Job · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Job 10 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Η ψυχή μου εβαρύνθη την ζωήν μου· θέλω παραδοθή εις το παράπονόν μου· θέλω λαλήσει εν τη πικρία της ψυχής μου.
1 “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 Θέλω ειπεί προς τον Θεόν, μη με καταδικάσης· δείξόν μοι διά τι με δικάζεις.
2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
3 Είναι καλόν εις σε να καταθλίβης, να καταφρονής το έργον των χειρών σου και να ευοδόνης την βουλήν των ασεβών;
3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
4 Σαρκός οφθαλμούς έχεις; ή βλέπεις καθώς βλέπει άνθρωπος;
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
5 Ανθρώπινος είναι ο βίος σου; ή τα έτη σου ως ημέραι ανθρώπου,
5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
6 ώστε αναζητείς την ανομίαν μου και ανερευνάς την αμαρτίαν μου;
6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
7 Ενώ εξεύρεις ότι δεν ησέβησα· και δεν υπάρχει ο ελευθερών εκ των χειρών σου.
7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
8 Αι χείρές σου με εμόρφωσαν και με έπλασαν όλον κύκλω· και με καταστρέφεις.
8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
9 Ενθυμήθητι, δέομαι, ότι ως πηλόν με έκαμες· και εις χώμα θέλεις με επιστρέψει.
9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
10 Δεν με ήμελξας ως γάλα και με έπηξας ως τυρόν;
10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Δέρμα και σάρκα με ενέδυσας και με οστά και νεύρα με περιέφραξας.
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 Ζωήν και έλεος εχάρισας εις εμέ, και η επίσκεψίς σου εφύλαξε το πνεύμά μου·
12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13 ταύτα όμως έκρυπτες εν τη καρδία σου· εξεύρω ότι τούτο ήτο μετά σου.
13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
14 Εάν αμαρτήσω, με παραφυλάττεις, και από της ανομίας μου δεν θέλεις με αθωώσει.
14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15 Εάν ασεβήσω, ουαί εις εμέ· και εάν ήμαι δίκαιος, δεν δύναμαι να σηκώσω την κεφαλήν μου· είμαι πλήρης ατιμίας· ιδέ λοιπόν την θλίψιν μου,
15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
16 διότι αυξάνει. Με κυνηγείς ως άγριος λέων· και επιστρέφων δεικνύεσαι θαυμαστός κατ' εμού.
16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
17 Ανανεόνεις τους μάρτυράς σου εναντίον μου, και πληθύνεις την οργήν σου κατ' εμού· αλλαγαί στρατεύματος γίνονται επ' εμέ.
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
18 Διά τι λοιπόν με εξήγαγες εκ της μήτρας; είθε να εξέπνεον, και οφθαλμός να μη με έβλεπεν.
18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
19 Ήθελον είσθαι ως μη υπάρξας· ήθελον φερθή εκ της μήτρας εις τον τάφον.
19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Αι ημέραι μου δεν είναι ολίγαι; παύσον λοιπόν, και άφες με, διά να αναλάβω ολίγον,
20 Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21 πριν υπάγω όθεν δεν θέλω επιστρέψει, εις γην σκότους και σκιάς θανάτου·
21 before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 γην γνοφεράν, ως το σκότος της σκιάς του θανάτου, όπου τάξις δεν είναι, και το φως είναι ως το σκότος.
22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 7:11; 1 Kings 19:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; Job 9:21
- 2 Psalm 139:23–24; Job 9:29; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 25:7; Psalm 6:1–4
- 3 Isaiah 64:8; Job 14:15; Psalm 138:8; Jeremiah 12:1–3; Job 8:20
- 4 1 Samuel 16:7; Job 9:32; Luke 16:15; Revelation 1:14
- 5 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:2–4; Psalm 102:24–27; Hebrews 1:12; Job 36:26
- 6 Job 14:16; Psalm 10:15; Psalm 44:21; Zephaniah 1:12; Jeremiah 2:34
- 7 Deuteronomy 32:39; Psalm 139:1–2; John 10:28–30; Daniel 3:15; Job 42:7
- 8 Psalm 119:73; Job 10:3; Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 18:3–10; Genesis 6:6–7
- 9 Genesis 2:7; Isaiah 64:8; Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 45:9
- 10 Psalm 139:14–16
- 11 Ezekiel 37:4–8; Ephesians 4:16; Job 40:17–18; 2 Corinthians 5:2–3
- 12 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Matthew 6:25; Genesis 19:19
- 13 Job 23:13; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 46:9–11; Ecclesiastes 8:6–7
- 14 Job 7:21; Psalm 130:3; Exodus 34:7; Job 13:26–27; Numbers 14:18
- 15 Isaiah 3:11; Job 9:15; Job 9:20–21; Job 10:7; Malachi 3:18
- 16 Isaiah 38:13; Lamentations 3:10; Job 5:9; Hosea 13:7–8; Amos 3:8
- 17 Job 16:8; Ruth 1:21; Job 16:11–16; Job 19:6–11; Jeremiah 48:11
- 18 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Job 14:10; Job 11:20; Job 3:10–11; Jeremiah 15:10
- 19 Psalm 58:8
- 20 Job 14:1; Psalm 39:13; Psalm 39:5; Job 9:25–26; Job 7:6–7
- 21 Job 3:5; Job 16:22; 2 Samuel 12:23; Job 7:8–10; 2 Samuel 14:14
- 22 Psalm 88:12; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 3:5; Psalm 44:19; Job 38:17
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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).
Who knitted us with sinews and bones, and clothed us with skin and flesh, and, as soon as the child was born, brought streams of milk out of the breasts?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)