| ΙΩΒ | << Job: 9 >> | The Septuagint (Brenton) | |
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| 1 | Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ιωβ λέγει | Job. Jb.9.1-10.22 | Then Job answered and said, |
| 2 | Ἑπ' ἀληθείας οἶδα ὅτι οὕτως ἐστίν· πῶς γὰρ ἔσται δίκαιος βροτὸς παρὰ κυρίῳ; | I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord? | |
| 3 | ἐὰν γὰρ βούληται κριθῆναι αὐτῷ, οὐ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ αὐτῷ, ἵνα μὴ ἀντείπῃ πρὸς ἕνα λόγον αὐτοῦ ἐκ χιλίων. | For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand. | |
| 4 | σοφὸς γάρ ἐστιν διανοίᾳ, κραταιός τε καὶ μέγας· τίς σκληρὸς γενόμενος ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ὑπέμεινεν; | For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured? | |
| 5 | ὁ παλαιῶν ὄρη καὶ οὐκ οἴδασιν, ὁ καταστρέφων αὐτὰ ὀργῇ· | Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: who overturns them in anger. | |
| 6 | ὁ σείων τὴν ὑπ' οὐρανὸν ἐκ θεμελίων, οἱ δὲ στῦλοι αὐτῆς σαλεύονται· | Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter. | |
| 7 | ὁ λέγων τῷ ἡλίῳ καὶ οὐκ ἀνατέλλει, κατὰ δὲ ἄστρων κατασφραγίζει· | Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars. | |
| 8 | ὁ τανύσας τὸν οὐρανὸν μόνος, καὶ περιπατῶν ὡς ἐπ' ἐδάφους ἐπὶ θαλάσσης· | Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground. | |
| 9 | ὁ ποιῶν Πλειάδα καὶ Ἕσπερον καὶ Ἀρκτοῦρον καὶ ταμίεια νότου· | Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south. | |
| 10 | ὁ ποιῶν μεγάλα καὶ ἀνεξιχνίαστα, ἔνδοξά τε καὶ ἐξαίσια, ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός. | Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable. | |
| 11 | ἐὰν ὑπερβῇ με, οὐ μὴ ἴδω· καὶ ἐὰν παρέλθῃ με, οὐδ' ὧς ἔγνων. | If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it]. | |
| 12 | ἐὰν ἀπαλλάξῃ, τίς ἀποστρέψει; ἢ τίς ἐρεῖ αὐτῷ Τί ἐποίησας; | If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What have you done? | |
| 13 | αὐτὸς γὰρ ἀπέστραπται ὀργήν, ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἐκάμφθησαν κήτη τὰ ὑπ' οὐρανόν. | For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him. | |
| 14 | ἐὰν δέ μου ὑπακούσηται, ἦ διακρινεῖ τὰ ῥήματά μου. | Oh then that he would listen to me, or judge my cause. | |
| 15 | ἐάν τε γὰρ ὦ δίκαιος, οὐκ εἰσακούσεταί μου, τοῦ κρίματος αὐτοῦ δεηθήσομαι·507 | For though I be righteous, he will not listen to me: I will intreat his judgment. | |
| 16 | ἐάν τε καλέσω καὶ ὑπακούσῃ, οὐ πιστεύω ὅτι εἰσακήκοέν μου. | And if I should call and he should not listen, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice. | |
| 17 | μὴ γνόφῳ με ἐκτρίψῃ; πολλὰ δέ μου τὰ συντρίμματα πεποίηκεν διὰ κενῆς. | Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause. | |
| 18 | οὐκ ἐᾷ γάρ με ἀναπνεῦσαι, ἐνέπλησεν δέ με πικρίας. | For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness. | |
| 19 | ὅτι μὲν γὰρ ἰσχύι κρατεῖ· τίς οὖν κρίματι αὐτοῦ ἀντιστήσεται; | For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment? | |
| 20 | ἐὰν γὰρ ὦ δίκαιος, τὸ στόμα μου ἀσεβήσει· ἐάν τε ὦ ἄμεμπτος, σκολιὸς ἀποβήσομαι. | For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse. | |
| 21 | εἴτε γὰρ ἠσέβησα, οὐκ οἶδα τῇ ψυχῇ, πλὴν ὅτι ἀφαιρεῖταί μου ἡ ζωή. | For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: but my life is taken away. | |
| 22 | διὸ εἶπον Μέγαν καὶ δυνάστην ἀπολλύει ὀργή, | Why I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man. | |
| 23 | ὅτι φαῦλοι ἐν θανάτῳ ἐξαισίῳ, ἀλλὰ δίκαιοι καταγελῶνται· | For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn. | |
| 24 | παραδέδονται γὰρ εἰς χεῖρας ἀσεβοῦς. πρόσωπα κριτῶν αὐτῆς συγκαλύπτει· εἰ δὲ μὴ αὐτός, τίς ἐστιν; | For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it? | |
| 25 | ὁ δὲ βίος μού ἐστιν ἐλαφρότερος δρομέως· ἀπέδρασαν καὶ οὐκ εἴδοσαν. | But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not. | |
| 26 | ἦ καὶ ἔστιν ναυσὶν ἴχνος ὁδοῦ ἢ ἀετοῦ πετομένου ζητοῦντος βοράν; | Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey? | |
| 27 | ἐάν τε γὰρ εἴπω, ἐπιλήσομαι λαλῶν, συγκύψας τῷ προσώπῳ στενάξω. | And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan; | |
| 28 | σείομαι πᾶσιν τοῖς μέλεσιν, οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ ἀθῷόν με ἐάσεις. | I quake in all my limbs, for I know that you will not leave me alone [as] innocent. | |
| 29 | ἐπειδὴ δέ εἰμι ἀσεβής, διὰ τί οὐκ ἀπέθανον; | But since I am ungodly, why have I not died? | |
| 30 | ἐὰν γὰρ ἀπολούσωμαι χιόνι, καὶ ἀποκαθάρωμαι χερσὶν καθαραῖς, | For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands, | |
| 31 | ἱκανῶς ἐν ῥύπῳ με ἔβαψας, ἐβδελύξατο δέ με ἡ στολή. | you had thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me. | |
| 32 | οὐ γὰρ εἶ ἄνθρωπος κατ' ἐμέ, ᾧ ἀντικρινοῦμαι, ἵνα ἔλθωμεν ὁμοθυμαδὸν εἰς κρίσιν. | For you are not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment. | |
| 33 | εἴθε ἦν ὁ μεσίτης ἡμῶν καὶ ἐλέγχων καὶ διακούων ἀνὰ μέσον ἀμφοτέρων· | Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both. | |
| 34 | ἀπαλλαξάτω ἀπ' ἐμοῦ τὴν ῥάβδον, ὁ δὲ φόβος αὐτοῦ μή με στροβείτω, | Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me: | |
| 35 | καὶ οὐ μὴ φοβηθῶ, ἀλλὰ λαλήσω· οὐ γὰρ οὕτω συνεπίσταμαι. | so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt]. | |