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Job 14 Brenton's Greek Septuagint

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LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
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1 Βρότος γὰρ γεννητὸς γυναικὸς, ὀλιγόβιος, καὶ πλήρης ὀργῆς·
1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 ἢ ὥσπερ ἄνθος ἀνθῆσαν ἐξέπεσεν, ἀπέδρα δὲ ὥσπερ σκιὰ, καὶ οὐ μὴ στῇ.
2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3 Οὐχὶ καὶ τούτου λόγον ἐποιήσω, καὶ τοῦτον ἐποίησας εἰσελθεῖν ἐν κρίματι ἐνώπιόν σου;
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
4 Τίς γὰρ καθαρὸς ἔσται ἀπὸ ῥύπου; ἀλλʼ οὐθεὶς,
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
5 ἐὰν καὶ μία ἡμέρα ὁ βίος αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· ἀριθμητοὶ δὲ μῆνες αὐτοῦ παρʼ αὐτοῦ· εἰς χρόνον ἔθου, καὶ οὐ μὴ ὑπερβῇ.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
6 Ἀπόστα ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, ἵνα ἡσυχάσῃ, καὶ εὐδοκήσῃ τὸν βίον, ὥσπερ ὁ μισθωτός.
6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
7 Ἔστι γὰρ δένδρῳ ἐλπὶς, ἐὰν γὰρ ἐκκοπῇ, ἔτι ἐπανθήσει, καὶ ὁ ῥάδαμνος αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ἐκλείπῃ.
7 “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
8 Ἐὰν γὰρ γηράσῃ ἐν γῇ ἡ ῥίζα αὐτοῦ, ἐν δὲ πέτρᾳ τελευτήσῃ,
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
9 τὸ στέλεχος αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ ὀσμῆς ὕδατος ἀνθήσει, ποιήσει δὲ θερισμὸν, ὥσπερ νεόφυτον.
9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
10 Ἀνὴρ δὲ τελευτήσας ᾤχετο, πεσὼν δὲ βροτὸς οὐκ ἔτι ἐστί.
10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11 Χρόνῳ γὰρ σπανίζεται θάλασσα, ποταμὸς δὲ ἐρημωθεὶς ἐξηράνθη.
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
12 Ἄνθρωπος δὲ κοιμηθεὶς οὐ μὴν ἀναστῇ ἕως ἂν ὁ οὐρανὸς οὐ μὴ συῤῥαφῇ, καὶ οὐκ ἐξυπνισθήσονται ἐξ ὕπνου αὐτῶν.
12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
13 Εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον ἐν ᾅδῃ με ἐφύλαξας, ἔκρυψας δέ με ἕως ἂν παύσηταί σου ἡ ὀργὴ, καὶ τάξῃ μοι χρόνον ἐν ᾧ μνείαν μου ποιήσῃ.
13 “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
14 Ἐὰν γὰρ ἀποθάνῃ ἄνθρωπος, ζήσεται συντελέσας ἡμέρας τοῦ βίου αὐτοῦ· ὑπομενῶ ἕως πάλιν γένωμαι;
14 If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
15 Εἶτα καλέσεις, ἐγὼ δέ σοι ὑπακούσομαι, τὰ δὲ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σου μὴ ἀποποιοῦ.
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
16 Ἠρίθμησας δέ μου τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα, καὶ οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ σε οὐδὲν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν μου;
16 But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
17 Ἐσφράγισας δέ μου τὰς ἀνομίας ἐν βαλαντίῳ, ἐπεσημῄνω δὲ εἴτι ἄκων παρέβην.
17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
18 Καὶ πλὴν ὄρος πίπτον διαπεσεῖται, καὶ πέτρα παλαιωθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτῆς.
18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
19 Λίθους ἐλέαναν ὕδατα, καὶ κατέκλυσεν ὕδατα ὕπτια τοῦ χώματος τῆς γῆς· καὶ ὑπομονὴν ἀνθρώπου ἀπώλεσας.
19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
20 Ὦσας αὐτὸν εἰς τέλος, καὶ ᾤχετο· ἐπέστησας αὐτῷ τὸ πρόσωπον, καὶ ἐξαπέστειλας,
