Job, Chapter 16
Introduction
This entry meets the strict three-criteria standard of the Theosis Library, with the manuscript text drawn directly from the same source as the scan:
- Manuscript scan: The actual folio of Codex Sinaiticus containing this passage, from the Codex Sinaiticus Project (codexsinaiticus.org). Library folio reference: 190.
- Original text: The verbatim transcription of the Sinaiticus manuscript from the Codex Sinaiticus Project, preserving uncial forms, lunate sigma, nomina sacra (e.g. ⟨θϲ⟩ = θεός), and scribal marks. Nomina sacra are shown in angle brackets to indicate the manuscript's sacred-name abbreviations.
- English translation: The King James Version (1611), retrieved verbatim from the public-domain bible-api.com endpoint.
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1ϋπολαβων δε ϊωβʼ λεγει 2ακηκοα τοιαυτα πολλα παρακλητορεϲ κακων παντεϲ 3τι γαρ · μη ταξιϲ εϲτιν ρημαϲιν πνϲ η τι παρενοχληϲι ϲοι · οτι αποκρινη 4καγω καθʼ ϋμαϲ λαληϲω ει ϋπεκειτο γε η ψυχη ϋμων αντι τηϲ εμηϲ ειτʼ εναλουμαι υμιν ρημαϲιν κινηϲω δε καθ υμων κεφαλην 5 6εαν γαρ λαληϲω . ουκ αλγηϲω το τραυμα εαν δε και ϲιωπηϲω . τι ελαϲϲον τρωθηϲομαι 7νυν δε κατακοπον με πεποιηκεν μωρον ϲεϲηποτα 8και επελαβου μου . και ειϲ μαρτυριον εγενηθη και ανεϲτη εν εμοι το ψευδοϲ μου · κατα προϲωπον μου ανταπεκριθη
1Then Job answered and said, 2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. 6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9οργη χρηϲαμενοϲ κατεβαλεν με εβρυξεν επ εμοι τουϲ οδονταϲ βελη πιρατων αυτου . επ εμε επεϲεν 10ακιϲιν οφθαλμων · ενηλατο οξι επεϲεν με ειϲ τα γονατα ομοθυμαδον δη κατεδραμον επ εμοι 11παρεδωκεν γαρ με ο κϲ ειϲ χιραϲ αδικου επι δε αϲεβεϲιν εριψεν με 12ειρηνευοντα · διεϲκεδαϲεν με λαβων με τηϲ κομηϲ διετιλεν κατεϲτηϲεν με ωϲπερ ϲκοπον 13εκυκλωϲαν με λογχαιϲ βαλλοντεϲ ειϲ νεφρουϲ μου . ου φειδομενοι εξεχεαν ειϲ γην την χολην μου 14κατεβαλον με επι πτωματι εδραμον προϲ εμε δυναμενοι 15ϲαγκον ερραψαν επι βυρϲϲηϲ μου το δε ϲθενοϲ μου . εν γη εϲβεϲθη 16η γαϲτηρ μου ϲυνκεκαυται απο κλαυθμου μου επι δε βλεφαροιϲ μου ϲκια
9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. 11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. 16My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17αδικον δε ουδεν ην εν χερϲιν μου ευχη δε μου καθαρα 18γη · μη επικαλυψηϲ εφ αιματι τηϲ ϲαρκοϲ μ(ου) μηδε ειη τοποϲ τη κραυγη μου 19 20 21 22
17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. 20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 21Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! 22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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Source & Cross-References
- Source text: Codex Sinaiticus folio + transcription (codexsinaiticus.org) + KJV (bible-api.com) — view original
- Critical edition: Tischendorf 8th edition (1869) / Codex Sinaiticus transcription
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