Ἰώβ 30
1 νυνὶ δὲ κατεγέλασάν μου ἐλάχιστοι νῦν νουθετοῦσίν με ἐν μέρει ὧν ἐξουδένουν πατέρας αὐτῶν οὓς οὐχ ἡγησάμην εἶναι ἀξίους κυνῶν τῶν ἐμῶν νομάδων
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
2 καί γε ἰσχὺς χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἵνα τί μοι ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς ἀπώλετο συντέλεια
Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
3 ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονος οἱ φεύγοντες ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲς συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
4 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
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
5 ἐπανέστησάν μοι κλέπται
They are driven forth from among [men] — they cry after them as after a thief —
6 ὧν οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν ἦσαν τρῶγλαι πετρῶν
To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
7 ἀνὰ μέσον εὐήχων βοήσονται οἳ ὑπὸ φρύγανα ἄγρια διῃτῶντο
They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:
8 ἀφρόνων υἱοὶ καὶ ἀτίμων ὄνομα καὶ κλέος ἐσβεσμένον ἀπὸ γῆς
Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
9 νυνὶ δὲ κιθάρα ἐγώ εἰμι αὐτῶν καὶ ἐμὲ θρύλημα ἔχουσιν
And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
10 ἐβδελύξαντο δέ με ἀποστάντες μακράν ἀπὸ δὲ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἐφείσαντο πτύελον
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
11 ἀνοίξας γὰρ φαρέτραν αὐτοῦ ἐκάκωσέν με καὶ χαλινὸν τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐξαπέστειλαν
For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.
12 ἐπὶ δεξιῶν βλαστοῦ ἐπανέστησαν πόδα αὐτῶν ἐξέτειναν καὶ ὡδοποίησαν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ τρίβους ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν
At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
13 ἐξετρίβησαν τρίβοι μου ἐξέδυσεν γάρ μου τὴν στολήν
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;
14 βέλεσιν αὐτοῦ κατηκόντισέν με κέχρηταί μοι ὡς βούλεται ἐν ὀδύναις πέφυρμαι
They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
15 ἐπιστρέφονται δέ μου αἱ ὀδύναι ᾤχετό μου ἡ ἐλπὶς ὥσπερ πνεῦμα καὶ ὥσπερ νέφος ἡ σωτηρία μου
Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
16 καὶ νῦν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἐκχυθήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου ἔχουσιν δέ με ἡμέραι ὀδυνῶν
And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 νυκτὶ δέ μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συγκέκαυται τὰ δὲ νεῦρά μου διαλέλυται
The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
18 ἐν πολλῇ ἰσχύι ἐπελάβετό μου τῆς στολῆς ὥσπερ τὸ περιστόμιον τοῦ χιτῶνός μου περιέσχεν με
By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
19 ἥγησαι δέ με ἴσα πηλῷ ἐν γῇ καὶ σποδῷ μου ἡ μερίς
He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20 κέκραγα δὲ πρὸς σὲ καὶ οὐκ εἰσακούεις μου ἔστησαν καὶ κατενόησάν με
I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.
21 ἐπέβης δέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως χειρὶ κραταιᾷ με ἐμαστίγωσας
Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.
22 ἔταξας δέ με ἐν ὀδύναις καὶ ἀπέρριψάς με ἀπὸ σωτηρίας
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
23 οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι θάνατός με ἐκτρίψει οἰκία γὰρ παντὶ θνητῷ γῆ
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
24 εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον δυναίμην ἐμαυτὸν χειρώσασθαι ἢ δεηθείς γε ἑτέρου καὶ ποιήσει μοι τοῦτο
Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
25 ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ παντὶ ἀδυνάτῳ ἔκλαυσα ἐστέναξα δὲ ἰδὼν ἄνδρα ἐν ἀνάγκαις
Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
26 ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
27 ἡ κοιλία μου ἐξέζεσεν καὶ οὐ σιωπήσεται προέφθασάν με ἡμέραι πτωχείας
My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.
28 στένων πεπόρευμαι ἄνευ φιμοῦ ἕστηκα δὲ ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ κεκραγώς
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
29 ἀδελφὸς γέγονα σειρήνων ἑταῖρος δὲ στρουθῶν
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
30 τὸ δὲ δέρμα μου ἐσκότωται μεγάλως τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἀπὸ καύματος
My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
31 ἀπέβη δὲ εἰς πάθος μου ἡ κιθάρα ὁ δὲ ψαλμός μου εἰς κλαυθμὸν ἐμοί
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.
