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The frame 19:1
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And Job, taking up the discourse,participial — preposed participle — ὑπολαβών, the dialogue formula of Greek Job
says:independent — historic present — λέγει frames the whole speech
How long will you weary me? 19:2–6
2
How long will you make my soul weary,independent — ἕως τίνος — the retort opens on the friends' persistence
and pull me down with words?independent — καθαιρεῖτε — demolition language for mere λόγοι
3
Only knowindependent — γνῶτε μόνον — the imperative that governs the confession
that the Lord has dealt with me thus.content — the OG names ὁ κύριος outright where the Hebrew has Eloah
You speak against me;independent — καταλαλεῖτε — slander, the friends' speech reclassified
unashamed,participial — preposed participle — οὐκ αἰσχυνόμενοί με, leaning on the verb below
you press upon me.independent — ἐπίκεισθε — the friends as besiegers, anticipating v. 6
4
Yes, truly — I have gone astray,independent — ναὶ δή — the concession made openly
but error lodges with me:independent — αὐλίζεται πλάνος — my wandering is my own house-guest, not yours
to speak a wordphrase modifier — epexegetic infinitive — the error defined as unfitting speech
that I ought not,relative — ὃ οὐκ ἔδει — the OG moralizes the crux of the Hebrew v. 4
and my words wanderindependent — πλανᾶται — the πλάνη root doubled: the man and his words astray together
and are not in season.independent — verbless — οὐκ ἐπὶ καιροῦ, speech out of its right time
5
But come now —independent — ἔα δέ — the interjection of impatience
seeing that you exalt yourselves against me,content — ὅτι-clause — the friends' self-magnification named
you leap upon me with reproach.independent — ἐνάλλεσθε — the pouncing verb; ὄνειδος, the strophe's keyword
6
Know, therefore,independent — γνῶτε οὖν — the imperative repeated from v. 3, now with the full charge
that it is the Lord who has troubled me,content — ὁ ταράξας — articular participle: the Troubler identified
and has raised his fortress against me.content — ὀχύρωμα — the Hebrew's hunting-net becomes a Greek siege-work
The siege 19:7–12
7
Behold, I laugh at reproach;independent — the OG's startling turn — where the Hebrew cries 'Violence!', Greek Job laughs (γελῶ)
I will not speak;independent — the silence of the mocked
I will cry out —independent — κεκράξομαι — the future of κράζω; the cry breaks the silence at once
and nowhere is there judgment.independent — verbless — οὐδαμοῦ κρίμα, the missing verdict
8
I am walled about on every sideindependent — περιῳκοδόμημαι — perfect passive: the wall already stands
and can by no means pass over;independent — οὐ μή with subjunctive — the strongest possible denial
upon my face he has set darkness.independent — darkness laid on the face itself, not merely the path
9
And he has stripped my glory from me,independent — ἐξέδυσεν — the disrobing of honor
and taken the crown from my head.independent — στέφανος — regalia removed; cf. the LXX of Lam 5:16
10
He has torn me apart on every side,independent — διέσπασεν — rending, stronger than the Hebrew's demolition
and I am gone;independent — ᾠχόμην — the imperfect of a life departing
and he has cut down my hope like a tree.independent — ὥσπερ δένδρον — the bitter echo of 14:7's tree that has hope
11
Terribly has he used his anger against me,independent — δεινῶς — the adverb the OG adds to the burning
and counted me as an enemy.independent — ὥσπερ ἐχθρόν — cf. 13:24: 'why do you count me your enemy?'
