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Job 12

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1 ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ιωβ λέγει 2 εἶτα ὑμεῖς ἐστε ἄνθρωποι ἦ μεθ' ὑμῶν τελευτήσει σοφία 3 κἀμοὶ μὲν καρδία καθ' ὑμᾶς ἐστιν 4 δίκαιος γὰρ ἀνὴρ καὶ ἄμεμπτος ἐγενήθη εἰς χλεύασμα 5 εἰς χρόνον γὰρ τακτὸν ἡτοίμαστο πεσεῖν ὑπὸ ἄλλους οἴκους τε αὐτοῦ ἐκπορθεῖσθαι ὑπὸ ἀνόμων 6 οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ μηδεὶς πεποιθέτω πονηρὸς ὢν ἀθῷος ἔσεσθαι ὅσοι παροργίζουσιν τὸν κύριον ὡς οὐχὶ καὶ ἔτασις αὐτῶν ἔσται 7 ἀλλὰ δὴ ἐπερώτησον τετράποδα ἐάν σοι εἴπωσιν πετεινὰ δὲ οὐρανοῦ ἐάν σοι ἀπαγγείλωσιν 8 ἐκδιήγησαι δὲ γῇ ἐάν σοι φράσῃ καὶ ἐξηγήσονταί σοι οἱ ἰχθύες τῆς θαλάσσης 9 τίς οὐκ ἔγνω ἐν πᾶσι τούτοις ὅτι χεὶρ κυρίου ἐποίησεν ταῦτα 10 εἰ μὴ ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ ψυχὴ πάντων τῶν ζώντων καὶ πνεῦμα παντὸς ἀνθρώπου 11 οὖς μὲν γὰρ ῥήματα διακρίνει λάρυγξ δὲ σῖτα γεύεται 12 ἐν πολλῷ χρόνῳ σοφία ἐν δὲ πολλῷ βίῳ ἐπιστήμη 13 παρ' αὐτῷ σοφία καὶ δύναμις αὐτῷ βουλὴ καὶ σύνεσις 14 ἐὰν καταβάλῃ τίς οἰκοδομήσει ἐὰν κλείσῃ κατὰ ἀνθρώπων τίς ἀνοίξει 15 ἐὰν κωλύσῃ τὸ ὥδωρ ξηρανεῖ τὴν γῆν ἐὰν δὲ ἐπαφῇ ἀπώλεσεν αὐτὴν καταστρέψας 16 παρ' αὐτῷ κράτος καὶ ἰσχύς αὐτῷ ἐπιστήμη καὶ σύνεσις 17 διάγων βουλευτὰς αἰχμαλώτους κριτὰς δὲ γῆς ἐξέστησεν 18 καθιζάνων βασιλεῖς ἐπὶ θρόνους καὶ περιέδησεν ζώνῃ ὀσφύας αὐτῶν 19 ἐξαποστέλλων ἱερεῖς αἰχμαλώτους δυνάστας δὲ γῆς κατέστρεψεν 20 διαλλάσσων χείλη πιστῶν σύνεσιν δὲ πρεσβυτέρων ἔγνω 21 ἐκχέων ἀτιμίαν ἐπ' ἄρχοντας ταπεινοὺς δὲ ἰάσατο 22 ἀνακαλύπτων βαθέα ἐκ σκότους ἐξήγαγεν δὲ εἰς φῶς σκιὰν θανάτου 23 πλανῶν ἔθνη καὶ ἀπολλύων αὐτά καταστρωννύων ἔθνη καὶ καθοδηγῶν αὐτά 24 διαλλάσσων καρδίας ἀρχόντων γῆς ἐπλάνησεν δὲ αὐτοὺς ὁδῷ ᾗ οὐκ ᾔδεισαν 25 ψηλαφήσαισαν σκότος καὶ μὴ φῶς πλανηθείησαν δὲ ὥσπερ ὁ μεθύων

hen Job answered, and said: 2 Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you? 3 I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know? 4 He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn. 5 The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed. 6 The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that has given all into their hands: 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you. 8 Speak to the earth, and it shall answer you: and the fishes of the sea shall tell. 9 Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things? 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man. 11 Does not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eats, the taste? 12 In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence. 13 With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding. 14 If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open. 15 If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth. 16 With him is strength and wisdom: he knows both the deceivers, and him that is deceived. 17 He brings counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility. 18 He loosens the belt of kings, and girds their loins with a cord. 19 He leads away priests without glory, and overthrows nobles. 20 He changes the speech of the true speakers, and takes away the doctrine of the aged. 21 He pours contempt upon princes, and relieves them that were oppressed. 22 He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings up to light the shadow of death. 23 He multiplies nations, and destroys them, and restores them again after they were overthrown. 24 He changes the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceives them that they walk in vain where there is no way. 25 They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

1 Respondens autem Job, dixit: 2 Ergo vos estis soli homines, et vobiscum morietur sapientia? 3 Et mihi est cor sicut et vobis, nec inferior vestri sum; quis enim hæc quæ nostis ignorat? 4 Qui deridetur ab amico suo, sicut ego, invocabit Deum, et exaudiet eum : deridetur enim justi simplicitas. 5 Lampas contempta apud cogitationes divitum parata ad tempus statutum. 6 Abundant tabernacula prædonum, et audacter provocant Deum, cum ipse dederit omnia in manus eorum. 7 Nimirum interroga jumenta, et docebunt te; et volatilia cæli, et indicabunt tibi. 8 Loquere terræ, et respondebit tibi, et narrabunt pisces maris. 9 Quis ignorat quod omnia hæc manus Domini fecerit? 10 In cujus manu anima omnis viventis, et spiritus universæ carnis hominis. 11 Nonne auris verba dijudicat? et fauces comedentis, saporem? 12 In antiquis est sapientia, et in multo tempore prudentia. 13 Apud ipsum est sapientia et fortitudo; ipse habet consilium et intelligentiam. 14 Si destruxerit, nemo est qui ædificet; si incluserit hominem, nullus est qui aperiat. 15 Si continuerit aquas, omnia siccabuntur; et si emiserit eas, subvertent terram. 16 Apud ipsum est fortitudo et sapientia; ipse novit et decipientem, et eum qui decipitur. 17 Adducit consiliarios in stultum finem, et judices in stuporem. 18 Balteum regum dissolvit, et præcingit fune renes eorum. 19 Ducit sacerdotes inglorios, et optimates supplantat : 20 commutans labium veracium, et doctrinam senum auferens. 21 Effundit despectionem super principes, eos qui oppressi fuerant relevans. 22 Qui revelat profunda de tenebris, et producit in lucem umbram mortis. 23 Qui multiplicat gentes, et perdit eas, et subversas in integrum restituit. 24 Qui immutat cor principum populi terræ, et decipit eos ut frustra incedant per invium : 25 palpabunt quasi in tenebris, et non in luce, et errare eos faciet quasi ebrios.