| 1 μετὰ δὲ τὸ παύσασθαι Ελιουν τῆς λέξεως εἶπεν ὁ κύριος τῷ Ιωβ διὰ λαίλαπος καὶ νεφῶν 2 τίς οὗτος ὁ κρύπτων με βουλήν συνέχων δὲ ῥήματα ἐν καρδίᾳ ἐμὲ δὲ οἴεται κρύπτειν 3 ζῶσαι ὥσπερ ἀνὴρ τὴν ὀσφύν σου ἐρωτήσω δέ σε σὺ δέ μοι ἀποκρίθητι 4 ποῦ ἦς ἐν τῷ θεμελιοῦν με τὴν γῆν ἀπάγγειλον δέ μοι εἰ ἐπίστῃ σύνεσιν 5 τίς ἔθετο τὰ μέτρα αὐτῆς εἰ οἶδας ἢ τίς ὁ ἐπαγαγὼν σπαρτίον ἐ{P'} αὐτῆς 6 ἐπὶ τίνος οἱ κρίκοι αὐτῆς πεπήγασιν τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ βαλὼν λίθον γωνιαῖον ἐ{P'} αὐτῆς 7 ὅτε ἐγενήθησαν ἄστρα ᾔνεσάν με φωνῇ μεγάλῃ πάντες ἄγγελοί μου 8 ἔφραξα δὲ θάλασσαν πύλαις ὅτε ἐμαίμασσεν ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτῆς ἐκπορευομένη 9 ἐθέμην δὲ αὐτῇ νέφος ἀμφίασιν ὁμίχλῃ δὲ αὐτὴν ἐσπαργάνωσα 10 ἐθέμην δὲ αὐτῇ ὅρια περιθεὶς κλεῖθρα καὶ πύλας 11 εἶπα δὲ αὐτῇ μέχρι τούτου ἐλεύσῃ καὶ οὐχ ὑπερβήσῃ ἀλ{L'} ἐν σεαυτῇ συντριβήσεταί σου τὰ κύματα |
1 Then, from the midst of a whirlwind, the Lord gave Job his answer: 2 Here is one that must ever be clouding the truth of things with words ill considered! 3 Strip, then, and enter the lists; it is my turn to ask questions now, thine to answer them. 4 From what vantage-point wast thou watching, when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, whence comes this sure knowledge of thine? 5 Tell me, since thou art so wise, was it thou or I designed earth’s plan, measuring it out with the line? 6 How came its base to stand so firm; who laid its corner-stone? 7 To me, that day, all the morning stars sang together, all the powers of heaven uttered their joyful praise. 8 Was it thou or I shut in the sea behind bars? No sooner had it broken forth from the womb 9 than I dressed it in swaddling-clothes of dark mist, 10 set it within bounds of my own choosing, made fast with bolt and bar; 11 Thus far thou shalt come, said I, and no further; here let thy swelling waves spend their force. |
1 Respondens autem Dominus Job de turbine, dixit: 2
Quis est iste involvens sententias
sermonibus imperitis? 3
Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos:
interrogabo te, et responde mihi. 4
Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terræ?
indica mihi, si habes intelligentiam. 5
Quis posuit mensuras ejus, si nosti?
vel quis tetendit super eam lineam? 6
Super quo bases illius solidatæ sunt?
aut quis demisit lapidem angularem ejus, 7
cum me laudarent simul astra matutina,
et jubilarent omnes filii Dei? 8
Quis conclusit ostiis mare,
quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens; 9
cum ponerem nubem vestimentum ejus,
et caligine illud quasi pannis infantiæ obvolverem? 10
Circumdedi illud terminis meis,
et posui vectem et ostia, 11
et dixi: Usque huc venies, et non procedes amplius,
et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos. |