Job · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Job 9 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 Και απεκρίθη ο Ιώβ και είπεν·
1 Then Job answered,
2 Αληθώς εξεύρω ότι ούτως έχει· αλλά πως ο άνθρωπος θέλει δικαιωθή ενώπιον του Θεού;
2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
3 Εάν θελήση να διαδικασθή μετ' αυτού δεν δύναται να αποκριθή προς αυτόν εν εκ χιλίων.
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
4 Είναι σοφός την καρδίαν και κραταιός την δύναμιν· τις εσκληρύνθη εναντίον αυτού και ευτύχησεν;
4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
5 Αυτός μετακινεί τα όρη, και δεν γνωρίζουσι τις έστρεψεν αυτά εν τη οργή αυτού.
5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
6 Αυτός σείει την γην από του τόπου αυτής, και οι στύλοι αυτής σαλεύονται.
6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
7 Αυτός προστάζει τον ήλιον, και δεν ανατέλλει· και κρύπτει υπό σφραγίδα τα άστρα.
7 He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
8 Αυτός μόνος εκτείνει τους ουρανούς και πατεί επί τα ύψη της θαλάσσης.
8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
9 Αυτός κάμνει τον Αρκτούρον, τον Ωρίωνα και την Πλειάδα και τα ταμεία του νότου.
9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
10 Αυτός κάμνει μεγαλεία ανεξιχνίαστα και θαυμάσια αναρίθμητα.
10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
11 Ιδού, διαβαίνει πλησίον μου, και δεν βλέπω αυτόν· διέρχεται, και δεν εννοώ αυτόν.
11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
12 Ιδού, αφαιρεί· τις θέλει εμποδίσει αυτόν; τις θέλει ειπεί προς αυτόν, Τι κάμνεις;
12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
13 Εάν ο Θεός δεν σύρη την οργήν αυτού, οι επηρμένοι βοηθοί καταβάλλονται υποκάτω αυτού.
13 “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14 Πόσον ολιγώτερον εγώ ήθελον αποκριθή προς αυτόν, εκλέγων τους προς αυτόν λόγους μου;
14 How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
15 προς τον οποίον, και αν ήμην δίκαιος, δεν ήθελον αποκριθή, αλλ' ήθελον ζητήσει έλεος παρά του Κριτού μου.
15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
16 Εάν κράξω, και μοι αποκριθή, δεν ήθελον πιστεύσει ότι εισήκουσε της φωνής μου.
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17 Διότι με κατασυντρίβει με ανεμοστρόβιλον και πληθύνει τας πληγάς μου αναιτίως.
17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18 Δεν με αφίνει να αναπνεύσω, αλλά με χορτάζει από πικρίας.
18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19 Εάν πρόκηται περί δυνάμεως, ιδού, είναι δυνατός· και εάν περί κρίσεως, τις θέλει μαρτυρήσει υπέρ εμού;
19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20 Εάν ήθελον να δικαιώσω εμαυτόν, το στόμα μου ήθελε με καταδικάσει· εάν ήθελον ειπεί, είμαι άμεμπτος, ήθελε με αποδείξει διεφθαρμένον.
20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
21 Και αν ήμην άμεμπτος, δεν ήθελον φροντίσει περί εμαυτού· ήθελον καταφρονήσει την ζωήν μου.
21 I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
22 Εν τούτο είναι, διά τούτο είπα, αυτός αφανίζει τον άμεμπτον και τον ασεβή.
22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 Και αν η μάστιξ αυτού θανατόνη ευθύς, γελά όμως εις την δοκιμασίαν των αθώων.
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24 Η γη παρεδόθη εις τας χείρας του ασεβούς· αυτός σκεπάζει τα πρόσωπα των κριτών αυτής· αν ουχί αυτός, που και τις είναι;
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
25 Αι δε ημέραι μου είναι ταχυδρόμου ταχύτεραι· φεύγουσι και δεν βλέπουσι καλόν.
25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
26 Παρήλθον ως πλοία σπεύδοντα· ως αετός πετώμενος επί το θήραμα.
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
27 Εάν είπω, Θέλω λησμονήσει το παράπονόν μου, θέλω παραιτήσει το πένθος μου και παρηγορηθή·
27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
28 τρομάζω διά πάσας τας θλίψεις μου, γνωρίζων ότι δεν θέλεις με αθωώσει.
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29 Είμαι ασεβής· διά τι λοιπόν να κοπιάζω εις μάτην;
29 I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
30 Εάν λουσθώ εν ύδατι χιόνος και επιμελώς αποκαθαρίσω τας χείρας μου·
30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 συ όμως θέλεις με βυθίσει εις τον βόρβορον, ώστε και αυτά μου τα ιμάτια θέλουσι με βδελύττεσθαι.
