Job. James Duport. . .
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I used to hear of you in time past, and I listened with the ears of report; but now my eye has seen you face to face.
Know that you are noble and divine;
awe holds me as I look upon you.
Current edition Experimental
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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Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 42.5.1 focus
Πυνθανόμην τὸ πάρος γε, καὶ ἔκλυον ὄασι φήμης,
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Νῦν δέ σέ γ' ἀντικρὺ καὶ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὄπωπα.
"Οἶδ' ἀρετὴν δῖός ἐσσι· σέβας μ' ἔχει εἰσορόωντα.
Translations (1)
Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 42.5.1 focus
Audivi antea,
&
et percepi auribus famam,
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Jam verò te coràm
&
et in oculis vidi.
Novi virtute qualis ſis: veneratio me tenet aſpicientem.