| 6 γνῶτε οὖν ὅτι ὁ κύριός ἐστιν ὁ ταράξας ὀχύρωμα δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐ{P'} ἐμὲ ὕψωσεν 7 ἰδοὺ γελῶ ὀνείδει καὶ οὐ λαλήσω κεκράξομαι καὶ οὐδαμοῦ κρίμα 8 κύκλῳ περιῳκοδόμημαι καὶ οὐ μὴ διαβῶ ἐπὶ πρόσωπόν μου σκότος ἔθετο 9 τὴν δὲ δόξαν ἀ{P'} ἐμοῦ ἐξέδυσεν ἀφεῖλεν δὲ στέφανον ἀπὸ κεφαλῆς μου 10 διέσπασέν με κύκλῳ καὶ ᾠχόμην ἐξέκοψεν δὲ ὥσπερ δένδρον τὴν ἐλπίδα μου 11 δεινῶς δέ μοι ὀργῇ ἐχρήσατο ἡγήσατο δέ με ὥσπερ ἐχθρόν 12 ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἦλθον τὰ πειρατήρια αὐτοῦ ἐ{P'} ἐμοὶ ταῖς ὁδοῖς μου ἐκύκλωσάν με ἐγκάθετοι 13 ἀ{P'} ἐμοῦ δὲ ἀδελφοί μου ἀπέστησαν ἔγνωσαν ἀλλοτρίους ἢ ἐμέ φίλοι δέ μου ἀνελεήμονες γεγόνασιν 14 οὐ προσεποιήσαντό με οἱ ἐγγύτατοί μου καὶ οἱ εἰδότες μου τὸ ὄνομα ἐπελάθοντό μου 15 γείτονες οἰκίας θεράπαιναί τέ μου ἀλλογενὴς ἤμην ἐναντίον αὐτῶν 16 θεράποντά μου ἐκάλεσα καὶ οὐχ ὑπήκουσεν στόμα δέ μου ἐδέετο 17 καὶ ἱκέτευον τὴν γυναῖκά μου προσεκαλούμην δὲ κολακεύων υἱοὺς παλλακίδων μου 18 οἱ δὲ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνά με ἀπεποιήσαντο ὅταν ἀναστῶ κα{T'} ἐμοῦ λαλοῦσιν 19 ἐβδελύξαντο δέ με οἱ εἰδότες με οὓς δὴ ἠγαπήκειν ἐπανέστησάν μοι 20 ἐν δέρματί μου ἐσάπησαν αἱ σάρκες μου τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἐν ὀδοῦσιν ἔχεται |
6 How to make you understand that God has misjudged me, caught me in his toils! 7 If I cry out upon that my wrongs, there is none to hear me, none to take cognisance of my plea; 8 my path hedged in, so that there is no escape, my direction lost, and I benighted. 9 By him discredited, discrowned, 10 by him left defenceless on every side, I go my ways; a tree torn up by the roots has more to hope for than I. 11 Against me all his anger is aroused; I am that enemy 12 against whom he musters all his forces, to ride over me, to beleaguer my dwelling place. 13 Sundered am I from my brethren, a stranger to all that knew me, 14 forsaken by my kindred, by my friends forgotten. 15 Guests that dwell in my house, ay, and the very serving-women, stare at me, the alien, the unknown; 16 my servants do not come at my call, I must speak them fair; 17 my wife shuns the breath of me, to my own flesh and blood[1] I am a suppliant. 18 The very innocents[2] despise me, jeer at me when my back is turned; 19 no counsellor so trusted but he is weary of me, no friend so loved but he abandons me now. 20 And I so wasted! Skin clinging to bone, save where the lips cover my teeth, is all that is left of me.[3] |
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Saltem nunc intelligite quia Deus non æquo judicio afflixerit me,
et flagellis suis me cinxerit. 7
Ecce clamabo, vim patiens, et nemo audiet;
vociferabor, et non est qui judicet. 8
Semitam meam circumsepsit, et transire non possum:
et in calle meo tenebras posuit. 9
Spoliavit me gloria mea,
et abstulit coronam de capite meo. 10
Destruxit me undique, et pereo:
et quasi evulsæ arbori abstulit spem meam. 11
Iratus est contra me furor ejus,
et sic me habuit quasi hostem suum. 12
Simul venerunt latrones ejus,
et fecerunt sibi viam per me,
et obsederunt in gyro tabernaculum meum. 13
Fratres meos longe fecit a me,
et noti mei quasi alieni recesserunt a me. 14
Dereliquerunt me propinqui mei,
et qui me noverant obliti sunt mei. 15
Inquilini domus meæ et ancillæ meæ sicut alienum habuerunt me,
et quasi peregrinus fui in oculis eorum. 16
Servum meum vocavi, et non respondit:
ore proprio deprecabar illum. 17
Halitum meum exhorruit uxor mea,
et orabam filios uteri mei. 18
Stulti quoque despiciebant me:
et cum ab eis recessissem, detrahebant mihi. 19
Abominati sunt me quondam consiliarii mei,
et quem maxime diligebam, aversatus est me. 20
Pelli meæ, consumptis carnibus, adhæsit os meum,
et derelicta sunt tantummodo labia circa dentes meos. |