| ΙΩΒ | << Job: 40 >> | The Septuagint (Brenton) | |
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| 1 | Ἔτι δὲ ὑπολαβὼν ὁ κύριος εἶπεν τῷ Ιωβ ἐκ τοῦ νέφους | The LORD. Jb.40.6-41.34 | And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying], |
| 2 | Μή, ἀλλὰ ζῶσαι ὥσπερ ἀνὴρ τὴν ὀσφύν σου, ἐρωτήσω δέ σε, σὺ δέ μοι ἀποκρίθητι· | Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and you shall answer me. | |
| 3 | μὴ ἀποποιοῦ μου τὸ κρίμα. οἴει δέ με ἄλλως σοι κεχρηματικέναι ἢ ἵνα ἀναφανῇς δίκαιος; | Do not set aside my judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous? | |
| 4 | ἦ βραχίων σοί ἐστιν κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου, ἢ φωνῇ κατ' αὐτὸν βροντᾷς; | Have you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his? | |
| 5 | ἀνάλαβε δὴ ὕψος καὶ δύναμιν, δόξαν δὲ καὶ τιμὴν ἀμφίεσαι· | Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honour. | |
| 6 | ἀπόστειλον δὲ ἀγγέλους ὀργῇ, πᾶν δὲ ὑβριστὴν ταπείνωσον, | And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one. | |
| 7 | ὑπερήφανον δὲ σβέσον, σῆψον δὲ ἀσεβεῖς παραχρῆμα, | Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly. | |
| 8 | κρύψον δὲ εἰς γῆν ἔξω ὁμοθυμαδόν, τὰ δὲ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ἀτιμίας ἔμπλησον· | And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame. | |
| 9 | ὁμολογήσω ἄρα ὅτι δύναται ἡ δεξιά σου σῶσαι. - | [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you]. | |
| 10 | ἀλλὰ δὴ ἰδοὺ θηρία παρὰ σοί, χόρτον ἴσα βουσὶν ἐσθίει. | But now look at the wild beasts with you; they eat grass like oxen. | |
| 11 | ἰδοὺ δὴ ἰσχὺς αὐτοῦ ἐπ' ὀσφύι, ἡ δὲ δύναμις ἐπ' ὀμφαλοῦ γαστρός· | Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. | |
| 12 | ἔστησεν οὐρὰν ὡς κυπάρισσον, τὰ δὲ νεῦρα αὐτοῦ συμπέπλεκται· | He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together. | |
| 13 | αἱ πλευραὶ αὐτοῦ πλευραὶ χάλκειαι, ἡ δὲ ῥάχις αὐτοῦ σίδηρος χυτός. | His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron. | |
| 14 | τοῦτ' ἔστιν ἀρχὴ πλάσματος κυρίου, πεποιημένον ἐγκαταπαίζεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ. | This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels. | |
| 15 | ἐπελθὼν δὲ ἐπ' ὄρος ἀκρότομον ἐποίησεν χαρμονὴν τετράποσιν ἐν τῷ ταρτάρῳ· | And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. | |
| 16 | ὑπὸ παντοδαπὰ δένδρα κοιμᾶται, παρὰ πάπυρον καὶ κάλαμον καὶ βούτομον· | He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush. | |
| 17 | σκιάζονται δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ δένδρα μεγάλα σὺν ῥαδάμνοις καὶ κλῶνες ἄγνου. | And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field. | |
| 18 | ἐὰν γένηται πλήμμυρα, οὐ μὴ αἰσθηθῇ, πέποιθεν ὅτι προσκρούσει ὁ Ιορδάνης εἰς τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ. | If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth. | |
| 19 | ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ αὐτοῦ δέξεται αὐτόν, ἐνσκολιευόμενος τρήσει ῥῖνα; - | [Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose. | |
| 20 | ἄξεις δὲ δράκοντα ἐν ἀγκίστρῳ, περιθήσεις δὲ φορβεὰν περὶ ῥῖνα αὐτοῦ; | But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose? | |
| 21 | εἰ δήσεις κρίκον ἐν τῷ μυκτῆρι αὐτοῦ, ψελίῳ δὲ τρυπήσεις τὸ χεῖλος αὐτοῦ; | Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp? | |
| 22 | λαλήσει δέ σοι δεήσει, ἱκετηρίᾳ μαλακῶς; | Will he address you with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant? | |
| 23 | θήσεται δὲ διαθήκην μετὰ σοῦ, λήμψῃ δὲ αὐτὸν δοῦλον αἰώνιον; | And will he make a covenant with you? and will you take him for a perpetual servant? | |
| 24 | παίξῃ δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ ὥσπερ ὀρνέῳ ἢ δήσεις αὐτὸν ὥσπερ στρουθίον παιδίῳ; | And will you play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child? | |
| 25 | ἐνσιτοῦνται δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔθνη, μεριτεύονται δὲ αὐτὸν Φοινίκων γένη; | And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him? | |
| 26 | πᾶν δὲ πλωτὸν συνελθὸν οὐ μὴ ἐνέγκωσιν βύρσαν μίαν οὐ ρᾶς αὐτοῦ; καὶ ἐν πλοίοις ἁλιέων κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ. | And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither [shall they carry] his head in fishing-vessels. | |
| 27 | ἐπιθήσεις δὲ αὐτῷ χεῖρα μνησθεὶς πόλεμον τὸν γινόμενον ἐν σώματι αὐτοῦ, καὶ μηκέτι γινέσθω. | But you shall lay your hand upon him [once], remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more. | |