James Duport, Job, 2.9

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[9] And his wife too assailed him with reproachful words: Ah, wretched among men, most miserable of all mortals, fool, in piety and righteousness vain — how long will you hold on thus in vain? since there is no need of anything for you. Surely now would your virtue and fear of God avail you? Or did your piety ward off grievous destruction? But come, blaspheme, and die! Why do you still linger? Better either to perish once and for all, or to live, than to be worn away long in painful misery.

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.) — 2 focus

Ἐγένετο δὲ ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη

καὶ ἦλθον οἱ ἄγγελοι τοῦ θεοῦ παραστῆναι ἔναντι Κυρίου,

καὶ ὁ διάβολος ἦλθεν ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν

παραστῆναι ἐναντίον τοῦ κυρίου.

καὶ εἶπεν ὁ κύριος τῷ διαβόλῳ Πόθεν σὺ ἔρχῃ;

τότε εἶπεν ὁ διάβολος ἐνώπιον τοῦ κυρίου

Διαπορευθεὶς τὴν ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσας τὴν

σύμπασαν πάρειμι.

εἶπεν δὲ ὁ κύριος πρὸς τὸν διάβολον

Προσέσχες οὖν τῷ θεράποντί μου Ἰὼβ;

ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν κατʼ αὐτὸν τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,

ἄνθρωπος ἄκακος, ἀληθινός, ἄμεμπτος, θεοσεβής,

ἀπεχόμενος ἀπὸ παντὸς κακοῦ.

οὐ δὲ εἶπας τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ διὰ κενῆς ἀπολέοαι

ἔτι δὲ ἔχεται ἀκακίας·

σὺ δὲ εἶπας τὰ ἁπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ κενῆς ἀπολέσαι.

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ὑπολαβὼν δὲ ὁ διάβολος εἶπεν τῷ κυρίῳ

Δἐρμα ὑπέρ δέρματος·

ὅσα ὑπάρχει ἀνθρώπῳ ὑπέρ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ ἐκτίσει.

οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ ἀποστείλας τὴν χεῖρά σου ἅψαι τῶν ὀστῶν

αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτοῦεἰ

lμὴν εἰς πρόσωπόν σε εὐλογήσει.

εἶνεν δὲ ὁ κύριος τῷ διαβόλῳ Ἰδοὺ παραδίδωμί σοι αὐμόνον

τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ διαφύλαξον.

ἐξῆλθεν δὲ ὁ διάβολος ἀπὸ τοῦ κυρίου.

καὶ ἔπαισεν τὸν Ἰὼβ ἕλκει πονηρῷ ἀπὸ ποδῶν ἕως

κμὶ ἔλαβεν ὄστρακον ἵνα τὸν χῶρα ξύῃ.

κεφαλῆς.

καὶ ἐκάθητο ἐπὶ τῆς κοπρίας ἔξω τῆς πόλεως.

χρόνου δὲ πολλοῦ προβεβηκότος εἶπεν αὐτῷ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ

Μέχρι τίνος καρτερήσεις λέγων

ᵃἸδοὺ ἀναμένω χρόνον ἔτι μικρὸν

προσδεχόμενος τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς σωτηρίας μου

bἰβοὺ γὰρ ἠφάνισταί σου τὸ μνημόσυνον ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς.

υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐμῆς κοιλίας ὠδῖνες καὶ πόνοι.

σὓς εἰς τὸ κενὸν ἐκοπίασα μετὰ μόχθων.

cσύ τε αὐτὸς ἐν σαπρίᾳ σκωλήκων κάθησαι διανυκτερεύων

αἴδριος·

dκἀγὼ πλανωμένη καὶ λάτρις.

τόπον ἐκ τόπου καὶ οἰκίαν ἐξ οἰκίας,

προσδεχομένη τὸν ἥλιον πότε δύσεται,

ἵνα ἀναπαύσωμαι τῶν μόχθων μου καὶ τῶν ὀδυνῶν αἵ με

υῦν συνέχουσιν.

