Job 30
1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
νυνὶ δὲ κατεγέλασάν μου ἐλάχιστοι νῦν νουθετοῦσίν με ἐν μέρει ὧν ἐξουδένουν πατέρας αὐτῶν οὓς οὐχ ἡγησάμην εἶναι ἀξίους κυνῶν τῶν ἐμῶν νομάδων
2 Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
καί γε ἰσχὺς χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἵνα τί μοι ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς ἀπώλετο συντέλεια
3 They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονος οἱ φεύγοντες ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲς συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν
4 They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
οἱ περικλῶντες ἅλιμα ἐπὶ ἠχοῦντι οἵτινες ἅλιμα ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ σῖτα ἄτιμοι δὲ καὶ πεφαυλισμένοι ἐνδεεῖς παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ οἳ καὶ ῥίζας ξύλων ἐμασῶντο ὑπὸ λιμοῦ μεγάλου
5 They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry after them as after a thief;
ἐπανέστησάν μοι κλέπται
6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
ὧν οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν ἦσαν τρῶγλαι πετρῶν
7 Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.
ἀνὰ μέσον εὐήχων βοήσονται οἳ ὑπὸ φρύγανα ἄγρια διῃτῶντο
8 [They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.
ἀφρόνων υἱοὶ καὶ ἀτίμων ὄνομα καὶ κλέος ἐσβεσμένον ἀπὸ γῆς
9 And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.
νυνὶ δὲ κιθάρα ἐγώ εἰμι αὐτῶν καὶ ἐμὲ θρύλημα ἔχουσιν
10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face.
ἐβδελύξαντο δέ με ἀποστάντες μακράν ἀπὸ δὲ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἐφείσαντο πτύελον
11 For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.
ἀνοίξας γὰρ φαρέτραν αὐτοῦ ἐκάκωσέν με καὶ χαλινὸν τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐξαπέστειλαν
12 Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
ἐπὶ δεξιῶν βλαστοῦ ἐπανέστησαν πόδα αὐτῶν ἐξέτειναν καὶ ὡδοποίησαν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ τρίβους ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν
13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.
ἐξετρίβησαν τρίβοι μου ἐξέδυσεν γάρ μου τὴν στολήν
14 As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].
βέλεσιν αὐτοῦ κατηκόντισέν με κέχρηταί μοι ὡς βούλεται ἐν ὀδύναις πέφυρμαι
15 Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
ἐπιστρέφονται δέ μου αἱ ὀδύναι ᾤχετό μου ἡ ἐλπὶς ὥσπερ πνεῦμα καὶ ὥσπερ νέφος ἡ σωτηρία μου
16 And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
καὶ νῦν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἐκχυθήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου ἔχουσιν δέ με ἡμέραι ὀδυνῶν
17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
νυκτὶ δέ μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συγκέκαυται τὰ δὲ νεῦρά μου διαλέλυται
18 By [God’s] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
ἐν πολλῇ ἰσχύι ἐπελάβετό μου τῆς στολῆς ὥσπερ τὸ περιστόμιον τοῦ χιτῶνός μου περιέσχεν με
19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
ἥγησαι δέ με ἴσα πηλῷ ἐν γῇ καὶ σποδῷ μου ἡ μερίς
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou gazest at me.
κέκραγα δὲ πρὸς σὲ καὶ οὐκ εἰσακούεις μου ἔστησαν καὶ κατενόησάν με
21 Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me.
ἐπέβης δέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως χειρὶ κραταιᾷ με ἐμαστίγωσας
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.
ἔταξας δέ με ἐν ὀδύναις καὶ ἀπέρριψάς με ἀπὸ σωτηρίας
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι θάνατός με ἐκτρίψει οἰκία γὰρ παντὶ θνητῷ γῆ
24 Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον δυναίμην ἐμαυτὸν χειρώσασθαι ἢ δεηθείς γε ἑτέρου καὶ ποιήσει μοι τοῦτο
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ παντὶ ἀδυνάτῳ ἔκλαυσα ἐστέναξα δὲ ἰδὼν ἄνδρα ἐν ἀνάγκαις
26 When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν
27 My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.
ἡ κοιλία μου ἐξέζεσεν καὶ οὐ σιωπήσεται προέφθασάν με ἡμέραι πτωχείας
28 I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
στένων πεπόρευμαι ἄνευ φιμοῦ ἕστηκα δὲ ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ κεκραγώς
29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
ἀδελφὸς γέγονα σειρήνων ἑταῖρος δὲ στρουθῶν
30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
τὸ δὲ δέρμα μου ἐσκότωται μεγάλως τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἀπὸ καύματος
31 Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
ἀπέβη δὲ εἰς πάθος μου ἡ κιθάρα ὁ δὲ ψαλμός μου εἰς κλαυθμὸν ἐμοί
