Job 38 #catechesis/bible/job
[!abstract] God interposes and shows from the things he has made, that man cannot comprehend his power and wisdom.
Book: Job · ← Job 37 · Job 39 →
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GR μετὰ δὲ τὸ παύσασθαι Ελιουν τῆς λέξεως εἶπεν ὁ κύριος τῷ Ιωβ διὰ λαίλαπος καὶ νεφῶν
LA Respondens autem Dominus Job de turbine, dixit:
EN Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:
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GR τίς οὗτος ὁ κρύπτων με βουλήν συνέχων δὲ ῥήματα ἐν καρδίᾳ ἐμὲ δὲ οἴεται κρύπτειν
LA Quis est iste involvens sententias sermonibus imperitis?
EN Who is this that wraps up sentences in unskilful words?
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GR ζῶσαι ὥσπερ ἀνὴρ τὴν ὀσφύν σου ἐρωτήσω δέ σε σὺ δέ μοι ἀποκρίθητι
LA Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos: interrogabo te, et responde mihi.
EN Gird up your loins like a man: I will ask you, and answer me.
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GR ποῦ ἦς ἐν τῷ θεμελιοῦν με τὴν γῆν ἀπάγγειλον δέ μοι εἰ ἐπίστῃ σύνεσιν
LA Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terræ? indica mihi, si habes intelligentiam.
EN Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding.
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[!note]- Understanding…
That instinct by which he distinguishes the times of crowing in the night. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
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GR τίς ἔθετο τὰ μέτρα αὐτῆς εἰ οἶδας ἢ τίς ὁ ἐπαγαγὼν σπαρτίον ἐπ’ αὐτῆς
LA Quis posuit mensuras ejus, si nosti? vel quis tetendit super eam lineam?
EN Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know or who has stretched the line upon it?
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GR ἐπὶ τίνος οἱ κρίκοι αὐτῆς πεπήγασιν τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ βαλὼν λίθον γωνιαῖον ἐπ’ αὐτῆς
LA Super quo bases illius solidatæ sunt? aut quis demisit lapidem angularem ejus,
EN Upon what are its bases grounded? Or who laid the corner stone thereof,
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GR ὅτε ἐγενήθησαν ἄστρα ᾔνεσάν με φωνῇ μεγάλῃ πάντες ἄγγελοί μου
LA cum me laudarent simul astra matutina, et jubilarent omnes filii Dei?
EN when the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?
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GR ἔφραξα δὲ θάλασσαν πύλαις ὅτε ἐμαίμασσεν ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτῆς ἐκπορευομένη
LA Quis conclusit ostiis mare, quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens;
EN Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
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GR ἐθέμην δὲ αὐτῇ νέφος ἀμφίασιν ὁμίχλῃ δὲ αὐτὴν ἐσπαργάνωσα
LA cum ponerem nubem vestimentum ejus, et caligine illud quasi pannis infantiæ obvolverem?
EN When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?
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GR ἐθέμην δὲ αὐτῇ ὅρια περιθεὶς κλεῖθρα καὶ πύλας
LA Circumdedi illud terminis meis, et posui vectem et ostia,
EN I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:
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GR εἶπα δὲ αὐτῇ μέχρι τούτου ἐλεύσῃ καὶ οὐχ ὑπερβήσῃ ἀλλ’ ἐν σεαυτῇ συντριβήσεταί σου τὰ κύματα
LA et dixi: Usque huc venies, et non procedes amplius, et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos.
EN And I said: Hitherto you shall come, and shall go no further, and here you shall break your swelling waves.
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GR ἦ ἐπὶ σοῦ συντέταχα φέγγος πρωινόν ἑωσφόρος δὲ εἶδεν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ τάξιν
LA Numquid post ortum tuum præcepisti diluculo, et ostendisti auroræ locum suum?
EN Did you since your birth command the morning, and show the dawning of the day its place?
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GR ἐπιλαβέσθαι πτερύγων γῆς ἐκτινάξαι ἀσεβεῖς ἐξ αὐτῆς
LA Et tenuisti concutiens extrema terræ, et excussisti impios ex ea?
EN And did you hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and have you shaken the ungodly out of it?
