James Duport, Job, 33.6

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[6] As you said that I wished, and that had long been your desire. Would that the Lord himself might enter the contest of words, and that he might deign to bring it before you, and I in God's stead— And do not be afraid of me, since we are one kindred, he who made the others, this one fashioned me well too. For I too was made a work kneaded in dust, as other mortals are upon the earth eating bread, and my body is molded out of clay.

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.) — 33 focus

οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ ἄκουσον, Ἰὼβ, τὰ ῥήματά μου.

καὶ λαλιὰν ἐνωτίζου μου·

ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἤνοξα τὸ στόμα μου,

καὶ ἐλάλησεν ἡ γλῶσσά μου.

καθαρά μου ἡ καρδία ῥήμασιν,

σύνεσις δέ χειλέων μου καθαρὰ νοήσει.

πνεῦμα θεῖον τὸ ποιῆσάν με,

πνοὴ δὲ αντοκράτορος ἡ διδάσκουσά με.

ἐὸ δός μοι ἀπόκρισιν πρὸς ταῦτα·

ὑπόμεινον, στῆθι κατʼ ἐμέ καὶ ἐγὼ κατὰ σέ.

ἐκ πηλοῦ διήρτισαι σὺ ὡς καὶ ἐγώ·

ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ διηρτίσμεθα.

οὐχ ὁ φόβος μού σε στροβήσει,

οὐδὲ ἡ χείρ μου βαρεῖα ἔσται ἐπὶ σοί.

χλὴν εἶπας ἐν ὠσίν μου,

φωνὴν ῥημάτων ἀκήκοα

διότι λέγεις Καθαρός εἰμι, οὐχ ἁμαρτών·

¹²

ἄμεμπτός εἰμι, οὐ γὰρ ἠνόμησα.

μέμψιν δὲ κατʼ ἐμοῦ εὖρεν,

ἥγηται δέ με ὥσπερ ὑπεναντίον·

ἔθετο δὲ ἐν ξύλῳ τὸν πόδα μου.

ἐφύλαξεν δέ μου πάσας τὰς ὁδούς.

πῶς γὰρ λέγεις Δίκαιός εἰμι, καὶ οὐκ ἐπακήκοέν μου

αἰώνιος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ἐπάνω βροτῶν.

λέγεις δέ Διὰ τί τῆς δίκης μου οὐκ ἐπακήκοέν μου πᾶν ῥῆμα

ἐν γὰρ τῷ ἅπαξ λαλήσαι ὁ κύριος.

ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ·

ἐνύπνιον, ἤ ἐν μελέτῃ νυκτερινῇ.

ὡς ὅταν ἐπιπίπτῃ δεινὸς φόβος ἐπʼ ἀνθρώπους, ἐπὶ νυσταγμάτων

ἐπὶ κοίτης·

τότε ἀνακαλύπτει νοῦν ἀνθρώπων,

ἐν εἴδεσιν φόβου τοιούτοις αὐτοὺς ἐξεφόβησεν.

ἀποστρέψαι ἄνθρωπον ἀπὸ ἀδικίας·

τὸ δὲ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ πτώματος ἐρρύσατο.

ἐφείσατο δὲ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ θανάτου,

καὶ μὴ πεσεῖν αὐτὸν ἐν πολεμῇ.

πάλιν δὲ ἤλεγξεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ μαλακίᾳ ἐπὶ κοίτης.

καὶ πλῆθος ὀστῶν αὐτοῦ ἐνάρκησεν·

πᾶν δὲ βρωτὸν σίτου οὐ μὴ δύνηται προσδέξασθαι,

καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ βρῶσιν ἐπιθυμήσει·

ἕως ἂν σαπῶσιν αὐτοῦ αἱ σάρκες, καὶ ἀποδείξῃ τὰ ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ

κενά.

ἤγγισεν δὲ εἰς θάνατον ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ,

ἥδε ἡ ςωὴ αὐταῦ ν ᾅδῃ·

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ἐὰν ὢσιν χίλιοι ἄγγελοι θανατηφόροι, εἶς αὐτῶν οὐ μὴ τρώσῃ

αὐτόν.