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ἀλλὰ εἰπόν τι ῥῆμα εἰς Κύριον, καὶ τελεύτα.

ὁ δὲ ἐμβλέψας εἶπεν αὐτῇ

Ὤσπερ μία τῶν ἀφρόναν γυναικῶν ἐλάλησας·

εἰ τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἐδεξάμεθα ἐκ χειρὸς Κυρίου, τὰ κακὰ οὐχ ὐποί

σομεν ;

ἐν πᾶσιν τούτοις τοῖς συμβεβηκόσαὶ αὐτῷ

οὐδὲν ἥμαρτεν Ἰὼβ τοῖς χείλεσιν ἐναντίν τοῦ θεοῦ.

Ἀκούσαντες δὲ οἱ πρεῖς φίῦλοι αὐτοῦ τὰ κακὰ πάντα τὰ

ἐπελθόντα αὐτῷ,

παρεγένοντο ἕκαστος ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας χώρας πρὸς αὐτόν,

Ἐλειφὰζ ὁ Θιμανῶν βασιλεύς,

Βαλδὰδ ὁ Σαυχαίων τύραννος,

Σωφὰρ ὁ Μειναίων βασιλεὺς·

καὶ παρεγένοντο πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁμοθυμαδὸν

τοῦ παρακαλέσαι καὶ ἐπισκέψασθαι αὐτόν.

ἰδόντες δὲ αὐτὸν πόρρωθεν οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν,

καὶ βοήσαντες φωνῇ μεγάλῃ ἔκλαυσαν,

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§ῥήξαντες ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ στολήν,

καὶ καταπασάμενοι γῆν.

παρεκάθισαν αὐτῷ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας καὶ ἑπτὰ νύκτας,

καὶ οὐδεὶς αὐτῶν ἐλάλησεν·

ἑώρων γὰρ τὴν πληγὴν δεινοὴν οὖσαν καὶ μεγάλην σφόδρα.

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 2.9.1 focus

Καί τʼ ἄλοχος συφέλιξεν ὀνειδείοις ἐπέεσσιν·

Ἆ δειλʼ ἀνθρώπων, πάντων πέρι κάμμορε φωτῶν,

Νηπύτιʼ, εὐσεβίῃ τε δικαιοσύνῃ τε ματαίῳ

Ἕως πότε μὰψ ὕτω κατέχεις; ἐπεὶ οὐδέ τι σε χρή.

Ἦ νύ κέ τοι χραίσμῃ ἀρετὴ καὶ δεῖμα Θεοῖο;

Ἠὲ καὶ εὐσεβίη τοι ἐπήρκεσε λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον;

Ἀλλʼ ἄγε, βλασφήμει, καὶ τέθναθι· τίπτʼ ἔτι μίμνεις;

Βέλτερον ἢ ἀπολέσθαι ἕνα χρόνον, ἠὲ βιῶναι,

Ἦ δηθὰ στρεύγεσθαι ἐν ἀλγεινῇ κακότητι.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 2 focus

Again it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Satan, Where have you come from? Satan answered Yahweh, and said, From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Yahweh said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.

Yahweh said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.

So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Then his wife said to him, Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 2.9.1 focus

Etiam & uxor ſugillavit probroſis verbis :

Ah miſer homin ũ um, omnes ſuprà infortunate viros,

Stolide, pietatémque juſtitiámque inanem

Quamdiu fruſtra adeò retines? quandoquidem non te oportet.

Nunquid tibi profuerit virtus, & timor Dei ?

Vel num pietas à te propullaverit triſte exitium ?

Quin agè, blaſphema, & morere : quid adhuc cunctaris?

Melius aut perire ſemel, aut vivere,

Quàm diu torqueri in luctuoſa calamitate.

James Duport Job 2.9

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