| DB1 | | THE SECOND DIALOGUE. Jb.15.1-21.34. Eliphaz. Jb.15.1-35 | Lxx Contents | notes| Old Testament in Greek (Septuagint) | : | The Septuagint in English (Brenton) | |
| Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ελιφας ὁ Θαιμανίτης λέγει | THE SECOND DIALOGUE. Jb.15.1-21.34. Eliphaz. Jb.15.1-35THE SECOND DIALOGUE. Jb.15.1-21.34. Eliphaz. Jb.15.1-35 | Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said, | |
| Πότερον σοφὸς ἀπόκρισιν δώσει συνέσεως, πνεύματος καὶ ἐνέπλησεν πόνον γαστρὸς | Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly, | ||
| ἐλέγχων ἐν ῥήμασιν, οἷς οὐ δεῖ, ἐν λόγοις, οἷς οὐδὲν ὄφελος; | reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit? | ||
| οὐ καὶ σὺ ἀπεποιήσω φόβον, συνετελέσω δὲ ῥήματα τοιαῦτα ἔναντι τοῦ κυρίου; | Moreover have not you cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord? | ||
| ἔνοχος εἶ ῥήμασιν στόματός σου, οὐδὲ διέκρινας ῥήματα δυναστῶν· | You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the mighty. | ||
| ἐλέγξαι σε τὸ σὸν στόμα καὶ μὴ ἐγώ, τὰ δὲ χείλη σου καταμαρτυρήσουσίν σου. | Let your own mouth, and not me, reprove you: and your lips shall testify against you. | ||
| τί γάρ; μὴ πρῶτος ἀνθρώπων ἐγενήθης; ἢ πρὸ θινῶν ἐπάγης; | What! are you the first man that was born? or was you established before the hills? | ||
| ἦ σύνταγμα κυρίου ἀκήκοας, εἰς δὲ σὲ ἀφίκετο σοφία; | Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used you as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to you? | ||
| τί γὰρ οἶδας, ὃ οὐκ οἴδαμεν; ἢ τί συνίεις, ὃ οὐχὶ καὶ ἡμεῖς; | For what do you know, that, we do not? or what do you understand, that we do not also? | ||
| καί γε πρεσβύτης καί γε παλαιὸς ἐν ἡμῖν βαρύτερος τοῦ πατρός σου ἡμέραις. | Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father. | ||
| ὀλίγα ὧν ἡμάρτηκας μεμαστίγωσαι, μεγάλως ὑπερβαλλόντως λελάληκας. | You have been scourged for [but] few of your sins: you have spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly. | ||
| τί ἐτόλμησεν ἡ καρδία σου, ἢ τί ἐπήνεγκαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου, | What has your heart dared? or what have your eyes [aimed at], | ||
| ὅτι θυμὸν ἔρρηξας ἔναντι κυρίου, ἐξήγαγες δὲ ἐκ στόματος ῥήματα τοιαῦτα; | that you have vented [your] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [your] mouth? | ||
| τίς γὰρ ὢν βροτός, ὅτι ἔσται ἄμεμπτος, ἢ ὡς ἐσόμενος δίκαιος γεννητὸς γυναικός; | For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just? | ||
| εἰ κατὰ ἁγίων οὐ πιστεύει, οὐρανὸς δὲ οὐ καθαρὸς ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ. | Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him. | ||
| ἔα δὲ ἐβδελυγμένος καὶ ἀκάθαρτος, ἀνὴρ πίνων ἀδικίας ἴσα ποτῷ. | Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught. | ||
| ἀναγγελῶ δέ σοι, ἄκουέ μου· ἃ δὴ ἑώρακα, ἀναγγελῶ σοι, | But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen; | ||
| ἃ σοφοὶ ἐροῦσιν καὶ οὐκ ἔκρυψαν πατέρας αὐτῶν· | things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden. | ||
| αὐτοῖς μόνοις ἐδόθη ἡ γῆ, καὶ οὐκ ἐπῆλθεν ἀλλογενὴς ἐπ' αὐτούς. | To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them. | ||
| πᾶς ὁ βίος ἀσεβοῦς ἐν φροντίδι, ἔτη δὲ ἀριθμητὰ δεδομένα δυνάστῃ, | All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered. | ||
| ὁ δὲ φόβος αὐτοῦ ἐν ὠσὶν αὐτοῦ· ὅταν δοκῇ ἤδη εἰρηνεύειν, ἥξει αὐτοῦ ἡ καταστροφή. | And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come. | ||
| μὴ πιστευέτω ἀποστραφῆναι ἀπὸ σκότους· ἐντέταλται γὰρ ἤδη εἰς χεῖρας σιδήρου, | Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword. | ||
| κατατέτακται δὲ εἰς σῖτα γυψίν· οἶδεν δὲ ἐν ἑαυτῷ ὅτι μένει εἰς πτῶμα. ἡμέρα δὲ αὐτὸν σκοτεινὴ στροβήσει, | And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind. | ||
| ἀνάγκη δὲ καὶ θλῖψις αὐτὸν καθέξει ὥσπερ στρατηγὸς πρωτοστάτης πίπτων. | Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank. | ||
| ὅτι ἦρκεν χεῖρας ἐναντίον τοῦ κυρίου, ἔναντι δὲ κυρίου παντοκράτορος ἐτραχηλίασεν, | For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord. | ||
| ἔδραμεν δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ὕβρει, ἐν πάχει νώτου ἀσπίδος αὐτοῦ, | And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield. | ||
| 13ὅτι ἐκάλυψεν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐν στέατι αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐποίησεν περιστόμιον ἐπὶ τῶν μηρίων. | For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs. | ||
| αὐλισθείη δὲ πόλεις ἐρήμους, εἰσέλθοι δὲ εἰς οἴκους ἀοικήτους· ἃ δὲ ἐκεῖνοι ἡτοίμασαν, ἄλλοι ἀποίσονται. | And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away. | ||
| οὔτε μὴ πλουτισθῇ, οὔτε μὴ μείνῃ αὐτοῦ τὰ ὑπάρχοντα· οὐ μὴ βάλῃ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν σκιὰν | Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth. | ||
| οὐδὲ μὴ ἐκφύγῃ τὸ σκότος· τὸν βλαστὸν αὐτοῦ μαράναι ἄνεμος, ἐκπέσοι δὲ αὐτοῦ τὸ ἄνθος. | Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off. | ||
| μὴ πιστευέτω ὅτι ὑπομενεῖ, κενὰ γὰρ ἀποβήσεται αὐτῷ· | Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity. | ||
| ἡ τομὴ αὐτοῦ πρὸ ὥρας φθαρήσεται, καὶ ὁ ῥάδαμνος αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ πυκάσῃ· | His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish. | ||
| τρυγηθείη δὲ ὥσπερ ὄμφαξ πρὸ ὥρας, ἐκπέσοι δὲ ὡς ἄνθος ἐλαίας. | And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive. | ||
| μαρτύριον γὰρ ἀσεβοῦς θάνατος, πῦρ δὲ καύσει οἴκους δωροδεκτῶν. | For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts. | ||
| ἐν γαστρὶ δὲ λήμψεται ὀδύνας, ἀποβήσεται δὲ αὐτῷ κενά, ἡ δὲ κοιλία αὐτοῦ ὑποίσει δόλον. | And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit. | ||