Job · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Job 3 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 Μετά ταύτα ήνοιξεν ο Ιώβ το στόμα αυτού, και κατηράσθη την ημέραν αυτού.
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 Και ελάλησεν ο Ιώβ και είπεν·
2 Job answered:
3 Είθε να χαθή η ημέρα καθ' ην εγεννήθην, και η νυξ καθ' ην είπον, Εγεννήθη αρσενικόν.
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4 Η ημέρα εκείνη να ήναι σκότος· ο Θεός να μη αναζητήση αυτήν άνωθεν, και να μη φέγξη επ' αυτήν φως.
4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5 Σκότος και σκιά θανάτου να αμαυρώσωσιν αυτήν· γνόφος να επικάθηται επ' αυτήν. Να επέλθωσιν επ' αυτήν ως πικροτάτην ημέραν.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
6 Την νύκτα εκείνην να κατακρατήση σκότος· να μη συναφθή με τας ημέρας του έτους· να μη εισέλθη εις τον αριθμόν των μηνών.
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Ιδού, έρημος να ήναι η νυξ εκείνη· φωνή χαρμόσυνος να μη επέλθη επ' αυτήν.
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Να καταρασθώσιν αυτήν οι καταρώμενοι τας ημέρας, οι έτοιμοι να ανεγείρωσι το πένθος αυτών.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Να σκοτισθώσι τα άστρα της εσπέρας αυτής· να προσμένη το φως, και να μη έρχηται· και να μη ίδη τα βλέφαρα της αυγής·
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10 διότι δεν έκλεισε τας θύρας της κοιλίας της μητρός μου, και δεν έκρυψε την θλίψιν από των οφθαλμών μου.
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 Διά τι δεν απέθανον από μήτρας; και δεν εξέπνευσα άμα εξήλθον εκ της κοιλίας;
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 Διά τι με υπεδέχθησαν τα γόνατα; ή διά τι οι μαστοί διά να θηλάσω;
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 Διότι τώρα ήθελον κοιμάσθαι και ησυχάζει· ήθελον υπνώττει· τότε ήθελον είσθαι εις ανάπαυσιν,
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 μετά βασιλέων και βουλευτών της γης, οικοδομούντων εις εαυτούς ερημώσεις·
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 ή μετά αρχόντων, οίτινες έχουσι χρυσίον, οίτινες εγέμισαν τους οίκους αυτών αργυρίου·
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 ή ως εξάμβλωμα κεκρυμμένον δεν ήθελον υπάρχει, ως βρέφη μη ιδόντα φως.
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17 Εκεί οι ασεβείς παύουσιν από του να ταράττωσι, και εκεί αναπαύονται οι κεκοπιασμένοι·
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18 εκεί αναπαύονται ομού οι αιχμάλωτοι· δεν ακούουσι φωνήν καταδυνάστου·
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 εκεί είναι ο μικρός και ο μέγας· και ο δούλος, ελεύθερος του κυρίου αυτού.
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20 Διά τι εδόθη φως εις τον δυστυχή, και ζωή εις τον πεπικραμένον την ευχήν,
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21 οίτινες ποθούσι τον θάνατον και δεν επιτυγχάνουσιν, αν και ανορύττωσιν αυτόν μάλλον παρά κεκρυμμένους θησαυρούς,
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 οίτινες υπερχαίρουσιν, υπερευφραίνονται, όταν εύρωσι τον τάφον;
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Διά τι εδόθη φως εις άνθρωπον, του οποίου η οδός είναι κεκρυμμένη, και τον οποίον ο Θεός περιέκλεισε;
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 Διότι προ του φαγητού μου έρχεται ο στεναγμός μου, και οι βρυγμοί μου εκχέονται ως ύδατα.
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25 Επειδή εκείνο, το οποίον εφοβούμην, συνέβη εις εμέ, και εκείνο, το οποίον ετρόμαζον, ήλθεν επ' εμέ.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 Δεν είχον ειρήνην ουδέ ανάπαυσιν ουδέ ησυχίαν· οργή επήλθεν επ' εμέ.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 20:14–15; Psalm 106:33; Psalm 39:2–3; Job 2:9–10; Job 3:3
- 3 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Jeremiah 15:10; Job 10:18–19
- 4 Matthew 27:45; Amos 5:18; Revelation 16:10; Deuteronomy 11:12; Joel 2:2
- 5 Job 10:21–22; Job 28:3; Jeremiah 2:6; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 107:14
- 7 Isaiah 13:20–22; Jeremiah 7:34; Revelation 18:22–23; Isaiah 24:8
- 8 Job 41:1; Job 41:10; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:17–18; Job 41:25
- 9 Job 41:18; Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 30:26
- 10 Ecclesiastes 6:3–5; Genesis 20:18; Jeremiah 20:17; 1 Samuel 1:5; Genesis 29:31
- 11 Isaiah 46:3; Job 10:18–19; Hosea 9:14; Jeremiah 15:10; Psalm 139:13–16
- 12 Genesis 30:3; Isaiah 66:12; Genesis 50:23; Ezekiel 16:4–5
- 13 Ecclesiastes 9:10; Job 14:10–12; Job 21:13; Job 7:21; Ecclesiastes 6:3–5
- 14 Job 15:28; Psalm 89:48; Isaiah 14:10–16; Psalm 49:14; Psalm 49:6–10
- 15 1 Kings 10:27; Job 22:25; Zephaniah 1:18; Numbers 22:18; Job 27:16–17
- 16 Psalm 58:8; Ecclesiastes 6:3; 1 Corinthians 15:8
- 17 Revelation 14:13; Job 17:16; Isaiah 57:1–2; Job 14:13; Hebrews 4:11
- 18 Job 39:7; Exodus 5:15–19; Judges 4:3; Exodus 5:6–8; Isaiah 14:3–4
- 19 Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Job 30:23; Psalm 49:2; Luke 16:22–23
- 20 Jeremiah 20:18; Job 7:15–16; 1 Samuel 1:10; Proverbs 31:6; Job 6:9
- 21 Revelation 9:6; Proverbs 2:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; 1 Kings 19:4
- 23 Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7; Isaiah 40:27; Job 12:14; Lamentations 3:9
- 24 Psalm 102:9; Psalm 42:3–4; Psalm 80:5; Psalm 38:8; Job 33:20
- 25 Job 1:5; Job 30:15; Job 31:23
- 26 Job 7:14; Job 27:9; Psalm 143:11
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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).
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“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).
And this he declared, when he said, "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me; and that which I was afraid of is come unto me." And again, "But I wept for every helpless man, and groaned when I saw a man in distress." So because of this, nothing of what happened confounded him, none of those …
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