James Duport, Job, 25.5

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[5] But look at all the stars, with which heaven is crowned; The stars are bright, and the moon is radiant; So it seems to us mortals; In the eyes of God the stars are not bright, nor is the gleaming moon; For many things, O Job, that seem fair have appeared to him not fair.

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.) — 25 focus

Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Βαλσὰς ὁ Σαυχίτης λέγει

Τί γὰρ προοίμιον ἥ φόβος ὁ παρʼ αὐτοῦ,

ὁ ποιῶν τὴν σύμπασον ἐν ύψίστῳ;

μὴ γάρ τισ ὑπολάβοι ὅτι ἐστὶν παρέλκυσις πειραταῖς;

ἔπὶ τίνας δὲ οὐκ ἐπελεύσεται ἕναντι Κυρίου;

πῶς υὰρ ἔσται δίκαιος βροτὸς ἔναντι κυρίου;

ἢ τίς ἂν ἀποκαθαρίσαι αὺτὸν γεννητὸς γυναικός;

ἦ σελήνῃ συντάσσει, καὶ οὐκ έπιφαύσκει·

ἄστρα δὲ οὐ καθαρὰ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ.

ἔα δέ, ἄνθρωπος σαπρία καὶ υίὸς ἀνθρώπου ακώληξ.

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 25.5.1 focus

Ἀλλ' ἴδε τείρεα πάντα, τά τ' οὐρανὸς ἐστεφάνωται·

Ἀστέρες ὡς λαμπροὶ, ὡς αἰγλήεσσα σελήνη·

Ἄμμι βροτοῖσι δοκεῖ· ἐν δ' ὀφθαλμοῖσι Θεοῖο

Ἀστέρες οὐ λαμπροὶ, οὐδ' αἰγλήεσσα σελήνη·

Πολλὰ γάρ οἱ, ὦ Ἴωβε, τὰ κάλλ' οὐ καλὰ πέφανται.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 25 focus

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Dominion and fear are with him; He makes peace in his high places.

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight;

How much less man, who is a worm! The son of man, who is a worm!

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 25.5.1 focus

Verùm aſpice ſidera omnia, quæ cœlum comprehendit :

Stellæ quàm lucidæ, quàm ſplendida luna

Nobis mortalibus videtur! in oculis verò Dei

Stellæ non lucidæ, nec ſplendida luna :

Multa enim ei, ô Jobe, quæ pulchra ſunt aliis, non pulchra (videntur.

James Duport Job 25.5

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