Job 8 #catechesis/bible/job
[!abstract] Baldad, under pretence of defending the justice of God, accuses Job, and exhorts him to return to God.
Book: Job · ← Job 7 · Job 9 →
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GR ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Βαλδαδ ὁ Σαυχίτης λέγει
LA Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit:
EN Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:
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GR μέχρι τίνος λαλήσεις ταῦτα πνεῦμα πολυρῆμον τοῦ στόματός σου
LA Usquequo loqueris talia, et spiritus multiplex sermones oris tui?
EN How long will you speak these things, and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
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GR μὴ ὁ κύριος ἀδικήσει κρίνων ἢ ὁ τὰ πάντα ποιήσας ταράξει τὸ δίκαιον
LA Numquid Deus supplantat judicium? aut Omnipotens subvertit quod justum est?
EN Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
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GR εἰ οἱ υἱοί σου ἥμαρτον ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ἀπέστειλεν ἐν χειρὶ ἀνομίας αὐτῶν
LA Etiam si filii tui peccaverunt ei, et dimisit eos in manu iniquitatis suæ:
EN Although your children have sinned against him, and he has left them in the hand of their iniquity:
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GR σὺ δὲ ὄρθριζε πρὸς κύριον παντοκράτορα δεόμενος
LA tu tamen si diluculo consurrexeris ad Deum, et Omnipotentem fueris deprecatus;
EN Yet if you will arise early to God, and will beseech the Almighty:
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GR εἰ καθαρὸς εἶ καὶ ἀληθινός δεήσεως ἐπακούσεταί σου ἀποκαταστήσει δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνης
LA si mundus et rectus incesseris: statim evigilabit ad te, et pacatum reddet habitaculum justitiæ tuæ,
EN If you will walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto you, and will make the dwelling of your justice peaceable:
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GR ἔσται οὖν τὰ μὲν πρῶτά σου ὀλίγα τὰ δὲ ἔσχατά σου ἀμύθητα
LA in tantum ut si priora tua fuerint parva, et novissima tua multiplicentur nimis.
EN In so much, that if your former things were small your latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
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GR ἐπερώτησον γὰρ γενεὰν πρώτην ἐξιχνίασον δὲ κατὰ γένος πατέρων
LA Interroga enim generationem pristinam, et diligenter investiga patrum memoriam
EN For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
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GR χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὁ βίος
LA (hesterni quippe sumus, et ignoramus, quoniam sicut umbra dies nostri sunt super terram),
EN (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow.)
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GR ἦ οὐχ οὗτοί σε διδάξουσιν καὶ ἀναγγελοῦσιν καὶ ἐκ καρδίας ἐξάξουσιν ῥήματα
LA et ipsi docebunt te, loquentur tibi, et de corde suo proferent eloquia.
EN And they shall teach you: they shall speak to you, and utter words out of their hearts.
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GR μὴ θάλλει πάπυρος ἄνευ ὕδατος ἢ ὑψωθήσεται βούτομον ἄνευ πότου
LA Numquid vivere potest scirpus absque humore? aut crescere carectum sine aqua?
EN Can the rush be green without moisture? Or sedge bush grow without water?
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GR ἔτι ὂν ἐπὶ ῥίζης καὶ οὐ μὴ θερισθῇ πρὸ τοῦ πιεῖν πᾶσα βοτάνη οὐχὶ ξηραίνεται
LA Cum adhuc sit in flore, nec carpatur manu, ante omnes herbas arescit.
EN When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it withers before all herbs.
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GR οὕτως τοίνυν ἔσται τὰ ἔσχατα πάντων τῶν ἐπιλανθανομένων τοῦ κυρίου ἐλπὶς γὰρ ἀσεβοῦς ἀπολεῖται
LA Sic viæ omnium qui obliviscuntur Deum, et spes hypocritæ peribit.
EN Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
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GR ἀοίκητος γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἔσται ὁ οἶκος ἀράχνη δὲ αὐτοῦ ἀποβήσεται ἡ σκηνή
LA Non ei placebit vecordia sua, et sicut tela aranearum fiducia ejus.
EN His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
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GR ἐὰν ὑπερείσῃ τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ στῇ ἐπιλαβομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ὑπομείνῃ
LA Innitetur super domum suam, et non stabit; fulciet eam, et non consurget.
EN He shall lean upon his house, and it shall no stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
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GR ὑγρὸς γάρ ἐστιν ὑπὸ ἡλίου καὶ ἐκ σαπρίας αὐτοῦ ὁ ῥάδαμνος αὐτοῦ ἐξελεύσεται
LA Humectus videtur antequam veniat sol, et in ortu suo germen ejus egredietur.
EN He seems to have moisture before the sun comes; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.
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GR ἐπὶ συναγωγὴν λίθων κοιμᾶται ἐν δὲ μέσῳ χαλίκων ζήσεται
LA Super acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur, et inter lapides commorabitur.
EN His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.
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GR ἐὰν καταπίῃ ὁ τόπος ψεύσεται αὐτόν οὐχ ἑόρακας τοιαῦτα
LA Si absorbuerit eum de loco suo, negabit eum, et dicet: Non novi te.
EN If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know you not.
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GR ὅτι καταστροφὴ ἀσεβοῦς τοιαύτη ἐκ δὲ γῆς ἄλλον ἀναβλαστήσει
LA Hæc est enim lætitia viæ ejus, ut rursum de terra alii germinentur.
EN For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
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GR ὁ γὰρ κύριος οὐ μὴ ἀποποιήσηται τὸν ἄκακον πᾶν δὲ δῶρον ἀσεβοῦς οὐ δέξεται
LA Deus non projiciet simplicem, nec porriget manum malignis,
EN God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:
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GR ἀληθινῶν δὲ στόμα ἐμπλήσει γέλωτος τὰ δὲ χείλη αὐτῶν ἐξομολογήσεως
LA donec impleatur risu os tuum, et labia tua jubilo.
EN Until your mouth be filled with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.
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GR οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῶν ἐνδύσονται αἰσχύνην δίαιτα δὲ ἀσεβοῦς οὐκ ἔσται
LA Qui oderunt te induentur confusione, et tabernaculum impiorum non subsistet.
EN They that hate you, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
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