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‘Υπολαβὼν δὲ Ἰὰὼβ λέγει τῷ κυρίῳ

Οὐδα ὅτι πάντα δύνασαι, ἀδυνατεῖ δέ σοι οὐθέν.

τίς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κρύπταανν σε βουλήν;

φειδόμενος δέ ῥημάτων, καὶ σέ οἴεται κρύπτειν;

τἰς δὲ ἀναγγελεῖ μοι ἃ οὐκ ᾔδειν,

μεγάλα καὶ θαυμαστὰ ἃ οὐκ ἡπιστάμηνς

ἄκουσον δέ μου, Κύριε, ἵνα κἀγὼ λαλήσω·

ἐρωτήσω δέ, σὺ δέ με δἰδαξον.

ἀκοὴν μὲν ὠτὸς ἤκουόν σου τὸ πρότερον,

νυνὶ δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἑόρακέν σε.

διὸ ἐφαύλισα ἐμαυτὸν καὶ ἐτάκην·

ἥγημαι δὲ ἐγὼ ἐμαυτὸν γῆν καὶ σποδόν.

Ἐγένετο δὲ μετὰ τὸ λαλῆσαι τὸν κύριον πάντα τὰ ῥήματα

ταῦτα τῷ Ἰὼβ, εἶπεν ὁ κύριος Ἐλειφὰς τῷ βαιμανείτῃ

Ἰμαρτες σὺ καὶ οἱ φίλοι σου·,

οὐ γὰρ ἐλαλήσατε ἐνώπιόν μου ἀληθὲς οὐδέν, ὥσπερ ὁ

θεράπων μου Ἰὼβ.

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νῦν δὲ λάβετε ἑπτὰ μόσχους καὶ ἑπτὰ κριούς,

καὶ πορεύθητε πρὸς τὸν θεράποντά μου Ἰὼβ, καὶ ποιήσει

καρπώσεις περὶ ὑμῶν.

Ἰὼβ δὲ ὁ θεράπων μου εὔξεται περὶ ὑμῶν.

ὅτι εἰ μὴ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ λήμψομαι·

εἰ μὴ γὰρ δι᾿ αὐτόν, ἀπώλεσα ἂν ὑμᾶς·

οὐ γὰρ ἐλαλήσατε κατὰ τοῦ θεράποντός μου Ἰὼβ ἀληθές.

ἐπορεύθη δὲ Ἐλειφὰς ὁ Φαιμανείτης καὶ Βαλδὰδ ὁ Σαυχίτης

καὶ Σαωφὰρ ὁ Μειναῖος,

καὶ ἐποίησαν καθὼς συνέταξεν αὐτοῖς ὁ κύριος·

καὶ ἔλυσεν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν αὐτοῖς διὰ Ἰώβ.

ὁ δὲ κύριος ηὔξησεν τὸν Ἰώβ·

εὐξαμένου δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ περὶ τῶν φίλων ἀφῆκεν αὐτοῖς τὴν

ἁμαρτίαν·

ἔδωκεν δὲ ὁ κύριος διπλᾶ ὅσα ἧν ἔμπροσθεν Ἰὼβ εἰς

διπλασιασμόν.

ἤκουσαν δὲ πάντες οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ αἱ ἀδελφαὶ αὐτοῦ

πάντα τὰ συμβεβηκότα αὐτῷ,

καὶ ᾖλθον πρὸς αὐτόν.

καὶ πάντες ὅσοι ᾔδεισαν αὐτὸν ἐκ πρώτου·

φαγόντες δὲ καὶ πιόντες παρʼ αὐτῷ παρεκάλεσαν αὐτόν,

καὶ ἐθαύμασαν ἐπὶ πᾶσιν οἷς ἐπήγαγεν αὐτῷ ὁ κύριος·

ἔδωκεν δὲ αὐτῷ ἕκαστος ἀμνάδα μίαν καὶ τετράδραχμον

χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀσήμου.