20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
21 πολλὼν δὲ γενομένων τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ, οὐκ οἶδεν· ἐὰν δὲ ὀλίγοι γένωνται, οὐκ ἐπέσταται.
21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
22 Ἀλλʼ ἢ αἱ σάρκες αὐτοῦ ἤλγησαν, ἡ δὲ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ἐπένθησεν.
22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”
Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Job 5:7; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Job 7:1; Matthew 11:11
  2. 2 Isaiah 40:6–8; 1 Peter 1:24; Job 8:9; Psalm 103:15–16; 1 Chronicles 29:15
  3. 3 Psalm 144:3; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 8:4; Job 13:27; Job 13:25
  4. 4 John 3:6; Job 15:14; Ephesians 2:3; Romans 8:8–9; Job 25:4–6
  5. 5 Psalm 39:4; Acts 17:26; Job 12:10; Hebrews 9:27; Psalm 104:29
  6. 6 Job 7:19; Psalm 39:13; Job 7:1–2; Job 10:20; Job 7:16
  7. 7 Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 11:1; Job 14:14; Daniel 4:23–25; Job 19:10
  8. 8 1 Corinthians 15:36; John 12:24; Isaiah 26:19
  9. 9 Romans 11:17–24; Ezekiel 17:22–24; Ezekiel 17:3–10; Ezekiel 19:10
  10. 10 Job 19:26; Job 7:7–10; Genesis 49:33; Proverbs 14:32; Luke 16:22–23
  11. 11 Isaiah 19:5; Jeremiah 15:18; Job 6:15–18
  12. 12 Job 10:21–22; Isaiah 26:19; Ecclesiastes 3:19–21; Job 3:13; 2 Peter 3:10–13
  13. 13 Isaiah 57:1–2; Isaiah 26:20–21; Mark 13:32; Job 3:17–19; Isaiah 12:1
  14. 14 1 Corinthians 15:51–52; Acts 26:8; Psalm 27:14; Job 7:1; Job 13:15
  15. 15 Job 13:22; Psalm 138:8; Job 7:21; Job 10:3; Job 10:8
  16. 16 Job 10:6; Job 31:4; Psalm 139:1–4; Job 34:21; Proverbs 5:21
  17. 17 Deuteronomy 32:34; Hosea 13:12; Job 21:19
  18. 18 Revelation 6:14; Job 18:4; Jeremiah 4:24; Psalm 102:25–26; Isaiah 54:10
  19. 19 Job 7:6; Job 19:10; Job 27:8; Luke 12:19–20; Genesis 6:17
  20. 20 Job 2:12; Job 14:14; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Lamentations 4:8
  21. 21 Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 2:18–19; Isaiah 63:16; Isaiah 39:7–8; Psalm 39:6
  22. 22 Job 19:26; Job 33:19–21; Proverbs 14:32; Job 19:22; Job 19:20

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 14:1 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter XXI — 19-25)

    For it comes from the righteous anger of God, whereof the Scriptures say, "Man, that is born of woman, is of few days and full of anger:" for the anger of God is not like that of man, the disturbance of an excited man, but the calm fixing of righteous punishment.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 14:9 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XVIII)

    Again, the rod of Aaron, though cut off and dead, budded, without the scent of waters, and though under a roof, sprouted forth into blossoms as in the fields; and though set in dry places, yielded in one night the flowers and fruit of plants watered for many years.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  3. Quotes verse 14:14 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XVIII)

    he says, For if a man die, he shall live again; and immediately he adds, I will wait till I be made again; and again elsewhere, Who shall raise up on the earth my skin, which endures these things.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)