DB1 | Suicidal stupidity of the Egyptians. Wis.19.1-5 | KNSB Contents | notes| 19 | katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE | Passage | Old Testament in Greek (Septuagint) |
| 19 1 | But the ungodly were assailed to the end by pitiless anger, for God knew in advance even their future actions, | Suicidal stupidity of the Egyptians. Wis.19.1-5 | Τοῖς δὲ ἀσεβέσιν μέχρι τέλους ἀνελεήμων θυμὸς ἐπέστη· προῄδει γὰρ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα, |
| 2 | that, though they themselves had permitted your people to depart and hastily sent them forth, they would change their minds and pursue them. | ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἐπιτρέψαντες τοῦ ἀπιέναι καὶ μετὰ σπουδῆς προπέμψαντες αὐτοὺς, διώξουσιν μεταμεληθέντες. | |
| 3 | For while they were still busy at mourning, and were lamenting at the graves of their dead, they reached another foolish decision, and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged and compelled to depart. | ἔτι γὰρ ἐν χερσὶν ἔχοντες τὰ πένθη καὶ προσοδυρόμενοι τάφοις νεκρῶν, ἕτερον ἐπεσπάσαντο λογισμὸν ἀνοίας, καὶ οὓς ἱκετεύοντες ἐξέβαλον, τούτους ὡς φυγάδας ἐδίωκον. | |
| 4 | For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end, and made them forget what had happened, in order that they might fill up the punishment which their torments still lacked, | εἷλκεν γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἡ ἀξία ἐπὶ τοῦτο τὸ πέρας ἀνάγκη, καὶ τῶν συμβεβηκότων ἀμνηστίαν ἐνέβαλεν, ἵνα τὴν λείπουσαν ταῖς βασάνοις προσαναπληρώσωσιν κόλασιν, | |
| 5 | and that your people might experience an incredible journey, but they themselves might meet a strange death. | καὶ ὁ μὲν λαός σου παράδοξον ὁδοιπορίαν πειράσῃ, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ ξένον εὕρωσι θάνατον. | |