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Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Βαλδὰδ ὁ Σαυχείκτης λέγει

Μέχρι τίνος λαλήσεις ταῦτα;

πνεῦμα πολυρῆμον τοῦ στόματός σου.

μὴ ὁ κύριος ἀδικήσει κρίννν;

ἢ ὁ τὰ πάντα ποιήσας ταράξει τὸ δίκαωων;

εἰ οἱ υἱοί σου ἥμαρτον ἐνανπίον αὐτοῦ,

ἀπέσπειεν ἐν χειρὶ ἀνομίς αὐτῶν.

σὺ δὲ ὄρθριζε πρὸς Κύρων Παντοκράτορα δεόμενος.

εἰ καθαρὸς εἶ καὶ ἀληθινός, δεήσενς ἐπακούσεταί σου,

ἀποκαταστήσει δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνηπ·

ἔσται οὗν τὰ μέν πρῶτά σου ὀλίγα,

τὸ δὲ ἔσχατά σου ἀμύθητα.

ἐπερώτησον γὰρ γενεὰν πρώτην,

ἐξιχνίασον δὲ κατὰ γένος πατέρων·

χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν,

σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὁ βὰὡς.

ἢ οὐχ οὗτοί σε διδάξουσιν καὶ ἀναγγελονσιν,

καὶ ἐκ καρδίας ἐξάξουσιν ῥήματα ;

μὴ θάλλει πάπυρος ἄνευ ὕδατος;

ἢ ὑψανθήσεται βάύτομον ἄνευ πότου;

ἔτι ὃν ἐπὶ ῥίζης. καὶ οὐ μὴ θερωρθῆ

πρὸ τοῦ πιεῖν πᾶσα βοτάνη οὐχὶ ξηραίνεται;

οὕτως τοίνυν ἔσται τὰ ἔσχατα πάντων τῶν ἐπιλανθανομένων

τοῦ κυρὰυ·

ἐλπὶς γὰρ ἀσεβοῦς ἀπολεἰται.

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ἀοίκητος γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἔσται ὁ οἶκος,

ἀράχνη δὲ αὐτοῦ ἀποβήσεται ἡ σκηνή.

ἐὰν ὑπερείσῃ τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ, οὐ μὴ στῇ·

ἐπιλαβομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ὑπομείνῃ·

ὑγρὸς γάρ ἐστιν ὑπὸ ἡλίου,

καὶ ἐκ σαπρίας αὐτοῦ ὁ ῤάδαμνος αὐτοῦ ἐξελεύσεται.

ἐπὶ συναγωγὴν λίθων κοιμᾶται,

ἐν δὲ μέσῳ χαλίκων ζήσεται.

ἐὰν καταπίῃ, ὁ τόπος ψεύσεται αὐτόν·

οὐχ ἑόρακας τοιαῦτα.

ὅτι καταστροφὴ ἀσεβοῦς τοιαύτη,

ἐκ δὲ γῆς ἄλλον ἀναβλαστήσει

ὁ γὰρ κύριος οὐ μὴ ἀποποιήσηται τὸν ἄκακον,

πᾶν δὲ δῶρον ἀσεβοῦς οὐ δέξεται.

ἀληθινῶν δὲ στόμα ἐμπλήσει γέλωτος,

τὰ δὲ χείλη αὐτῶν ἐξομολογήσεως·

οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῶν ἐνδύσονται αἰσχύνην.

δἰαιτα δὲ ἀσεβοῦς οὐκ ἔσται

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).) — 8.1 focus

ΤΌφρα δ' ὑποβλήδην Σαυχαῖος ἀμείβετο Βελδάδ,

Κερτομέων τὸν Ἴωβον ὀνειδίοις ἐπέεσσιν·

Ἔως πότε μὰψ αὔτως ἀνεμώλια ταῦτ' ἀγορεύεις;

Ἔως πότε μὰψ ὕτω φλυαρεῖς; σέο δ' ἔπλετο μῦθος

Ὡς ὅτε μορμύρεσκι λιγυπνείοντες ἀῆται,

Οἵ τε κατ' ἄλσεα φωτὸς ἀτερπέα βόμβον ἱεῖσιν;

Ἦ ῥ' ὀρθὴν ἀλίωσε δίκην πανυπέρτατος Ἐσλώις;

Ἠὲ παρ' ἀνθρώποις σκολιὰς ἔκρινε θέμιστας;

Εἰ ἄρα πως ἀλίτοντο Θεὸν σέο νήπια τέκνα,

Αὐτοί ῥ' σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο·

Εἰ σύ γ' ἐνὶ πρώτοισι Θεὸν διζήμενος εἴης,

Ἠδ' ἀγανῇσι λιτῇς γενέθλιος εὐχετόῳτο·

Εἰ καθαρός τ' εἴης, κᾀμύμονα δώματα εἰδὼς,

Ὑψιμέδων κεν Ἄναξ ἐπί σοι ἄγρυπνον ὄπωπὴν

Αἰὲν ἔχοι ἵλαος, ἐφιστάμενός τε φυλάσσοι

Σῆς ἕνεκ' δυσεβίης ἄλοχόν τε καὶ ὑψερεφὲς δῶ.