12
Together his raiding bands came upon me,independent — πειρατήρια — pirate-companies; the OG's vivid word for the Hebrew's troops
and liers-in-wait encircled me on my paths.independent — ἐγκάθετοι — men planted in ambush; the siege of one man's roads
All flesh has abandoned me 19:13–20
13
My brothers have stood away from me;independent — ἀπέστησαν — the alienation catalogue opens
they have acknowledged strangers rather than me;independent — ἀλλοτρίους ἢ ἐμέ — kin preferring aliens
and my friends have become merciless.independent — ἀνελεήμονες — the friends' pity (the ἐλεήσατε Job will beg for in v. 21) already dead
14
My nearest would not own me,independent — προσεποιήσαντο — they no longer claim me as theirs
and those who knew my name have forgotten me.independent — the knowers of the name forgetting it — the OG's expansion of 'my familiar friends'
15
The neighbors of my house, and my maidservants —phrase modifier — casus pendens — the household flung forward before the verdict
I was a foreigner before them.independent — ἀλλογενής — the master an alien in his own house
16
I called my servantindependent — the social order inverted
and he did not obey;independent — οὐχ ὑπήκουσεν — the unanswered summons
my mouth kept begging.independent — ἐδέετο — imperfect: the begging goes on and on
17
And I entreated my wife,independent — ἱκέτευον — the suppliant's verb, used of his own wife
and kept calling, coaxing, the sons of my concubines.independent — κολακεύων — flattering his own household for a hearing; the OG's expansion of the difficult Hebrew
18
But they renounced me forever;independent — εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα — the renunciation permanent
whenever I rise,conditional — temporal ὅταν — leaning forward on the verb below
they speak against me.independent — the elder mocked whenever he stands
19
Those who knew me abhorred me,independent — ἐβδελύξαντο — loathing from the knowers
and those whom indeed I had loved —relative — preposed relative — οὓς δὴ ἠγαπήκειν, the pluperfect of a finished love; leaning forward
they rose up against me.independent — ἐπανέστησαν — the beloved turned insurgents
20
In my skin my flesh has rotted,independent — ἐσάπησαν — the OG reads decay where the Hebrew reads clinging bones
and my bones are held in my teeth.independent — the Greek's literal rendering of the skin-of-my-teeth crux — bones gripped ἐν ὀδοῦσιν
Pity me — and the everlasting Deliverer 19:21–27
21
Pity me,independent — ἐλεήσατε — the mercy the friends have lost (v. 13, ἀνελεήμονες)
pity me, O friends,independent — the doubled imperative — the speech's emotional hinge
for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.cause — ἡ ἁψαμένη — articular participle: the touching hand identified as the Lord's
22
And why do you pursue me even as the Lord does?independent — ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ κύριος — the friends usurping God's role as hunter
Are you not filled with my flesh?independent — slander as devouring — the idiom of eating a man piecemeal
23
For who would grantindependent — τίς ἂν δῴη — the optative wish-formula for the Hebrew's מִי־יִתֵּן
that my words be written,content — the wish's first step — γραφῆναι
and be set in a book forever,content — εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα — the permanent record
24
with an iron pen and lead,phrase modifier — instrumental phrase — stylus and lead inlay
or be engraved in the rocks!content — ἐγγλυφῆναι — the wish's climax: from book to rock-cut inscription
25
For I knowindependent — οἶδα γάρ — the certainty that outbids the monument
that everlasting is he who is about to release me upon the earth —content — the OG's reading of the Redeemer verse: ἀέναος, 'ever-flowing, eternal' — the Deliverer (ὁ ἐκλύειν με μέλλων) endures
26
to raise up my skin, which has endured these things;content — ἀναστῆσαι — the resurrection reading made explicit in the Greek: the skin that suffered will be raised
for from the Lord these things have been accomplished for me —cause — παρὰ κυρίου — the suffering and the vindication from the same hand
27
which I know within myself,relative — συνεπίσταμαι — private, certain knowledge
which my eye has seen and no other's,relative — ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου... the seeing must be personal
— and not another —relative — verbless — οὐκ ἄλλος, the stranger excluded from the vision
and all has been fulfilled for me in my bosom.independent — ἐν κόλπῳ — the longing of the Hebrew's 'my kidneys are consumed' become completion held within
Fear the judgment 19:28–29
28
But if you also say,conditional — protasis — the friends' anticipated resolve; leaning forward
'What shall we say before him,content — the quoted deliberation
and how find the root of the matter in him?' —content — ῥίζαν λόγου — the fault sought in Job himself
29
then beware, you also, of deceit;independent — apodosis — εὐλαβήθητε; ἐπικάλυμμα, the cover-up or pretext
for wrath will come upon the lawless,cause — θυμὸς ἐπ᾽ ἀνόμους — the threat turned back on the accusers
and then they will knowindependent — γνώσονται — the knowing verb one last time
where their substance is.content — ἡ ὕλη — 'their stuff/matter': the OG's cryptic last word for the Hebrew's Kethiv-Qere crux שדין/שדון
Analysis. Old Greek Job 19, laid out clause by clause. The OG is both translation and interpretation: it names ὁ κύριος where the Hebrew has Eloah, turns v. 7's cry of 'Violence!' into laughter at reproach, expands v. 4 into a small homily on untimely speech, and — most consequentially — renders the Redeemer verses (25–26) as an explicit hope of being raised: ἀέναός ἐστιν ὁ ἐκλύειν με μέλλων... ἀναστῆσαι τὸ δέρμα μου, 'everlasting is he who is about to release me... to raise up my skin.' What the Hebrew leaves as a contested glimpse, the Greek reads as resurrection — the text later Christian readers knew. Like the Hebrew, the poem runs almost entirely on flush-left parallel assertions; subordination clusters at the two 'know' pivots (vv. 3/6 and 25–27) and in the closing warning.