Job 10 Bible in Basic English
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RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
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1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
1 ESTÁ mi alma aburrida de mi vida: daré yo suelta á mi queja sobre mí, hablaré con amargura de mi alma.
1 “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.
2 Diré á Dios: no me condenes; hazme entender por qué pleiteas conmigo.
2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
3 ¿Parécete bien que oprimas, que deseches la obra de tus manos, y que resplandezcas sobre el consejo de los impíos?
3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
4 Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?
4 ¿Tienes tú ojos de carne? ¿ves tú como ve el hombre?
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,
5 ¿Son tus días como los días del hombre, ó tus años como los tiempos humanos,
5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,
6 Para que inquieras mi iniquidad, y busques mi pecado,
6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
7 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
7 Sobre saber tú que no soy impío, y que no hay quien de tu mano libre?
7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
8 Tus manos me formaron y me compusieron todo en contorno: ¿y así me deshaces?
8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
9 Acuérdate ahora que como á lodo me diste forma: ¿y en polvo me has de tornar?
9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?
10 ¿No me fundiste como leche, y como un queso me cuajaste?
10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.
11 Vestísteme de piel y carne, y cubrísteme de huesos y nervios.
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
12 Vida y misericordia me concediste, y tu visitación guardó mi espíritu.
12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13 But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:
13 Y estas cosas tienes guardadas en tu corazón; yo sé que esto está cerca de ti.
13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:
14 Si pequé, tú me has observado, y no me limpias de mi iniquidad.
14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.
15 Si fuere malo, ¡ay de mí! y si fuere justo, no levantaré mi cabeza, estando harto de deshonra, y de verme afligido.
15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
16 Y subirá de punto, [pues] me cazas como á león, y tornas á hacer en mí maravillas.
16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
17 That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
17 Renuevas contra mí tus plagas, y aumentas conmigo tu furor, remudándose sobre mí ejércitos.
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
18 ¿Por qué me sacaste de la matriz? Habría yo espirado, y no me vieran ojos.
18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
19 Fuera, como si nunca hubiera sido, llevado desde el vientre á la sepultura.
19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
20 ¿No son mis días poca cosa? Cesa pues, y déjame, para que me conforte un poco.
20 Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
21 Antes que vaya para no volver, á la tierra de tinieblas y de sombra de muerte;
21 before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
22 Tierra de oscuridad, lóbrega como sombra de muerte, sin orden, y que aparece como [la] oscuridad [misma].
22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
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 7:11; 1 Kings 19:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; Job 9:21
- 2 Psalm 139:23–24; Job 9:29; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 25:7; Psalm 6:1–4
- 3 Isaiah 64:8; Job 14:15; Psalm 138:8; Jeremiah 12:1–3; Job 8:20
- 4 1 Samuel 16:7; Job 9:32; Luke 16:15; Revelation 1:14
- 5 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:2–4; Psalm 102:24–27; Hebrews 1:12; Job 36:26
- 6 Job 14:16; Psalm 10:15; Psalm 44:21; Zephaniah 1:12; Jeremiah 2:34
- 7 Deuteronomy 32:39; Psalm 139:1–2; John 10:28–30; Daniel 3:15; Job 42:7
- 8 Psalm 119:73; Job 10:3; Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 18:3–10; Genesis 6:6–7
- 9 Genesis 2:7; Isaiah 64:8; Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 45:9
- 10 Psalm 139:14–16
- 11 Ezekiel 37:4–8; Ephesians 4:16; Job 40:17–18; 2 Corinthians 5:2–3
- 12 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Matthew 6:25; Genesis 19:19
- 13 Job 23:13; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 46:9–11; Ecclesiastes 8:6–7
- 14 Job 7:21; Psalm 130:3; Exodus 34:7; Job 13:26–27; Numbers 14:18
- 15 Isaiah 3:11; Job 9:15; Job 9:20–21; Job 10:7; Malachi 3:18
- 16 Isaiah 38:13; Lamentations 3:10; Job 5:9; Hosea 13:7–8; Amos 3:8
- 17 Job 16:8; Ruth 1:21; Job 16:11–16; Job 19:6–11; Jeremiah 48:11
- 18 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Job 14:10; Job 11:20; Job 3:10–11; Jeremiah 15:10
- 19 Psalm 58:8
- 20 Job 14:1; Psalm 39:13; Psalm 39:5; Job 9:25–26; Job 7:6–7
- 21 Job 3:5; Job 16:22; 2 Samuel 12:23; Job 7:8–10; 2 Samuel 14:14
- 22 Psalm 88:12; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 3:5; Psalm 44:19; Job 38:17
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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).
Who knitted us with sinews and bones, and clothed us with skin and flesh, and, as soon as the child was born, brought streams of milk out of the breasts?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)