ὁ δὲ κύριος εὐλόγησεν τὰ ἔσχατα Ἰὼβ ἢ τὰ ἔμπροσθεν·

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ἦν δὲ τὰ κτήνη αὐτοῦ πρόβατα μύρια τετρακισχίλια,

κάμηλοι ἐξακισχίλιαι,

ζεύγε βοῶν χίλια,

ὄνοι θήλειαι νομάδες χίλωι.

γεννῶνται δὲ αὐτῷ υἱρὶ ἑππὰ καὶ θυγατέρες τρεῖς·

καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὴν ρέν πρώτην Ἱμέραν,

τὴν δὲ δευτέρου Κασίαν,

τὴν δὲ τρίτην Ἀμαλθείας κέρας·

καὶ οὐχ εὑρέθησαν κατὰ τὰς θυγατέρας Ἰὼβ βελτίους αὐτῶν

ἐν τῇ ὑπʼ οὐρανόν·

ἔδωκεν δὲ αὐταῖς ὁ πατὴρ κληρονομίαν ἐν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς.

ἔζησεν δὲ Ἰὼβ μεπὰ τὴν πληγὴν ἔτη ἑκατὸν ἑβδομήκοντα,

τὰ δὲ πάντα ἔτη ἔζησεν διακόσια τεσσεράκοντα·

καὶ ἴδεν Ἰὼβ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ,

τετάρτην γενεάυ·

καὶ ἐτελεύτησεν Ἰὼβ πρεσβύτερος καὶ πλήρης ἡμερῶν.

aγέγραπται δὲ αὐτὸν πάλιν ἀυαστήσεσθαι μεθʼ ὧν ὁ κύριος

ἀνίστησιν.

ᵇ Οὗτος ἑρμηνεύεται ἐκ τῆς Συριακῆς βίβλου,

ἐν μέν γῇ κατοικῶν τῇ Αὐσίτιδι ἐπὶ τοῖς ὁρίοις τῆς Ἰδουμαίας

καὶ Ἀραβίας·

προυπῆρχεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὄνομα Ἰωβάβ.

cλαβὼν δὲ γυναῖκα Ἀράβισσαν γεννᾷ υἱὸν ᾧ ὄνομα Ἐνών·

ἦν δὲ αὐτὸς πατρὸς μῖν Ζάρε, ἐκ τῶν Ἠσοὺ υἱῶν υἱός, μητρὸς

δὲ Βοσόρρας,

ὥστε εἶναι αὐτὸν πέμπτον ἀπὸ Ἀβραάμ.

d καὶ οὗτοι οἱ βασρλεῖς οἱ βασιλεύσαντες ἐν Ἐδώμ, ἧς καὶ αὐτὸς

ἦρξεν χώρας·

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πρῶτος Βαλὰκ ὁ τοῦ Βεὼρ, καὶ ὄνομα τῆ πόλει αὐτοῦ

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Δεννάβα·

μετὰ δὲ Βαλὰκ Ἰωβὰβ ὁ καλούμενος Ἰώβ·

μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον Ἀσὸμ ὁ ὑπάρχων ἡγεμὼν ἐκ τῆς θαιμι

νείτιδος χώρας·

μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον Ἀδὰδ υἱὸς Βαρὰδ ὁ ἐκκόψας Μαδιάμ ἐν τῷ

πεδίῳ Μωάβ, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ πόλει αὐτοῦ Γεθθάιμ.

eοἱ δὲ ἐλθόντες πρὸς αὐτὸν φίλοι

Ἐλειφὰς τῶν σαὸ υἱὼν, θαιμονῶν βασιλεύς.

Βαλδὰδ ὁ Σαυχαίων τύραννος.

Σωφὰρ ὁ Μειναίων βασιλεύς.

