Job · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Job 4 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 Τότε Ελιφάς ο Θαιμανίτης απεκρίθη και είπεν·
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 Εάν επιχειρισθώμεν να λαλήσωμεν προς σε, θέλεις δυσαρεστηθή; αλλά τις δύναται να κρατηθή από του να ομιλήση;
2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 Ιδού, συ ενουθέτησας πολλούς· και χείρας αδυνάτους ενίσχυσας.
3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
4 Οι λόγοι σου υπεστήριξαν τους κλονιζομένους, και γόνατα κάμπτοντα ενεδυνάμωσας.
4 Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
5 Τώρα δε ήλθεν επί σε τούτο, και βαρυθυμείς· σε εγγίζει, και ταράττεσαι.
5 But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
6 Ο φόβος σου δεν είναι το θάρρος σου, και η ευθύτης των οδών σου η ελπίς σου;
6 Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
7 Ενθυμήθητι, παρακαλώ· τις αθώος ων απωλέσθη; και που εξωλοθρεύθησαν οι ευθείς;
7 “Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
8 Καθώς εγώ είδον, όσοι ηροτρίασαν ανομίαν και έσπειραν ασέβειαν, θερίζουσιν αυτάς·
8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
9 εξολοθρεύονται υπό του φυσήματος του Θεού, και από της πνοής των μυκτήρων αυτού αφανίζονται·
9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
10 ο βρυγμός του λέοντος και η φωνή του αγρίου λέοντος και το γαυρίαμα των σκύμνων, εσβέσθησαν·
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 ο λέων απόλλυται δι' έλλειψιν θηράματος, και οι σκύμνοι της λεαίνας διασκορπίζονται.
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
12 Και λόγος ήλθεν επ' εμέ κρυφίως, και το ωτίον μου έλαβέ τι παρ' αυτού.
12 “Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
13 Εν μέσω των στοχασμών διά τα οράματα της νυκτός, ότε βαθύς ύπνος πίπτει επί τους ανθρώπους,
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 Φρίκη συνέλαβέ με και τρόμος, και μεγάλως τα οστά μου συνέσεισε.
14 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
15 Και πνεύμα διήλθεν απ' έμπροσθέν μου, αι τρίχες του σώματός μου ανεσηκώθησαν·
15 Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
16 εστάθη, αλλ' εγώ δεν διέκρινα την μορφήν αυτού· σχήμα εφάνη έμπροσθεν των οφθαλμών μου· ήκουσα λεπτόν φύσημα και φωνήν λέγουσαν,
16 It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
17 Ο άνθρωπος θέλει είσθαι δικαιότερος του Θεού; θέλει είσθαι ο άνθρωπος καθαρώτερος του Ποιητού αυτού;
17 ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
18 Ιδού, αυτός δεν εμπιστεύεται εις τους δούλους αυτού, και εν τοις αγγέλοις αυτού βλέπει ελάττωμα·
18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
19 πόσω μάλλον εις τους κατοικούντας οικίας πηλίνας, αίτινες έχουσι το θεμέλιον αυτών εν τω χώματι και αφανίζονται έμπροσθεν του σαρακίου;
19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
20 Από πρωΐ έως εσπέρας φθείρονται· χωρίς να νοήση τις, αφανίζονται διά παντός.
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
21 Το μεγαλείον αυτών το εν αυτοίς δεν παρέρχεται; Αποθνήσκουσιν, αλλ' ουχί εν σοφία.
21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
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Eliphaz the Temanite
One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 6:1; Job 8:1; Job 2:11; Job 22:1; Job 15:1
- 2 Job 32:18–20; Acts 4:20; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 20:9; 2 Corinthians 2:4–6
- 3 Isaiah 35:3; Proverbs 10:21; Hebrews 12:12; Luke 22:32; Job 16:5
- 4 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Proverbs 12:18; Psalm 145:14; Hebrews 12:12; Proverbs 16:23–24
- 5 Job 19:21; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Job 1:11; Hebrews 12:5; Proverbs 24:10
- 6 Proverbs 3:26; Proverbs 14:26; Job 1:1; Job 17:15; Job 23:11–12
- 7 Psalm 37:25; Job 36:7; 2 Peter 2:9; Acts 28:4; Job 8:20
- 8 Galatians 6:7–8; Proverbs 22:8; Hosea 8:7; 2 Corinthians 9:6; Hosea 10:12–13
- 9 Job 15:30; Isaiah 11:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Isaiah 30:33; Revelation 2:16
- 10 Psalm 58:6; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 57:4; Proverbs 30:14; Job 5:15
- 11 Psalm 34:10; Job 38:39; Job 8:3–4; Job 1:19; Jeremiah 4:7
- 12 Job 26:14; Psalm 62:11; 1 Corinthians 13:12
- 13 Job 33:14–16; Genesis 2:21; Genesis 15:12; Daniel 10:9; Daniel 4:5
- 14 Revelation 1:17; Job 33:19; Luke 1:12; Job 7:14; Psalm 119:120
- 15 Hebrews 1:7; Luke 24:37–39; Psalm 104:4; Daniel 5:6; Isaiah 21:3–4
- 16 1 Kings 19:12
- 17 Job 9:2; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Psalm 143:2; Jeremiah 17:9
- 18 Job 25:5–6; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; Job 15:15–16; Psalm 104:4
- 19 Job 10:9; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; Job 33:6; Psalm 39:11
- 20 Job 20:7; 2 Chronicles 21:20; Psalm 39:13; Job 18:17; Proverbs 10:7
- 21 Job 36:12; Luke 16:22–23; Job 8:22; Psalm 39:11; Luke 12:20
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