James Duport, Job, 15.23

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[23] He is worn down by wandering, and like a wretched, weary, famished vagrant longing somewhere for food he roams over the people and city of men of alien speech; he hopes that grim doom and the pitiless day stand near him, when darkness covers him about with terror and great fear of grief arises, and he is seized by strength, as a chieftain trusting in his might, armed in blazing bronze for the fierce war.

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.) — 15 focus

γπολαβὼν δὲ Ἐλειφὰς ὁ Θαιμανείτης λέγει

Πότερον σοφὸς ἀπόκρισιν δώσει συνέσεως πνεύματος,

καὶ ἐνέπλησεν πόνον γαστρός,

ἐλέγχων ἐν ῥήμασιν οἷς

οὐ δεῖ

ἐν λόγοις οἷς οὐδεν ὄφελος;

οὐ καὶ σὺ ἀπεποιήσω φόβον,

συνετελέσω δὲ ῥήματα τοιαῦτα ἔναντι τοῦ κυρίου;

ἔνοχος εἶ ῥήμασιν στόματός σου,

οὐδὲ διέκρινας ῥήματα δυναστῶν·

ἐλέγξαι σε τὸ σὸν στόμα καὶ μὴ ἐγώ,

τὰ δέ χείλη σου καταμαρτυρήσουσίν σου.

τί γάρ; μὴ πρῶτος ἀνθρώπων ἐγενήθης;

ἤ πρὸ θινῶν ἐπάγης

ἤ σύνταγμα Κυρίου ἀκήκοας

εἰς δὲ σὲ ἀφίκετο σοφία;

τί γὰρ οἶδας ὅ οὐκ οἴδαμεν;

ἤ τί συνίεις ὅ οὐ καὶ ἡμεῖς;

καί γε πρεσβύτης καί γε παλαιὸς ἐν ἡμῖν,

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βαρύτερος τοῦ πατρός σου ἡμέραις.

ὀλίγα ὧν ἡμάρτηκας μεμαστίγωσαι,

μεγάλως ὑπερβαλλόντως λελάληκας.

τί ἐτόλμησεν ἡ καρδία σου

ἤ τί ἐπήνεγκαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου,

ὅτι θυμὸν ἔρρηξας ἔναντι Κυρίου,

ἐξήγαγες δὲ ἐκ στόματος ῥήματα τοιαῦτα;

τίς γὰρ ὤν βροτός, ὅτι ἔσται ἄμεμπτος,

ἤ ὡς ἐσόμενος δίκαιος γεννητὸς γυναικός

εἰ κατὰ ἁγίων οὐ πιστεύει,

οὐρανὸς δὲ οὐ καθαρὸς ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ.

ἴα δὲ ἐβδελυγμένος καὶ ἀκάθαρτος,

ἀνὴρ πίνων ἀδικίας ἴσα ποτῷ.

ἀναγγελῶ δέ σοι, ἄκουέ μου.

ἂ δὴ ἑώρακα ἀναγγελῶ σοι.

ἃ σοφοὶ ἐροῦσιν, οὐκ ἔκρυψαν πατέρας αὐτῶν·

αὐτοῖς μόνοις ἐδόθη ἡ γῆ,

καὶ οὐκ ἐπῆλθεν ἀλλογενὴς ἐπʼ αὐτούς.

πᾶς ὁ βἰος ἀσεβοῦς ἐν φροντίδι,

ἔτη δὲ ἀριθμητὰ δεδομένα δυνάστῃ,

ὁ δὲ φόβος αὐτοῦ ἐν ὠσὶν αὐτοῦ·

ὅταν δοκῆ ἤδη εἰρηνεύειν.

ἤξει αὐτοῦ ἡ καταστροφή.

μὴ πιστευέτω ἀποστραφῆναι ἀπὸ σκότους·

ἐντέταλται γἃρ ἤδη εἰς χεῖρας σιδήρου.

κατατέτακται δὲ εἰς σῖτα γυψίν·

οἶδεν δὲ ἐν ἑαυτῷ ὅτι μένει εἰς πτῶμα.

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ἡμέρα δὲ αὐτὸν σκοτινὴ στροβήσει,

ἀνάγκη δὲ καὶ θλίψις αὐτὸν καθέξει

ὥσπερ στρατηγὸς πρωτοστάτης πίπτων·

ὅτι ἦρκεν χεῖρας ἐναντίον τοῦ κυρίου,

ἔναντι δέ Κυρίου Παντοκράτορος ἐτραχηλίασεν,

ἔδραμεν δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ὕβρει,

ἐν πάχει νώτου ἀσπίδος αὐτοῦ·

ὅτι ἐκάλυψεν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐν στέατι αὐτοῦ,

καὶ ἐποίησεν περιστόμιον ἐπὶ τῶν μηρίων.

αὐλισθείη δὲ πόλεις ἐρήμους.

εἰσέλθοι δὲ εἰς οἴκους ἀοικήτους·

ἄ δὲ ἐκεῖνοι ἡτοίμασαν, ἄλλοι ἀποίσονται.

οὔτε μὴ πλουτισθῇ, οὔτε μὴ μείνῃ αὐτοῦ τὰ ὑπάρχοντα·

οὐ μὴ βάλῃ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν σκιάν,

οὐδὲ μὴ ἐκφύγῃ τὸ σκότος·

τὸν βλαστὸν αὐτοῦ μαράναι ἄνεμος,

ἐκπέσοι δὲ αὐτοῦ τὸ ἄνθος.

μὴ πιστευέτω ὅτι ὑπομενεῖ,

κενὰ γὰρ ἀποβήσεται αὐτῷ·

ἡ τομὴ αὐτοῦ πρὸ ὥρας φθαρήσεται,

καὶ ὁ ῥάδαμνος αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ πυκάσῃ·

τρυγηθείη) δὲ ὡς ὄμφαξ πρὸ ὥρας.

ἐκπέσοι δὲ ὡς ἄνθος ἐλαίας.

μαρτύριον γὰρ ἀσεβοῦς θάνατος,

πῦρ δὲ καύσει οἴκους δωροδεκτῶν.

ἐν γαστρὶ δὲ λήμψεται ὀδύνας,

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Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 15.23.1 focus

Πλαγκτοσύνῃ δέδμητο, καὶ ὡς ἀσύφηλος ἀλήτης

Ἄκμηνος, καὶ ἄπαστος, ἐελδόμενός που ἐδωδῆς

Πλάζετ' ἐπ' ἀλλοθρόων ἀνδρῶν δῆμόν τε πόλιν τε,

Ἔλπεταί οἱ στυγερόν τε μόρον, καὶ νηλεὲς ἦμαρ

Ἄγχι παρεστάμεναι, ὅτε μιν σκότος ἀμφικαλύψῃ

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 15 focus

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Yes, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.

Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

What do you know, that we don’t know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.

Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;

To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;

Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins.

He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.

It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 15.23.1 focus

Vagatione confectus eſt, & tanquā tanquam vilis erro

Jejunus, & impaſtus, egens cibi

Errat apud peregrinorum virorum populúm q; que civitatémque:

Expectat ſibi triſte fatum, & crudelem diem

Propè adſtare, cùm eum tenebræ circuntegent:

James Duport Job 15.23

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