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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).) — 42.1 focus

Τὸν δ' ἠμείβετ' ἔπειτα πολύτλας δῖος Ἴωβος,

"Ἦτορ ἀναγνάμψας, θεοπειθέα δ' ἔννεπε μῦθον·

"Οἶδ' ὅτι καρτερὸς εἶ, δύνασαι δέ τε πάντα τελέσσαι,

(Πάντη γὰρ σέο θαύματ' ἀνὰ τραφερήν τε καὶ ὑγρήν')

"Οὐδέ τις ἐν θνητοῖσι τεὴν ἁλίωσε μενοινήν.

Τίς ῥ' ὅγε κλέψας μῆτιν ἀϊδρείῃσι νόοιο,

Νήπιος (ὡς γὰρ ἔφησθα) καὶ οὐ φρεσὶν ἄρτια εἰδώς;

'Αασάμην μὲν ἔγωγε, καὶ οὐ κατὰ μοῖραν ἔειπον

Πόλλ' ἔτεά τε καὶ ἐκὶ, νόσος δέ τε καὶ τὰ κέλευε,

Νηπιέη τ' ἀλεγεινὴ, ἅτ' οὐκ ἴδον, οὐδ' ἐνόησα,

Θαύματα πόλλ' ἄρρητα· σὺ γὰρ Θεὸς ἀγκυλομήτης,

"Οὐδέ κέ τις θνητῶν σέο δώσεα εἰρύσαιτο.

"Αὐτὰρ, Ἄναξ, ἐλέαιρε, ἔπος δ' εἴ πέρ τι βέβακται

Δεινὸν, ἄφαρ τὸ φέροιεν ἀναρπάξασαι ἄελλαι.

Γυνῦμαί σε, Πάτερ, σὺ δ' σύνθεο, καί μευ ἄκουον,

Καὶ νῦν μοι μάλα πᾶσαν ἀληθείην κατάλεξον,

Σεῖο δ' μήδεα πυκνὰ δίδασκέ με, ὄφρα δαείω,

Μύθων τε ῥητὴρ πέλε μοι, φρητὴρ δέ τε ἔργων.

Πυνθανόμην τὸ πάρος γε, καὶ ἔκλυον ὄασι φήμης,

Νῦν δέ σέ γ' ἀντικρὺ καὶ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὄπωπα.

"Οἶδ' ἀρετὴν δῖός ἐσσι· σέβας μ' ἔχει εἰσορόωντα.

Τῷ μ' ἐγὼ ἀφραδέοντα κατέστυγον, οἷον ἔοργα

Νήπιος, ὡς αἴσχιστον ἐν ἀνθρώποισιν ἐόντα.

Ἀλλ' ἐπεὶ ἀασάμην φρεσὶ λευγαλέῃσι πιθήσας,

Τὔνεκά τ' ἐν κονίῃ εἰλυμένος ἠδ' ἐνὶ τέφρῃ

Προπροκυλινδόμενός σέ τε νῦν σά τε γούναθ' ἱκάνω,

"Ἀτίω μὲν κλαίων, μέγα δ' ἄχνυμαι, οἷον ἀάσθην·

"Ὦμοι ἐγὼ δειλός· σὺ δ' ἵλαον ἔνθεο θυμόν.

Ὡς φάτο δακρυχέων· δινὸς δ' ἕλε Παμβασιλῆα.

"Οἱ δ' ἐπεὶ ἐν τοιαῦτα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον,

Ὀχθήσας ὁ Θεὸς προσέφη Ἐλιφᾶ Θαιμανίτην,

( Δίῳ γὰρ νεμεσίζεθ' ) ὁμοκλήσασκέ τε μύθῳ,

Ὦ πόποι, ἦ μάλ' ἐγὼ ἅμα σοὶ καὶ σοῖς ἑτάροισι

Μηνίω ἐκπάγλως, καί μοι χόλος ἔμπεσε θυμῷ·

Σχέτλιοι, ὡς παίδεσσιν ἐοικότες ἠγοράασθε

Νηπιάχοις, οἷς ἔστι νόος φρεσίν· οὐδὲ κατ' αἶσαν,

Ὡς θεράπων μὸς Ἴωβος, ἐμεῦ πέρι μυθήσασθε.

