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It is likely to be disturbed and troubled on both sides. But they departed, he says, like asses in a field. That is: they despised all things, they mocked all things, no one wrongs them or does them harm. 143 But he has not yet made an inspection of these things, so he will do so after this and will examine their transgressions and will not overlook them. 24,9a And they snatched, he says, an orphan from the breast 9b and they humbled the outcast. 24,10a They put the naked to sleep unjustly, 10b and they took away the bread of the hungry. 24,11a In dark places they set an ambush unjustly, 11b they did not know the way of the just. 24,12a From the city and from their own houses they cast them out, 12b and the souls of infants groaned greatly. 12c But why has he not made an inspection of these things? 24,13a While they were still on the earth, they did not understand, 13b and they did not know the way of righteousness, 13c nor did they walk in its paths. 24,14a But knowing their works, he delivered them to darkness. That is: having learned their works, or that having examined and tested, that is: having known. 24,14b And by night, he says, he will be as a thief. 24,15a And the eye of the adulterer has kept watch for the darkness 15b saying: No eye will perceive me, 15c and he has put a covering before your face. 24,16a He has dug through houses in the dark. 16b But by day they have sealed themselves up, 16c they did not know the light, 24,17a because unanimously for them morning is a shadow of death, 17b because he will recognize the disturbances of the shadow of death. 24,18a He is swift upon the face of the water; 18b may their portion be cursed. 24,19a And may their plants appear upon the dry earth; 19b for they seized the orphan’s sheaf. 24,20a Then his sin was remembered, 20b and like a mist of dew he became invisible. 20c May it be rendered to him as he has done, 20d and may every unjust man be crushed like incurable wood. 24,21a They did not pity the barren woman 21b nor did they have mercy on a little woman. 24,22a And with wrath they overthrew the powerless. 22b Therefore, when he rises up, he will not believe concerning his own life. 24,23 And being softened, let him not hope to be healed, but he will fall by disease. 24,24a For his height 144 has afflicted many. 24b And he withered like grass in the heat 24c or like an ear of corn that has fallen of itself from the stalk. 24,25a But if not, who is it that says I speak falsely 25b and will bring my words to nothing?

25,1 BUT BILDAD THE SHUHITE, ANSWERING, SAYS: 25,2a For what is the beginning

or fear from him? That is: all things are full of fear and trembling, and there is no one who will be able to escape that hand. 25,2b The one who makes, he says, the whole universe is in the highest. 25,3a For might someone suppose that there is a delay for pirates? 3b But against which of them will an ambush from him not come? 25,4a For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? 4b Or who, born of women, could purify himself? For since he said: He has not yet made an inspection of him, “yes,” he says, “there is no delay for piratical men.” And yet he speaks the opposite of what is happening; for there is a delay. But this man says these things so as to oppose Job. For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? Because, by all necessity, he is punished. For since Job was saying that “I wished to come to judgment; even if I have not sinned, yet I am punished,” to this he says that there is no one just among men. “For how will this be possible,” he says, “for one to be righteous at all? So you seek judgment and examination in vain.” 25,4c Heaven, he says, is not clean. 25,5a The one who tells the sun not to rise, and it does not rise, 5a and he commands the moon, and it does not shine, 5b and the stars are not blameless before him. 25,6a Yea, every man is rottenness 6b and a son of man is a worm. 145

26,1 BUT JOB, ANSWERING, SAYS: 26,2a To whom do you adhere, or whom are you about to help?

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ἑκατέρωθεν θορυβεῖσθαι καὶ ταράττεσθαι εἰκός. ἀπέβησαν δέ, φησίν, ὥσπερ ὄνοι ἐν ἀγρῷ. τουτέστιν· πάντων κατεφρόνησαν, πάντων κατεγέλασαν, οὐδεὶς αὐτοὺς ἀδικεῖ οὐδὲ κακῶς ποιεῖ. 143 αὐτὸς δὲ οὔπω ἐπισκοπὴν πεποίηται τούτων, ὥστε ποιήσει μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ ἐξετάσει τὰ πεπλημμελημένα αὐτοῖς καὶ οὐ παρόψεται. 24,9a ἥρπασαν δέ, φησίν, ὀρφανὸν ἀπὸ μαστοῦ 9b καὶ ἐκπεπτωκότα ἐταπείνωσαν. 24,10a γυμνοὺς ἐκοίμισαν ἀδίκως, 10b πεινώντων δὲ τὸν ψωμὸν ἀφείλοντο. 24,11a ἐν σκοτεινοῖς ἐνήδρευσαν ἀδίκως, 11b ὁδὸν δικαίων οὐκ ᾔδεισαν. 24,12a ἐκ πόλεως καὶ ἐξ οἴκων ἰδίων ἐξέβαλον αὐτούς, 12b ψυχαὶ δὲ νηπίων ἐστέναξαν μεγάλως. 12c αὐτὸς δὲ διὰ τί τούτων ἐπισκοπὴν οὐ πεποίηται; 24,13a ἔτι ὄντων αὐτῶν ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν, 13b ὁδὸν δὲ δικαιοσύνης οὐκ ᾔδεισαν, 13c οὐδὲ ἐπορεύθησαν ἀτραποὺς αὐτῆς. 24,14a γνοὺς δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ ἔργα παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς εἰς σκότος. τουτέστιν· μαθὼν τὰ ἔργα, ἢ ὅτι ἐξετάσας καὶ βασανίσας, τουτέστιν· γνούς. 24,14b καὶ νυκτός, φησίν, ἔσται ὡς κλέπτης. 24,15a καὶ ὀφθαλμὸς μοιχοῦ ἐφύλαξε σκότος 15b λέγων· οὐ προσνοήσει με ὀφθαλμός, 15c καὶ ἀποκρυβὴν πρὸ προσώπου σου ἔθετο. 24,16a διώρυξεν ἐν σκότει οἰκίας. 16b ἡμέρας δὲ ἐσφράγισαν ἑαυτούς, 16c οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν φῶς, 24,17a ὅτι ὁμοθυμαδὸν πρωὶ αὐτοῖς σκιὰ θανάτου, 17b ὅτι ἐπιγνώσεται ταραχὰς σκιὰ θανάτου. 24,18a ἐλαφρός ἐστιν ἐπὶ προσώπου ὕδατος· 18b καταραθείη ἡ μερὶς αὐτῶν. 24,19a ἀναφανείη δὲ τὰ φυτὰ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ γῆς ξηρά· 19b ἀγκαλίδα γὰρ ὀρφανοῦ ἥρπασαν. 24,20a εἶτα ἐμνήσθη αὐτοῦ ἡ ἁμαρτία, 20b καὶ ὥσπερ ὁμίχλη δρόσου ἀφανὴς ἐγένετο. 20c ἀποδοθείη αὐτῷ καθὰ ἔπραξεν, 20d συντριβείη δὲ πᾶς ἄδικος ἴσα ξύλῳ ἀνιάτῳ. 24,21a στεῖραν οὐκ ἐποίκτειραν 21b οὐδὲ γύναιον ἠλέησαν. 24,22a θυμῷ δὲ κατέστρεψαν ἀδυνάτους. 22b ἀναστὰς τοιγαροῦν οὐ μὴ πιστεύσῃ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ζωῆς. 24,23 μαλακισθεὶς δὲ μὴ ἐλπιζέτω ὑγιᾶναι, ἀλλὰ πεσεῖται νόσῳ. 24,24a πολλοὺς 144 γὰρ ἐκάκωσεν τὸ ὕψωμα αὐτοῦ. 24b ἐμαράνθη δὲ ὥσπερ χλόη ἐν καύματι 24c ἢ ὥσπερ στάχυς αὐτόματος πεσὼν ἀπὸ καλάμης. 24,25a εἰ δὲ μή, τίς ἐστιν ὁ φάμενός με ψευδῆ λέγειν 25b καὶ θήσει εἰς οὐδὲν τὰ ῥήματά μου;

