James Duport, Job, 27.18

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[18] All the beautiful, golden, gleaming houses that had been built for him with splendors — and they seem to him to be imperishable — yet these are feeble, like a moth's dwelling, or like a shepherd's fold, and short-lived, which he perhaps soon spoke of under a little wind's blast.

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.) — 27 focus

Ἔτι δὲ προσθεὶς Ἰὼβ εἶπεν τῷ προομίῳ

Ζῇ ὁ θεὸς ὃς οὕτω με κέκρικεν,

καὶ ὁ παντοκράτωρ ὁ πικράνας μου τὴν ψυχήν,

εἰ μὴν ἔτι τῆς πνοῆς μου ἐνούσης,

πνεῦμα δὲ θεῖον τὸ περιόν μοι ἐν ῥινί,

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μὴ λαλήσειν τὰ χείλη μου ἄνομα,

οὐδὲ ἡ ψυχή μου μελετήσει ἄδικα.

μή μοι εἴη δικαίους ὑμᾶς ἀποφῆναι ἕως ἂν ἀποθάνω,

οὐ γὰρ ἀπαλλάξω μου τὴν ἀκακίαν·

δικαιοσύνῃ δέ προσέχων οὐ μὴ προῶμα,

οὐ γὰρ σύνοιδα ἐμαυπῷ ἄτοπα πράξας.

οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ εἴησαν οἱ ἐχθροί μου ὥσπερ ἡ καταστροφὴ

τῶν ἀσεβῶν,

καὶ οἱ ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ἐπανιστανόμενοι ὥσπερ ἡ ἀπώλεια τῶν

παρανόμων.

καὶ τίς γάρ ἐστιν ἐλπὶς ἀσεβεῖ ὅτι ἐπέχεις ;

πεποιθὼς ἐπὶ κύριον ἆρα σωθήσεται ;

ἢ τὴν δέησιν αὐτοῦ εἰσακούσεται ὁ θεός;

ἢ ἐπελθούσης αὐτῷ ἀνάγκης

μὴ ἔχει τινὰ παρρησίαν ἔναντι αὐτοῦ;

ἢ ὡς ἐπικαλεσαμένου αὐτοῦ εἰσακούσεται αὐτοῦ;

ἀλλὰ δὴ ἀναγγελῶ ὑμῖν τί ἐστιν ἐν χειρὶ Κυρίου,

ἅ ἐστιν παρὰ Παντοκράτορι οὐ ψεύσομαι.

ἰδοὺ πάντες οἴδατε ὅτι κενὰ κενοῖς ἐπιβάλλετε.

αὕτη ἡ μερὶς ἀνθρώπου ἀσεβοῦς παρὰ Κυρίου,

κτῆμα δέ δυναστῶν ἐλεύσεται παρὰ Παντοκράτορος ἐπʼ αὐτούς.

ἐὸν δὲ πολλοὶ γένωνται οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν, εἰς σφαγὴν ἔσονται·

ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ἀνδρωθῶσιν, προσαιτήσουσιν·

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χήρας δὲ αὐτῶν οὐθεὶς ἐλεήσει.

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ἐὰν συναγάγῃ ὥσπερ γῆν ἀργύριον,

ἴσα δὲ πηλῷ ἑτοιμάσῃ χρυσίον,

ταῦτα πάντα δίκαιοι περιποιήσονται,

τὰ δέ χρήματα αὐτοῦ ἀληθινοὶ καθέξουσιν.

ἀπέβη δὲ ὁ οἶκος αὐτοῦ ὅσπερ σῆτες καὶ ὅσπερ ἀράχνη.

πλούσιος κοιμηθεὶς καὶ οὐ προσθήσει,

ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ διήνοιξεν καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν.

συνήντησαν αὐτῷ ὥσπερ ὕδωρ αἱ ὀδύναι,

νυκτὶ δὲ ὑφείλατο αὐτὸν γνόφος·

ἀναλήμψεται δὲ αὐτὸν καύσων καὶ ἀπελεύσεται.

καὶ λικμήσει αὐτὸν ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ.

καὶ ἐπιρίψει αὐτὸν καὶ οὐ φείσεται·

ἐκ χειρὸς αὐτοῦ φυγῇ φεύξεται

κροτήσει ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ χεῖρας αὐτῶν,

καὶ συριεῖ αὐτὸν ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ.

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 27.18.1 focus

Ὅσσα δ' οἱ ἀγλαΐῃσι τετεύχατο δώματα καλά,

Χρύσεα, μαρμαίροντα, δοκεῖ δέ οἱ ἄφθιτα εἶναι,

Ἀλλὰ τὰ μέν τ' ἀβληχρὰ πέλει, ὡς οἰκία σητὸς,

Ἠΰτε τε σταθμὸς ποιμνήϊος, ἠδ' ἐνόσωρος,

Ὅς τάχα που ἔειπε σμικρῆς ἀνέμῳ ὑπ' ἰωῆς.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 27 focus

Job again took up his parable, and said,

As God lives, who has taken away my right, The Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

(For the length of my life is still in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Let my enemy be as the wicked, Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, When God takes away his life?

Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call on God at all times?

I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; Why then have you become altogether vain?

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, The heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare clothing as the clay;

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes.

He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

The east wind carries him away, and he departs; It sweeps him out of his place.

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.

Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 27.18.1 focus

Quæ'q; Quæ'que ei ſplendidè extructa ſunt ædificia pulchra,

Aurea, fulgentia, videntur autem ei immortalia eſſe,

At hæc quidem infirma ſunt, quaſi domicilia tineæ,

Velutíq; Velutíque ſtabulum paſtorale vile,

Quod citò utique corruit exiguo venti flatu.

James Duport Job 27.18

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