Job · American Standard Version (1901)
Job 40 American Standard Version (1901)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 Moreover Jehovah answered Job, and said,
1 ENTONCES respondió Jehová á Job desde la oscuridad, y dijo:
2 Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
2 Cíñete ahora como varón tus lomos; yo te preguntaré, y explícame.
3 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,
3 ¿Invalidarás tú también mi juicio? ¿me condenarás á mí, para justificarte á ti?
4 Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.
4 ¿Tienes tú brazo como Dios? ¿y tronarás tú con voz como él?
5 Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.
5 Atavíate ahora de majestad y de alteza: y vístete de honra y de hermosura.
6 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
6 Esparce furores de tu ira: y mira á todo soberbio, y abátelo.
7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
7 Mira á todo soberbio, y humíllalo, y quebranta á los impíos en su asiento.
8 Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?
8 Encúbrelos á todos en el polvo, venda sus rostros en la oscuridad;
9 Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
9 Y yo también te confesaré que podrá salvarte tu diestra.
10 Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity; And array thyself with honor and majesty.
10 He aquí ahora behemoth, al cual yo hice contigo; hierba come como buey.
11 Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.
11 He aquí ahora que su fuerza está en sus lomos, y su fortaleza en el ombligo de su vientre.
12 Look on every one that is proud, [and] bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.
12 Su cola mueve como un cedro, y los nervios de sus genitales son entretejidos.
13 Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hidden [place].
13 Sus huesos son fuertes [como] bronce, y sus miembros como barras de hierro.
14 Then will I also confess of thee That thine own right hand can save thee.
14 El es la cabeza de los caminos de Dios: el que lo hizo, puede hacer que su cuchillo á él se acerque.
15 Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee; He eateth grass as an ox.
15 Ciertamente los montes producen hierba para él: y toda bestia del campo retoza allá.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the muscles of his belly.
16 Echaráse debajo de las sombras, en lo oculto de las cañas, y de los lugares húmedos.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
17 Los árboles sombríos lo cubren con su sombra; los sauces del arroyo lo cercan.
18 His bones are [as] tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.
18 He aquí que él tomará el río sin inmutarse: y confíase que el Jordán pasará por su boca.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: He [only] that made him giveth him his sword.
19 ¿Tomarálo alguno por sus ojos en armadijos, y horadará su nariz?
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play.
20 Not in this translation
21 He lieth under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen.
21 Not in this translation
22 The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about.
22 Not in this translation
23 Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.
23 Not in this translation
24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?
24 Not in this translation
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 38:1; Job 40:6
- 2 1 Corinthians 2:16; Isaiah 40:14; Romans 11:34–36; Job 33:13; Isaiah 50:8
- 4 Proverbs 30:32; Job 29:9; Job 21:5; Job 42:6; Judges 18:19
- 5 Job 33:14; Psalm 62:11; Job 9:15; Job 9:3; Romans 3:19
- 6 Job 38:1; Psalm 50:3–4; 2 Peter 3:10–12; Hebrews 12:18–20
- 7 Job 38:3; Job 42:4; Job 23:3–4; Job 13:22
- 8 Romans 3:4; Job 32:2; Isaiah 28:18; Job 10:3; Psalm 51:4
- 9 Job 37:4–5; Isaiah 45:9; Psalm 89:13; Psalm 89:10; Exodus 15:6
- 10 Psalm 93:1; Psalm 149:4; Isaiah 59:17; Job 39:19; Psalm 104:1–2
- 11 Daniel 4:37; Isaiah 2:11–12; Isaiah 2:17; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 10:12–19
- 12 Isaiah 63:3; Malachi 4:3; Psalm 60:12; 1 Samuel 2:7; Zechariah 10:5
- 13 Isaiah 2:10; Psalm 49:14; Job 36:13; Job 14:13; Esther 7:8
- 14 Romans 5:6; Psalm 44:3; Ephesians 2:4–9; Psalm 44:6; Isaiah 40:29
- 15 Psalm 104:14; Job 40:20; Genesis 1:24–26; Job 39:8
- 17 Job 41:23
- 18 Isaiah 48:4; Job 7:12
- 19 Job 41:33; Psalm 104:24; Job 26:13; Isaiah 27:1; Psalm 7:12
- 20 Psalm 104:26; Psalm 104:14; Job 40:15; Psalm 147:8–9
- 21 Isaiah 19:6–7; Isaiah 35:7
- 22 Isaiah 15:7; Leviticus 23:40; Ezekiel 17:5
- 23 Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 37:25; Isaiah 28:16; Joshua 3:15; Psalm 55:8
- 24 Job 41:1–2
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
According to Job, there was in the waters the dragon that draweth up Jordan into his mouth.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)