, pays no heed to javelins, and he thinks them equal to chaff, or to be air; and as from a ship the might of the wind scattered them. But if someone, brandishing it, hurls a long-shadowed spear, yet he, laughing aloud, would mock the man's rush, paying no heed, as if a woman or a foolish child should strike him.

[30] Beneath him sharp crags are fixed, and around him rocks and cliffs and jagged pointed stones, which he pierced above the mire, like a bed in the broad sea, on which the great one lay stretched out mightily.

[31] And as when water seethes in the midst of gleaming bronze, boiling up from every side, and beneath it lie the dry crackling sticks; And the fire busied itself about the cauldron, and the water grew hot; as a cauldron; it boils within, hastened by much fire, and bubbling with myrrh and nine-year-old ointment; As the wave of the much-resounding sea, churned up, seethed on high for the swimmer, and the deep foamed, roaring with foam, and the salt water bubbled up, and it swelled aloft, and the wild swell of the sea boiled.

[32] And he goes, but behind him a great shining abyss; for him even as he breaks it roars greatly, and around his own curved wave with its crest, and he spits out the foam of the sea, and to Apheidea appears the path of the grey sea; you would say you were looking at the head of a grey-templed old man, or a milk-white circle even in the waters.

[33] In no way did any beast upon the much-nurturing earth come to completion, nor in the depths of the sea, to be likened to him — neither in body, nor in nature, nor in might, nor in any form. So was his heart in his breast bold and fearless.

[34] Exulting greatly in strength and might he sprang up, and he kept gazing at all things lofty, and among the proud he boasted that he was a king, and greatly pre-eminent among monsters.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 41.1 focus

Túne illum ex ponto lino & ſplendido ære

Trahere potes, perpendiculúmque circumjicere linguæ?

Curvíſque hamis ejus vaſtum naſum

Terebrare, figeréque magnam ſudem circa maxillas?

Verùm is precibus ſupplicationibúſque blandis

Mulcebit placans te? ſupplex autem tibi profitebitur eſſe,

Perſuadens mollibus & placidis ſermonibus?

Nunquid tibi gratificans blandimenta in animo

Dabit? pacta faciet, fœdera feriens,

Ut vivum-capiens eum habeas famuli loco?

Nunquid ludos eum facies in inſipientia,

Avem ut canoram? ligabis fune ſplendido,

Et dabis puellis, ut iis ludicrum ſit?

Eúmne in convivio comedent jucundi ſodales,

Ejúſque de carnibus ſtruent inſignes epulas?

Vel, quoniam magnus eſt, membratim ſecantes

Salſamentariis mittent eum aliò atque aliò,

Qui & iterum vendant, & ingens pretium accipiant?

Circunteges pellem terribilis hujus monſtri

Acutíſque ſpiculis, & haſtis ancipitibus?

Num cutem pectinato multas-cuſpides-habenti ferro

Vulnerabis, capútque aculeatis fuſcinis?

Quin agè, manibus amicis ſtrictim demulce terga

Blandè, quippe haudquaquam vi te domiturum puto.

Recede, neque pugnæ memineris, defiſte autem ab impetu.

Si quis eum interficere velit dolo, aut vi,

Attamen non conficiet, prædæ autem ei ſpes perit,

Difficile enim eſt monſtrum malum viro domitu,

Terribile, torvum, immite, nec quiſquàm ipſum

Lætabitur conſpicatus, tam-ingens eſt viſu.

Sanè ſpiritus haud ulli tantus in pectore charo,

Ut ipſum ſuſcitet, nec ſi magnanimus ſit

Audáxque maximé: Quis ergò mihi, qui eum feci,

Reſiſtere audeat ſtrenuo animo?

Quis præveniens mihi dedit accommodum quid, ut & illi,

(Prout fas eſt) eò-quòd-tale-fecit,dans gratam compenſation ẽ em

Solvam, íſque ex me jucundam mercedem recipiat?

Omnia enim, omnia mea ſunt, quæcunque cœlum ambit.

At ampliùs tibi deſcribam cetum magnum,miraculum maris,

Neq; Neque eum celabo, neq; neque robur, neq; neque membra,

Non validum corpus, neq; neque naturam, neq; neque formam ſpectabilem.

Quis eum ponto extraxit ad aridam continentis,

Horridámque faciem ſquamoſæ oſtendit tunicæ?

Quis ei appropinquans duplex injecit frænum?

Quis palos defixit in reflexis genis,

Et in maxillis? illæ autem apertæ ſunt, januæ ceu

Bifores, ſubliméſque, panduntúrque hiatu horrendo

Fauces terribiles, formidabiles, ſtant autem undique dentes

Denſi & frequentes, pleni nigræ mortis.

Æneis ſquamis exultat firmiter-rotundis

Veluti ſigilli ſculpturis bene compactis:

Hæ autem contiguæ aliæ ſuper alias funduntur,

Ut clanculum-irrepere nè aër quidem poſſit tenuiſſimus licèt.