31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
32 Διότι δεν είναι άνθρωπος ως εγώ, διά να αποκριθώ προς αυτόν, και να έλθωμεν εις κρίσιν ομού.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
33 Δεν υπάρχει μεσίτης μεταξύ ημών, διά να βάλη την χείρα αυτού επ' αμφοτέρους ημάς.
33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
34 Ας απομακρύνη απ' εμού την ράβδον αυτού, και ο φόβος αυτού ας μη με εκπλήττη·
34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
35 τότε θέλω λαλήσει και δεν θέλω φοβηθή αυτόν· διότι ούτω δεν είμαι εν εμαυτώ.
35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 4:17; Romans 3:20; Psalm 143:2; Job 25:4; 1 Kings 8:46
- 3 Job 10:2; Job 40:2; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 1:8; Psalm 19:12
- 4 Job 36:5; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Exodus 14:17–18; Job 9:19
- 5 Luke 21:11; Matthew 27:51; Habakkuk 3:10; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:18–20
- 6 Haggai 2:6; Psalm 75:3; Hebrews 12:26; Job 26:11; Isaiah 2:21
- 7 Isaiah 13:10; Amos 8:9; Luke 21:25–26; Job 37:7; Matthew 24:29
- 8 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 104:2–3; Job 37:18; Zechariah 12:1
- 9 Amos 5:8; Genesis 1:16; Job 38:31–41; Psalm 147:4; Acts 28:13
- 10 Job 5:9; Psalm 72:18; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Daniel 4:2–3
- 11 Job 23:8–9; Job 35:14; Psalm 77:19; 1 Timothy 6:16
- 12 Job 11:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 23:13; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35
- 13 Psalm 89:10; Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 30:7; James 4:6–7
- 14 Job 11:4–5; Job 4:19; Job 9:3; Job 23:7; Job 23:4
- 15 Job 10:15; Job 8:5; Job 22:27; Job 10:2; 1 Peter 2:23
- 16 Exodus 6:9; Psalm 66:18–20; Luke 24:41; Job 29:24; Psalm 18:6
- 17 Job 16:14; Job 2:3; Job 34:6; Job 2:13; Ezekiel 13:13
- 18 Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:15; Hebrews 12:11; Job 3:20; Job 27:2
- 19 Job 9:32–33; Job 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Job 40:9–10; Matthew 6:13
- 20 Psalm 143:2; Job 34:35; Job 9:2; Psalm 130:3; Philippians 3:12–15
- 21 Job 1:1; Psalm 139:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26
- 22 Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; Job 10:8; Ezekiel 21:3–4; Luke 13:2–4
- 23 Job 24:12; Hebrews 11:36–37; Ezekiel 14:19–21; Job 8:20; Job 2:7
- 24 Job 10:3; Psalm 73:3–7; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:7–15; 2 Samuel 15:30
- 25 Job 7:6–7; James 4:14; Psalm 90:9–10; Psalm 39:5; Esther 8:14
- 26 Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 18:2; Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 4:13; 2 Samuel 1:23
- 27 Job 7:13; Psalm 77:2–3; Job 7:11; Jeremiah 8:18
- 28 Psalm 119:120; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 9:20–21; Job 14:16; Job 10:14
- 29 Job 10:7; Job 10:2; Job 10:14–17; Job 21:16–17; Jeremiah 2:35
- 30 Jeremiah 2:22; Psalm 26:6; 1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16–18; Jeremiah 4:14
- 31 Job 15:6; Philippians 3:8–9; Job 9:20; Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 64:6
- 32 Romans 9:20; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 45:9; Numbers 23:19
- 33 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 John 2:1–2; Job 9:19; Psalm 106:23; 1 Kings 3:16–28
- 34 Psalm 39:10; Job 33:7; Job 13:11; Psalm 90:11; Job 13:20–22
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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).
That which a certain scripture says: "The earth was delivered into the hands of the ungodly." The flesh was given into the power of the Jews; and this that thereby the bag, as it were, might be rent asunder, whence our purchase-price might run out.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
And this Job said mystically, Which alone spread out the heaven, and walketh upon the sea as on firm ground; signifying to those who understand that He who when present here walked upon the sea is also He who aforetime made the heavens.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
"The earth is given into the hands of the wicked." What is meant by "earth" being "given into the hands of the ungodly"?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
"I slept," because "I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again." "I laid Me down and slept, and rose up again." Rage then the Jews; be "the earth given into the hands of the wicked," be the flesh left to the hands of persecutors, let them on wood suspend it, with nails …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)