Job 29
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), second edition
1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
1ΕΤΙ δὲ προσθεὶς Ἰὼβ εἶπε τῷ προοιμίῳ·
2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
2τίς ἄν με θείη κατὰ μῆνα ἔμπροσθεν ἡμερῶν, ὧν με ὁ Θεὸς ἐφύλαξεν;
3When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
3ὡς ὅτε ηὔγει ὁ λύχνος αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς μου, ὅτε τῷ φωτὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπορευόμην ἐν σκότει·
4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
4ὅτε ἤμην ἐπιβρίθων ὁδούς, ὅτε ὁ Θεὸς ἐπισκοπὴν ἐποιεῖτο τοῦ οἴκου μου·
5When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
5ὅτε ἤμην ὑλώδης λίαν, κύκλῳ δέ μου οἱ παῖδες·
6When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
6ὅτε ἐχέοντο αἱ ὁδοί μου βουτύρῳ, τὰ δὲ ὄρη μου ἐχέοντο γάλακτι·
7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
7ὅτε ἐξεπορευόμην ὄρθιος ἐν πόλει, ἐν δὲ πλατείαις ἐτίθετό μου ὁ δίφρος.
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
8ἰδόντες με νεανίσκοι ἐκρύβησαν, πρεσβῦται δὲ πάντες ἔστησαν·
9The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
9ἁδροὶ δὲ ἐπαύσαντο λαλοῦντες, δάκτυλον ἐπιθέντες ἐπὶ στόματι.
10The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
10οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες ἐμακάρισάν με, καὶ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν τῷ λάρυγγι αὐτῶν ἐκολλήθη·
11The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
11ὅτι οὖς ἤκουσε καὶ ἐμακάρισέ με, ὀφθαλμὸς δὲ ἰδών με ἐξέκλινε·
12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
12διέσωσα γὰρ πτωχὸν ἐκ χειρὸς δυνάστου καὶ ὀρφανῷ, ᾧ οὐκ ἦν βοηθός, ἐβοήθησα.
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
13εὐλογία ἀπολλυμένου ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἔλθοι, στόμα δὲ χήρας με εὐλόγησε.
14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
14δικαιοσύνην δὲ ἐνδεδύκειν, ἠμφιασάμην δὲ κρίμα ἴσα διπλοΐδι.
15I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
15ὀφθαλμὸς ἤμην τυφλῶν, ποὺς δὲ χωλῶν.
16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
16ἐγὼ ἤμην πατὴρ ἀδυνάτων, δίκην δὲ ἣν οὐκ ᾔδειν ἐξιχνίασα·
17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
17συνέτριψα δὲ μύλας ἀδίκων, ἐκ μέσου τῶν ὀδόντων αὐτῶν ἅρπαγμα ἐξήρπασα.
18And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
18εἶπα δέ· ἡ ἡλικία μου γηράσει ὥσπερ στέλεχος φοίνικος, πολὺν χρόνον βιώσω·
19My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
19ἡ ρίζα διήνοικται ἐπὶ ὕδατος, καὶ δρόσος αὐλισθήσεται ἐν τῷ θερισμῷ μου·
20My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
20ἡ δόξα μου κενὴ μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ, καὶ τὸ τόξον μου ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ πορεύεται.
21They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
21ἐμοῦ ἀκούσαντες προσέσχον, ἐσιώπησαν δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμῇ βουλῇ·
22To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
22ἐπὶ τῷ ἐμῷ ρήματι οὐ προσέθεντο, περιχαρεῖς δὲ ἐγίνοντο ὁπόταν αὐτοῖς ἐλάλουν·
23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
23ὥσπερ γῆ διψῶσα προσδεχομένη τὸν ὑετόν, οὕτως οὗτοι τὴν ἐμὴν λαλιάν.
24If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
24ἐὰν γελάσω πρὸς αὐτούς, οὐ μὴ πιστεύσωσι, καὶ φῶς τοῦ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἀπέπιπτεν·
25If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.
25ἐξελεξάμην ὁδὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐκάθισα ἄρχων καὶ κατεσκήνουν ὡσεὶ βασιλεὺς ἐν μονοζώνοις ὃν τρόπον παθεινοὺς παρακαλῶν.
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