James Duport, Job, 20.7

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[7] Yet nevertheless he has utterly perished, like all-filthy dung, hateful, whose stench is most deadly. And now someone then, seeing another nearby, might say: 'Where is that man now, since I no longer see him anywhere?' But always, at least formerly, he used to appear among the foremost.

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.) — 20 focus

῾γπολαβὼν δὲ Σωφὰρ ὁ Μειναῖος λέγει

Οὐχ οὕτως ὑπελάμβανον ἀντερεῖν σε ταῦτα·

καὶ οὐχὶ συνίετε μᾶλλον ἤ καὶ ἐγώ.

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παιδείαν ἐντροπῆς μου ἀκούσομαι,

καὶ πνεῦμα ἐκ τῆς συνέσεως ἀποκριθήσεταί μοι.

μὴ ταῦτα ἔγνως ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔτι,

ἀφʼ οὖ ἐτέθη ἄνθρωπος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς;

εὐφροσύνη δὲ ἀσεβῶν πτῶμα ἐξαίσιον,

χαρμονὴ δέ παρανόμων ἀπώλεια·

ἐὰν ἀναβῇ εἰς οὐρανὸν αὐτοῦ τὰ δῶρα,

ἡ δὲ θυσία αὐτοῦ νεφῶν ἅψηται.

ὅταν γὰρ δοκῇ ἤδη κατεστηρίχθαι,

τότε εἰς τέλος ἀπολεῖται·

οἱ δὲ εἰδότες αὐτὸν ἐροῦσιν Ποῦ ἐστιν;

ὥσπερ ἐνύπνιον ἐκπετασθὲν οὐ μὴ εὑρεθῇ,

ἔπτη δὲ ὥσπερ φάσμα νυκτερινόν·

ὀφθαλμὸς παρέβλεψεν, καὶ οὐ προσθήσει,

καὶ οὐκ ἔτι προσνοήσει αὐτὸν ὁ τόπος αὐτοῦ.

τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ ὀλέσαισαν ἥττονες,

αἱ δέ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ πυρσεύσαισαν ὀδύναις.

ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ ἐνεπλήσθησαν νεότητος αὐτοῦ,

καὶ μετʼ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ χώματος κοιμηθήσεται.

ἐὰν γλυκανθῇ ἐν στόματι αὐτοῦ κακία,

κρύψει αὐτὴν ὑπὸ τὴν γλῶσσαν αὐτοῦ,

οὐ φείσεται αὐτῆς καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψει αὐτήν·

καὶ συνάξει αὐτὴν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λάρυγγος αὐτοῦ,

καὶ οὐ μὴ δυνηθῇ βοηθῆσαι ἑαυτῷ·

χολὴ ἀσπίδος ἐν γαστρὶ αὐτοῦ.

πλοῦτος ἀδίκως συναγόμενος ἐξεμεσθήσεται,

ἐξ οἰκίας αὐτοῦ ἐξελκύσει αὐτὸν ἄγγελος.

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θυμὸν δὲ δρακόντων θηλάσειεν,

ἀνέλοι δὲ αὐτὸν γλῶσσα ὄφεως.

μὴ δοι ἴμελξιν νομάδων

μηδέ νομὰς μέλιτος καὶ βουτύρου.

εἰς κενὰ καὶ μάταια ἐκοπίασεν,

πλοῦτον ἐξ οὗ οὐ γεύσεται

ὥσπερ στρίφνος ἀμάσητος, ἀκατάποτος.

πολλῶν γὰρ δυνατῶν οἴκους ἔθλασεν·

δίαιταν δὲ ἥρπασεν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστησεν.

οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ σωτηρία τοῖς ὑπάρχουσιν,

ἐν ἐπιθυμίᾳ αὐτοῦ οὐ σωθήσεται.

οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπόλιμμα τοῖς βρώμασιν αὐτοῦ,

διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀνθήσει αὐτοῦ τὰ ἀγαθά.

ὅταν δὲ δοκῆ ᾔδη πεπληρῶσθαι, θλβήσεται,

πᾶσα δὲ ἀνάγκη ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἐπελεύσεται.

εἴ πως πληρώσαι γαστέρα αὐτοῦ,

ἐπαποστείλαι ἐπʼ αὐτὸν θυμὸν ὀργῆς.

νίψαι ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ὀδύνας·

καὶ οὐ μὴ σωθῇ ἐκ χειρὸς σιδήρου,

τρώσαι αὐτὸν τόξον χάλκειον·

διεξέλθοι δὲ διὰ σώματος αὐτοῦ βέλος,

ἄστρα δὲ ἐν διαίταις αὐτοῦ περιπατήσαισαν·

ἐπʼ αὐτῷ φόβοι,

πᾶν δὲ σκότος αὐτῷ ὑπομείναι

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κατέδεται αὐτὸν πῦρ ἄκαυστον,

κακώσαι δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐπήλυτος τὸν οἶκον.

ἀνακαλύψαι δὲ αὐτοῦ ὁ οὐρανὸς τὰς ἀνομίας,

γῆ δὲ ἐπανασταίη αὐτῷ.

ἑλκύσαι τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ ἀπωλία εἰς τέλος,

ἡμέρα ὀργῆς ἐπέλθοι αὐτῷ.

αὕτη ἡ μερὶς ἀνθρώπου ἀσεβοῦς παρὰ Κυρίου,

καὶ κτῆμα ὑπαρχόντων αὐτῷ παρὰ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου.

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 20.7.1 focus

Αὐτὰρ ὅμως ἀπόλωλε διαμπερὲς, ἠΰτε κόπρος

Παμμίαρος, στυγερὴ, τῆς καὶ ὀλοώτατος ὀδμή.

Καί νύ κέ τις τότε εἴποι ἰδὼν ἐς πλησίον ἄλλον,

Ποῦ ὅγ' ἀνὴρ νῦν ἐστιν, ὅτ' οὐκέτι που μιν ὁρῶμαι;

Ἀλλ' αἰεὶ τὸ πάρος γε μετ' πρώτοισι φάνεσκεν.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 20 focus

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame; The spirit of my understanding answers me.

Don’t you know this from old time, Since man was placed on earth,

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, The joy of the godless but for a moment?

Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach to the clouds,

Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung, Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.

His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

Yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.

He shall not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him: The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, The earth shall rise up against him.

The increase of his house shall depart; They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, The heritage appointed to him by God.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 20.7.1 focus

Veruntamen perit funditus, veluti ſtercus

Fœdiſſimum, abominandum, cujus & teterrimus odor.

Et fortè quis tum dicat intuens in vicinum alium,

Ubi iſte vir nunc eſt, quòd non ampliùs ullibi eum video?

At ſemper antehac inter primos apparuit.

James Duport Job 20.7

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