James Duport, Job, 35.13

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[13] For neither does the heavenly Father, being kindly disposed, fix his mind on vain words, and on empty grief; Nor did the Immortal ever hear the voice of an empty-minded man, when he regarded a man who might babble windy things.

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.) — 35 focus

Ὑκπολαβὰν δὲ Ἐλιοῦς λέγει

Τί τοῦτο ἡγήσω ἐν κρίσεις

σύ τἰς εἶ ὅτι εἶπας Δίκαιός εἰμι ἔναντι Κυρίου

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ἐγὼ σοὶ δώσω ἀπόκρισιν καὶ τοῖς τρισὶν φίλοις σου.

ἀνάβλεψον εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἵδε,

κατάμαθε δὲ νέφη ὡς ὑψηλὰ ἀπὸ σοῦ.

εἰ ἥμαρτες, τί πράξεις

εἰ δὲ καὶ πολλὰ ἠνόμησας, τί δύνασαι ποιῆσαι;

ἐπεὶ δὲ οὖν δίκαιος εἶ, τί δώσεις αὐτῷ,

ἢ τί ἐκ χειρός σου λήμψεταις

ἀνδρὶ τῷ ὁμοίῳ σου ἡ ἀσέβειά σου,

καὶ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου ἡ δικαιοσύνη σου.

ἀπὸ πλήθους συκοφαντούμενοι κεκράξονται,

βοήσονται ἀπὸ βραχίονος πολλῶν.

καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν Ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας με,

ὁ κατατάσσαων φυλακὰς υυκτερινάς,

ὁ διορίζων με ἀπὸ τετραπόδων γῆς, ἀπὸ δὲ πετεινῶν

οὐρανοῦ;

ἐκεῖ κεκράξονται, καὶ οὐ μὴ εἰσακούσῃ,

καὶ ἀπὸ ὕβρεως πονηρῶν.

ἄτοπα γὰρ οὐ βούλεται ὁ κύριος ἰδεῖναὐτὸς

γὰρ ὁ παντοκράτωρ ὄρατής ἐστιν

τῶν συντελούντων

τὰ ἄνομα, καὶ σώσει με.

κρίθητι δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ, εἰ δύνασαι αἰνέσαι αὐτὸν ὡς ἔστιν.

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καὶ νῦν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπισκεπτόμενος ὄργὴν αὐτοῦ¶

καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω παράπτωμά τι

καὶ Ἰὼβ ματαίως ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ,

ἐν ἀγνωσίᾳ ῥήματα βαρύνει.

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 35.13.1 focus

Οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐράνιος προφρονέων ἐὸν ὄαρ ἐρείδει

Μαψιδίοις ἐπέεσσι Πατήρ, ματίῃ τ’ ἀλεγεινῇ·

Οὐδέ ποτ’ Ἀθάνατος κενεόφρονος ἔκλυεν αὐδῆς,

Ἀνέρος ὅτ’ ἀλέγιζεν, ὅς τις τ’ ἀνεμώλια βάζοι.

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 35 focus

Moreover Elihu answered,

Do you think this to be your right, Or do you say, My righteousness is more than God’s.

That you ask, What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

I will answer you, And your companions with you.

Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; And your righteousness may profit a son of man.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

But none says, Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?

There they cry, but none gives answer, Because of the pride of evil men.

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, Neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, And he multiplies words without knowledge.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 35.13.1 focus

Ne q; que enim cœleſtis lubens ſuam aurem accommodat

Inanibus verbis Pater, vanitati q; que miſerandæ;

Nec unquam Immortalis vana-cogitantis audiit vocem,

Virum ne q; que reſpexit, qui inania loquitur.

James Duport Job 35.13

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