Job 9

Then Job answered and said,

Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ἰὼβ, λέγει,

I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

Ἐπʼ ἀληθείας οἶδα, ὅτι οὕτως ἐστί· πῶς γὰρ ἔσται δίκαιος βροτὸς παρὰ Κυρίῳ;

For if he would enter into judgment with him, God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

Ἐὰν γὰρ βούληται κριθῆναι αὐτῷ, οὐ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ αὐτῷ, ἵνα μὴ ἀντείπῃ πρὸς ἕνα λόγον αὐτοῦ ἐκ χιλίων.

For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

Σοφὸς γάρ ἐστι διανοίᾳ, κραταιός τε καὶ μέγας· τίς σκληρὸς γενόμενος ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ὑπέμεινεν;

Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: who overturns them in anger.

Ὁ παλαιῶν ὄρη καὶ οὐκ οἴδασιν, ὁ καταστρέφων αὐτὰ ὀργῇ·

Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.

Ὁ σείων τὴν ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν ἐκ θεμελίων, οἱ δὲ στύλοι αὐτῆς σαλεύονται·

Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

Ὁ λέγων τῷ ἡλίῳ καὶ οὐκ ἀνατέλλει, κατὰ δὲ ἄστρων κατασφραγίζει·

Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.

Ὁ τανύσας τὸν οὐρανὸν μόνος, καὶ περιπατῶν ὡς ἐπʼ ἐδάφους ἐπὶ θαλάσσης·

Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

Ὁ ποιῶν Πλειάδα καὶ Ἕσπερον καὶ Ἀρκτοῦρον, καὶ ταμεῖα Νότου·

Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.

Ὁ ποιῶν μεγάλα καὶ ἀνεξιχνίαστα, ἔνδοξά τε καὶ ἐξαίσια, ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός.

If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known it.

Ἐὰν ὑπερβῇ με, οὐ μὴ ἴδω· ἐὰν παρέλθῃ με, οὐδʼ ὡς ἔγνων.

If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

Ἐὰν ἀπαλλάξῃ, τίς ἀποστρέψει; ἢ τίς ἐρεῖ αὐτῷ, τί ἐποίησας;

For if he has turned away his anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

Αὐτὸς γὰρ ἀπέστραπται ὀργὴν, ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἐκάμφθησαν κήτη τὰ ὑπʼ οὐρανόν

Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.

Ἐὰν δέ μου ὑπακούσεται, ἤ διακρίνει τὰ ῥήματά μου.

For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.

Ἐὰν γὰρ ὦ δίκαιος, οὐκ εἰσακούσεταί μου, τοῦ κρίματος αὐτοῦ δεηθήσομαι·

And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

Ἐάν τε καλέσω καὶ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ, οὐ πιστεύω ὅτι εἰσακήκοέ μου τῆς φωνῆς.

Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made my bruises many without cause.

Μὴ γνόφῳ με ἐκτρίψῃ· πολλὰ δέ μου τὰ συντρίμματα πεποίηκε διακενῆς.

For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

Οὐκ ἐᾷ γάρ με ἀναπνεῦσαι· ἐνέπλησε δέ με πικρίας,

For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?

ὅτι μὲν γὰρ ἰσχύει κράτει· τίς οὖν κρίματι αὐτοῦ ἀντιστήσεται;

For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

Ἐὰν γὰρ ὦ δίκαιος, τὸ στόμα μου ἀσεβήσει· ἐάν τε ᾧ ἄμεμπτος, σκολιὸς ἀποβήσομαι.

For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away.

Εἴτε γὰρ ἠσέβησα, οὐκ οἶδα τῇ ψυχῇ, πλὴν ἀφαιρεῖταί μου ἡ ζωή.

Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

Διὸ εἶπον, μέγαν καὶ δυνάστην ἀπολλύει ὀργή,

For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

ὅτι φαῦλοι ἐν θανάτῳ ἐξαισίῳ, ἀλλὰ δίκαιοι καταγελῶνται,

For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man: he covers the faces of the judges of the earth: but if it be not he, who is it?

παραδέδονται γὰρ εἰς χεῖρας ἀσεβοῦς, πρόσωπα κριτῶν αὐτῆς συγκαλύπτει· εἰ δὲ μὴ αὐτός ἐστι, τίς ἐστιν;

But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.

Ὁ δὲ βίος μου ἐστὶν ἐλαφρότερος δρομέως· ἀπέδρασαν, καὶ οὐκ εἴδοσαν.

Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

Ἢ καὶ ἐστι ναυσὶν ἴχνος ὁδοῦ, ἢ ἀετοῦ πετομένου ζητοῦντος βοράν;

And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

Ἐάν τε γὰρ εἶπω, ἐπιλήσομαι λαλῶν, συγκύψας τῷ προσώπῳ στενάξω·

I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

Σείομαι πᾶσι τοῖς μέλεσιν, οἴδα γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ ἀθῶόν με ἐάσεις.

But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

Ἐπειδὴ δέ εἰμι ἀσεβὴς, διὰ τί οὐκ ἀπέθανον;

For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

Ἐὰν γὰρ ἀπολούσωμαι χιόνι, καὶ ἀποκαθάρωμαι χερσὶ καθαραῖς,

thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

ἱκανῶς ἐν ῥύπῳ με ἔβαψας, ἐβδελύξατο δέ με ἡ στολή.

For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

Οὐ γὰρ εἰ ἄνθρωπος κατʼ ἐμὲ, ᾧ ἀντικρινοῦμαι, ἵνα ἔλθωμεν ὁμοθυμαδὸν εἰς κρίσιν.

Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both.

Εἴθε ἦν ὁ μεσίτης ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐλέγχων, καὶ διακούων ἀναμέσον ἀμφοτέρων.

Let him remove his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

Ἀπαλλαξάτω ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ τὴν ῥάβδον, ὁ δὲ φόβος αὐτοῦ μή με στροβείτω,

so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious of guilt.

καὶ οὐ μὴ φοβηθῶ, ἀλλὰ λαλήσω· οὐ γὰρ οὕτω συνεπίσταμαι.