| 1 ἰδοὺ ταῦτα ἑώρακέν μου ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς καὶ ἀκήκοέν μου τὸ οὖς 2 καὶ οἶδα ὅσα καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐπίστασθε καὶ οὐκ ἀσυνετώτερός εἰμι ὑμῶν 3 οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλ{L'} ἐγὼ πρὸς κύριον λαλήσω ἐλέγξω δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ἐὰν βούληται 4 ὑμεῖς δέ ἐστε ἰατροὶ ἄδικοι καὶ ἰαταὶ κακῶν πάντες 5 εἴη δὲ ὑμῖν κωφεῦσαι καὶ ἀποβήσεται ὑμῖν εἰς σοφίαν 6 ἀκούσατε ἔλεγχον στόματός μου κρίσιν δὲ χειλέων μου προσέχετε 7 πότερον οὐκ ἔναντι κυρίου λαλεῖτε ἔναντι δὲ αὐτοῦ φθέγγεσθε δόλον 8 ἦ ὑποστελεῖσθε ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτοὶ κριταὶ γένεσθε 9 καλόν γε ἐὰν ἐξιχνιάσῃ ὑμᾶς εἰ γὰρ τὰ πάντα ποιοῦντες προστεθήσεσθε αὐτῷ 10 οὐθὲν ἧττον ἐλέγξει ὑμᾶς εἰ δὲ καὶ κρυφῇ πρόσωπα θαυμάσετε 11 πότερον οὐχὶ δεινὰ αὐτοῦ στροβήσει ὑμᾶς φόβος δὲ πα{R'} αὐτοῦ ἐπιπεσεῖται ὑμῖν 12 ἀποβήσεται δὲ ὑμῶν τὸ ἀγαυρίαμα ἴσα σποδῷ τὸ δὲ σῶμα πήλινον |
1 Eyes nor ears nor wits are wanting to me, 2 and I know all this as well as you, but I am still a match for you. 3 Or rather, it is to God, the omnipotent, I will speak; with him I remonstrate; 4 but first I would prove you what you are, unskilful plasterers all of you, that follow false rules of your craft. 5 Would you but hold your tongues once for all! It were your best wisdom. 6 Listen while I refute you; mark well what are my pleadings. 7 Do you think God stands in need of your shifts, your lying advocacy? 8 Are you God’s hired partisans, resolved to acquit him? 9 Why then, beware of his own infallible scrutiny; think you he will be blinded, as men are blinded, by your sophistries? 10 Nay, he himself will be the first to blame you for wrongful attachment to his cause; 11 your turn, then, to fear every movement of his, to cower before his terrors! 12 Your wise memories will vanish into dust, your pride will prove to be a thing of clay. |
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Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus,
et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula. 2
Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi:
nec inferior vestri sum. 3
Sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar,
et disputare cum Deo cupio: 4
prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii,
et cultores perversorum dogmatum. 5
Atque utinam taceretis,
ut putaremini esse sapientes. 6
Audite ergo correptionem meam,
et judicium labiorum meorum attendite. 7
Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio,
ut pro illo loquamini dolos? 8
numquid faciem ejus accipitis,
et pro Deo judicare nitimini? 9
aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest?
aut decipietur, ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis? 10
Ipse vos arguet,
quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis. 11
Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos,
et terror ejus irruet super vos. 12
Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri,
et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ. |