Ὁππότ' ἀνὴρ ἐθέλει πρὸς Δαίμονα φωτὶ μάχεσθαι,

Ὧν τε Θεὸς τιμᾷ, τάχα οἱ μέγα πῆμα κυλίσθη.

Ἀλλὰ πίθεσθε καὶ ὔμμες, ἐπεὶ πείθεσθαι ἄμεινον,

Καὶ λάβετ' ἐξ ἀγέλης ἑφθ' εἰλίποδας ἕλικας βῦς

Ὀππιτάχιστα, καὶ ἑπτ' ἀρνειὸς πηγεσιμάλλους·

Καὶ ἴτε δὴ πρὸς Ἴωβον, ἵν' ὑμετέρης ἕνεκ' ἄτης

Ἔρδοιθ' ἱερὰ καλὰ πολυκλαύστων ἐπὶ βωμῶν,

Καὶ θεράπων μὸς Ἴωβος ἐναίσιμον εὐχετόῳτο,

Εἴ πω ἵλαος ὔμμιν ἑῷ κεχαρισμένα δ' αὐτὸς

Αἰεὶ δῶρα δίδωσιν ἐμοί, νῦν τ' οἶδ' ὅτι δώσει.

Τὸν περὶ κῆρι φίλησα, τίει δέ με ἔξοχος ἄλλων·

Ὅς γὰρ ἐμοὶ ἐπιπείθεται, μάλα τ' ἔκλυον αὐτοῦ.

Ἄλλως γ' αὖ ὑμέας τάχ' ἐπαυρήσεσθαι όΐω,

Οὕνεκ' ἄρ οὐκ εἰσὶ φρένες ἔμπεδοι, οὐδὲ κατ' αἶσαν,

Ὡς θεράπων μὸς Ἴωβος, ἐμεῦ πέρι μυθήσασθε.

Ὡς ἔφατ'· οὐδ' ἀπίθησε Θεῷ Ἐλιφᾶς Θαμανίτης,

Οὐδέ τε Σαυχαῖος Βελδάδ, Σωφάρ τε Μιναῖος·

Ἀλλ' οἱ μὲν θύεον καὶ ὐχωλῆς ἀγανῇσι

Λοιβῇ τε κνίσῃ τε παρατρωπῶντες ἔθελγον

Ἀθανάτοιο χόλον· τότε δὴ Θεῷ εὔχετ' Ἴωβος,

Θεῷ μὲν τ' εὔχετ' Ἴωβος, ὁ δ' ἔκλυεν εὐχωλῇσιν,

Μᾶλλόν μιν τ' ἐφίλησε, καί οἱ χάριν ἐγγυάλιξεν.

Ὡς ὁ μὲν ἀμφὶ φίλων ἠρᾶτο· Θεὸς δέ οἱ αἰνῆς

Δέσματ' ἔλυσε δύης, καὶ δὶς τόσον ὄλβον ὄπασσεν,

Ὅσσον τὸ πρὶν ἔχεσκε, πόρεν δέ οἱ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλα.

