| ΙΩΒ | << Job: 16 >> | The Septuagint (Brenton) | |
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| 1 | Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ιωβ λέγει | Job. Jb.16.1-17.16 | But Job answered and said, |
| 2 | Ἀκήκοα τοιαῦτα πολλά· παρακλήτορες κακῶν πάντες. | I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you all. | |
| 3 | τί γάρ; μὴ τάξις ἐστὶν ῥήμασιν πνεύματος; ἢ τί παρενοχλήσει σοι, ὅτι ἀποκρίνῃ; | What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering? | |
| 4 | κἀγὼ καθ' ὑμᾶς λαλήσω, εἰ ὑπέκειτό γε ἡ ψυχὴ ὑμῶν ἀντὶ τῆς ἐμῆς· | I also will speak as you [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead, | |
| 5 | εἶτ ἐναλοῦμαι ὑμῖν ῥήμασιν, κινήσω δὲ καθ' ὑμῶν κεφαλήν· | then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you. | |
| 6 | εἴη δὲ ἰσχὺς ἐν τῷ στόματί μου, κίνησιν δὲ χειλέων οὐ φείσομαι. | And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips. | |
| 7 | ἐὰν γὰρ λαλήσω, οὐκ ἀλγήσω τὸ τραῦμα· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ σιωπήσω, τί ἔλαττον τρωθήσομαι; | For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less? | |
| 8 | νῦν δὲ κατάκοπόν με πεποίηκεν, μωρόν, σεσηπότα, | But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and you have laid hold of me. | |
| 9 | καὶ ἐπελάβου μου, εἰς μαρτύριον ἐγενήθη· καὶ ἀνέστη ἐν ἐμοὶ τὸ ψεῦδός μου, κατὰ πρόσωπόν μου ἀνταπεκρίθη. | My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face. | |
| 10 | ὀργῇ χρησάμενος κατέβαλέν με, ἔβρυξεν ἐπ' ἐμὲ τοὺς ὀδόντας, βέλη πειρατῶν αὐτοῦ ἐπ' ἐμοὶ ἔπεσεν. | In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me. | |
| 11 | ἀκίσιν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐνήλατο, ὀξεῖ ἔπαισέν με εἰς σιαγόνα, ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ κατέδραμον ἐπ' ἐμοί. | He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has smitten me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord. | |
| 12 | παρέδωκεν γάρ με ὁ κύριος εἰς χεῖρας ἀδίκου, ἐπὶ δὲ ἀσεβέσιν ἔρριψέν με· | For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly. | |
| 13 | εἰρηνεύοντα διεσκέδασέν με, λαβών με τῆς κόμης διέτιλεν, κατέστησέν με ὥσπερ σκοπόν. | When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark. | |
| 14 | ἐκύκλωσάν με λόγχαις βάλλοντες εἰς νεφρούς μου οὐ φειδόμενοι, ἐξέχεαν εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν χολήν μου· | They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground. | |
| 15 | κατέβαλόν με πτῶμα ἐπὶ πτώματι, ἔδραμον πρός με δυνάμενοι. | They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might. | |
| 16 | σάκκον ἔρραψα ἐπὶ βύρσης μου, τὸ δὲ σθένος μου ἐν γῇ ἐσβέσθη. | They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground. | |
| 17 | ἡ γαστήρ μου συγκέκαυται ἀπὸ κλαυθμοῦ, ἐπὶ δὲ βλεφάροις μου σκιά. | My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids. | |
| 18 | ἄδικον δὲ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐν χερσίν μου, εὐχὴ δέ μου καθαρά. | Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure. | |
| 19 | γῆ, μὴ ἐπικαλύψῃς ἐφ' αἵματι τῆς σαρκός μου, μηδὲ εἴη τόπος τῇ κραυγῇ μου. | Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place. | |
| 20 | καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ὁ μάρτυς μου, ὁ δὲ συνίστωρ μου ἐν ὑψίστοις. | And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. | |
| 21 | ἀφίκοιτό μου ἡ δέησις πρὸς Κύριον, ἔναντι δὲ αὐτοῦ στάζοι μου ὁ ὀφθαλμός. | Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him. | |
| 22 | εἴη δὲ ἔλεγχος ἀνδρὶ ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ. | Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbor! | |
| 23 | ἔτη δὲ ἀριθμητὰ ἥκασιν, ὁδῷ δέ, ᾗ οὐκ ἐπαναστραφήσομαι, πορεύσομαι. | But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return. | |