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GR ἦ σὺ λαβὼν γῆν πηλὸν ἔπλασας ζῷον καὶ λαλητὸν αὐτὸν ἔθου ἐπὶ γῆς
LA Restituetur ut lutum signaculum, et stabit sicut vestimentum:
EN The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment.
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GR ἀφεῖλας δὲ ἀπὸ ἀσεβῶν τὸ φῶς βραχίονα δὲ ὑπερηφάνων συνέτριψας
LA auferetur ab impiis lux sua, et brachium excelsum confringetur.
EN From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.
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GR ἦλθες δὲ ἐπὶ πηγὴν θαλάσσης ἐν δὲ ἴχνεσιν ἀβύσσου περιεπάτησας
LA Numquid ingressus es profunda maris, et in novissimis abyssi deambulasti?
EN Have you entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?
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GR ἀνοίγονται δέ σοι φόβῳ πύλαι θανάτου πυλωροὶ δὲ ᾅδου ἰδόντες σε ἔπτηξαν
LA Numquid apertæ sunt tibi portæ mortis, et ostia tenebrosa vidisti?
EN Have the gates of death been opened to you, and have you seen the darksome doors?
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GR νενουθέτησαι δὲ τὸ εὖρος τῆς ὑπ’ οὐρανόν ἀνάγγειλον δή μοι πόση τίς ἐστιν
LA Numquid considerasti latitudinem terræ? indica mihi, si nosti, omnia:
EN Have you considered the breadth of the earth? Tell me, if you know all things?
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GR ποίᾳ δὲ γῇ αὐλίζεται τὸ φῶς σκότους δὲ ποῖος ὁ τόπος
LA in qua via lux habitet, et tenebrarum quis locus sit:
EN Where is the way where light dwells, and where is the place of darkness?
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GR εἰ ἀγάγοις με εἰς ὅρια αὐτῶν εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐπίστασαι τρίβους αὐτῶν
LA ut ducas unumquodque ad terminos suos, et intelligas semitas domus ejus.
EN That you may bring everything to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.
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GR οἶδα ἄρα ὅτι τότε γεγέννησαι ἀριθμὸς δὲ ἐτῶν σου πολύς
LA Sciebas tunc quod nasciturus esses, et numerum dierum tuorum noveras?
EN Did you know then that you should be born? And did you know the number of your days?
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GR ἦλθες δὲ ἐπὶ θησαυροὺς χιόνος θησαυροὺς δὲ χαλάζης ἑόρακας
LA Numquid ingressus es thesauros nivis, aut thesauros grandinis aspexisti,
EN Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, or have you beheld the treasures of the hail:
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GR ἀπόκειται δέ σοι εἰς ὥραν ἐχθρῶν εἰς ἡμέραν πολέμου καὶ μάχης
LA quæ præparavi in tempus hostis, in diem pugnæ et belli?
EN Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?
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GR πόθεν δὲ ἐκπορεύεται πάχνη ἢ διασκεδάννυται νότος εἰς τὴν ὑπ’ οὐρανόν
LA Per quam viam spargitur lux, dividitur æstus super terram?
EN By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?
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GR τίς δὲ ἡτοίμασεν ὑετῷ λάβρῳ ῥύσιν ὁδὸν δὲ κυδοιμῶν
LA Quis dedit vehementissimo imbri cursum, et viam sonantis tonitrui,
EN Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:
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GR τοῦ ὑετίσαι ἐπὶ γῆν οὗ οὐκ ἀνήρ ἔρημον οὗ οὐχ ὑπάρχει ἄνθρωπος ἐν αὐτῇ
LA ut plueret super terram absque homine in deserto, ubi nullus mortalium commoratur;
EN That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwells:
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GR τοῦ χορτάσαι ἄβατον καὶ ἀοίκητον καὶ τοῦ ἐκβλαστῆσαι ἔξοδον χλόης
LA ut impleret inviam et desolatam, et produceret herbas virentes?
EN That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
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GR τίς ἐστιν ὑετοῦ πατήρ τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ τετοκὼς βώλους δρόσου
LA Quis est pluviæ pater? vel quis genuit stillas roris?