Αὐτόματοι δ' οἱ πάντες ὁμιλαδὸν ἦλθον ἀδελφεοί,

Πᾶσαί τ' αὐτοκασίγνηται, πηοί τε, ἔται τε,

Οἳ δ' ἄρ ὃι κεδνότατοι τὸ πρὶν καὶ φίλτατοι ἦσαν,

Αἰεὶ δ' ἐν δαίτῃσι καὶ εἰλαπίνῃσι παρέσταν

Αὐτοῦ ἐνὶ μεγάροισι, παραφασίῃσι δ' ἔθελγον

Οὐ νόον, αἱμυλίοις τε λόγοις ἄχος ἐξακέσαντο,

Καὶ παραμυθήσαντο, καὶ ἔστενον οἷα πέπονθεν,

Οἷά τ' οϊζύσασκε Θεοῦ ἰότητι μογήσας,

(Ἔτλη δ' ὃι ἔπω τις ἐπιχθόνιος βροτὸς ἄλλος)

Ἀργύρειον δ' αὐτῷ καὶ χρύσεον ὅρμον ἔδωκαν

Ἀνθρακὰς, ἀγλαὰ δῶρα, κακῆς παραμύθιον ἄτης.

Ὡς μὲν Ἴωβος ἔπειτα μακάρτερος ἦ τὸ πάρος περ,

Δὶς τόσον ἀφνειὸς, καὶ δὶς τόσον ὀλβιοδαίμων,

"Ὅσση ἔλεν τὰ πρῶτα, Θεοῦ μεγάλοιο ἕκητι.

"Ἦ γάρ οἱ ἦν μετόπισθε δὶς ἑπτηχίλια μῆλα

Πίονα καὶ δασύμαλλα, καὶ ὑψίλοφοί τε κάμηλοι

Δὶς τετραχίλιαι αὐτῷ ἐν οὔρεσι βουκολέοντο

Θήλειαι τοκάδες, (τὰ δ' διπλόα πάντα τέτυκτο)

Ζεύγεα δὶς δ' βοῶν πεντήκοσ' εὐρυμετώπων,

Καὶ δὶς ὄνοι πεντηκόσιαι, καὶ πάμπαλα πλείω.

Ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ δέκα παῖδες ἐνὶ μεγάροις γεγάασιν·

Ἑπτὰ μὲν υἷες ἔσαν, τρεῖς ἠύκομοι δ' θύγατρες.

Τάων μέν ῥ' ἐκαλεῖτο περικλυτὶς Ἰεμιμαῖα

Πρώτη, ἐπεὶ νὺξ ᾤχετ' ὀϊζύος, ἤλυθε δ' ἦμαρ·

Τὴν δὲ μέθ' ὁπλοτέρη ἦν Κασίη ἱμερόεσσα,

Κασίη, ὄνομα καλὸν, ὅυ χαριεστάτη ὀδμή·

Τὴν δὲ τρίτην ἐκάλεσσαν ἐυπλόκαμον Κερεναππὼκ,

"Οὕνεκά οἱ στίβεως κέρας ἀγλαὸν ἔνομ' ἔδωκε.

Κάλλεϊ δ' αὖ χάρισίν τε κεκασμέναι εἰνὶ γυναιξὶν

Ἔστιλβον, καὶ ῥεῖα μετέπρεπον ἀγρομολῇσιν.

Οὐδὲ περικτιόνων τις ἂν ἤθελε παρθενικάων

Θυγατέρεσσιν Ἰῶβος ἐπήρατον εἶδος ἐρίζειν·

Τῇσι πατὴρ ἅμ' ὄπασσε μετ' σφετέροισιν ἀδελφεοῖς

Μοῖραν δασσάμενος, καὶ μυρία δῶκεν ἔεδνα.

Αὐτὰρ Ἰῶβος ἔπειθ' ἑκατὸν καὶ τεσσαράκοντα

Ζωὸς καὶ σόος εἶδε περιπλομένους ἐνιαυτοὺς

Πολλῇ ἐν ἀγλαΐῃσι, καὶ ἀμφιθαλεῖς ἔτι παῖδας

Καὶ παῖδας παίδων ἐς τέσσαρας ἄχρι γενέθλας.

"Ὡς ἄρ ὅγ' ἀσπασίως ἵκεν βιότοιο τελευτήν,

"Ὀψέ τ' ἀποθνήσκων, καὶ ἐν ἄκρῳ γήραος ἑλῷ.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 42 focus

Then Job answered Yahweh,

I know that you can do all things, And that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

You asked, Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

You said, Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees you.

Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 42.1 focus

[1] Then much-enduring noble Job answered him, bending his heart back, and spoke a God-persuading word:

[2] I know that you are mighty, and you can accomplish all things, (for your wonders are everywhere over dry land and sea) and no one among mortals has frustrated your purpose.

[3] Who is this that hides counsel with ignorance of mind, foolish (as you said) and not knowing things aright in his thoughts? I erred myself, and I did not speak according to what is right — many years and even so; and disease and those things commanded it, and painful folly, things which I did not see nor understand, many unspeakable wonders. For you are a God of crooked counsel; nor could any mortal draw back your gifts. But, O Lord, have mercy, and if any dreadful word has been spoken, let the storm-winds snatch it up and carry it off at once.

[4] I know you, Father; do you also give heed and listen to me, and now recount to me the whole truth, and teach me your close counsels, that I may learn; and be to me a speaker of words and a reckoner of deeds.

[5] I used to hear of you in time past, and I listened with the ears of report; but now my eye has seen you face to face. Know that you are noble and divine; awe holds me as I look upon you.

[6] Therefore I loathed myself, being foolish, seeing what I have done, like a fool, since I am the most shameful among men. But since I erred, trusting in wretched thoughts, therefore, wrapped in dust and in ashes, rolling over and over, I now come to you and to your knees, grieving as I weep, and I am greatly distressed, at how I erred. Woe is me, wretched that I am! But do you put on a gracious heart.

[7] So he spoke, shedding tears. And a whirlwind seized the Almighty King. But when they were speaking such things to one another, God, having grown angry, addressed Eliphaz the Temanite (for he was indignant at the divine man), and kept rebuking him with a word: "Alas, surely I am exceedingly angry with you and your companions, and wrath has fallen upon my spirit." Wretched men, you have spoken like foolish children, who have no understanding in their minds. You have not spoken rightly about me, as my servant Job has. Whenever a man wishes to strive with the Deity on behalf of a mortal, one whom God honors, swiftly a great calamity rolls upon him.

[8] But you too, be persuaded, since to obey is better, and take from the herd seven oxen, rolling-footed, curved-horned, as fast as possible, and seven rams, thick-fleeced. And go now to Job, so that on account of your folly you may perform noble sacrifices upon much-lamented altars, and my servant Job may pray duly, if perhaps he may be gracious to you and himself give acceptable gifts always to me; and now I know that he will give. Him I loved with all my heart, and he honors me, preeminent above others. For whoever obeys me, I have heard him well. Otherwise again I think that you will soon have your fill, because your minds are not steadfast, nor according to what is right, as my servant Job — you have spoken about me.

[9] So he spoke; and Eliphaz the Temanite did not disobey God, nor did Bildad the Shuhite, nor Zophar the Minaean; But they sacrificed and, with abundant offerings and savory fat, turning him aside, they soothed the wrath of the Immortal; Then indeed Job prayed to God — to God he prayed — and he heard his prayers, and loved him more, and granted him favor.

[10] Thus he prayed on behalf of his friends; And God loosed the bonds of his dread misery, and granted him twice as much wealth as he had before, and gave him other things from elsewhere.

[11] All his brothers came of their own accord in a throng, and all his own sisters, and kinsmen by marriage, and clansmen; and those who had been his most honored and dearest before stood by him always at feasts and banquets in his own halls, and with consolations they soothed his mind, and with winning words they healed his grief, and comforted him, and lamented what he had suffered, and how he had toiled in misery by the will of God — (such a thing some other mortal on earth endured) — and they gave him a necklace of silver and gold, glowing gifts, a comfort for his evil ruin.

