Job 29
1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
ἔτι δὲ προσθεὶς Ιωβ εἶπεν τῷ προοιμίῳ
2 Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
τίς ἄν με θείη κατὰ μῆνα ἔμπροσθεν ἡμερῶν ὧν με ὁ θεὸς ἐφύλαξεν
3 When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
ὡς ὅτε ηὔγει ὁ λύχνος αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς μου ὅτε τῷ φωτὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπορευόμην ἐν σκότει
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
ὅτε ἤμην ἐπιβρίθων ὁδοῖς ὅτε ὁ θεὸς ἐπισκοπὴν ἐποιεῖτο τοῦ οἴκου μου
5 When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
ὅτε ἤμην ὑλώδης λίαν κύκλῳ δέ μου οἱ παῖδες
6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
ὅτε ἐχέοντό μου αἱ ὁδοὶ βουτύρῳ τὰ δὲ ὄρη μου ἐχέοντο γάλακτι
7 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
ὅτε ἐξεπορευόμην ὄρθριος ἐν πόλει ἐν δὲ πλατείαις ἐτίθετό μου ὁ δίφρος
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
ἰδόντες με νεανίσκοι ἐκρύβησαν πρεσβῦται δὲ πάντες ἔστησαν
9 The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
ἁδροὶ δὲ ἐπαύσαντο λαλοῦντες δάκτυλον ἐπιθέντες ἐπὶ στόματι
10 The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες ἐμακάρισάν με καὶ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν τῷ λάρυγγι αὐτῶν ἐκολλήθη
11 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
ὅτι οὖς ἤκουσεν καὶ ἐμακάρισέν με ὀφθαλμὸς δὲ ἰδών με ἐξέκλινεν
12 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
διέσωσα γὰρ πτωχὸν ἐκ χειρὸς δυνάστου καὶ ὀρφανῷ ᾧ οὐκ ἦν βοηθός ἐβοήθησα
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
εὐλογία ἀπολλυμένου ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἔλθοι στόμα δὲ χήρας με εὐλόγησεν
14 I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
δικαιοσύνην δὲ ἐνεδεδύκειν ἠμφιασάμην δὲ κρίμα ἴσα διπλοΐδι
15 I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
ὀφθαλμὸς ἤμην τυφλῶν ποὺς δὲ χωλῶν
16 I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
ἐγὼ ἤμην πατὴρ ἀδυνάτων δίκην δέ ἣν οὐκ ᾔδειν ἐξιχνίασα
17 I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
συνέτριψα δὲ μύλας ἀδίκων ἐκ δὲ μέσου τῶν ὀδόντων αὐτῶν ἅρπαγμα ἐξέσπασα
18 And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
εἶπα δέ ἡ ἡλικία μου γηράσει ὥσπερ στέλεχος φοίνικος πολὺν χρόνον βιώσω
19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
ἡ ῥίζα μου διήνοικται ἐπὶ ὕδατος καὶ δρόσος αὐλισθήσεται ἐν τῷ θερισμῷ μου
20 My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
ἡ δόξα μου καινὴ μετ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ τὸ τόξον μου ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ πορεύσεται
21 They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
ἐμοῦ ἀκούσαντες προσέσχον ἐσιώπησαν δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμῇ βουλῇ
22 To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ ἐμῷ ῥήματι οὐ προσέθεντο περιχαρεῖς δὲ ἐγίνοντο ὁπόταν αὐτοῖς ἐλάλουν
23 They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
ὥσπερ γῆ διψῶσα προσδεχομένη τὸν ὑετόν οὕτως οὗτοι τὴν ἐμὴν λαλιάν
24 If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
ἐὰν γελάσω πρὸς αὐτούς οὐ μὴ πιστεύσωσιν καὶ φῶς τοῦ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἀπέπιπτεν
25 If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.
ἐξελεξάμην ὁδὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐκάθισα ἄρχων καὶ κατεσκήνουν ὡσεὶ βασιλεὺς ἐν μονοζώνοις ὃν τρόπον παθεινοὺς παρακαλῶν