EN Who is the father of rain? Or who begot the drops of dew?
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GR ἐκ γαστρὸς δὲ τίνος ἐκπορεύεται ὁ κρύσταλλος πάχνην δὲ ἐν οὐρανῷ τίς τέτοκεν
LA De cujus utero egressa est glacies? et gelu de cælo quis genuit?
EN Out of whose womb came the ice? And the frost from heaven who has gendered it?
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GR ἣ καταβαίνει ὥσπερ ὕδωρ ῥέον πρόσωπον δὲ ἀβύσσου τίς ἔπηξεν
LA In similitudinem lapidis aquæ durantur, et superficies abyssi constringitur.
EN The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
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GR συνῆκας δὲ δεσμὸν Πλειάδος καὶ φραγμὸν Ὠρίωνος ἤνοιξας
LA Numquid conjungere valebis micantes stellas Pleiadas, aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare?
EN Shall you be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or can you stop the turning about of Arcturus?
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[!note]- Pleiades…
Hebrew, Cimah. A cluster of seven stars in the constellation Taurus or the Bull. Arcturus, a bright star in the constellation Bootes. The Hebrew name Cesil, is variously interpreted; by some, Orion; by others, the Great Bear is understood. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
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GR ἦ διανοίξεις μαζουρωθ ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἕσπερον ἐπὶ κόμης αὐτοῦ ἄξεις αὐτά
LA Numquid producis luciferum in tempore suo, et vesperum super filios terræ consurgere facis?
EN Can you bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?
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GR ἐπίστασαι δὲ τροπὰς οὐρανοῦ ἢ τὰ ὑπ’ οὐρανὸν ὁμοθυμαδὸν γινόμενα
LA Numquid nosti ordinem cæli, et pones rationem ejus in terra?
EN Do you know the order of heaven, and can you set down the reason thereof on the earth?
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GR καλέσεις δὲ νέφος φωνῇ καὶ τρόμῳ ὕδατος λάβρῳ ὑπακούσεταί σου
LA Numquid elevabis in nebula vocem tuam, et impetus aquarum operiet te?
EN Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover you?
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GR ἀποστελεῖς δὲ κεραυνοὺς καὶ πορεύσονται ἐροῦσιν δέ σοι τί ἐστιν
LA Numquid mittes fulgura, et ibunt, et revertentia dicent tibi: Adsumus?
EN Can you send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to you: Here we are?
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GR τίς δὲ ἔδωκεν γυναιξὶν ὑφάσματος σοφίαν ἢ ποικιλτικὴν ἐπιστήμην
LA Quis posuit in visceribus hominis sapientiam? vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam?
EN Who has put wisdom in the heart of man? Or who gave the cock understanding?
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GR τίς δὲ ὁ ἀριθμῶν νέφη σοφίᾳ οὐρανὸν δὲ εἰς γῆν ἔκλινεν
LA Quis enarrabit cælorum rationem? et concentum cæli quis dormire faciet?
EN Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
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GR κέχυται δὲ ὥσπερ γῆ κονία κεκόλληκα δὲ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ λίθῳ κύβον
LA Quando fundebatur pulvis in terra, et glebæ compingebantur?
EN When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?
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GR θηρεύσεις δὲ λέουσιν βοράν ψυχὰς δὲ δρακόντων ἐμπλήσεις
LA Numquid capies leænæ prædam, et animam catulorum ejus implebis,
EN Will you take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,
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GR δεδοίκασιν γὰρ ἐν κοίταις αὐτῶν κάθηνται δὲ ἐν ὕλαις ἐνεδρεύοντες
LA quando cubant in antris, et in specubus insidiantur?
EN when they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?
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GR τίς δὲ ἡτοίμασεν κόρακι βοράν νεοσσοὶ γὰρ αὐτοῦ πρὸς κύριον κεκράγασιν πλανώμενοι τὰ σῖτα ζητοῦντες
LA Quis præparat corvo escam suam, quando pulli ejus clamant ad Deum, vagantes, eo quod non habeant cibos?
EN Who provides food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?
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[!note]- The Lord…
That is, an angel speaking in the name of the Lord. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