[12] So then Job was more blessed than before, twice as wealthy and twice as happy-fated, as much as he had at first, by the will of the great God. For indeed he had afterward twice seven thousand sheep, fat and thick-fleeced, and high-crested camels twice four thousand grazing for him in the mountains, females with young (and all these had been made double), and twice fifty yoke of broad-browed oxen, and twice fifty donkeys, and all things far more abundant.

[13] But also his ten children were in the halls; Seven were sons, and three fair-haired daughters.

[14] Of these, the one was called by the famous name Jemimah, the First, because the night of misery had passed, and day had come; And after her the younger was Kassia, lovely — Kassia, a beautiful name, whose fragrance was most gracious; And the third they called fair-tressed Keren-Happuch, because he gave her a splendid horn of antimony as a name.

[15] And adorned with beauty and with graces they shone among women, and easily stood out among the field-faring folk. Nor would any of the neighboring maidens have wished to contend with Job's daughters in lovely beauty; To them their father assigned a portion together with their brothers, apportioning it, and gave countless dowries.

[16] But Job thereafter, alive and sound, saw a hundred and forty years rolling by in great splendor, and children still flourishing on both sides, and children of children, down to four generations.

[17] Thus then he gladly reached the end of his life, dying late, and caught in the extreme of old age.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 42.1 focus

ILli autem reſpondit deinde patiens divinus Jobus,

Cor reflectens, piámque dixit ſermonem;

Novi quòd fortis es, potéſque omnia perficere,

( Ubique enim tua miracula terrâque maríque )

Nec quis inter mortales tuam fruſtravit ſententiam.

Quis hic eſt qui occultat conſilium imperitiâ mentis,

Stolidus ( ſic enim dixiſti ) & et non in animo ſana ſciens?

Peccavi ſanè ego, & et non rectè dixi

Multa vera, & et non, morbus verò & et iſta juſſit,

Infantiáque miſeranda, quǽque non novi, neque intellexi,

Miracula multa arcana : tu enim Deus obliqua-conſilia-agitans,

Nec quis mortalium tua conſilia eruat.

At, O Rex, miſereſce, verbum verò ſi aliquod dictum eſt

Grave, ſtatim illud ferant abripientes procellæ.

Obſecro te, Pater, tu verò attende, & et me audi,

Et nunc mihi prorſus omnem veritatem narra;

Tua autem conſilia prudentia edoce me, ut ſciam,

Dicendíque præceptor ſis mihi, actórque rerum.

Audivi antea, & et percepi auribus famam,

Jam verò te coràm & et in oculis vidi.

Novi virtute qualis ſis: veneratio me tenet aſpicientem.

Quamobrem memet ego delirantem abhorreo (quale dixi

Inſipiens ) velut turpiſſimum inter homines exiſtentem.

Sed quoniam peccavi animo perdito obtemperans,

Ideo in pulvere obrectus & et in cinere

Pronus revolutus ad te nunc tuáque genua accedo,

Culpam meam deflens, multum autẽ autem doleo quòd-ſic peccavi:

Heu me miſerum! tu autem propitium ſume animum.

Sic fatur lacrymans: miſericordia autẽ autem cepit Omnium-Regem.

Hi autem poſtquam talia inter ſe invicem collocuti fuerant,

Iratus Deus affatus eſt Elipham Thamaniten,

( Valdè enim indignabatur ) objurgavít q; que dicto,

Papæ ! certè admodum ego pariter tibi & tuis ſodalibus

Succenſeo graviter, & mihi ira incidit in animum:

Improbi, adeò pueris ſimiles locuti eſtis

Infantibus, quibus non eſt mens in pectore: neque rectè,

Sicut ſervus meus Jobus, de me verba-feciſtis.

Quoties homo vult adverſùs Deum cum viro pugnare,

Quem Deus honorat, ſtatim in eum magnum damnum devolvitur.

At parete & vos,quandoquidem parere eſt melius,

Et ſumite ex armento ſeptem flexipedes greſſum-ſinuantes boves

Quàm citiſſimè, & ſeptem arietes villoſos.

