Job 13
1 Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
ἰδοὺ ταῦτα ἑώρακέν μου ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς καὶ ἀκήκοέν μου τὸ οὖς
2 I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.
καὶ οἶδα ὅσα καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐπίστασθε καὶ οὐκ ἀσυνετώτερός εἰμι ὑμῶν
3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ πρὸς κύριον λαλήσω ἐλέγξω δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ἐὰν βούληται
4 For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
ὑμεῖς δέ ἐστε ἰατροὶ ἄδικοι καὶ ἰαταὶ κακῶν πάντες
5 Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
εἴη δὲ ὑμῖν κωφεῦσαι καὶ ἀποβήσεται ὑμῖν εἰς σοφίαν
6 Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.
ἀκούσατε ἔλεγχον στόματός μου κρίσιν δὲ χειλέων μου προσέχετε
7 Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
πότερον οὐκ ἔναντι κυρίου λαλεῖτε ἔναντι δὲ αὐτοῦ φθέγγεσθε δόλον
8 Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?
ἦ ὑποστελεῖσθε ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτοὶ κριταὶ γένεσθε
9 Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
καλόν γε ἐὰν ἐξιχνιάσῃ ὑμᾶς εἰ γὰρ τὰ πάντα ποιοῦντες προστεθήσεσθε αὐτῷ
10 He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.
οὐθὲν ἧττον ἐλέγξει ὑμᾶς εἰ δὲ καὶ κρυφῇ πρόσωπα θαυμάσετε
11 Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
πότερον οὐχὶ δεινὰ αὐτοῦ στροβήσει ὑμᾶς φόβος δὲ παρ’ αὐτοῦ ἐπιπεσεῖται ὑμῖν
12 Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
ἀποβήσεται δὲ ὑμῶν τὸ ἀγαυρίαμα ἴσα σποδῷ τὸ δὲ σῶμα πήλινον
13 Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
κωφεύσατε ἵνα λαλήσω καὶ ἀναπαύσωμαι θυμοῦ
14 Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?
ἀναλαβὼν τὰς σάρκας μου τοῖς ὀδοῦσιν ψυχὴν δέ μου θήσω ἐν χειρί
15 Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
ἐάν με χειρώσηται ὁ δυνάστης ἐπεὶ καὶ ἦρκται ἦ μὴν λαλήσω καὶ ἐλέγξω ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ
16 He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
καὶ τοῦτό μοι ἀποβήσεται εἰς σωτηρίαν οὐ γὰρ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ δόλος εἰσελεύσεται
17 Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.
ἀκούσατε ἀκούσατε τὰ ῥήματά μου ἀναγγελῶ γὰρ ὑμῶν ἀκουόντων
18 Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.
ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐγγύς εἰμι τοῦ κρίματός μου οἶδα ἐγὼ ὅτι δίκαιος ἀναφανοῦμαι
19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
τίς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κριθησόμενός μοι ὅτι νῦν κωφεύσω καὶ ἐκλείψω
20 But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
δυεῖν δέ μοι χρήσῃ τότε ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου σου οὐ κρυβήσομαι
21 Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
τὴν χεῖρα ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ἀπέχου καὶ ὁ φόβος σου μή με καταπλησσέτω
22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
εἶτα καλέσεις ἐγὼ δέ σοι ὑπακούσομαι ἢ λαλήσεις ἐγὼ δέ σοι δώσω ἀνταπόκρισιν
23 Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
πόσαι εἰσὶν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι μου καὶ αἱ ἀνομίαι μου δίδαξόν με τίνες εἰσίν
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
διὰ τί ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ κρύπτῃ ἥγησαι δέ με ὑπεναντίον σοι
25 Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie 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 possesse the iniquities of my youth.
ὅτι κατέγραψας κατ’ ἐμοῦ κακά περιέθηκας δέ μοι νεότητος ἁμαρτίας
27 Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.
ἔθου δέ μου τὸν πόδα ἐν κωλύματι ἐφύλαξας δέ μου πάντα τὰ ἔργα εἰς δὲ ῥίζας τῶν ποδῶν μου ἀφίκου
28 Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
ὃ παλαιοῦται ἴσα ἀσκῷ ἢ ὥσπερ ἱμάτιον σητόβρωτον
