Testament of Job 31:1-8
31 1 And
after seven days of such considerations, Eliphas spoke up and said to his
fellow kings, “Let us approach him and question him carefully to see if it is
really he himself or not.”
2 But since they were about a half stadion
distant from me because of the stench of my body, they arose and approached me
with perfumes in their hands, 3 while their soldiers accompanied them
scattering incense around me so they would be able to approach me. 4 And
they spent three days furnishing the incense.
5 And when they had come near me, Eliphas spoke
up and said to me,
“Are you Jobab, our fellow king?
Are you
the one who once had vast splendor?
Are you
the one who was like the sun by day in all the land?
Are you
the one who was like the moon and the stars that shine at midnight?”
6 And I said to him, “I am indeed.”
A lament of Eliphas for Job
7 And so, after he had wept with a loud wailing (ἀναφωνέω),
he called out a royal lament8 while both the other kings and their troops
sang in response. (OTP 1:853)
Sibylline
Oracles Prologue 1:70-71:
καὶ οὐ διαδοθέντων εἰς πολλούς, ἐπειδὴ τὰ συμβησόμενα ἐν
Ἰταλίᾳ ἰδικώτερα καὶ τρανότερον ἀνεφώνησε, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων γνωσθέντων ἅπασιν. (And not
spread abroad among many, because the things that happened in Italy were more
particular and greater; and of the other things that were known, he said.)
