James Duport, Job, 24.13

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[13] Wretched men know from where the light is, nor where the dawn is, nor where the sun that shines on mortals goes over the earth, wrapped in mist and cloud; Nor does the shining Sun ever look upon them with his rays, nor when he goes toward the starry heaven, nor when he turns back again to the earth from heaven. But deadly night is spread out over wretched mortals.

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.) — 24 focus

διὰ τί δὲ Κύριον ἔλαθον ὦραι,

ἀσεβεῖς δὲ ὅριον ὑπερέβησαν, ποίμνιον σὺν ποιμένι

ἁρπάσαντες ;

ὑποζύγιον ὀρφανῶν ἀπήγαγον,

καὶ βοῦν χήρας ἠνεχύρασαν.

ἐξέκλιναν ἀδυνάτους ἐξ ὁδοῦ δικαίας,

ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἐκρύβησαν πρᾳεῖς γῆς.

ἀπέβησαν δὲ ὥσπερ ὄνοι ἐν ἀγρῷ,

ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ ἐξελθόντες τὴν ἑαυτῶν τάξιν·

ἡδύνθη αὐτῷ ἄρτος εἰς νεωτέρους.

ἀγρὸν πρὸ ὥρας οὐκ αὐτῶν ὄντα ἐθέρισαν·

ἀδύνατοι ἀμπελῶνας ἀσεβῶν ἀμισθὶ καὶ ἀσιτὶ ἠργάσαντο.

§⁷γυμνοὺς πολλοὺς ἐκοίμισαν ἄνευ ἱματίων,

ἀμφίασιν δὲ ψυχῆς αὐτῶν ἀφείλαντο·

ἀπὸ ψεκάδων ὀρέων ὑγραίνονται,

παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν ἑαυτοὺς σκέπην πέτραν περιεβάλοντο.

ἥρπασαν ὀρφανὸν ἀπὸ μαστοῦ,

ἐκπεπτωκότα δὴ ἐταπείνωσαν.

γυμνοὺς δὲ ἐκοίμισαν ἀδίκως,

πεινώντων δὲ τὸν ψωμὸν ἀφείλαντο.

ἐν στενοῖς ἀδίκως ἐνήδρευσαν,

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ὁδὸν δὲ δικαίων οὐκ ᾔδεισαν.

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οἱ ἐκ πόλεως καὶ σἴκων ἰδίων ἐξεβάλλοντο,

ψυχὴ δὲ νηπίων ἐστέναξεν μέγα.

αὐτὸς δὲ διὰ τί τούτων ἐπισκοπὴν οὐ πεποίηται ;

(1³)ἐπὶ γῆς ὄντων αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν,

ὁδὸν δὲ δικαιοσύνης οὐκ ᾔδεισαν,

οὐδὲ ἀτραποὺς αὐτῶν ἐπορεύθησαν.

γνοὺς δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ ἔργα παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς εἰς σκότος,

καὶ νυκτὸς ἔσται ὡς κλέπτης.

καὶ· ὀφθαλμὸς μοιχοῦ ἐφύλαξεν σκότος,

λέγων Οὐ προσνοήσει με ὀφθαλμός,

καὶ ἀποκρυβὴν προσώπου ἔθετο.

διώρυξεν ἐν σκότει οἰκίας·

ἡμέρας ἐσφράγισαν ἑαυτούς,

οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν φῶς·

ὅτι ὁμοθυμαδὸν αὐτοῖς τὸ πρωὶ σκιὰ θανάτου,

ὅτι ἐπιγνώσεται τάραχος σκιᾶς θανάτου.

ἐλαφρός ἐστιν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ὕδατος·

καταραθείη ἡ μερὶς αὐτῶν ἐπὶ γῆς,

ἀναφανείη δὲ τὰ φυτὰ αὐτῶν 19ἐπὶ γῆς ξηρά·

ἀγκαλίδα γὰρ ὀρφανῶν ἥρπασαν.

εἶτ᾿ ἀνεμνήσθη αὐτοῦ ἡ ἁμαρτία·

ὥσπερ δέ ὁμίχηλ δρόσου ἀφανὴς ἐγένετο·

ἀποδοθείη δε αὐτῷ ἃ ἔπραξεν,

συντριβείη δὲ πᾶς ἄδικος ἴσα ξύλῳ ἀνιάτῳ.

στεῖραν δὲ οὐκ εὖ ἐποίησεν, καὶ ἀγύναιον οὐκ ἠλέησεν.

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Θυμῷ δὲ κατέστρεψεν ἀδυνάτους.

ἀναστὰς τοιυαροῦν οὐ μὴ πισεύσῃ κατὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ζωῆς·

μαλακισθεὶς μὴ ἐλπιζέτω ὑγιασθῆναι, ἀλλὰ πεσεῖται ωόσῳ.

πολλοὺς γὰρ έκάκωσεν τὸ ὕψωμα αὐτοῦ·

ἐμαράνθη σὲ ὥσπερ μολόχη ἐν καύματι,

ἢ ὥσπερ στάχυς ἀπὸ καλάμης αὐτόματος ἀποπεσών.

εἰ σὲ μή, τίς ἐστιν ὁ φάμενος ψευδῆ με λέγειν, καὶ Θήσει εὶς

οὑδὲν τὰ ῥήματά μου;

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 24.13.1 focus

Σχέτλιοι ἐκ ἴσασιν ὅπη φάος, οὐδ' ὅπη ἠώς,

Οὐδ' ὅπη ἠέλιος φαεσίμβροτος εἶσ' ὑπὲρ αἶαν,

Ἠέρι καὶ νεφέλῃ κεκαλυμμένοι· οὐδέ ποτ' αὐτοὺς

Ἠέλιος φαέθων ἐπιδέρκεται ἀκτίνεσσιν,

Οὐδ' ὁπότ' ἂν στείχῃσι πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἀστερόεντα,

Οὐδ' ὅταν ἂψ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἀπ' οὐρανόθεν προτράπηται·

Ἀλλ' ἐπὶ νὺξ ὀλοὴ τέταται δειλοῖσι βροτοῖσιν.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 24 focus

Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, And they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor,

So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, Yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

These are of those who rebel against the light; They don’t know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me. He disguises his face.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth: They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters; So does Sheol those who have sinned.

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 24.13.1 focus

Improbi non nôrunt ubi lux, aut ubi aurora,

Aut ubi ſol hominibus-affulgens vadit ſuper terram,

Caligine & nebulâ tecti: neque unquam eos

Sol lucidus aſpicit radiis,

Nec quando progreditur ad cœlum ſtellatum,

Nec quando rurſus ad terram de cœlo defertur;

Sed nox pernicioſa ſuperfuſa eſt miſeris mortalibus.

James Duport Job 24.13

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