Et ite jam ad Jobum, ut veſtræ gratiâ culpæ

Offeratís victimas pulchras ſuper multo-nidore-abundantes

Et ſervus meus Jobus bono-auſpicio oret, ( aras,

Si fortè propitius vobis ſim: grata autem ipſe

Semper dona dat mihi, jámque ſcio quòd dabit.

Quem ex corde diligo, honorat verò me maximè omnium:

Qui enim mihi obtemperaverit, valde exaudio illum.

Alioqui ſanè vos ſtatim luituros arbitror,

Quoniam non eſt mens vobis ſana, neque rectè,

Sicut ſervus meus Jobus, de me eſtis locuti.

Sic dixit; ne q; que non-obtemperavit Deo Eliphas Thamanites,

Necnon Sauchæus Bildad, Sophárque Minæus:

Verùm hi ſacrificiis & votis placidis,

Libaminéque, nidoréque flectentes mulcebant

Immortalis animum: tum etiam Deum precatus eſt Jobus,

Deum precatus eſt Jobus, is autem audivit precantem,

Magíſque ipſum dilexit, & ei gratiam præbuit.

Ità hic pro amicis oravit, Deus autem gravis

Vincula ſolvit calamitatis, & bis tot facultates dedit,

Quot priùs habebat, præbuítque ei alicunde alia.

Ultro autem ei omnes catervatim venerunt fratres,

Omnéſque ſorores, affinéſque, amicíque,

Quíque ei chariſſimi antea & amiciſſimi erant,

Semper autem in conviviis & feſtis aderant

Ejus in domo, adhortationibúſque demulcebant

Ejus animum, blandíſque verbis dolorem ſedabant,

Et conſolabantur, & plorabant qualia paſſus fuerat,

Qualiá q; que ærumnoſè-tulerat Dei voluntate afflictus, ( alius)

( Toleravit autem qualia haudquaquam quis terrenus homo

Argenteum verò nummum ei & aureum monile dederunt

Singuli, ſplendida dona, mali ſolatium damni.

Ità Jobus poſtea felicior quàm antea,

Duplo ditior, & duplo fortunatior,

Quàm erat primùm, Dei magni voluntate.

Certè enim ei erant deinceps bis ſepties-mille oves,

Pingues & villoſæ, & elata-colla-habentes cameli

Bis ter-mille ei in montibus paſcebantur

Fœminæ fœtæ, (duplicia autem omnia facta erant)

Juga autem boum bis quingenta latas-frontes-habentium,

Et bis aſinæ quingentæ, & poſſeſſiones plures.

Sed & ei decem liberi in ædibus nati ſunt;

Septem quidem filii erant, tres autem bene-comatæ filiæ.

Quarum vocabatur inſignis Jemimæa

Prima, quandoquidem nox præteriit ærumnæ, venit aut ẽ em dies;

Poſt illam autem junior erat Caſſia amabilis,

Caſſia, nomen bonum, cujus gratiſſimus odor;

Tertiam verò vocabant bene-comatam Keren-Happuc,

Quippe ei ſtibii cornu pulchrum nomen dedit.

Pulchritudine autem hæ gratiíſ q; que ornatæ inter mulieres

Splendebant, & facilè excellebant congregatas.

Ne q; que finitimarum aliqua poterat virginum

Cùm filiabus Jobi amabili formâ contenderes

Quibus pater unà exhibuit cum ſuis fratribus

Sortem partitus, & innumeras dedit dotes.

Verùm Jobus poſthac centum & quadraginta

Vivens & valens vidit circumvolventes annos

Multo in ſplendore, & utroque-parente-florentes filios,

Et filios filiorum, ad quatuor uſ q; que generationes.

Ità hic ad gratum pervenit vitæ terminum,

Seróque moriens, & in extremo ſenectutis limine.

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ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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