James Duport, Job, 12.4

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[4] I am a noble man subdued by grievous ruin, who once was a laughing-stock and a mockery to his own kinsmen, (and they laughed sweetly at him even as he grieved. ) And he entreated God, and God heard him greatly. But nevertheless, for a righteous and blameless man, who was indeed such, many mocked him, and he has become a plaything to them.

Job. James Duport. . .

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

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Ἰώβ First1KGreek (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 2: I Chronicles-Tobit. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.) — 12 focus

῾γπολαβὼν δὲ Ἰὼβ λέγει

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Εἶτα ὑμεῖς ἐστε ἄνθρωποι·

ἦ μεθʼ ὑμῶν τελευτήσει σοφία.

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κἀμοὶ μὲν καρδἰα καθʼ ὑμᾶς ἐστιν.

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δίκαιος γὰρ ἀνὴρ καὶ ἄμεμπτος ἐγενήθη εἰς χλεύασμα·

εἰς χρόνον γὰρ τακτὸν ἡτοίμαστο πεσεῖν ὑπὸ ἄλλων.

(6) οἴκους τε αὐτοῦ ἐκπορθεῖσθαι ὑπὸ ἀνόμων.

οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ μηδεὶς πεποιθέτω πονηρὸς ὢν ἀθῷος ἔσεσθαι,

ὅσοι παροργίζουσιν τὸν κύριον,

ὡς οὐχὶ καὶ ἔτασις αὐτῶν ἔσται.

ἀλλὰ δὴ ἐρώτησον τετράποδα ἐάν σοι εἴπωσιν.

πετεινὰ δὲ οὐρανοῦ ἐάν σοι ἀπαγγείλωσιν·

ἐκδιήγησαι γῇ ἐάν σοι φράσῃ,

καὶ ἐξηγήσονταί σοι οἱ ἰχθύες τῆς θαλάσσης.

τίς οὖν οὐκ ἔγνω ἐν πᾶσι τούτοις

ὅτι χεὶρ Κυρίου ἐποίησεν ταῦτα;

εἰ μὴ ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ ψυχὴ πάντων ζώντων

καὶ πνεῦμα παντὸς ἀνθρώπου;

νοῦς μὲν γὰρ ῥήματα διακρίνει,

λάρυγξ δὲ σῖτα γεύεται.

ἐν πολλῷ χρόνῳ σοφία,

ἐν δὲ πολλῷ βἰῳ ἐπιστήμη.

παρʼ αὐτῷ σοφία καὶ δύναμις,

αὐτῷ βουλὴ καὶ σύνεσις.

ἐὰν καταβάλῃ, τίς οἰκοδομήσει;

ἐὰν κλείσῃ κατὰ ἀνθρώπων, τίς ἀνοίξει;

ἐὰν κωλύσῃ τὸ ὕδωρ, ξηρανεῖ τὴν γῆν·

ἐὰν δὲ ἐπαφῇ, ἀπώλεσεν αὐτὴν καταστρέψας.

παρʼ αὐτῷ κράτος καὶ ἰσχύς,

αὐτῷ ἐπιστήμη καὶ σύνεσις.

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διάγων βουλευτὰς αἰχμαλώτους,

κριτὰς δὲ γῆς ἐξέστησεν.

καθιζάνων βασιλεῖς ἐπὶ θρόνους,

καὶ περιέδησεν ζώνῃ ὀσφύας αὐτῶν

ἐξαποστέλλων ἱερεῖς αἰχμαλώτους,

δυνάστας δὲ γῆς κατέστρεψεν.

διαλλάσσων χείλη πιστῶν

σύνεσιν δὲ πρεσβυτέρων ἔγνω.

ἐκχέων ἀτιμίαν ἐπʼ ἄρχοντας,

ταπεινοὺς δὲ ἰάσατο.

ἀνακαλύπτων βαθέα ἐκ σκότους

ἐξήγαγεν δὲ εἰς φῶς σκιὰν θανάτου.

καταστρωννύων ἔθνη καὶ καθοδηγῶν αὐτά.

διαλλάσσων καρδίας ἀρχόντων γῆς,

ἐπλάνησεν δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐν ὁδῷ ἦ οὐκ ἤδεισαν·

ψηλαφήσαισαν σκότος καὶ μὴ φῶς,

πλανηθείησαν δὲ ὥσπερ ὁ μεθύων.

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 12.4.1 focus

Εἰμ' ἐγὼ δῖος ἀνὴρ χαλεπῇ δεδμημένος ἄτῃ,

Ὅς ποτ' ἑοῖς πηοῖσιν ἔτησί τε παίγνιον ὄζιν,

(Οἳ δ' καὶ ἀχνυμένῳ τῷ ἐπ' αὐτῷ ἡδὺ γέλασσαν.)

Καὶ Θεὸν ἐλλιτάνευσε, Θεὸς δ' μάλα ἔκλυεν αὐτοῦ.

Ἀλλ' ὅμως ἀνδρὶ δικαίῳ ἀμύμονι, ὃς μάλα ἐόντι

Πολλοὶ ἐφεψιώωντο, ὃ δέ σφιν ἄθυρμα τέτυκται.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 12 focus

Then Job answered,

No doubt, but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune, It is ready for them whose foot slips.

The tents of robbers prosper, Those who provoke God are secure; Who carry their God in their hands.

But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; The birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

Who doesn’t know that in all these, The hand of Yahweh has done this,

In whose hand is the life of every living thing, The breath of all mankind?

Doesn’t the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?

With aged men is wisdom, In length of days understanding.

With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

He loosens the bond of kings, He binds their loins with a belt.

He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding of the elders.

He pours contempt on princes, And loosens the belt of the strong.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 12.4.1 focus

Sum ego, qualis vir gravi domitus ærumnâ,

Qui vel ſuis affinibus amicíſq; amicíſque ludibrio eſt,

(Illi autem quamvìs mœſto ſuper ipſo ſuaviter riſerunt.)

Et Deo ſupplicat, Deus autem omnino audit eum.

Veruntamen virum juſtum, integer licet admodum fuerit

Multi derident, ille autem ipſis ludicrum ſit.

James Duport Job 12.4

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