Job 8
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), second edition
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
1ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ δὲ Βαλδὰδ ὁ Σαυχίτης λέγει·
2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
2μέχρι τίνος λαλήσεις ταῦτα, πνεῦμα πολυρρῆμον τοῦ στόματός σου;
3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
3μὴ ὁ Κύριος ἀδικήσει κρίνων ἢ ὁ τὰ πάντα ποιήσας ταράξει τὸ δίκαιον;
4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
4εἰ οἱ υἱοί σου ἥμαρτον ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ, ἀπέστειλεν ἐν χειρὶ ἀνομίας αὐτῶν.
5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
5σὺ δὲ ὄρθριζε πρὸς Κύριον παντοκράτορα δεόμενος.
6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
6εἰ καθαρὸς εἶ καὶ ἀληθινός, δεήσεως ἐπακούσεταί σου, ἀποκαταστήσει δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνης·
7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
7ἔσται οὖν τὰ μὲν πρῶτά σου ὀλίγα, τὰ δὲ ἔσχατά σου ἀμύθητα.
8“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
8ἐπερώτησον γὰρ γενεὰν πρώτην, ἐξιχνίασον δὲ κατὰ γένος πατέρων·
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
9χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν, σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὁ βίος.
10Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
10ἦ οὐχ οὗτοί σε διδάξουσι καὶ ἀναγγελοῦσι καὶ ἐκ καρδίας ἐξάξουσι ρήματα;
11“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
11μὴ θάλλει πάπυρος ἄνευ ὕδατος ἢ ὑψωθήσεται βούτομον ἄνευ πότου;
12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
12ἔτι ὂν ἐπὶ ρίζης καὶ οὐ μὴ θερισθῇ, πρὸ τοῦ πιεῖν πᾶσα βοτάνη οὐχὶ ξηραίνεται;
13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
13οὕτως τοίνυν ἔσται τὰ ἔσχατα πάντων τῶν ἐπιλανθανομένων τοῦ Κυρίου· ἐλπὶς γὰρ ἀσεβοῦς ἀπολεῖται.
14whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
14ἀοίκητος γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἔσται ὁ οἶκος, ἀράχνη δὲ αὐτοῦ ἀποβήσεται ἡ σκηνή.
15He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
15ἐὰν ὑπερείσῃ τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ, οὐ μὴ στῇ· ἐπιλαβομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ, οὐ μὴ ὑπομείνῃ·
16He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
16ὑγρὸς γάρ ἐστιν ὑπὸ ἡλίου, καὶ ἐκ σαπρίας αὐτοῦ ὁ ράδαμνος αὐτοῦ ἐξελεύσεται.
17His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
17ἐπὶ συναγωγὴν λίθων κοιμᾶται, ἐν δὲ μέσῳ χαλίκων ζήσεται.
18If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
18ἐὰν καταπίῃ, ὁ τόπος ψεύσεται αὐτόν· οὐχ ἑώρακας τοιαῦτα,
19Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
19ὅτι καταστροφὴ ἀσεβοῦς τοιαύτη, ἐκ δὲ γῆς ἄλλον ἀναβλαστήσει.
20“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
20ὁ γὰρ Κύριος οὐ μὴ ἀποποιήσεται τὸν ἄκακον, πᾶν δὲ δῶρον ἀσεβοῦς οὐ δέξεται.
21He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
21ἀληθινῶν δὲ στόμα ἐμπλήσει γέλωτος, τὰ δὲ χείλη αὐτῶν ἐξομολογήσεως·
22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
22οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῶν ἐνδύσονται αἰσχύνην, δίαιτα δὲ ἀσεβοῦς οὐκ ἔσται.
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