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Job 30
Rahlfs Septuagint (1935) · Berean Standard Bible
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 mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
καί γε ἰσχὺς χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἵνα τί μοι ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς ἀπώλετο συντέλεια
What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονος οἱ φεύγοντες ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲς συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
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 plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food (note: Or their fuel).
ὧν οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν ἦσαν τρῶγλαι πετρῶν
so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
ἀνὰ μέσον εὐήχων βοήσονται οἳ ὑπὸ φρύγανα ἄγρια διῃτῶντο
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
ἀφρόνων υἱοὶ καὶ ἀτίμων ὄνομα καὶ κλέος ἐσβεσμένον ἀπὸ γῆς
A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
νυνὶ δὲ κιθάρα ἐγώ εἰμι αὐτῶν καὶ ἐμὲ θρύλημα ἔχουσιν
And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
ἐβδελύξαντο δέ με ἀποστάντες μακράν ἀπὸ δὲ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἐφείσαντο πτύελον
They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
ἀνοίξας γὰρ φαρέτραν αὐτοῦ ἐκάκωσέν με καὶ χαλινὸν τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐξαπέστειλαν
Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint (note: Hebrew the bridle) in my presence.
ἐπὶ δεξιῶν βλαστοῦ ἐπανέστησαν πόδα αὐτῶν ἐξέτειναν καὶ ὡδοποίησαν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ τρίβους ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν
The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
ἐξετρίβησαν τρίβοι μου ἐξέδυσεν γάρ μου τὴν στολήν
They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them (note: Or with no one to assist them).
βέλεσιν αὐτοῦ κατηκόντισέν με κέχρηταί μοι ὡς βούλεται ἐν ὀδύναις πέφυρμαι
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
ἐπιστρέφονται δέ μου αἱ ὀδύναι ᾤχετό μου ἡ ἐλπὶς ὥσπερ πνεῦμα καὶ ὥσπερ νέφος ἡ σωτηρία μου
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
καὶ νῦν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἐκχυθήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου ἔχουσιν δέ με ἡμέραι ὀδυνῶν
And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
νυκτὶ δέ μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συγκέκαυται τὰ δὲ νεῦρά μου διαλέλυται
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
ἐν πολλῇ ἰσχύι ἐπελάβετό μου τῆς στολῆς ὥσπερ τὸ περιστόμιον τοῦ χιτῶνός μου περιέσχεν με
With great force He grasps my garment (note: LXX; Hebrew He becomes like a garment to me or my garment is disfigured); He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
ἥγησαι δέ με ἴσα πηλῷ ἐν γῇ καὶ σποδῷ μου ἡ μερίς
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
κέκραγα δὲ πρὸς σὲ καὶ οὐκ εἰσακούεις μου ἔστησαν καὶ κατενόησάν με
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
ἐπέβης δέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως χειρὶ κραταιᾷ με ἐμαστίγωσας
You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
ἔταξας δέ με ἐν ὀδύναις καὶ ἀπέρριψάς με ἀπὸ σωτηρίας
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about (note: Or You dissolve me) in the storm.
οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι θάνατός με ἐκτρίψει οἰκία γὰρ παντὶ θνητῷ γῆ
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον δυναίμην ἐμαυτὸν χειρώσασθαι ἢ δεηθείς γε ἑτέρου καὶ ποιήσει μοι τοῦτο
Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ παντὶ ἀδυνάτῳ ἔκλαυσα ἐστέναξα δὲ ἰδὼν ἄνδρα ἐν ἀνάγκαις
Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
ἡ κοιλία μου ἐξέζεσεν καὶ οὐ σιωπήσεται προέφθασάν με ἡμέραι πτωχείας
I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
στένων πεπόρευμαι ἄνευ φιμοῦ ἕστηκα δὲ ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ κεκραγώς
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
ἀδελφὸς γέγονα σειρήνων ἑταῖρος δὲ στρουθῶν
I have become a brother of jackals (note: Or serpents or dragons), a companion of ostriches (note: Literally of daughters of an ostrich or of daughters of an owl).
τὸ δὲ δέρμα μου ἐσκότωται μεγάλως τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἀπὸ καύματος
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
ἀπέβη δὲ εἰς πάθος μου ἡ κιθάρα ὁ δὲ ψαλμός μου εἰς κλαυθμὸν ἐμοί
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.