James Duport, Job, 17.12

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[12] But he changes nights into tearful days; the sun is quenched, and soon again dark evening came. Truly, then, they count even this a bearable evil, when one weeps for days on end, deeply grieved at heart, and sleep possesses his nights; (For he forgets all good things and evils, once sleep covers his eyelids.) But even so, through the night, respite from evil comes to me.

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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

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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.) — 17 focus

ὀλέκομαι πνεύματι φερόμενος,

δέομαι δὲ ταφῆς καὶ οὐ τυγχάνω.

λίσσομαι κάμνων, καὶ τί ποιήσας;

ἔκλεψαν δέ μου τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ἀλλότριοι·

τίς ἐστιν οὗτος; τῇ χειρί μου συνδεθήτω.

ὅτι καρδίαν αὐτῶν ἔκρυψας ἀπὸ φρονήσεως,

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διὰ τοῦτο οὐ μὴ ὑψώσῃς αὐτούς.

τῇ μερίδι ἀναγγελεῖ κακίας.

ὀφθαλμοὶ δὲ ἐφʼ υἱοῖς ἐτάκησαν.

ἔθοῦ δέ με θρύλημα ἐν ἔθνεσιν,

γέλως δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀπέβην·

πεπώρωνται γὰρ ἀπὸ ὀργῆς οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου,

πεπολιόρκημαι μεγάλως ὑπὸ πάντων.

θαῦμα ἔσχεν ἀληθινοὺς ἐπὶ τούτῳ·

δίκαιος δὲ ἐπὶ παρανόμῳ ἐπανασταίη·

σχοίη δὲ πιστὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ὁδόν,

καθαρὸς δὲ χεῖρας ἀναλάβοι θάρσος.

οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ πάντες ἐρείδετε, καὶ δεῦτε δή.

οὐ γὰρ εὑρίσκω ἐν ὑμῖν ἀληθές.

αἱ ἡμέραι μου παρῆλθον ἐν βρόμῳ,

ἐρράγη δὲ τὰ ἄρθρα τῆς καρδίας μου·

νύκτα εἰς ἡμέραν ἔθηκα,

φῶς ἐγγὺς ἀπὸ προσώπου σκότους.

ἐὰν γὰρ ὑπομείνω, ᾔδης μου ὁ οἶκος.

ἐν δὲ γνόφῳ ἔστρωταί μου ἡ στρωμνή.

θάνατον ἐπεκαλεσάμην πατέρα μου εἶναι,

μητέρα δέ μου καὶ ἀδελφὴν σαπρίαν.

ποῦ οὖν μου ἔτι ἐστὶν ἡ ἐλπίς

ἤ τὰ ἀγαθά μου ὄψομαι

ἤ μετʼ ἐμοῦ εἰς ᾄδην καταβήσονται.

ἤ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπὶ χώματος καταβησόμεθα;

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 17.12.1 focus

Ἀλλάσσει δὲ νύκτας ἐς ἤματα δακρυόεντα,

Δείλετο δ’ ἠέλιος, τάχα δ’ αὖ μέλας ἕσπερος ἦλθεν.

Ἦ ῥα τὰ μὲν καὶ ἀνεικτὸν ἔχει κακόν, ὁππότε κέν τις

Ἤματα μὲν κλαίῃ πυκινῶς ἀκαχήμενος ἦτορ,

Νύκτας δ’ ὕπνος ἔχῃσιν· (Ὁ γάρ τ’ ἐπέλησεν ἁπάντων

Ἐσθλῶν ἠδὲ κακῶν, ἐπεὶ ἂρ βλέφαρ’ ἀμφικαλύψῃ)

Ἀλλὰ καὶ ὧδ’ ἀνὰ νύκτα κακῆς μοι γίνετ’ ἐρωή.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 17 focus

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.

Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.

He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.

They change the night into day, Saying the light is near in the presence of darkness.

If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,

If I have said to corruption, You are my father; To the worm, My mother, and my sister;

Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 17.12.1 focus

Mutant autem noctes in dies lacrymabiles,

Vergit autem in occaſum ſol, móx q; que rurfùs niger veſper adeſt.

Certè quidem hoc & tolerabile habet malum, quando aliquis

Dies quidem flet frequenter dolens corde, (Omnium

Noctes verò ſomnus habet: (Hic enim obliviſci-facit homines

Bonorum & malorum, poſtquam palpebras circuntexit)

At neque per noctem mali mihi eſt intermiſſio.

James Duport Job 17.12

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