Job 30
1 Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.
νυνὶ δὲ κατεγέλασάν μου ἐλάχιστοι νῦν νουθετοῦσίν με ἐν μέρει ὧν ἐξουδένουν πατέρας αὐτῶν οὓς οὐχ ἡγησάμην εἶναι ἀξίους κυνῶν τῶν ἐμῶν νομάδων
2 For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them?
καί γε ἰσχὺς χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἵνα τί μοι ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς ἀπώλετο συντέλεια
3 For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.
ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονος οἱ φεύγοντες ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲς συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν
4 They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.
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 were chased forth from among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe.
ἐπανέστησάν μοι κλέπται
6 Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.
ὧν οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν ἦσαν τρῶγλαι πετρῶν
7 They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.
ἀνὰ μέσον εὐήχων βοήσονται οἳ ὑπὸ φρύγανα ἄγρια διῃτῶντο
8 They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.
ἀφρόνων υἱοὶ καὶ ἀτίμων ὄνομα καὶ κλέος ἐσβεσμένον ἀπὸ γῆς
9 And now am I their song, and I am their talke.
νυνὶ δὲ κιθάρα ἐγώ εἰμι αὐτῶν καὶ ἐμὲ θρύλημα ἔχουσιν
10 They abhorre me, and flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.
ἐβδελύξαντο δέ με ἀποστάντες μακράν ἀπὸ δὲ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἐφείσαντο πτύελον
11 Because that God hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they haue loosed the bridle before me.
ἀνοίξας γὰρ φαρέτραν αὐτοῦ ἐκάκωσέν με καὶ χαλινὸν τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐξαπέστειλαν
12 The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.
ἐπὶ δεξιῶν βλαστοῦ ἐπανέστησαν πόδα αὐτῶν ἐξέτειναν καὶ ὡδοποίησαν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ τρίβους ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν
13 They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.
ἐξετρίβησαν τρίβοι μου ἐξέδυσεν γάρ μου τὴν στολήν
14 They came as a great breach of waters, and vnder this calamitie they come on heapes.
βέλεσιν αὐτοῦ κατηκόντισέν με κέχρηταί μοι ὡς βούλεται ἐν ὀδύναις πέφυρμαι
15 Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.
ἐπιστρέφονται δέ μου αἱ ὀδύναι ᾤχετό μου ἡ ἐλπὶς ὥσπερ πνεῦμα καὶ ὥσπερ νέφος ἡ σωτηρία μου
16 Therefore my soule is nowe powred out vpon me, and the dayes of affliction haue taken holde on me.
καὶ νῦν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἐκχυθήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου ἔχουσιν δέ με ἡμέραι ὀδυνῶν
17 It pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest.
νυκτὶ δέ μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συγκέκαυται τὰ δὲ νεῦρά μου διαλέλυται
18 For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.
ἐν πολλῇ ἰσχύι ἐπελάβετό μου τῆς στολῆς ὥσπερ τὸ περιστόμιον τοῦ χιτῶνός μου περιέσχεν με
19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.
ἥγησαι δέ με ἴσα πηλῷ ἐν γῇ καὶ σποδῷ μου ἡ μερίς
20 Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.
κέκραγα δὲ πρὸς σὲ καὶ οὐκ εἰσακούεις μου ἔστησαν καὶ κατενόησάν με
21 Thou turnest thy selfe cruelly against me, and art enemie vnto mee with the strength of thine hand.
ἐπέβης δέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως χειρὶ κραταιᾷ με ἐμαστίγωσας
22 Thou takest me vp and causest mee to ride vpon the winde, and makest my strength to faile.
ἔταξας δέ με ἐν ὀδύναις καὶ ἀπέρριψάς με ἀπὸ σωτηρίας
23 Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι θάνατός με ἐκτρίψει οἰκία γὰρ παντὶ θνητῷ γῆ
24 Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.
εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον δυναίμην ἐμαυτὸν χειρώσασθαι ἢ δεηθείς γε ἑτέρου καὶ ποιήσει μοι τοῦτο
25 Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ παντὶ ἀδυνάτῳ ἔκλαυσα ἐστέναξα δὲ ἰδὼν ἄνδρα ἐν ἀνάγκαις
26 Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν
27 My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.
ἡ κοιλία μου ἐξέζεσεν καὶ οὐ σιωπήσεται προέφθασάν με ἡμέραι πτωχείας
28 I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.
στένων πεπόρευμαι ἄνευ φιμοῦ ἕστηκα δὲ ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ κεκραγώς
29 I am a brother to the dragons, and a companion to the ostriches.
ἀδελφὸς γέγονα σειρήνων ἑταῖρος δὲ στρουθῶν
30 My skinne is blacke vpon me, and my bones are burnt with heate.
τὸ δὲ δέρμα μου ἐσκότωται μεγάλως τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἀπὸ καύματος
31 Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.
ἀπέβη δὲ εἰς πάθος μου ἡ κιθάρα ὁ δὲ ψαλμός μου εἰς κλαυθμὸν ἐμοί
