James Duport Job 42.7

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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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Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 42.7.1 focus
Ὡς φάτο δακρυχέων· δινὸς δ' ἕλε Παμβασιλῆα.
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"Οἱ δ' ἐπεὶ ἐν τοιαῦτα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον,
Ὀχθήσας ὁ Θεὸς προσέφη Ἐλιφᾶ Θαιμανίτην,
( Δίῳ γὰρ νεμεσίζεθ' ) ὁμοκλήσασκέ τε μύθῳ,
Ὦ πόποι, ἦ μάλ' ἐγὼ ἅμα σοὶ καὶ σοῖς ἑτάροισι
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Μηνίω ἐκπάγλως, καί μοι χόλος ἔμπεσε θυμῷ·
Σχέτλιοι, ὡς παίδεσσιν ἐοικότες ἠγοράασθε
Νηπιάχοις, οἷς ἔστι νόος φρεσίν· οὐδὲ κατ' αἶσαν,
Ὡς θεράπων μὸς Ἴωβος, ἐμεῦ πέρι μυθήσασθε.
Ὁππότ' ἀνὴρ ἐθέλει πρὸς Δαίμονα φωτὶ μάχεσθαι,
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Ὧν τε Θεὸς τιμᾷ, τάχα οἱ μέγα πῆμα κυλίσθη.
Translations (1)
Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 42.7.1 focus
Sic fatur lacrymans: miſericordia autẽ autem cepit Omnium-Regem.
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Hi autem poſtquam talia inter ſe invicem collocuti fuerant,
Iratus Deus affatus eſt Elipham Thamaniten,
( Valdè enim indignabatur ) objurgavít q; que dicto,
Papæ ! certè admodum ego pariter tibi & tuis ſodalibus
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Succenſeo graviter, & mihi ira incidit in animum:
Improbi, adeò pueris ſimiles locuti eſtis
Infantibus, quibus non eſt mens in pectore: neque rectè,
Sicut ſervus meus Jobus, de me verba-feciſtis.
Quoties homo vult adverſùs Deum cum viro pugnare,
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Quem Deus honorat, ſtatim in eum magnum damnum devolvitur.