Job 30
1 And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.
νυνὶ δὲ κατεγέλασάν μου ἐλάχιστοι νῦν νουθετοῦσίν με ἐν μέρει ὧν ἐξουδένουν πατέρας αὐτῶν οὓς οὐχ ἡγησάμην εἶναι ἀξίους κυνῶν τῶν ἐμῶν νομάδων
2 Also — the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.
καί γε ἰσχὺς χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἵνα τί μοι ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς ἀπώλετο συντέλεια
3 With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονος οἱ φεύγοντες ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲς συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν
4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.
οἱ περικλῶντες ἅλιμα ἐπὶ ἠχοῦντι οἵτινες ἅλιμα ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ σῖτα ἄτιμοι δὲ καὶ πεφαυλισμένοι ἐνδεεῖς παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ οἳ καὶ ῥίζας ξύλων ἐμασῶντο ὑπὸ λιμοῦ μεγάλου
5 From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),
ἐπανέστησάν μοι κλέπται
6 In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.
ὧν οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν ἦσαν τρῶγλαι πετρῶν
7 Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.
ἀνὰ μέσον εὐήχων βοήσονται οἳ ὑπὸ φρύγανα ἄγρια διῃτῶντο
8 Sons of folly — even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
ἀφρόνων υἱοὶ καὶ ἀτίμων ὄνομα καὶ κλέος ἐσβεσμένον ἀπὸ γῆς
9 And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
νυνὶ δὲ κιθάρα ἐγώ εἰμι αὐτῶν καὶ ἐμὲ θρύλημα ἔχουσιν
10 They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
ἐβδελύξαντο δέ με ἀποστάντες μακράν ἀπὸ δὲ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἐφείσαντο πτύελον
11 Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.
ἀνοίξας γὰρ φαρέτραν αὐτοῦ ἐκάκωσέν με καὶ χαλινὸν τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐξαπέστειλαν
12 On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
ἐπὶ δεξιῶν βλαστοῦ ἐπανέστησαν πόδα αὐτῶν ἐξέτειναν καὶ ὡδοποίησαν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ τρίβους ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν
13 They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.'
ἐξετρίβησαν τρίβοι μου ἐξέδυσεν γάρ μου τὴν στολήν
14 As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
βέλεσιν αὐτοῦ κατηκόντισέν με κέχρηταί μοι ὡς βούλεται ἐν ὀδύναις πέφυρμαι
15 He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
ἐπιστρέφονται δέ μου αἱ ὀδύναι ᾤχετό μου ἡ ἐλπὶς ὥσπερ πνεῦμα καὶ ὥσπερ νέφος ἡ σωτηρία μου
16 And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.
καὶ νῦν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἐκχυθήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου ἔχουσιν δέ με ἡμέραι ὀδυνῶν
17 At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
νυκτὶ δέ μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συγκέκαυται τὰ δὲ νεῦρά μου διαλέλυται
18 By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
ἐν πολλῇ ἰσχύι ἐπελάβετό μου τῆς στολῆς ὥσπερ τὸ περιστόμιον τοῦ χιτῶνός μου περιέσχεν με
19 Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
ἥγησαι δέ με ἴσα πηλῷ ἐν γῇ καὶ σποδῷ μου ἡ μερίς
20 I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.
κέκραγα δὲ πρὸς σὲ καὶ οὐκ εἰσακούεις μου ἔστησαν καὶ κατενόησάν με
21 Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.
ἐπέβης δέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως χειρὶ κραταιᾷ με ἐμαστίγωσας
22 Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest — Thou levellest me.
ἔταξας δέ με ἐν ὀδύναις καὶ ἀπέρριψάς με ἀπὸ σωτηρίας
23 For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.
οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι θάνατός με ἐκτρίψει οἰκία γὰρ παντὶ θνητῷ γῆ
24 Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον δυναίμην ἐμαυτὸν χειρώσασθαι ἢ δεηθείς γε ἑτέρου καὶ ποιήσει μοι τοῦτο
25 Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ παντὶ ἀδυνάτῳ ἔκλαυσα ἐστέναξα δὲ ἰδὼν ἄνδρα ἐν ἀνάγκαις
26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν
27 My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.
ἡ κοιλία μου ἐξέζεσεν καὶ οὐ σιωπήσεται προέφθασάν με ἡμέραι πτωχείας
28 Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.
στένων πεπόρευμαι ἄνευ φιμοῦ ἕστηκα δὲ ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ κεκραγώς
29 A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
ἀδελφὸς γέγονα σειρήνων ἑταῖρος δὲ στρουθῶν
30 My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,
τὸ δὲ δέρμα μου ἐσκότωται μεγάλως τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἀπὸ καύματος
31 And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
ἀπέβη δὲ εἰς πάθος μου ἡ κιθάρα ὁ δὲ ψαλμός μου εἰς κλαυθμὸν ἐμοί
