James Duport, Job, 22.3

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[3] What delight is this to God, if you were righteous? Or what great profit to him are your pure ways, even if you yourself were blameless and knew blameless things? Is it because he fears your punishment and your deadly deeds, that he reproves you, or does something else more shameless? Therefore now he has convicted you, and in justice has stood against you.

Job. James Duport. . .

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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.) — 22 focus

῾Υπολαβὼν δὲ Ἐλειφὰς ὁ Θαιμανείτης λέγει

Πότερον οὐχὶ ὁ κύριός ἐστιν ὁ διδάσκων σύνεσιν καὶ

ἐπιστήμην;

τί γὰρ μέλει τῷ κυρίῳ ἐὰν σὺ ἦσθα τοῖς ἔργοις ἄμεμπτος;

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ἤ ὠφελία ὅτι ἀπώσῃς τὴν ὁδόν σου;

ἢ λόγον σου ποιούμενος ἐλέγξει σε, καὶ συνεισελεύσεταί

σοι εἰς κρίσιν;

πότερον οὐχ ἡ κακία σού ἐστιν πολλή,

ἀναρίθμητοι δέ σού εἰσιν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι;

ἠνεχύραζες δὲ τοὺς ἀδελφούς σου διὰ κενῆς.

ἀμφίασιν δὲ γυμνῶν ἀφείλου·

οὐδὲ ὕδωρ διψῶντας ἐπότισας,

ἀλλὰ πεινώντων ἐστέρησας ψωμόν·

ἐθαύμασας δέ τινων πρόσωπον,

ᾤκισας δὲ τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς·

χήρας δὲ ἐξαπέστειλας κενάς.

ὀρφανοὺς δὲ ἐκάκωσας.

τοιγαροῦν ἐκύκλωσάν σε παγίδες,

καὶ ἐσπούδασέν σε πόλεμος ἐξαίσιος.

τὸ φῶς σοι σκότος ἀπέβη,

κοιμηθέντα δὲ ὕδωρ σε ἐκάλυψεν.

μὴ οὐχὶ ὁ τὰ ὑψηλὰ ναίων ἐφορᾷ,

τοὺς δὲ ὕβρει φερομένους ἐταπείνωσεν;

καὶ εἶπας Τί ἔγνω ὁ ἰσχυρός.

ἤ κατὰ τοῦ γνόφου κρίνει;

νεφέλη¶ ἀποκρυφῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐχ ὁραθήσεται,

καὶ γῦρον οὐρανοῦ διαπορεύεται.

μὴ τρίβον αἰώνιον φυλάξεις ἣν ἐπάτησαν ἄνδρες δίκαιοι.

οἳ συνελήμφθησαν ἄωροι;

ποταμὸς ἐπιρρέων οἱ θεμέλιοι αὐτῶν·

οἱ λέγοντες Κύριος τί ποιήσει ἡμῖν;

ἤ τί ἐπάξεται ἡμῖν ὁ παντοκράτωρ

ὅς δὲ ἐνέπλησεν τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν ἀγαθῶν,

βουλὴ δὲ ἀσεβῶν πόρρω ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ,

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ἰδόντες δίκαιοι ἐγέλασαν,

ἄμεμπτος δὲ ἐμυκτήρισεν·

εἰ μὴ ἠφανίσθη ἡ ὑπόστασις αὐτῶν,

καὶ τὸ κατάλιμμα αὐτῶν καταφάγεται πῦρ.

γενοῦ δὴ σκληρός, ἐὰν ὑπομείνῃς·

εἶτ᾿ ὁ καρπός σου ἔσται ἐν ἀγαθοῖς.

ἔκβαλε δὲ ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐξηγορίαν,

καὶ ἀνάλαβε τὰ ῥήματα αὐτοῦ ἐν καρδίᾳ σου.

ἐὸν δὲ ἐπιστραφῇς καὶ ταπεινώσῃς σεαυτὸν ἔναντι Κυρίου,

πόρρω ἐποίησας ἀπὸ διαίτης σου ἄδικον·

θήσῃ ἐπὶ χώματι ἐν πέτρᾳ,

καὶ ὡς πέτρα χειμάρρου Σωφείρ.

ἔσται οὖν σου ὁ παντοκράτωρ βοηθὸς ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν,

καθαρὸν δὲ ἀποδώσει σε ὣσπερ ἀργύριον πεπυρωμένον.

εἶτα παρρησιασθήσῃ ἐναντίον Κυρίου, ἀναβλέψας εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν

ἱλαρῶς·

εὐξαμένου δέ σου πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰσακούσεταί σου,

δώσει δέ σοι ἀποδοῦναι τὰς εὐχάς·

ἀποκαταστήσει δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνης,

ἐπὶ δὲ ὁδοῖς σου ἔσται φέγγος.

ὅτι ἐταπείνωσας σεαυτόν, καὶ ἐρεῖς ῾ Υπερηφανεύσατο,

καὶ κύφοντα ὀφθαλμοῖς σώσει·

ῤύσεται ἀθῷον,

καὶ διασώθητι ἐν καθαραῖς χερσίν σου.

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 22.3.1 focus

Ποῖον ἔω τόδε χάρμα Θεῷ, εἰ ἦσθα δίκαιος;

Ἠὲ τί οἱ μέγ᾽ ὄνειαρ ἀκήρατα σεῖο κέλευθα,

Εἴπερ ἀμύμων αὐτὸς ἔης, καὶ ἀμύμονα εἰδῇς,

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 22 focus

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, That he enters with you into judgment?

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,

Or darkness, so that you can not see, And floods of waters cover you.

Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

You say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.

Will you keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden,

Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Who said to God, Depart from us; And, What can the Almighty do for us?

Yet he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

The righteous see it, and are glad; The innocent laugh them to scorn,

Saying, surely those who rose up against us are cut off, The fire has consumed the remnant of them.

Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

Please receive instruction from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart.

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

Lay your treasure in the dust, The gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

The Almighty will be your treasure, Precious silver to you.

For then shall you delight yourself in the Almighty, And shall lift up your face to God.

You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

When they cast down, you shall say, be lifted up. He will save the humble person.

He will even deliver him who is not innocent; Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 22.3.1 focus

Qualis eſſet hæc voluptas Deo, fi fueris juſtus?

Aut quod ei adeò magnum emolumentum immaculatæ tuæ

Etſi inculpatus ipſe fueris, & inculpata nôris? (viæ;

James Duport Job 22.3

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