Εἰ μικρὸς τοπρῶτον, ἀτὰρ μέγας ὕστερον ἔσσεαι,

Ἀρχῆς ἐξ ὀλίγης τέλεός σοι ἀεξομένοιο.

Πρωτίῳ γὰρ γενεὴν διά τ' εἴρεο, ἠδὲ μετάλλα,

Καὶ πατέρας, καὶ φῦλα παλαιγενέων ἀνθρώπων·

Πάντα μάλ' ἐξερέεινε, καὶ ἀρχαίων γένος ἀνδρῶν,

(Χθιζοὶ μὲν γὰρ τ' εἶμὲν ἐπὶ χθονὶ φῦλ' ἀνθρώπων,

Οὐδὲν ἐπιστάμενοι· οἷς ζωὴ ὡς σκιή ἐστι,

Ζωὴ ὡς σκιή ἐστι, βίος τ' εἴδωλον ἀμαυρόν·)

Ἦ οὐ σὲ διδάξουσιν, σοί τ' ἀγγελέουσιν ἐκεῖνοι,

Εἰδότης πραπίδεσσιν ἐναίσιμα μυθολογεῦντες;

Σχοῖνος ἂν εἱαμενῇσιν ἄνευ πηλοῖο πεφύκει;

Ἦ νύ τι τε φῦκος καὶ βούτομον ὑδατόθρεμμον

Διψάδος ἐκ γαίης νοτίης ἀπάτερθε τεθήλει;

Χλωρὸν ἐὸν, θαλερόν τε πρὸ ἀμητοῖο μαράνθη

Ὠκύτερον βοτάνης, καὶ ἀεικέϊ κάρφεται ὥρῃ.

“ Ἧ δίκη ἐστὶ βροτῶν, τοῖαί δ' ὁδοί εἰσιν ἁπάντων,

“ Ὅσσοι ὑπερβασίῃσι λελασμένοι εἰσὶ Θεοῖο.

Πεύχνη γὰρ ἐλπὶς ὀλεῖται ἀτάσθαλος ἠεροπεῖτις.

Ἐλπὶς μὲν κενεὴ, θάρσος δέ οἱ ἔσσετ' ἀφαυρὸν,

“ Ἠΰτ' ἀράχνια λυγρὰ φόνον μύῃσι φέροντα·

Καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐν καθύπερθε μελάθροισιν ἐξεκέχυτο

Λεπτά, τά κ' ὔτις ἴδοιτο, δολορραφίῃσιν ἀράχνης·

“ Ἀνὰ τάγ' αἶψ' ἔρραισε κακὴ ἀνέμοιο θύελλα.

“ Ἄβληχρὸς δέ οἱ οἶκος ἀεὶ καὶ ἐρείψιμος ἔσται·

Τῷ ὅγ' ἐρεισάμενος κατερήειπεν, οὐδέ πω οἶκος

“ Ἔσταεν ἀσφαλέως, οὐδ' ἰῢ χείρεσσιν ἐρεισθῇ.

“ Οἷον ὅ γ' τρέφει ἔρνος ἀνὴρ ἐριθηλὲς ἐλαίης

Χώρῳ ἐν οἰοπόλῳ, τὸ δέ τε βρύει ἄνθεϊ λευκῷ

Καλὸν, τηλεθάον, φυτὸν ἣ ὡς γάνῳ ἀλωῆς·

Ἐλθὼν δ' ἐξαπίνης ἄνεμος σὺν λαίλαπι πολλῇ,

Βόθρου τ' ἐξέστρεψε, καὶ ἐξετάνυστ' ἐπὶ γαίῃ·

“ Ὡς ἄρ' ὅγ' αὐτίκ' ὄλωλεν. Ἢ ὡς δρῦς ὑψιπέτηλος,

“ Ἧ, ῥίζαι πυκιναί τε διηνεκέως τ' ἀραρυῖαι

Ἐν πολλοῖσι λίθοισιν ἐρηρέδαται ἐπὶ βουνῷ·

Ἀλλ' οὐδ' ὣς δρυτόμων ἀνδρῶν ὀρυμαγδὸν ἄλυξεν·

Οἱ δ' ἴσαν ὑλοτόμους πελέκεας ἐν χερσὶν ἔχοντες,

Καί μιν ἐπειγόμενοι χαλκῷ τάμον· ἡ δ' ἐρειποῦσα

“ Ἔστενεν, ὑψηλαὶ δ' κόμαι κονίῃσιν ἔμιχθεν.

