| ΙΩΒ | << Job: 14 >> | The Septuagint (Brenton) | |
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| 1 | βροτὸς γὰρ γεννητὸς γυναικὸς ὀλιγόβιος καὶ πλήρης ὀργῆς | For a mortal born of a woman [is] short lived, and full of wrath. | |
| 2 | ἢ ὥσπερ ἄνθος ἀνθῆσαν ἐξέπεσεν, ἀπέδρα δὲ ὥσπερ σκιὰ καὶ οὐ μὴ στῇ. | Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue. | |
| 3 | οὐχὶ καὶ τούτου λόγον ἐποιήσω, καὶ τοῦτον ἐποίησας εἰσελθεῖν ἐν κρίματι ἐνώπιόν σου; | Have you not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before you? | |
| 4 | τίς γὰρ καθαρὸς ἔσται ἀπὸ ῥύπου; ἀλλ' οὐθείς. | For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one; | |
| 5 | ἐὰν καὶ μία ἡμέρα ὁ βίος αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἀριθμητοὶ δὲ μῆνες αὐτοῦ παρὰ σοί, εἰς χρόνον ἔθου, καὶ οὐ μὴ ὑπερβῇ. | if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: you have appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by no means exceed [it]. | |
| 6 | ἀπόστα ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, ἵνα ἡσυχάσῃ καὶ εὐδοκήσῃ τὸν βίον ὥσπερ ὁ μισθωτός. | Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, [though] as a hireling. | |
| 7 | ἔστιν γὰρ δένδρῳ ἐλπίς· ἐὰν γὰρ ἐκκοπῇ, ἔτι ἐπανθήσει, καὶ ὁ ῥάδαμνος αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ἐκλίπῃ· | For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, [that] it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail. | |
| 8 | ἐὰν γὰρ γηράσῃ ἐν γῇ ἡ ῥίζα αὐτοῦ, ἐν δὲ πέτρᾳ τελευτήσῃ τὸ στέλεχος αὐτοῦ, | For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock; | |
| 9 | ἀπὸ ὀσμῆς ὕδατος ἀνθήσει, ποιήσει δὲ θερισμὸν ὥσπερ νεόφυτον. | it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted. | |
| 10 | ἀνὴρ δὲ τελευτήσας ᾤχετο, πεσὼν δὲ βροτὸς οὐκέτι ἔστιν. | But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more. | |
| 11 | χρόνῳ γὰρ σπανίζεται θάλασσα, ποταμὸς δὲ ἐρημωθεὶς ἐξηράνθη· | For the sea wastes in [length of] time, and a river fails and is dried up. | |
| 12 | ἄνθρωπος δὲ κοιμηθεὶς οὐ μὴ ἀναστῇ, ἕως ἂν ὁ οὐρανὸς οὐ μὴ συρραφῇ· | And man that has lain down [in death] shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep. | |
| 13 | εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον ἐν ᾅδῃ με ἐφύλαξας, ἔκρυψας δέ με, ἕως ἂν παύσηταί σου ἡ ὀργὴ, καὶ τάξῃ μοι χρόνον, ἐν ᾧ μνείαν μου ποιήσῃ. | For oh that you had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until your wrath should cease, and you should set me a time in which you would remember me! | |
| 14 | ἐὰν γὰρ ἀποθάνῃ ἄνθρωπος, ζήσεται συντελέσας ἡμέρας τοῦ βίου αὐτοῦ· ὑπομενῶ, ἕως ἂν πάλιν γένωμαι. | For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again? | |
| 15 | εἶτα καλέσεις, ἐγὼ δέ σοι ὑπακούσομαι, τὰ δὲ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σου μὴ ἀποποιοῦ. | Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: but do not you reject the work of your hands. | |
| 16 | ἠρίθμησας δέ μου τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα, καὶ οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ σε οὐδὲν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν μου· | But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you? | |
| 17 | ἐσφράγισας δέ μου τὰς ἀνομίας ἐν βαλλαντίῳ, ἐπεσημήνω δέ, εἴ τι ἄκων παρέβην. | An you have sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares. | |
| 18 | καὶ πλὴν ὄρος πῖπτον διαπεσεῖται, καὶ πέτρα παλαιωθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτῆς· | And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place. | |
| 19 | λίθους ἐλέαναν ὕδατα, καὶ κατέκλυσεν ὕδατα ὕπτια τοῦ χώματος τῆς γῆς· καὶ ὑπομονὴν ἀνθρώπου ἀπώλεσας. | The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a heap of the earth: and you destroy the hope of man. | |
| 20 | ὦσας αὐτὸν εἰς τέλος, καὶ ᾤχετο· ἐπέστησας αὐτῷ τὸ πρόσωπον καὶ ἐξαπέστειλας· | You drive him to an end, and he is gone: you set your face against him, and send him away; | |
| 21 | πολλῶν δὲ γενομένων τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ οὐκ οἶδεν, ἐὰν δὲ ὀλίγοι γένωνται, οὐκ ἐπίσταται· | and though his children be multiplied, he knows [it] not; and if they be few, he is not aware. | |
| 22 | ἀλλ' ἢ αἱ σάρκες αὐτοῦ ἤλγησαν, ἡ δὲ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ἐπένθησεν. | But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns. | |