James Duport, Job, 26.13

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[13] He adorned the upper air with the many cunning devices of his mind, and the sky with the fair-seeming embroideries of stars; A dread serpent, a great portent, a monster, a wonder to behold, crooked, many-coiled, he fashioned with his own hands.

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.) — 26 focus

Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ἰὼβ λέγει

Τίνι πρόσκεισαι ἤ τίνι μέλλεις βοηθεῖν;

πότερον οὐχ ᾦ πολλὴ ἰσχὺς καὶ ᾦ βραχίων κραταιός ἐστιν;

τίνι συμβεβούλενσαι; οὐχ ᾦ πᾶσα σοφία;

τίνι ἐπακολουθήσεις; οὐχ ᾦ μευίστιη δύναμις;

τίνι άνήγγειλας ῥήματα;

πνοὴ δὲ τίνος ἐστὶν ἡ ἐξελθοῦσα ἐκ σοῦ;

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μὴ γίγαντες μαιωθήσονται ὑποκάτωθεν ὕδατος καὶ τῶν γειτόνων

αὐτοῦ ;

γυμνὸς ὁ ᾅδης ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ,

καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν περιβόλαιον τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ.

ἐκτείνων βορέαν ἐπʼ οὐδέν,

κρεμάζων γῆν ἐπὶ οὐδενός.

δεσμεύων ὕδωρ ἐν νεφέλαις αὐτοῦ,

καὶ οὐκ ἐρράγη νέφος ὑποκάτω αὐτοῦ·

ὁ κρατῶν πρόσωπον θρόνου,

ἐκπετάζων ἐπʼ αὐτὸν νέφος αὐτοῦ·

πρόσταγμα ἐγύρωσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ὕδατος

μέχρι συντελείας φωτὸς μετὰ σκότους.

στύλοι οὐρανοῦ ἐπετάσθησαν, καὶ ἐξέστησαν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐπιτιμήσεως

αὐτοῦ.

ἰσχύι κατέπαυσεν τὴν θάλασσαν,

ἐπιστήμῃ δὲ ἔστρωται τὸ κῆτος.

κλεῖθρα δὲ οὐρανοῦ δεδοίκασιν αὐτόν·

προστάγματι δὲ ἐθανάτωσεν δράκοντα ἀποστάτην.

ἰδοὺ ταῦτα μέρη ὁδοῦ αὐτοῦ,

καὶ ἐπὶ ἰκμάδα λόγου ἀκουσόμεθα ἐν αὐτῷ·

σθένος δὲ βροντῆς αὐτοῦ, τίς οἶδεν ὁπότε ποιήσει ;

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 26.13.1 focus

Αἰθέρα δαίδαλλεν πολυϊδρείῃσι νόοιο,

Οὐρανὸν εὐπρεπέων ἔασσιν ποικίλμασιν ἄστρων·

Δεινὸν ὄφιν, μέγα σῆμα, πέλωρον, θαῦμα ἰδέσθαι,

Στρεβλὸν, πολυέλικτον, ἑῆς τεκτήνατο χερσί.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 26 focus

Then Job answered,

How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?

Those who are deceased tremble, Those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon has no covering.

He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.

He encloses the face of his throne, And spreads his cloud on it.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, And to the confines of light and darkness.

The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke.

He stirs up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 26.13.1 focus

Æthera variegavit peritiâ mentis,

Cœlum pulchrorum induens pigmentis aſtrorum;

Dirum ſerpentem, ingens portentum, monſtrum, mirabilem

Tortuoſum, volubilem, ſuis fabricavit manibus. ( viſu,

James Duport Job 26.13

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