Job 9
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), second edition
1Then Job answered,
1ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ δὲ Ἰὼβ λέγει·
2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
2ἐπ᾿ ἀληθείας οἶδα, ὅτι οὕτως ἐστί· πῶς γὰρ ἔσται δίκαιος βροτὸς παρὰ Κυρίῳ;
3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
3ἐὰν γὰρ βούληται κριθῆναι αὐτῷ, οὐ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ αὐτῷ, ἵνα μὴ ἀντείπῃ πρὸς ἕνα λόγον αὐτοῦ ἐκ χιλίων·
4God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
4σοφὸς γάρ ἐστι διανοίᾳ, κραταιός τε καὶ μέγας. τίς σκληρὸς γενόμενος ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ὑπέμεινεν;
5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
5ὁ παλαιῶν ὄρη καὶ οὐκ οἴδασιν, ὁ καταστρέφων αὐτὰ ὀργῇ·
6He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
6ὁ σείων τὴν ὑπ᾿ οὐρανὸν ἐκ θεμελίων, οἱ δὲ στῦλοι αὐτῆς σαλεύονται·
7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
7ὁ λέγων τῷ ἡλίῳ καὶ οὐκ ἀνατέλλει, κατὰ δὲ ἄστρων κατασφραγίζει·
8He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
8ὁ τανύσας τὸν οὐρανὸν μόνος, καὶ περιπατῶν ὡς ἐπ᾿ ἐδάφους ἐπὶ θαλάσσης·
9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
9ὁ ποιῶν Πλειάδα καὶ Ἓσπερον καὶ Ἀρκτοῦρον, καὶ ταμιεῖα νότου·
10He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
10ὁ ποιῶν μεγάλα καὶ ἀνεξιχνίαστα, ἔνδοξά τε καὶ ἐξαίσια, ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός.
11Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
11ἐὰν ὑπερβῇ με, οὐ μὴ ἴδω· ἐὰν παρέλθῃ με, οὐδ᾿ ὧς ἔγνων.
12Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
12ἐὰν ἀπαλλάξῃ, τίς ἀποστρέψει ἢ τίς ἐρεῖ αὐτῷ· τί ἐποίησας;
13“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
13αὐτὸς γὰρ ἀπέστραπται ὀργήν, ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐκάμφθησαν κήτη τὰ ὑπ᾿ οὐρανόν.
14How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
14ἐὰν δέ μου ὑπακούσηται, ἦ διακρινεῖ τὰ ρήματά μου·
15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
15ἐάν τε γὰρ ὦ δίκαιος, οὐκ εἰσακούσεταί μου, τοῦ κρίματος αὐτοῦ δεηθήομαι·
16If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
16ἐάν τε καλέσω καὶ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ, οὐ πιστεύω ὅτι εἰσακήκοέ μου τῆς φωνῆς.
17For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
17μὴ γνόφῳ με ἐκτρίψῃ; πολλὰ δέ μου τὰ συντρίμματα πεποίηκε διακενῆς·
18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
18οὐκ ἐᾷ γάρ με ἀναπνεῦσαι, ἐνέπλησε δέ με πικρίας.
19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
19ὅτι μὲν γὰρ ἰσχύι κρατεῖ· τίς οὖν κρίματι αὐτοῦ ἀντιστήσεται;
20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
20ἐὰν γὰρ ὦ δίκαιος, τὸ στόμα μου ἀσεβήσει· ἐάν τε ὦ ἄμεμπτος, σκολιὸς ἀποβήσομαι.
21I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
21εἴτε γὰρ ἠσέβησα, οὐκ οἶδα τῇ ψυχῇ, πλὴν ὅτι ἀφαιρεῖταί μου ἡ ζωή.
22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
22διὸ εἶπον· μέγα καὶ δυνάστην ἀπολλύει ὀργή,
23If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
23ὅτι φαῦλοι ἐν θανάτῳ ἐξαισίῳ, ἀλλὰ δίκαιοι καταγελῶνται·
24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
24παραδέδονται γὰρ εἰς χεῖρας ἀσεβοῦς. πρόσωπα κριτῶν αὐτῆς συγκαλύπτει· εἰ δὲ μὴ αὐτός ἐστι, τίς ἐστιν;
25“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
25ὁ δὲ βίος μού ἐστιν ἐλαφρότερος δρομέως· ἀπέδρασαν καὶ οὐκ εἴδοσαν.
26They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
26ἢ καί ἐστι ναυσὶν ἴχνος ὁδοῦ ἢ ἀετοῦ πετομένου ζητοῦντος βοράν;
27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
27ἐάν τε γὰρ εἴπω, ἐπιλήσομαι λαλῶν, συγκύψας τῷ προσώπῳ στενάξω.
28I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
28σείομαι πᾶσι τοῖς μέλεσιν, οἶδα γάρ ὅτι οὐκ ἀθῶόν με ἐάσεις.
29I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
29ἐπειδὴ δέ εἰμι ἀσεβής, διατί οὐκ ἀπέθανον;
30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
30ἐὰν γὰρ ἀπολούσωμαι χιόνι καὶ ἀποκαθάρωμαι χερσὶ καθαραῖς,
31yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
31ἱκανῶς ἐν ρύπῳ με ἔβαψας, ἐβδελύξατο δέ με ἡ στολή·
32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
32οὐ γὰρ εἶ ἄνθρωπος κατ᾿ ἐμέ, ᾧ ἀντικρινοῦμαι, ἵνα ἔλθωμεν ὁμοθυμαδὸν εἰς κρίσιν.
33There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
33εἴθε ἦν ὁ μεσίτης ἡμῶν καὶ ἐλέγχων καὶ διακούων ἀνὰ μέσον ἀμφοτέρων·
34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
34ἀπαλλαξάτω ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ τὴν ράβδον, ὁ δὲ φόβος αὐτοῦ μή με στροβείτω,
35then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
35καὶ οὐ μὴ φοβηθῷ, ἀλλὰ λαλήσω· οὐ γὰρ οὕτω συνεπίσταμαι.
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