Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ελιφας ὁ Θαιμανίτης λέγει
2 May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?
πότερον οὐχὶ ὁ κύριός ἐστιν ὁ διδάσκων σύνεσιν καὶ ἐπιστήμην
3 Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?
τί γὰρ μέλει τῷ κυρίῳ ἐὰν σὺ ἦσθα τοῖς ἔργοις ἄμεμπτος ἢ ὠφέλεια ὅτι ἁπλώσῃς τὴν ὁδόν σου
4 Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
ἦ λόγον σου ποιούμενος ἐλέγξει σε καὶ συνεισελεύσεταί σοι εἰς κρίσιν
5 Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
πότερον οὐχ ἡ κακία σού ἐστιν πολλή ἀναρίθμητοι δέ σού εἰσιν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι
6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
ἠνεχύραζες δὲ τοὺς ἀδελφούς σου διὰ κενῆς ἀμφίασιν δὲ γυμνῶν ἀφείλου
7 To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
οὐδὲ ὕδωρ διψῶντας ἐπότισας ἀλλὰ πεινώντων ἐστέρησας ψωμόν
8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.
ἐθαύμασας δέ τινων πρόσωπον ᾤκισας δὲ τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
9 Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
χήρας δὲ ἐξαπέστειλας κενάς ὀρφανοὺς δὲ ἐκάκωσας
10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:
τοιγαροῦν ἐκύκλωσάν σε παγίδες καὶ ἐσπούδασέν σε πόλεμος ἐξαίσιος
11 Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.
τὸ φῶς σοι σκότος ἀπέβη κοιμηθέντα δὲ ὕδωρ σε ἐκάλυψεν
12 Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
μὴ οὐχὶ ὁ τὰ ὑψηλὰ ναίων ἐφορᾷ τοὺς δὲ ὕβρει φερομένους ἐταπείνωσεν
13 But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
καὶ εἶπας τί ἔγνω ὁ ἰσχυρός ἦ κατὰ τοῦ γνόφου κρινεῖ
14 The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
νέφη ἀποκρυφὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐχ ὁραθήσεται καὶ γῦρον οὐρανοῦ διαπορεύσεται
15 Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?
μὴ τρίβον αἰώνιον φυλάξεις ἣν ἐπάτησαν ἄνδρες ἄδικοι
16 Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:
οἳ συνελήμφθησαν ἄωροι ποταμὸς ἐπιρρέων οἱ θεμέλιοι αὐτῶν
17 Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.
οἱ λέγοντες κύριος τί ποιήσει ἡμῖν ἢ τί ἐπάξεται ἡμῖν ὁ παντοκράτωρ
18 Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.
ὃς δὲ ἐνέπλησεν τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν ἀγαθῶν βουλὴ δὲ ἀσεβῶν πόρρω ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ
19 The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.
ἰδόντες δίκαιοι ἐγέλασαν ἄμεμπτος δὲ ἐμυκτήρισεν
20 Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.
εἰ μὴ ἠφανίσθη ἡ ὑπόστασις αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ κατάλειμμα αὐτῶν καταφάγεται πῦρ
21 Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.
γενοῦ δὴ σκληρός ἐὰν ὑπομείνῃς εἶτ’ ὁ καρπός σου ἔσται ἐν ἀγαθοῖς
22 Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
ἔκλαβε δὲ ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐξηγορίαν καὶ ἀνάλαβε τὰ ῥήματα αὐτοῦ ἐν καρδίᾳ σου
23 If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
ἐὰν δὲ ἐπιστραφῇς καὶ ταπεινώσῃς σεαυτὸν ἔναντι κυρίου πόρρω ἐποίησας ἀπὸ διαίτης σου τὸ ἄδικον
24 Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.
θήσῃ ἐπὶ χώματι ἐν πέτρᾳ καὶ ὡς πέτρᾳ χειμάρρους Ωφιρ
25 Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
ἔσται οὖν σου ὁ παντοκράτωρ βοηθὸς ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν καθαρὸν δὲ ἀποδώσει σε ὥσπερ ἀργύριον πεπυρωμένον
26 And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.
εἶτα παρρησιασθήσῃ ἔναντι κυρίου ἀναβλέψας εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἱλαρῶς
27 Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.
εὐξαμένου δέ σου πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰσακούσεταί σου δώσει δέ σοι ἀποδοῦναι τὰς εὐχάς
28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.
ἀποκαταστήσει δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνης ἐπὶ δὲ ὁδοῖς σου ἔσται φέγγος
29 When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
ὅτι ἐταπείνωσεν αὐτόν καὶ ἐρεῖς ὑπερηφανεύσατο καὶ κύφοντα ὀφθαλμοῖς σώσει
30 The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.
ῥύσεται ἀθῷον καὶ διασώθητι ἐν καθαραῖς χερσίν σου
