| DB1 | | Job's complaint to the LORD. Jb.3.1-26 | Lxx Contents | notes| Old Testament in Greek (Septuagint) | : | The Septuagint in English (Brenton) | |
| Μετὰ τοῦτο ἤνοιξεν Ιωβ τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ | Job's complaint to the LORD. Jb.3.1-26Job's complaint to the LORD. Jb.3.1-26 | After this Job opened his mouth, | |
| καὶ κατηράσατο τὴν ἡμέραν αὐτοῦ λέγων | and cursed his day saying, | ||
| Ἀπόλοιτο ἡ ἡμέρα, ἐν ᾗ ἐγεννήθην, καὶ ἡ νύξ, ἐν ᾗ εἶπαν Ἰδοὺ ἄρσεν. | Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child! | ||
| ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνη εἴη σκότος, καὶ μὴ ἀναζητήσαι αὐτὴν ὁ κύριος ἄνωθεν, μηδὲ ἔλθοι εἰς αὐτὴν φέγγος· | Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it. | ||
| ἐκλάβοι δὲ αὐτὴν σκότος καὶ σκιὰ θανάτου, ἐπέλθοι ἐπ' αὐτὴν γνόφος. | But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it; | ||
| καταραθείη ἡ ἡμέρα καὶ ἡ νὺξ ἐκείνη, ἀπενέγκαιτο αὐτὴν σκότος· μὴ εἴη εἰς ἡμέρας ἐνιαυτοῦ, μηδὲ ἀριθμηθείη εἰς ἡμέρας μηνῶν· | let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months. | ||
| ἀλλὰ ἡ νὺξ ἐκείνη εἴη ὀδύνη, καὶ μὴ ἔλθοι ἐπ' αὐτὴν εὐφροσύνη μηδὲ χαρμονή· | But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy. | ||
| ἀλλὰ καταράσαιτο αὐτὴν ὁ καταρώμενος τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην, ὁ μέλλων τὸ μέγα κῆτος χειρώσασθαι. | But let him that curses that day curse it, [even] he that is ready to attack the great whale. | ||
| σκοτωθείη τὰ ἄστρα τῆς νυκτὸς ἐκείνης· ὑπομείναι καὶ εἰς φωτισμὸν μὴ ἔλθοι, καὶ μὴ ἴδοι ἑωσφόρον ἀνατέλλοντα, | Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain [dark], and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise: | ||
| ὅτι οὐ συνέκλεισεν πύλας γαστρὸς μητρός μου· ἀπήλλαξεν γὰρ ἂν πόνον ἀπὸ ὀφθαλμῶν μου. | because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for [so] it would have removed sorrow from my eyes. | ||
| διὰ τί γὰρ ἐν κοιλίᾳ οὐκ ἐτελεύτησα; ἐκ γαστρὸς δὲ ἐξῆλθον καὶ οὐκ εὐθὺς ἀπωλόμην; | For why died I not in the belly? and [why] did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately? | ||
| ἵνα τί δὲ συνήντησάν μοι γόνατα; ἵνα τί δὲ μαστοὺς ἐθήλασα; | and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts? | ||
| νῦν ἂν κοιμηθεὶς ἡσύχασα, ὑπνώσας δὲ ἀνεπαυσάμην | Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest, | ||
| μετὰ βασιλέων βουλευτῶν γῆς, οἳ ἠγαυριῶντο ἐπὶ ξίφεσιν, | with kings [and] councillors of the earth, who gloried in [their] swords; | ||
| ἢ μετὰ ἀρχόντων, ὧν πολὺς ὁ χρυσός, οἳ ἔπλησαν τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν ἀργυρίου, | or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver: | ||
| ἢ ὥσπερ ἔκτρωμα ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ μήτρας μητρὸς, ἢ ὥσπερ νήπιοι, οἳ οὐκ εἶδον φῶς. | or [I should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light. | ||
| ἐκεῖ ἀσεβεῖς ἐξέκαυσαν θυμὸν ὀργῆς, ἐκεῖ ἀνεπαύσαντο κατάκοποι τῷ σώματι· | There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest. | ||
| ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ οἱ αἰώνιοι οὐκ ἤκουσαν φωνὴν φορολόγου· | And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice. | ||
| μικρὸς καὶ μέγας ἐκεῖ ἐστιν, καὶ θεράπων οὐ δεδοικὼς τὸν κύριον αὐτοῦ. | The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord. | ||
| ἵνα τί γὰρ δέδοται τοῖς ἐν πικρίᾳ Φῶς, ζωὴ δὲ ταῖς ἐν ὀδύναις ψυχαῖς; | For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs? | ||
| οἳ ὁμείρονται τοῦ θανάτου καὶ οὐ τυγχάνουσιν, ἀνορύσσοντες ὥσπερ θησαυρούς, | who desire death, and obtain it not, digging [for it] as [for] treasures; | ||
| περιχαρεῖς δὲ ἐγένοντο, ἐὰν κατατύχωσιν. | and would be very joyful if they should gain it? | ||
| θάνατος ἀνδρὶ ἀνάπαυμα, συνέκλεισεν γὰρ ὁ θεὸς κατ' αὐτοῦ· | Death [is] rest to [such] a man, for God has hedged him in. | ||
| πρὸ γὰρ τῶν σίτων μου στεναγμός μοι ἥκει, δακρύω δὲ ἐγὼ συνεχόμενος φόβῳ· | For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror. | ||
| φόβος γάρ, ὃν ἐφρόντισα, ἦλθέν μοι, καὶ ὃν ἐδεδοίκειν, συνήντησέν μοι. | For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me. | ||
| οὔτε εἰρήνευσα οὔτε ἡσύχασα οὔτε ἀνεπαυσάμην, ἦλθεν δέ μοι ὀργή. | I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me. | ||