25,1 ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ ∆Ε ΒΑΛ∆Α∆ Ο ΣΑΥΧΙΤΗΣ ΛΕΓΕΙ· 25,2a τί γάρ ἐστι προοίμιον

ἢ φόβος παρ' αὐτοῦ; τουτέστιν· πάντα φόβου γέμει καὶ τρόμου, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδείς, ὃς δυνήσεται τὴν χεῖρα διαφυγεῖν ἐκείνην. 25,2b ὁ ποιῶν, φησίν, τὴν σύμπασαν ἐν ὑψίστῳ ἐστίν. 25,3a μὴ γάρ τις ὑπολάβοι, ὅτι ἔστι παρέλκυσις πειραταῖς; 3b ἐπὶ τίνας δὲ αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐπελεύσεται ἔνεδρα παρ' αὐτοῦ; 25,4a πῶς γὰρ ἔσται βροτὸς δίκαιος ἔναντι κυρίου; 4b ἢ τίς ἂν ἀποκαθαρίσαι ἑαυτὸν γεννητὸς γυναικῶν; ἐπειδὴ γὰρ εἶπεν· οὔπω ἐπισκοπὴν αὐτοῦ πεποίηται, «ναί», φησίν, «οὐκ ἔστι παρέλκυσις ἀνδράσι πειραταῖς.» καὶ μὴν τοὐναντίον τῶν συμβαινόντων φησίν· ἔστι γὰρ παρέλκυσις. ἀλλ' ὥστε ἐναντιωθῆναι τῷ Ἰὼβ ταῦτά φησιν οὗτος. πῶς γὰρ ἔσται βροτὸς δίκαιος ἔναντι κυρίου; ὅτι, πᾶσα ἀνάγκη, κολάζεται. ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ὁ Ἰὼβ ἔλεγεν, ὅτι «ἐβουλόμην ἐλθεῖν εἰς κρίσιν· εἰ καὶ μὴ ἥμαρτον, ἀλλ' ὅμως κολάζομαι», πρὸς τοῦτο οὗτός φησιν, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι δίκαιος οὐδεὶς ἐν ἀνθρώποις. «πῶς γὰρ ἔσται δυνατὸν τοῦτο», φησίν, «δίκαιον ἕνα εἶναι καθόλου; ὥστε περιττῶς ζητεῖς τὴν κρίσιν καὶ τὴν ἐξέτασιν.» 25,4c οὐρανός, φησίν, οὐ καθαρός. 25,5a ὁ λέγων τῷ ἡλίῳ μὴ ἀνατέλλειν καὶ οὐκ ἀνατέλλει, 5a σελήνῃ δὲ συντάσσει, καὶ οὐκ ἐπιφαύσκει, 5b ἄστρα δὲ οὐκ ἄμεμπτα ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ. 25,6a ἔα δέ, πᾶς ἄνθρωπος σαπρία 6b καὶ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου σκώληξ. 145

26,1 ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ ∆Ε ΙΩΒ ΛΕΓΕΙ· 26,2a τίνι πρόσκεισαι ἢ τίνι μέλλεις βοηθεῖν;

2b πότερον οὐχ ᾧ πολλὴ ἰσχὺς καὶ ὁ βραχίων κραταιός ἐστιν; 26,3a τίνι συμβεβούλευσαι; οὐχ ᾧ ἡ πᾶσα σοφία; 3b ἢ τίνι ἐπακολουθεῖς; οὐχ ᾧ μεγίστη