Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ελιφας ὁ Θαιμανίτης λέγει
2 “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
πότερον οὐχὶ ὁ κύριός ἐστιν ὁ διδάσκων σύνεσιν καὶ ἐπιστήμην
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
τί γὰρ μέλει τῷ κυρίῳ ἐὰν σὺ ἦσθα τοῖς ἔργοις ἄμεμπτος ἢ ὠφέλεια ὅτι ἁπλώσῃς τὴν ὁδόν σου
4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgement?
ἦ λόγον σου ποιούμενος ἐλέγξει σε καὶ συνεισελεύσεταί σοι εἰς κρίσιν
5 Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
πότερον οὐχ ἡ κακία σού ἐστιν πολλή ἀναρίθμητοι δέ σού εἰσιν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι
6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
ἠνεχύραζες δὲ τοὺς ἀδελφούς σου διὰ κενῆς ἀμφίασιν δὲ γυμνῶν ἀφείλου
7 You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
οὐδὲ ὕδωρ διψῶντας ἐπότισας ἀλλὰ πεινώντων ἐστέρησας ψωμόν
8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honourable man, he lived in it.
ἐθαύμασας δέ τινων πρόσωπον ᾤκισας δὲ τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
χήρας δὲ ἐξαπέστειλας κενάς ὀρφανοὺς δὲ ἐκάκωσας
10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
τοιγαροῦν ἐκύκλωσάν σε παγίδες καὶ ἐσπούδασέν σε πόλεμος ἐξαίσιος
11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
τὸ φῶς σοι σκότος ἀπέβη κοιμηθέντα δὲ ὕδωρ σε ἐκάλυψεν
12 “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
μὴ οὐχὶ ὁ τὰ ὑψηλὰ ναίων ἐφορᾷ τοὺς δὲ ὕβρει φερομένους ἐταπείνωσεν
13 You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
καὶ εἶπας τί ἔγνω ὁ ἰσχυρός ἦ κατὰ τοῦ γνόφου κρινεῖ
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
νέφη ἀποκρυφὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐχ ὁραθήσεται καὶ γῦρον οὐρανοῦ διαπορεύσεται
15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
μὴ τρίβον αἰώνιον φυλάξεις ἣν ἐπάτησαν ἄνδρες ἄδικοι
16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
οἳ συνελήμφθησαν ἄωροι ποταμὸς ἐπιρρέων οἱ θεμέλιοι αὐτῶν
17 who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
οἱ λέγοντες κύριος τί ποιήσει ἡμῖν ἢ τί ἐπάξεται ἡμῖν ὁ παντοκράτωρ
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
ὃς δὲ ἐνέπλησεν τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν ἀγαθῶν βουλὴ δὲ ἀσεβῶν πόρρω ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ
19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
ἰδόντες δίκαιοι ἐγέλασαν ἄμεμπτος δὲ ἐμυκτήρισεν
20 saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
εἰ μὴ ἠφανίσθη ἡ ὑπόστασις αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ κατάλειμμα αὐτῶν καταφάγεται πῦρ
21 “Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
γενοῦ δὴ σκληρός ἐὰν ὑπομείνῃς εἶτ’ ὁ καρπός σου ἔσται ἐν ἀγαθοῖς
22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
ἔκλαβε δὲ ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐξηγορίαν καὶ ἀνάλαβε τὰ ῥήματα αὐτοῦ ἐν καρδίᾳ σου
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
ἐὰν δὲ ἐπιστραφῇς καὶ ταπεινώσῃς σεαυτὸν ἔναντι κυρίου πόρρω ἐποίησας ἀπὸ διαίτης σου τὸ ἄδικον
24 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir amongst the stones of the brooks.
θήσῃ ἐπὶ χώματι ἐν πέτρᾳ καὶ ὡς πέτρᾳ χειμάρρους Ωφιρ
25 The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
ἔσται οὖν σου ὁ παντοκράτωρ βοηθὸς ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν καθαρὸν δὲ ἀποδώσει σε ὥσπερ ἀργύριον πεπυρωμένον
26 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
εἶτα παρρησιασθήσῃ ἔναντι κυρίου ἀναβλέψας εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἱλαρῶς
27 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
εὐξαμένου δέ σου πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰσακούσεταί σου δώσει δέ σοι ἀποδοῦναι τὰς εὐχάς
28 You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
ἀποκαταστήσει δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνης ἐπὶ δὲ ὁδοῖς σου ἔσται φέγγος
29 When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
ὅτι ἐταπείνωσεν αὐτόν καὶ ἐρεῖς ὑπερηφανεύσατο καὶ κύφοντα ὀφθαλμοῖς σώσει
30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
ῥύσεται ἀθῷον καὶ διασώθητι ἐν καθαραῖς χερσίν σου