ἐὰν νοήσῃ τῇ καρδίᾳ ἐπιστραφῆναι πρὸς Κύριρν,

ἀναγγείλῃ δὲ ἀνθρώπῳ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ μέμψιν,

τὴν δὲ ἄνοιαν αὐτοῦ δείξῃ,

ἀνθέξεται τοῦ μὴ πεσεῖν εἰς θάνατον·

ἀνανεώσει δὲ αὐτοῦ τὸ σῶμα ὥσπερ ἀλοιφὴν ἐπὶ τοίχου,

τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ ἐμπλήσει μυελοῦ·

ἁπαλυνεῖ δὲ αὐτοῦ τὰς σάρκας ὥσπερ νηπίου,

ἀποκαταστήσει δὲ αὐτὸν ἀνδρωθέντα ἐν ἀνθρώποις.

εὐξάμενος δὲ πρὸς Κύριον, καὶ δεκτὰ αὐτῷ ἔσται,

εἰσελεύσεται δὲ προσώπῳ ἱλαρῷ σὺν ἐξηγορίᾳ·

ἀποδώσει δὲ ἀνθρώποις δικαιοσύνην.

εἶτα τότε ἀπομέμψεται ἄνθρωπος αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ λέγων Οἶα

συνετέλουν;

καὶ οὐκ ἄξια ἤτασέν με ὧν ἥμαρτον.

σῶσον ψυχὴν μου τοῦ μὴ ἐλθεῖν εἰς διαφθοράν,

καὶ ἡ ζωή μου φῶς ὄψεται.

ἰδοὺ ταῦτα πάντα ἐργᾶται ὁ ἰσχυρὸς

ὁδοὺς τρεῖς μετὰ ἀνδρός·

ἀλλ’ ἐρὔσατο τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐκ θανάτου,

ἵνα ἡ ζωή μου ἐν φωτὶ αἰνῇ αὐτόν.

ἐνωτίζου, Ἰὼβ, καὶ ἄκουέ μου·

κώφευσον, καὶ ἐγώ εἰμι λαλήσω.

⁷⁸

λάλησον, θέλω γὰρ δικαιωθῆναί σε.

⁹

εἰ μή, σὺ ἄκουσόν μου·

κώφευσον, καὶ διδάξω σε.

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 33.6.1 focus

Ὡς ἐθέλειν μ' ἔφης, τὸ δέ σοι πάλαι ἦεν ἐέλδωρ.

Εἴθ' ὄφελ' αὐτὸς Ἄναξ ἐπέων ὑποδύμεν' ἀγῶνα,

Σοί τ' ἔειδε προφέρεσθ' ἰδὲ ἐγὼ ἀντὶ Θεοῖο·

Μηδ' ἔμ' ὑποδδείσης, ἐπειὴ μία τ' ἄμμι γενέθλη,

Ὅς τ' ἄλλους ποίησεν, ὅδ' εὖ τεχνήσατο καὶ μέ.

Καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ κονίῃσι πεφυρμένον ἔργον ἐτύχθην,

Ὡς ἄλλοι βροτοί εἰσιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ σῖτον ἔδοντες,

Καί τέ μοι ἐκ πηλοῖο δέμας πεπλασμένον ἐστί.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 33 focus

However, Job, Please hear my speech, And listen to all my words.

See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.

My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart; That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are: I am also formed out of the clay.

Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.

Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:

He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.

Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just; For God is greater than man.

Why do you strive against him, Because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

For God speaks once, Yes twice, though man pays no attention.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;

Then he opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction,

That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, With continual strife in his bones;

So that his life abhors bread, And his soul dainty food.

His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen; His bones that were not seen stick out.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

If there is beside him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show to man what is right for him;

Then God is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; He returns to the days of his youth.

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, So that he sees his face with joy: He restores to man his righteousness.

He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it didn’t profit me.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, My life shall see the light.

Behold, God works all these things, Twice, yes three times, with a man,

To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Mark well, Job, and listen to me: Hold your peace, and I will speak.

If you have anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify you.

If not, listen to me: Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 33.6.1 focus

Sic velle te dix'ti, hoc autem tibi dudum erat deſiderium;¹

Utinam ipſe Dominus verborum ſubiret certamen,

Tibí q; que litem intentaret: ecce ego vice Dei:

Ne q; que (verò) me metuas, quandoquidem una nobis origo eſt,

Quí q; que alios fecit, is bene fabricavit & me.

Etenim & ego pulvere maceratum opus ſum,

Sicut alii mortales ſunt in terra pane veſcentes,

Etiam & mihi ex luto corpus fictum eſt,

James Duport Job 33.6

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