“ Ὡς ὁ μὲν ἀνθεῖ βαιὸν ἐπὶ χρόνον, ὔ τι μάλα δηὼ,

Ἀγλαΐῃ τε μινυνθαδίῃ καὶ κύδεϊ γαίων·

Αἶψα δ' ἀποφθίμφοιν, καὶ ἑός μιν ἀνήνατο χῶρος,

“ Ὡς δ' ἔφατ' ” Οὐ τοι ἐγώ σε ποτ' ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὄπωπα.

Τοῦτο μέν οἱ τέλος ἐστὶ, κακῶν δέ τε χάρμα κελεύθων,

“ Ἄλλοι δ' ἐκ κονίης τάχα βλαστήσουσ' ἄνθρωποι

“ Ὕστεροι ἐξανατέλλοντες πολὺ φέρτεροι αὐτῷ.

“ Οὐδὲ γὰρ Ἀθάνατός ποτ' ἀπαὶ ἔα ἄνδρα δίκαιον

“ Ὤσεται, οὐδὲ κακοῖσιν ἐπ' ἀνδράσιν ἔσσετ' ἀρωγός,

“ Οἱ δ' ὕβρει εἴκοντες ἀτάσθαλα μηχανόωνται.

“ Εἶως ἂν γλυκερῷ λαιμὸν πλήσειε γέλωτος,

Στήθεα γηθοσύνης, καὶ χείλεα σέο ἀλαλαγμοῦ·

“ Αἶχος κὲν λώβην ἐπιειμένοι αἰὲν ἔσονται

“ Ἐχθροί σέο· Κλισίη τε κακῶν ἀπὸ πάμπαν ὀλεῖται.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 8 focus

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;

If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.

If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.

Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?

Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile, He sees the place of stones.

If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.

Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 8.1 focus

[1] Meanwhile Bildad the Shuhite answered in reply, taunting Job with reproachful words:

[2] How long will you speak these windy things idly and to no purpose? How long will you babble in vain like this? But your speech is as when shrill-blowing winds roar, which through the groves send forth a man's unpleasing hum?

[3] Does the Almighty pervert upright justice? Or did he judge crooked judgments among men?

[4] If perhaps your infant children sinned against God, they perished by their own transgressions.

[5] If you would seek God among the first, and with gentle prayers the ancestral one would be entreated.

[6] If you were pure, and knowing your blameless house, the High-Ruler Lord would ever keep a wakeful watch over you, propitious, and standing by would guard, for the sake of your impiety, both your wife and your high-roofed house.

[7] If you are small at first, yet later you shall be great; from a little beginning you shall be brought to perfection as you grow.

[8] For inquire first about your generation, and search out both your fathers and the tribes of men born long ago. Inquire thoroughly into all things, and the race of ancient men (for we are but yesterday's creatures on the earth, tribes of men, knowing nothing).

[9] For whom life is as a shadow, life is as a shadow, and their life a dim phantom. Will they not teach you, and will those men tell you, speaking fitting things with a knowing mind?

Ἦ οὐ σὲ διδάξουσιν, σοί τ' ἀγγελέουσιν ἐκεῖνοι,

Εἰδότης πραπίδεσσιν ἐναίσιμα μυθολογεῦντες;

[11] Can a rush grow in the marshes without mud? Can seaweed and water-nourished reed grow apart from a thirsty land, from a moist one?

[12] While it is green and flourishing, before the harvest it withers faster than grass, and in an unseemly season it dries up.

[13] "Such is the lot of mortals, and such are the ways of all who by transgressions have forgotten God." For his hope, reckless and airy, shall perish.

[14] His hope is indeed empty, and his confidence shall be feeble, like wretched cobwebs bringing death to flies. And these things were poured out fine above the rafters, which one might see, by the treacherous weavings of a spider. "Suddenly an evil storm of wind swept them away.

[15] And his house will always be weak and ready to fall; Leaning on it he will overthrow it, and his house will not yet stand securely, nor will it be propped well with his hands.

[16] Like a thriving olive shoot that a man tends in a lonely place, which blossoms with white flower, beautiful, luxuriant, a plant as in the joy of a garden; And coming suddenly, a wind with a great tempest, it twisted him out of his pit, and he was stretched out upon the ground; "So then he straightway perished. Or as a tall oak, "whose roots, thick and continually joined together in many stones, are fixed upon a hill;

[17] But not even so did he escape the din of wood-cutting men; And they came holding wood-cutting axes in their hands, and hurrying they cut him with bronze; But she, having fallen, groaned, and her lofty tresses were mingled with dust.

[18] "As he blooms for a little time, not at all for long, rejoicing in fleeting splendor and glory; Suddenly he perishes, and his own place disowns him. "So he spoke." I have never seen you with my eyes.