Sicut autem quando murum vir coagmentavit denſis lapidibus

Domûs altæ, incurſus ventorum vitans:

Utque denſatæ ſunt galeæ, & ſcuta umbones-habentia,

Dum in bello frequentes ſtrepunt phalanges,

Scutum autem ſcutum fulcit, galea galeam, teſtudo autem

Conferta eſt; ſic hujus ſquamæ circum ænea terga

Adhærent ſibi invicem, fulcit autem vicinam vicina;

Adeò denſè compactæ ſunt continuâ juncturâ.

Cùm verò à naribus graviter-ſonantem rhonchum eructat,

Micat ignis, terribilis autem fulgor ſternutationis apparet,

Oculi verò ejus ſcintillantes auroræ palpebris ſunt-ſimiles.

Ex ore faces & inextinguibilis funditur flamma

Paſſim, unde & multæ ſcintillæ emicant.

Sicut autem quando ab olla fumus fluit, aut lebete,

Qui valde ſervet intus dum urgetur igne ardenti,

Arvinam liquefaciens, mox autem ad cœlum pervenit vapor:

Sic ei à naribus fumus profluit gravè ſpiranti.

Circa os & nares ignivomus ſalit caminus,

Undique verò procedit flamma, torríſque multus accenditur.

Vis ei in collo, & robur non infirmum,

Cervicémque rigidam ingens circunſtipat ſtrenuitas.

Gaudium magnum ei ſimul eſt, nautíſque triſtitia:

Oblectatur inequitans dorſo maris etiam in procella

Triſti, laſcivire geſtiens; ſaltat autem in fluctu

Purpureo, ludítque medio in nigro ponto;

Temerè, exultans, etſi tempeſtuoſus ſit.

Infrangibiles, inſolubiles ſunt carni ũ um plicaturæ circa membra;

Et corpus bene compactum eſt, ſolidus autem decurrit callus

Pectus per robuſtum, æneum, firmum ſemper.

Ejus autem cor firmius eſt lapide,

Et ſicut molaris lapis durus ejus præcordia nigra.

Videtur autem ſicut turris ſuper mari, quando ¹.α. exurgit,

Terribilíſq; Terribilíſque apparet, trepidant exemplo animis nautæ

Timentes, paululùm enim à morte diſtant,

Quantumvìs fortes ſint, cùm viderint immanem piſcem;

Séque ipſos purgant, poſtquam ſecuit falſam aquam,

Fluctúſque conglobatos ſcidit cetus immanis.

Siquis eum enſe feriat in corpore, non penetrar,

Neque perrumpit pellem; recurvatur autem mucro:

Sin verò telum mittit, irritum evolat è manu;

Cuſpides æreæ, oblongæ lanceæ, haſtæ, ſpicula

In cute diſperduntur, reſilit autem ab ære æs.

Quaſi ſimile ſtipulæ cenſet micans ferrum

Eſſe, velut lignum aridum ei eſt æs ſolidum.

Non tremit, neque timet ab alata ſagitta :

Quales autem paleæ ſunt rotundis in horreis,

Quas ventus fert, & ventilatoris impetus:

Sic lapides ei videntur eſſe, quos fundâ vir

Mittit ejaculans, inanis verò ei viſus eſt impetus.

Adeò hic nec miſſilia curat, nec ſpicula,

Ea autem æqualia paleis exiſtimat, aut ſpicis abjectis

Eſſe, quas à ventilabro diſpergit vis venti.

Quòd ſiquis vibrans emittit longam lanceam,

Verùm is cachinnans deridet viri impetum,

Non curans, ac ſi eum mulier percuteret, aut puer inſipiens.

Subtus fixa ſunt ſaxa acuta, circùm verò cautes

Et ſcopuli & lapides, acuti, aſperi,

Quos ſuper lutum ſtravit, velut lectum in ponto

Lato, ſuper quos cubat magnus latè porrectus.

Quemadmodum aut ẽ em cùm ſervet aqua medio in nitido ære

Undique ebulliens, ſubtèr verò ligna arida jacent;

Alvum quidem ollæ ignis ambit, calefítque aqua;

Utque lebes ſervet intus dum urgetur igne multo,

Unguento ebulliens, & oleo novennali :

Sic eo natante turbatus ſurſum cum-impetu-ruit

Fluctus multiſoni maris, æſtuavit autem pontus

Spumâ murmurans, ebullit autem falſa unda,

Surſum verò glomerata eſt, ſervit autem ſævus tumor maris.

Is autem vadit, verùm ponè albicat magnum profundum,

Eo etiam diſruptum vehementer fremit, circà autem fluctus

Curvati eriguntur, expuunt autem ſalis aſperginem,

Spumea autem apparet maris cani ſemita,

Putares te caput cani ſenis

Videre, aut lacteum vel in undis circulum.

Nulla bellua poterit in terra alma,

Nec maris in profundo comparari cum illo,

Nec corpore, nec naturâ, nec robore, nec ſpecie :

Adeò ei animoſum valdéque intrepidum in pectore cor.

Viribúſque roboréque ſuperbiens inſurgit,

Omniáque aſpicit ſublimia, inter ſuperbos

Gloriatur ſe regem eſſe, longéque præcipuum in monſtris.

Notes on the current edition

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1. U+05D0AC

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ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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