Job 13
1 Lo, my eye hath seen all [this], my ear hath heard and understood it.
ἰδοὺ ταῦτα ἑώρακέν μου ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς καὶ ἀκήκοέν μου τὸ οὖς
2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior to you.
καὶ οἶδα ὅσα καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐπίστασθε καὶ οὐκ ἀσυνετώτερός εἰμι ὑμῶν
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ πρὸς κύριον λαλήσω ἐλέγξω δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ἐὰν βούληται
4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.
ὑμεῖς δέ ἐστε ἰατροὶ ἄδικοι καὶ ἰαταὶ κακῶν πάντες
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom.
εἴη δὲ ὑμῖν κωφεῦσαι καὶ ἀποβήσεται ὑμῖν εἰς σοφίαν
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
ἀκούσατε ἔλεγχον στόματός μου κρίσιν δὲ χειλέων μου προσέχετε
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
πότερον οὐκ ἔναντι κυρίου λαλεῖτε ἔναντι δὲ αὐτοῦ φθέγγεσθε δόλον
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
ἦ ὑποστελεῖσθε ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτοὶ κριταὶ γένεσθε
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
καλόν γε ἐὰν ἐξιχνιάσῃ ὑμᾶς εἰ γὰρ τὰ πάντα ποιοῦντες προστεθήσεσθε αὐτῷ
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
οὐθὲν ἧττον ἐλέγξει ὑμᾶς εἰ δὲ καὶ κρυφῇ πρόσωπα θαυμάσετε
11 Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
πότερον οὐχὶ δεινὰ αὐτοῦ στροβήσει ὑμᾶς φόβος δὲ παρ’ αὐτοῦ ἐπιπεσεῖται ὑμῖν
12 Your remembrances [are] like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
ἀποβήσεται δὲ ὑμῶν τὸ ἀγαυρίαμα ἴσα σποδῷ τὸ δὲ σῶμα πήλινον
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
κωφεύσατε ἵνα λαλήσω καὶ ἀναπαύσωμαι θυμοῦ
14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
ἀναλαβὼν τὰς σάρκας μου τοῖς ὀδοῦσιν ψυχὴν δέ μου θήσω ἐν χειρί
15 Though he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.
ἐάν με χειρώσηται ὁ δυνάστης ἐπεὶ καὶ ἦρκται ἦ μὴν λαλήσω καὶ ἐλέγξω ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ
16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
καὶ τοῦτό μοι ἀποβήσεται εἰς σωτηρίαν οὐ γὰρ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ δόλος εἰσελεύσεται
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
ἀκούσατε ἀκούσατε τὰ ῥήματά μου ἀναγγελῶ γὰρ ὑμῶν ἀκουόντων
18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐγγύς εἰμι τοῦ κρίματός μου οἶδα ἐγὼ ὅτι δίκαιος ἀναφανοῦμαι
19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire.
τίς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κριθησόμενός μοι ὅτι νῦν κωφεύσω καὶ ἐκλείψω
20 Only do not two [things] to me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
δυεῖν δέ μοι χρήσῃ τότε ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου σου οὐ κρυβήσομαι
21 Withdraw thy hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
τὴν χεῖρα ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ἀπέχου καὶ ὁ φόβος σου μή με καταπλησσέτω
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
εἶτα καλέσεις ἐγὼ δέ σοι ὑπακούσομαι ἢ λαλήσεις ἐγὼ δέ σοι δώσω ἀνταπόκρισιν
23 How many [are] my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
πόσαι εἰσὶν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι μου καὶ αἱ ἀνομίαι μου δίδαξόν με τίνες εἰσίν
24 Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?
διὰ τί ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ κρύπτῃ ἥγησαι δέ με ὑπεναντίον σοι
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
ἦ ὡς φύλλον κινούμενον ὑπὸ ἀνέμου εὐλαβηθήσῃ ἢ ὡς χόρτῳ φερομένῳ ὑπὸ πνεύματος ἀντίκεισαί μοι
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
ὅτι κατέγραψας κατ’ ἐμοῦ κακά περιέθηκας δέ μοι νεότητος ἁμαρτίας
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
ἔθου δέ μου τὸν πόδα ἐν κωλύματι ἐφύλαξας δέ μου πάντα τὰ ἔργα εἰς δὲ ῥίζας τῶν ποδῶν μου ἀφίκου
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
ὃ παλαιοῦται ἴσα ἀσκῷ ἢ ὥσπερ ἱμάτιον σητόβρωτον
