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Κεφάλαιο 39
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Chapter 39
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| ΕΙ ἔγνως καιρὸν τοκετοῦ τραγελάφων πέτρας, ἐφύλαξας δὲ ὠδῖνας ἐλάφων; | Say if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if thou hast marked the calving of the hinds: |
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| ἠρίθμησας δὲ μῆνας αὐτῶν πλήρεις τοκετοῦ αὐτῶν, ὠδῖνας δὲ αὐτῶν ἔδυσας; | and if thou hast numbered the full months of their being with young, and if thou hast relieved their pangs: |
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| ἐξέθρεψας δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ παιδία ἔξω φόβου; ὠδῖνας δὲ αὐτῶν ἐξαποστελεῖς; | and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs? |
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| ἀπορρήξουσι τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν, πληθυνθήσονται ἐν γεννήματι· ἐξελεύσονται, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀνακάμψουσιν αὐτοῖς. | Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them. |
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| τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ ἀφεὶς ὄνον ἄγριον ἐλεύθερον, δεσμοὺς δὲ αὐτοῦ τίς ἔλυσεν; | And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands? |
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| ἐθέμην δὲ τὴν δίαιταν αὐτοῦ ἔρημον, καὶ τὰ σκηνώματα αὐτοῦ ἁλμυρίδα· | whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts. |
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| καταγελῶν πολυοχλίας πόλεως, μέμψιν δὲ φορολόγου οὐκ ἀκούων, | He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer. |
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| κατασκέψεται ὄρη νομὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ὀπίσω παντὸς χλωροῦ ζητεῖ. | He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing. |
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| βουλήσεται δέ σοι μονόκερως δουλεῦσαι ἢ κοιμηθῆναι ἐπὶ φάτνης σου; | And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger? |
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| δήσεις δὲ ἐν ἱμᾶσι ζυγὸν αὐτοῦ ἢ ἑλκύσει σου αὔλακας ἐν πεδίῳ; | And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain? |
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| πέποιθας δὲ ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ, ὅτι πολλὴ ἡ ἰσχὺς αὐτοῦ, ἐπαφήσεις δὲ αὐτῷ τὰ ἔργα σου; | And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou commit thy works to him? |
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| πιστεύσεις δὲ ὅτι ἀποδώσει σοι τὸν σπόρον, εἰσοίσει δέ σου τὸν ἅλωνα; | And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring it in to thy threshing-floor? |
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| πτέρυξ τερπομένων νεέλασα, ἐὰν συλλάβῃ ἀσίδα καὶ νέσσα· | The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice, |
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| ὅτι ἀφήσει εἰς γῆν τὰ ὠὰ αὐτῆς καὶ ἐπὶ χοῦν θάλψει | for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust, |
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| καὶ ἐπελάθετο ὅτι ποὺς σκορπιεῖ καὶ θηρία ἀγροῦ καταπατήσει· | and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them. |
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| ἀπεσκλήρυνε τὰ τέκνα ἑαυτῆς, ὥστε μὴ ἑαυτήν, εἰς κενὸν ἐκοπίασεν ἄνευ φόβου· | She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labours in vain without fear. |
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| ὅτι κατεσιώπησεν αὐτῇ ὁ Θεὸς σοφίαν καὶ οὐκ ἐπεμέρισεν αὐτῇ ἐν τῇ συνέσει. | For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding. |
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| κατὰ καιρὸν ἐν ὕψει ὑψώσει, καταγελάσεται ἵππου καὶ τοῦ ἐπιβάτου αὐτοῦ. | In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider. |
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| ἦ σὺ περιέθηκας ἵππῳ δύναμιν, ἐνέδυσας δὲ τραχήλῳ αὐτοῦ φόβον; | Hast thou invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror? |
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| περιέθηκας δὲ αὐτῷ πανοπλίαν, δόξαν δὲ στηθέων αὐτοῦ τόλμῃ; | And hast thou clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage? |
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| ἀνορύσσων ἐν πεδίῳ γαυριᾷ, ἐκπορεύεται δὲ εἰς πεδίον ἐν ἰσχύϊ· | He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain. |
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| συναντῶν βασιλεῖ καταγελᾷ καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποστραφῇ ἀπὸ σιδήρου· | He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword. |
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| ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ γαυριᾷ τόξον καὶ μάχαιρα, | The bow and sword resound against him; and his rage will swallow up the ground: |
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| καὶ ὀργῇ ἀφανιεῖ τὴν γῆν καὶ οὐ μὴ πιστεύσει, ἕως ἂν σημάνῃ σάλπιγξ· | and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds. |
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| σάλπιγγος δὲ σημαινούσης λέγει· εὖγε. πόρρωθεν δὲ ὀσφραίνεται πολέμου σὺν ἅλματι καὶ κραυγῇ. | And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing. |
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| ἐκ δὲ τῆς σῆς ἐπιστήμης ἕστηκεν ἱέραξ, ἀναπετάσας τὰς πτέρυγας, ἀκίνητος, καθορῶν τὰ πρὸς νότον; | And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south? |
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| ἐπὶ δὲ σῷ προστάγματι ὑψοῦται ἀετός, γὺψ δὲ ἐπὶ νοσσιᾶς αὐτοῦ καθεσθεὶς αὐλίζεται | And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest, |
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| ἐπ᾿ ἐξοχῇ πέτρας καὶ ἀποκρύφῳ; | on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place? |
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| ἐκεῖσε ὢν ζητεῖ τὰ σῖτα, πόρρωθεν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ σκοπεύουσι· | Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far. |
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| νεοσσοὶ δὲ αὐτοῦ φύρονται ἐν αἵματι, οὗ δ᾿ ἂν ὦσι τεθνεῶτες, παραχρῆμα εὑρίσκονται. | And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcases may be, immediately they are found. |
