Job · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Job 14 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 Άνθρωπος γεγεννημένος εκ γυναικός είναι ολιγόβιος και πλήρης ταραχής·
1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 αναβλαστάνει ως άνθος και κόπτεται· φεύγει ως σκιά και δεν διαμένει.
2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3 Και επί τοιούτον ανοίγεις τους οφθαλμούς σου, και με φέρεις εις κρίσιν μετά σου;
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
4 Τις δύναται να εξαγάγη καθαρόν από ακαθάρτου; ουδείς.
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
5 Επειδή αι ημέραι αυτού είναι προσδιωρισμέναι, ο αριθμός των μηνών αυτού ευρίσκεται παρά σοι, και συ έθεσας τα όρια αυτού, και δεν δύναται να υπερβή αυτά,
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 απόστρεψον απ' αυτού, διά να ησυχάση, εωσού χαίρων εκπληρώση ως μισθωτός την ημέραν αυτού.
6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
7 Διότι περί του δένδρου, εάν κοπή, είναι ελπίς ότι θέλει αναβλαστήσει, και ότι ο τρυφερός αυτού βλαστός δεν θέλει εκλείψει.
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 Και αν η ρίζα αυτού παλαιωθή εν τη γη και ο κορμός αυτού αποθάνη εν τω χώματι,
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
9 όμως διά της οσμής του ύδατος θέλει αναβλαστήσει και θέλει εκβάλει κλάδους ως νεόφυτον.
9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
10 Αλλ' ο άνθρωπος αποθνήσκει και παρέρχεται· και ο άνθρωπος εκπνέει, και που είναι;
10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11 Καθώς τα ύδατα εκλείπουσιν εκ της θαλάσσης και ο ποταμός στειρεύει και ξηραίνεται,
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
12 ούτως ο άνθρωπος, αφού κοιμηθή, δεν ανίσταται· εωσού οι ουρανοί μη υπάρξωσι, δεν θέλουσιν εξυπνήσει, και δεν θέλουσιν εγερθή εκ του ύπνου αυτών.
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 Είθε να με έκρυπτες εν τω τάφω, να με εσκέπαζες εωσού παρέλθη η οργή σου, να προσδιώριζες εις εμέ προθεσμίαν, και τότε να με ενθυμηθής
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 Εάν αποθάνη ο άνθρωπος, θέλει αναζήσει; πάσας τας ημέρας της εκστρατείας μου θέλω περιμένει, εωσού έλθη η απαλλαγή μου.
14 If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
15 Θέλεις καλέσει, και εγώ θέλω σοι αποκριθή· θέλεις επιβλέψει εις το έργον των χειρών σου.
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
16 Διότι τώρα αριθμείς τα διαβήματά μου· δεν παραφυλάττεις τας αμαρτίας μου;
16 But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
17 Η παράβασίς μου είναι επεσφραγισμένη εν βαλαντίω, και επισημειόνεις την ανομίαν μου.
17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
18 Βεβαίως το μεν όρος πίπτον εξουδενούται, ο δε βράχος μετακινείται από του τόπου αυτού.
18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
19 Τα ύδατα τρώγουσι τας πέτρας· αι πλημμύραι αυτών παρασύρουσι το χώμα της γής· ούτω συ καταστρέφεις την ελπίδα του ανθρώπου,
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 υπερισχύεις πάντοτε εναντίον αυτού, και αυτός παρέρχεται· μεταβάλλεις την όψιν αυτού και αποπέμπεις αυτόν.
20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
21 Οι υιοί αυτού υψούνται, και αυτός δεν εξεύρει· και ταπεινούνται, και αυτός δεν εννοεί ουδέν περί αυτών.
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 Μόνον η σαρξ αυτού επ' αυτού θέλει πονεί, και η ψυχή αυτού εν αυτώ θέλει πενθεί.
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 Job 5:7; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Job 7:1; Matthew 11:11
- 2 Isaiah 40:6–8; 1 Peter 1:24; Job 8:9; Psalm 103:15–16; 1 Chronicles 29:15
- 3 Psalm 144:3; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 8:4; Job 13:27; Job 13:25
- 4 John 3:6; Job 15:14; Ephesians 2:3; Romans 8:8–9; Job 25:4–6
- 5 Psalm 39:4; Acts 17:26; Job 12:10; Hebrews 9:27; Psalm 104:29
- 6 Job 7:19; Psalm 39:13; Job 7:1–2; Job 10:20; Job 7:16
- 7 Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 11:1; Job 14:14; Daniel 4:23–25; Job 19:10
- 8 1 Corinthians 15:36; John 12:24; Isaiah 26:19
- 9 Romans 11:17–24; Ezekiel 17:22–24; Ezekiel 17:3–10; Ezekiel 19:10
- 10 Job 19:26; Job 7:7–10; Genesis 49:33; Proverbs 14:32; Luke 16:22–23
- 11 Isaiah 19:5; Jeremiah 15:18; Job 6:15–18
- 12 Job 10:21–22; Isaiah 26:19; Ecclesiastes 3:19–21; Job 3:13; 2 Peter 3:10–13
- 13 Isaiah 57:1–2; Isaiah 26:20–21; Mark 13:32; Job 3:17–19; Isaiah 12:1
- 14 1 Corinthians 15:51–52; Acts 26:8; Psalm 27:14; Job 7:1; Job 13:15
- 15 Job 13:22; Psalm 138:8; Job 7:21; Job 10:3; Job 10:8
- 16 Job 10:6; Job 31:4; Psalm 139:1–4; Job 34:21; Proverbs 5:21
- 17 Deuteronomy 32:34; Hosea 13:12; Job 21:19
- 18 Revelation 6:14; Job 18:4; Jeremiah 4:24; Psalm 102:25–26; Isaiah 54:10
- 19 Job 7:6; Job 19:10; Job 27:8; Luke 12:19–20; Genesis 6:17
- 20 Job 2:12; Job 14:14; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Lamentations 4:8
- 21 Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 2:18–19; Isaiah 63:16; Isaiah 39:7–8; Psalm 39:6
- 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).
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)
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)
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)