[19] This is his end, and a joy of evil paths: 'Other men will soon sprout from the dust, rising up later, far better than he.'

[20] For the Immortal will never thrust away a righteous man, nor will he be a helper to evil men, but those who yield to violence devise reckless things.

[21] Until he fills his throat with sweet laughter, his breast with gladness, and his lips with your shout of triumph;

[22] Those who clothe themselves in shame will be forever your enemies; And the tent of the wicked will utterly perish.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 8.1 focus

TUm verò intercepto-ſermone Sauchæus reſpondit Bildad,

Inceſſens Jobum probroſis verbis;

Quamdiu incaſſum inania iſta loqueris?

Quouſque fruſtra adeò nugaris? tutíſque eſt ſermo

Ut quando obſtrepunt ſibilantes venti,

Qui circa aures hominis ingratum ſtridorem mittunt?

Num rectum fruſtravit judicium ſupremus omni ũ um Rex?

Aut inter homines iniquo-jure judicavit cauſas?

Siquidem peccârunt in Deum tui inſipientes liberi,

Ipſíque ſuâ nequitiâ perierunt:

Si inprimis Deum quæreris,

Et molli prece tu utique venerans orares;

Si purus eſſes, & irreprehenſibilium conſiliorum conſcius,

Altipotens utique Rex in te vigilantem oculum

Semper propitius haberet, afſiſténſque cuſtodiret

Tuæ pietatis ergò conjugém q; que & excelſam domum tuam.

Si parvus inprimis fueris, at magnus poſtea eris,

Principio ex minuto fine tibi creſcente.

Primævum enim ſeculum interrogâ q; que & ſciſcitare,

Et patres, & nationes priſcorum hominum

Omnes ſcrutare, & antiquorum genus viror ũ um.

( Heſterni ſiquidem ſumus ſupra terram genus homin ũ um,

Nihil ſcientes: quibus vita velut umbra eſt,

Vita velut umbra eſt, ævúm q; que velut ſimulacrum evanidum )

Nonne te docebunt, tibíque nunciabunt illi,

Peritâ mente utilia narrantes?

Juncúſne in locis-paluſtribus abſque limo naſcitur?

Nuncubi alga, & carex aquarum-alumnus

Sitienti è terra citra humorem effloreſcit ?

Adhuc virens vigéns q; que ante meſſem marceſcit

Ocyùs quâvis herbâ, & iniquâ areſcit horâ.

Hic mos eſt mortalium, tales viæ ſunt omnium,

Quotquot præ improbitate obliti ſunt Dei;

Funditùs enim ſpes peribit improbi hypocritæ.

Spes quidem vana, fiducia autem ejus erit umbratilis,

Perinde atque aranearum-telæ miſerabiles, cædem muſcis ferentes;

Quæ ſupernè è lacunari effuſæ ſunt

Subtiles, quas nemo videre queat, doloſâ-texturâ araneæ;

At eas mox peſſundedit mala venti procella.

Infirma ei domus ſemper & ruinoſa erit,

Cui ille innixus cadit, necdum domus

Stat firmiter, non ſi vel manibus ſuffulciatur.

Qualem nutrit plantam vir florentem olivæ

Loco in ſolitario, quæ floret flore albo

Pulchra, vireſcens, aut ſicut germen in fœcunda terra:

Veniens autem repentè ventus cum turbine multo,

Foſſâ q; que evulſit & extendit ſuper terram:

Sic ille ſtatim occidit. Aut ſicut arbor alta,

Cujus radices denſæ q; que firmitér q; que fixæ

Inter multos lapides compactæ ſunt in colle :

Verùm neque ſic lignicidarum virorum ſtrepitum vitavit:

Hi autem iverunt ligniſecas ſecures in manibus habentes,

Et eam urgentes ferro ſciderunt; ea autem collapſa

Ingemuit, excelſæ autem comæ pulvere commixtæ ſunt.

Ità hic quidem floret pauxillum temporis, neutiquam valde diu,

Brevi ſplendore, & gloriâ ſuperbiens.

Statim verò defunctum etiam ſuus ipſum abnegavit locus,

Sic autem dixit, Nunquam ego te nè oculis quidem vidi.

Hic certè ei finis eſt, malarúm q; que gaudium viarum.

Alii autem ex pulvere mox pullulabunt homines,

Deinceps exorientes multò præſtantiores ipſo.

Neque enim Immortalis unquam à ſe virum juſtum

Repellet, neque improbis hominibus erit adjutor,

Qui injuſtitiæ ſe-dedentes nefaria machinantur.

Donec ſuavi guttur tuum impleverit riſu,

Pectora lætitiâ, & labia tua jubilo :

Probro & ignominiâ amicti uſquè erunt

Inimici tui : Tentori ũ um q; que malorum funditus peribit.

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