Job 19
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), second edition
1Then Job answered,
1ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ δὲ Ἰὼβ λέγει·
2“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
2ἕως τίνος ἔγκοπον ποιήσετε ψυχήν μου καὶ καθαιρεῖτέ με λόγοις; γνῶτε μόνον ὅτι ὁ Κύριος ἐποίησέ με οὕτως·
3You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
3καταλαλεῖτέ μου, οὐκ αἰσχυνόμενοί με ἐπίκεισθέ μοι.
4If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
4ναὶ δὴ ἐπ᾿ ἀληθείας ἐγὼ ἐπλανήθην, παρ᾿ ἐμοὶ δὲ αὐλίζεται πλάνος λαλῆσαι ρήματα, ἃ οὐκ ἔδει, τὰ δὲ ρήματά μου πλανᾶται καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ καιροῦ.
5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
5ἔα δὲ ὅτι ἐπ᾿ ἐμοὶ μεγαλύνεσθε, ἐνάλλεσθε δέ μοι ὀνείδει.
6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
6γνῶτε οὖν ὅτι Κύριός ἐστιν ὁ ταράξας, ὀχύρωμα δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ὕψωσεν.
7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
7ἰδοὺ γελῶ ὀνείδει καὶ οὐ λαλήσω· κεκράξομαι, καὶ οὐδαμοῦ κρίμα.
8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
8κύκλῳ περιῳκοδόμημαι, καὶ οὐ μὴ διαβῶ, ἐπὶ πρόσωπόν μου σκότος ἔθετο.
9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
9τὴν δὲ δόξαν ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ ἐξέδυσεν, ἀφεῖλε δὲ στέφανον ἀπὸ κεφαλῆς μου.
10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
10διέσπασέ με κύκλῳ καὶ ᾠχόμην· ἐξέκοψε δὲ ὥσπερ δένδρον τὴν ἐλπίδα μου.
11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
11δεινῶς δέ μοι ὀργῇ ἐχρήσατο, ἡγήσατο δέ με ὥσπερ ἐχθρόν.
12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
12ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἦλθον τὰ πειρατήρια αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ ἐμοί, ταῖς ὁδοῖς μου ἐκύκλωσαν ἐγκάθετοι.
13“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
13ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ ἀδελφοί μου ἀπέστησαν, ἔγνωσαν ἀλλοτρίους ἢ ἐμέ· φίλοι δέ μου ἀνελεήμονες γεγόνασιν.
14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
14οὐ προσεποιήσαντό με οἱ ἐγγύτατοί μου, καὶ οἱ εἰδότες μου τὸ ὄνομα ἐπελάθοντό μου.
15Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
15γείτονες οἰκίας θεράπαιναί τέ μου, ἀλλογενὴς ἤμην ἐναντίον αὐτῶν.
16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
16θεράποντά μου ἐκάλεσα, καὶ οὐχ ὑπήκουσε· στόμα δέ μου ἐδέετο.
17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
17καὶ ἱκέτευον τὴν γυναῖκά μου, προσεκαλούμην δὲ κολακεύων υἱοὺς παλλακίδων μου·
18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
18οἱ δὲ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνά με ἀπεποιήσαντο· ὅταν ἀναστῶ, κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ λαλοῦσιν.
19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
19ἐβδελύξαντό με οἱ ἰδόντες με· οὓς δὴ ἠγαπήκειν, ἐπανέστησάν μοι.
20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
20ἐν δέρματί μου ἐσάπησαν αἱ σάρκες μου, τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἐν ὀδοῦσιν ἔχεται.
21“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
21ἐλεήσατέ με, ἐλεήσατέ με, ὦ φίλοι, χεὶρ γὰρ Κυρίου ἡ ἁψαμένη μού ἐστι.
22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
22διατί με διώκετε ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ Κύριος; ἀπὸ δὲ σαρκῶν μου οὐκ ἐμπίπλασθε;
23“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
23τίς γὰρ ἂν δοίη γραφῆναι τὰ ρήματά μου, τεθῆναι δὲ αὐτὰ ἐν βιβλίῳ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα;
24That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
24ἐν γραφείῳ σιδηρῷ καὶ μολίβῳ ἢ ἐν πέτραις ἐγγλυφῆναι;
25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
25οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι ἀένναός ἐστιν ὁ ἐκλύειν με μέλλων ἐπὶ γῆς,
26After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
26ἀναστήσει δὲ τὸ δέρμα μου τὸ ἀναντλοῦν ταῦτα· παρὰ γὰρ Κυρίου ταῦτά μοι συνετελέσθη,
27whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
27ἃ ἐγὼ ἐμαυτῷ συνεπίσταμαι, ἃ ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἑώρακε καὶ οὐκ ἄλλος, πάντα δέ μοι συντετέλεσθαι ἐν κόλπῳ.
28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
28εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐρεῖτε· τί ἐροῦμεν ἔναντι αὐτοῦ; καὶ ρίζαν λόγου εὑρήσομεν ἐν αὐτῷ·
29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
29εὐλαβήθητε δὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀπὸ ἐπικαλύμματος, θυμὸς γὰρ ἐπ᾿ ἀνόμους ἐπελεύσεται, καὶ τότε γνώσονται ποῦ ἐστιν αὐτῶν ἡ ὕλη.
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