James Duport, Job, 8.8

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[8] For inquire first about your generation, and search out both your fathers and the tribes of men born long ago. Inquire thoroughly into all things, and the race of ancient men (for we are but yesterday's creatures on the earth, tribes of men, knowing nothing).

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.) — 8 focus

Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Βαλδὰδ ὁ Σαυχείκτης λέγει

Μέχρι τίνος λαλήσεις ταῦτα;

πνεῦμα πολυρῆμον τοῦ στόματός σου.

μὴ ὁ κύριος ἀδικήσει κρίννν;

ἢ ὁ τὰ πάντα ποιήσας ταράξει τὸ δίκαωων;

εἰ οἱ υἱοί σου ἥμαρτον ἐνανπίον αὐτοῦ,

ἀπέσπειεν ἐν χειρὶ ἀνομίς αὐτῶν.

σὺ δὲ ὄρθριζε πρὸς Κύρων Παντοκράτορα δεόμενος.

εἰ καθαρὸς εἶ καὶ ἀληθινός, δεήσενς ἐπακούσεταί σου,

ἀποκαταστήσει δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνηπ·

ἔσται οὗν τὰ μέν πρῶτά σου ὀλίγα,

τὸ δὲ ἔσχατά σου ἀμύθητα.

ἐπερώτησον γὰρ γενεὰν πρώτην,

ἐξιχνίασον δὲ κατὰ γένος πατέρων·

χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν,

σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὁ βὰὡς.

ἢ οὐχ οὗτοί σε διδάξουσιν καὶ ἀναγγελονσιν,

καὶ ἐκ καρδίας ἐξάξουσιν ῥήματα ;

μὴ θάλλει πάπυρος ἄνευ ὕδατος;

ἢ ὑψανθήσεται βάύτομον ἄνευ πότου;

ἔτι ὃν ἐπὶ ῥίζης. καὶ οὐ μὴ θερωρθῆ

πρὸ τοῦ πιεῖν πᾶσα βοτάνη οὐχὶ ξηραίνεται;

οὕτως τοίνυν ἔσται τὰ ἔσχατα πάντων τῶν ἐπιλανθανομένων

τοῦ κυρὰυ·

ἐλπὶς γὰρ ἀσεβοῦς ἀπολεἰται.

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ἀοίκητος γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἔσται ὁ οἶκος,

ἀράχνη δὲ αὐτοῦ ἀποβήσεται ἡ σκηνή.

ἐὰν ὑπερείσῃ τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ, οὐ μὴ στῇ·

ἐπιλαβομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ὑπομείνῃ·

ὑγρὸς γάρ ἐστιν ὑπὸ ἡλίου,

καὶ ἐκ σαπρίας αὐτοῦ ὁ ῤάδαμνος αὐτοῦ ἐξελεύσεται.

ἐπὶ συναγωγὴν λίθων κοιμᾶται,

ἐν δὲ μέσῳ χαλίκων ζήσεται.

ἐὰν καταπίῃ, ὁ τόπος ψεύσεται αὐτόν·

οὐχ ἑόρακας τοιαῦτα.

ὅτι καταστροφὴ ἀσεβοῦς τοιαύτη,

ἐκ δὲ γῆς ἄλλον ἀναβλαστήσει

ὁ γὰρ κύριος οὐ μὴ ἀποποιήσηται τὸν ἄκακον,

πᾶν δὲ δῶρον ἀσεβοῦς οὐ δέξεται.

ἀληθινῶν δὲ στόμα ἐμπλήσει γέλωτος,

τὰ δὲ χείλη αὐτῶν ἐξομολογήσεως·

οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῶν ἐνδύσονται αἰσχύνην.

δἰαιτα δὲ ἀσεβοῦς οὐκ ἔσται

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 8.8.1 focus

Πρωτίῳ γὰρ γενεὴν διά τ' εἴρεο, ἠδὲ μετάλλα,

Καὶ πατέρας, καὶ φῦλα παλαιγενέων ἀνθρώπων·

Πάντα μάλ' ἐξερέεινε, καὶ ἀρχαίων γένος ἀνδρῶν,

Translations (2)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 8 focus

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;

If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.

If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.

Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?

Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile, He sees the place of stones.

If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.

Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 8.8.1 focus

Primævum enim ſeculum interrogâ q; que & ſciſcitare,

Et patres, & nationes priſcorum hominum

Omnes ſcrutare, & antiquorum genus viror ũ um.

James Duport Job 8.8

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