James Duport, Job, 28.3

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[3] For a mortal man, by the deep cunning of his mind, went into the subterranean recesses, and plunged into the dread, murky depths of the earth, and cast light in the shafts, seeking treasures and gathering up everything precious, whether steel, or the offspring of bronze, or the seeds of gold. And precious stones beneath, and all metals out of the dread hollow, and out of the deep sand (of which you might say they are in the black shadow of death, whoever dug them; so wide did the earth gape) he brought them forth to the light, and they saw the sunbeams with the sun.

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.) — 28 focus

Ἔστιν γὰρ ἀργυρίῳ τόπος ὅθεν γίνεται,

τόπος δέ χρυσίου ὅθεν διηθεῖται·

σίδηρος μὲν γὰρ ἐκ γῆς γίνεται,

χαλκὸς δὲ ἴσα λίθῳ λατομεῖται.

τάξιν ἔθετο σκότει,

καὶ πᾶν πέρας αὐτὸς ἐξακριβάζεται·

λίθος σκοτίας καὶ σκιὰ θανάτου,

διακοπὴ χειμάρρου ἀπὸ κονίας·

οἱ δὲ ἐπιλανθανόμενοι ὁδὸν δικαίαν ἠσθένησαν ἐκ βροτῶν.

γῆ, ἐξ αὐτῆς ἐξελεύσεται ἄρτος,

ὑποκάτω αὐτῆς ἐστράφη ὡσεὶ πῦρ.

τόπος σαπφείρου οἱ λίθοι αὐτῆς,

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καὶ χῶμα χρυσίον αὐτῷ.

τρίβος, οὐκ ἔγνω αὐτὴν πετεινόν,

καὶ οὐ παρέβλεψεν αὐτὴν ὀφθαλμὸς γυπός·

καὶ οὐκ ἐπάτησαν αὐτὸν υἱοὶ ἀλαζόνων,

οὐ παρῆλθεν ἐπʼ αὐτῆς λέων.

ἐν ἀκροτόμῳ ἐξέτεινεν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ,

κατέστρεψεν δὲ ἐκ ῥιζῶν ὄρη·

δίνας δὲ ποταμῶν ἔρρηξεν,

πᾶν δὲ ἔντιμον ἴδεν μου ὁ ὀφθαλμός·

βάθη δὲ ποταμῶν ἀνεκάλυψεν,

ἔδειξεν δὲ ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν εἰς φῶς.

ἡ δὲ σοφία πόθεν εὑρέθη;

ποῖος δὲ τόπος ἐστὶν τῆς ἐπιστήμης;

οὐκ οἶδεν βροτὸς ὁδὸν αὐτῆς,

οὐδὲ μὴν εὑρέθη ἐν ἀνθρώποις.

ἄβυσσος εἶπεν Οὐκ ἔνεστιν ἐν ἐμοί·

καὶ ἡ θάλασσα εἶπεν Οὐκ ἔνεστιν μετʼ ἐμοῦ.

οὐ δώσει συνκλεισμὸν ἀντʼ αὐτῆς,

καὶ οὐ σταθήσεται αὐτῇ ἀργύριον ἀντάλλαγμα αὐτῆς·

καὶ οὐ συνβασταχθήσεται χρυσίῳ Σωφείρ ,

ἐν ὄνυχι τιμίῳ καὶ σαπφείρῳ·

οὐκ ἰσωθήσεται αὐτῇ χρυσίον καὶ ὕαλος,

καὶ τὸ ἄλλαγμα αὐτῆς σκεύη χρυσᾶ.

μετέωρα καὶ γαβεὶς οὐ μνησθήσεται,

καὶ ἕλκυσον σοφίαν ὑπέρ τὰ ἐσώτατα·

οὐκ ἰσωθήσεται αὐτῇ τοπάζιον Αἰθιοπίας,

χρυσίῳ καθαρῷ οὐ συνβασταχτήσεται.

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ἡ δὲ σοφία πόθεν εὑρέθη;

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ποῖος δὲ τόπος ἐστὶν τῆς συνέσεως;

λέληθεν πάντα ἄνθρωπον,

καὶ ἀπὸ πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐκρύβη.

ἡ ἀπώλεια καὶ ὁ θάνατος εἶπαν

Ἀκηκόαμεν δὲ αὐτῆς τὸ κλέος.

ὁ θεὸς εὖ συνέστησεν αὐτῆς τὴν ὁδόν,

αὐτὸς δὲ οἶδεν τὸν τόπον αὐτῆς.

αὐτὸς γὰρ τὴν ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν πᾶσαν ἐφορᾷ,

εἰδὼς τὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ πάντα

ἐποίησεν,

ἀνέμων σταθμόν, ὕδατος μέτρα,

ὅτε ἐποίησεν·

οὕτως ἰδὼν ἡρίθμησεν,

καὶ ὁδὸν ἐν τινάγματι φωνάς.

τότε εἶδεν αὐτὴν καὶ ἐξηγήσατο αὐτῇ,

ἑτοιμάσας ἐξιχνίασεν·

εἶπεν δὲ ἀνθρώπῳ Ἰδοὺ ἡ θεοσέβειά ἐστιν σοφία,

τὸ δὲ ἀπέχεσθαι ἀπὸ κακῶν ἐστὶν ἐπιστήμη.

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 28.3.1 focus

Ἧ γὰρ θνητὸς ἀνὴρ πολυϊδρείῃσι νόοιο

Βῆ ῥ' ἐς ὑποχθονίους τε μυχούς, δῦ δ' ἔγκατα γαίης

Σμερδαλέ', ἀχλυόεντα, φάος τ' ἐνὶ κάδθεσιν ἧκε,

Χρήματα μαστεύων, καὶ πᾶν πολύτιμον ἐραννῶν,

Ἢ χάλυβ', ἢ χαλκοῖο γονὴν, ἢ σπέρματα χρυσοῦ·

Τιμιῶτας δ' ὑπένερθε λίθους, καὶ πάντα μέταλλα

Δεινῆς ἐκ κόλποιο, καὶ ἐκ ψαμάθοιο βαθείης

(Τῶνπερ κεν φαίης σκιῇ ἐν θανάτοιο μελαίνῃ

Ἔμμεναι, ὅστις ὄρυξε· τόσον χάνεν εὐρεῖα χθών)

Ἐξάγαγε προφόωσδε, τὰ δ' ἠελίῳ ἴδεν αὐγάς.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 28 focus

Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is smelted out of the ore.

Man sets an end to darkness, And searches out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, And he overturns the mountains by the roots.

He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

He binds the streams that they don’t trickle; The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

The deep says, It isn’t in me. The sea says, It isn’t with me.

It can’t be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Gold and glass can’t equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?

Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the sky.

Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.

God understands its way, And he knows its place.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, And sees under the whole sky.

He establishes the force of the wind; Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

Then did he see it, and declare it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

To man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 28.3.1 focus

Certè enim mortalis homo prudentiâ mentis,

Intravit ſubterraneos ſpecus,penetravit .a. in viſcera terræ,¹

Horrenda, tenebricoſa, lucémq; lucémque cavernis immiſit,

Divitias inquirens, & et omne pretioſum ſcrutans,

Aut chalybem, aut æris venam, aut ſemina auri:

Pretioſos autem ſubtèr lapides, & et omnia metalla

Vaſto è ſinu, & et ex arena profunda

( Hunc certè diceres umbra in mortis nigra

Eſſe, qui fodit, adeò dehiſcit lata terra )

Eduxit in lucem; ea autem ſolis viderunt jubar.

James Duport Job 28.3

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