Job 30
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), second edition
1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
1ΝΥΝΙ δὲ κατεγέλασάν μου ἐλάχιστοι, νῦν νουθετοῦσί με ἐν μέρει ὧν ἐξουδένουν τοὺς πατέρας αὐτῶν, οὓς οὐχ ἡγησάμην ἀξίους κυνῶν τῶν ἐμῶν νομάδων.
2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.
2καί γε ἰσχὺς χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἱνατί μοι; ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς ἀπώλετο συντέλεια.
3They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
3ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονος· οἱ φεύγοντες ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲς συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν,
4They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.
4οἱ περικυκλοῦντες ἅλιμα ἐπὶ ἠχοῦντι, οἵτινες ἅλιμα ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ σῖτα, ἄτιμοι δὲ καὶ πεφαυλισμένοι, ἐνδεεῖς παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ, οἳ καὶ ρίζας ξύλων ἐμασσῶντο ὑπὸ λιμοῦ μεγάλου.
5They are driven forth from the midst of men; they cry after them as after a thief.
5ἐπανέστησάν μοι κλέπται,
6In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
6ὧν οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν ἦσαν τρῶγλαι πετρῶν,
7Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.
7ἀνὰ μέσον εὐήχων βοήσονται· οἳ ὑπὸ φρύγανα ἄγρια διῃτῶντο,
8They are children of churls, yea, children of ignoble men; they were scourged out of the land.
8ἀφρόνων υἱοὶ καὶ ἀτίμων, ὄνομα καὶ κλέος ἐσβεσμένον ἀπὸ γῆς.
9And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.
9νυνὶ δὲ κιθάρα ἐγώ εἰμι αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐμὲ θρύλλημα ἔχουσιν·
10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
10ἐβδελύξαντο δέ με ἀποστάντες μακρὰν ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἐφείσαντο πτύελον.
11For He hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, and they have cast off the bridle before me.
11ἀνοίξας γὰρ φαρέτραν αὐτοῦ ἐκάκωσέ με, καὶ χαλινὸν τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐξαπέστειλαν.
12Upon my right hand rise the brood; they entangle my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
12ἐπὶ δεξιῶν βλαστοῦ ἐξανέστησαν, πόδα αὐτῶν ἐξέτειναν καὶ ὡδοποίησαν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ τρίβους ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν.
13They break up my path, they further my calamity, even men that have no helper.
13ἐξετρίβησαν τρίβοι μου, ἐξέδυσαν γάρ μου τὴν στολήν· βέλεσιν αὐτοῦ κατηκόντισέ με,
14As through a wide breach they come; in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.
14κέχρηται δέ μοι ὡς βούλεται, ἐν ὀδύναις πέφυρμαι.
15Terrors are turned upon me, they chase mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
15ἐπιστρέφονταί μου αἱ ὀδύναι, ᾤχετό μου ἡ ἐλπὶς ὥσπερ πνεῦμα καὶ ὥσπερ νέφος ἡ σωτηρία μου.
16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
16καὶ νῦν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἐκχυθήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου, ἔχουσι δέ με ἡμέραι ὀδυνῶν·
17In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.
17νυκτί δέ μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συγκέχυται, τὰ δὲ νεῦρά μου διαλέλυται.
18By the great force of my disease is my garment disfigured; it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
18ἐν πολλῇ ἰσχύϊ ἐπελάβετό μου τῆς στολῆς, ὥσπερ τὸ περιστόμιον τοῦ χιτῶνός μου περιέσχε με.
19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
19ἥγησαι δέ με ἴσα πηλῷ, ἐν γῇ καὶ σποδῷ μου ἡ μερίς·
20I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not answer me; I stand up, and Thou lookest at me.
20κέκραγα δὲ πρός σε καὶ οὐκ ἀκούεις μου, ἔστησαν δὲ καὶ κατενόησάν με·
21Thou art turned to be cruel to me; with the might of Thy hand Thou hatest me.
21ἐπέβης δέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως, χειρὶ κραταιᾷ με ἐμαστίγωσας·
22Thou liftest me up to the wind, Thou causest me to ride upon it; and Thou dissolvest my substance.
22ἔταξας δέ με ἐν ὀδύναις, καὶ ἀπέρριψάς με ἀπὸ σωτηρίας.
23For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
23οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι θάνατός με ἐκτρίψει, οἰκία γὰρ παντὶ θνητῷ γῆ.
24Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, neither because of these things shall help come in one's calamity,
24εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον δυναίμην ἐμαυτὸν χειρώσασθαι, ἢ δεηθείς γε ἑτέρου, καὶ ποιήσει μοι τοῦτο.
25If I have not wept for him that was in trouble, and if my soul grieved not for the needy.
25ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ παντὶ ἀδυνάτῳ ἔκλαυσα, ἐστέναξα ἰδὼν ἄνδρα ἐν ἀνάγκαις.
26Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
26ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς, ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν.
27Mine inwards boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me.
27ἡ κοιλία μου ἐξέζεσε καὶ οὐ σιωπήσεται, προέφθασάν με ἡμέραι πτωχείας.
28I go mourning without the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
28στένων πεπόρευμαι ἄνευ φιμοῦ, ἕστηκα δὲ ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ κεκραγώς.
29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
29ἀδελφὸς γέγονα σειρήνων, ἑταῖρος δὲ στρουθῶν.
30My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
30τὸ δὲ δέρμα μου ἐσκότωται μεγάλως, τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἀπὸ καύματος.
31Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
31ἀπέβη δὲ εἰς πένθος μου ἡ κιθάρα, ὁ δὲ ψαλμός μου εἰς κλαυθμὸν ἐμοί.
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