Job 14 Bible in Basic English
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1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
1 EL HOMBRE nacido de mujer, corto de días, y harto de sinsabores:
2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
2 Que sale como una flor y es cortado; y huye como la sombra, y no permanece.
3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
3 ¿Y sobre éste abres tus ojos, y me traes á juicio contigo?
4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
4 ¿Quién hará limpio de inmundo? Nadie.
5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
5 Ciertamente sus días están determinados, y el número de sus meses está cerca de ti: tú le pusiste términos, de los cuales no pasará.
6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
6 Si tú lo dejares, él dejará [de ser]: entre tanto deseará, como el jornalero, su día.
7 For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.
7 Porque si el árbol fuere cortado, aun queda de él esperanza; retoñecerá aún, y sus renuevos no faltarán.
8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;
8 Si se envejeciere en la tierra su raíz, y su tronco fuere muerto en el polvo,
9 Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.
9 Al percibir el agua reverdecerá, y hará copa como planta.
10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
10 Mas el hombre morirá, y será cortado; y perecerá el hombre, ¿y dónde estará él?
11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;
11 Las aguas de la mar se fueron, y agotóse el río, secóse.
12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
12 Así el hombre yace, y no se tornará á levantar: hasta que no haya cielo no despertarán, ni se levantarán de su sueño.
13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
13 ¡Oh quién me diera que me escondieses en el sepulcro, que me encubrieras hasta apaciguarse tu ira, que me pusieses plazo, y de mí te acordaras!
14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
14 Si el hombre muriere, ¿[volverá] á vivir? Todos los días de mi edad esperaré, hasta que venga mi mutación.
15 At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
15 Aficionado á la obra de tus manos, llamarás, y yo te responderé.
16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
16 Pues ahora me cuentas los pasos, y no das tregua á mi pecado.
17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
17 Tienes sellada en saco mi prevaricación, y coacervas mi iniquidad.
18 But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
18 Y ciertamente el monte que cae se deshace, y las peñas son traspasadas de su lugar;
19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.
19 Las piedras son desgastadas con el agua impetuosa, que se lleva el polvo de la tierra: de tal manera haces tú perecer la esperanza del hombre.
20 You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.
20 Para siempre serás más fuerte que él, y él se va; demudarás su rostro, y enviaráslo.
21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.
21 Sus hijos serán honrados, y él no lo sabrá; ó serán humillados, y no entenderá de ellos.
22 Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.
22 Mas su carne sobre él se dolerá, y entristecerse ha en él su alma.
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 5:7; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Job 7:1; Matthew 11:11
- 2 Isaiah 40:6–8; 1 Peter 1:24; Job 8:9; Psalm 103:15–16; 1 Chronicles 29:15
- 3 Psalm 144:3; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 8:4; Job 13:27; Job 13:25
- 4 John 3:6; Job 15:14; Ephesians 2:3; Romans 8:8–9; Job 25:4–6
- 5 Psalm 39:4; Acts 17:26; Job 12:10; Hebrews 9:27; Psalm 104:29
- 6 Job 7:19; Psalm 39:13; Job 7:1–2; Job 10:20; Job 7:16
- 7 Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 11:1; Job 14:14; Daniel 4:23–25; Job 19:10
- 8 1 Corinthians 15:36; John 12:24; Isaiah 26:19
- 9 Romans 11:17–24; Ezekiel 17:22–24; Ezekiel 17:3–10; Ezekiel 19:10
- 10 Job 19:26; Job 7:7–10; Genesis 49:33; Proverbs 14:32; Luke 16:22–23
- 11 Isaiah 19:5; Jeremiah 15:18; Job 6:15–18
- 12 Job 10:21–22; Isaiah 26:19; Ecclesiastes 3:19–21; Job 3:13; 2 Peter 3:10–13
- 13 Isaiah 57:1–2; Isaiah 26:20–21; Mark 13:32; Job 3:17–19; Isaiah 12:1
- 14 1 Corinthians 15:51–52; Acts 26:8; Psalm 27:14; Job 7:1; Job 13:15
- 15 Job 13:22; Psalm 138:8; Job 7:21; Job 10:3; Job 10:8
- 16 Job 10:6; Job 31:4; Psalm 139:1–4; Job 34:21; Proverbs 5:21
- 17 Deuteronomy 32:34; Hosea 13:12; Job 21:19
- 18 Revelation 6:14; Job 18:4; Jeremiah 4:24; Psalm 102:25–26; Isaiah 54:10
- 19 Job 7:6; Job 19:10; Job 27:8; Luke 12:19–20; Genesis 6:17
- 20 Job 2:12; Job 14:14; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Lamentations 4:8
- 21 Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 2:18–19; Isaiah 63:16; Isaiah 39:7–8; Psalm 39:6
- 22 Job 19:26; Job 33:19–21; Proverbs 14:32; Job 19:22; Job 19:20
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“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).
For it comes from the righteous anger of God, whereof the Scriptures say, "Man, that is born of woman, is of few days and full of anger:" for the anger of God is not like that of man, the disturbance of an excited man, but the calm fixing of righteous punishment.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Again, the rod of Aaron, though cut off and dead, budded, without the scent of waters, and though under a roof, sprouted forth into blossoms as in the fields; and though set in dry places, yielded in one night the flowers and fruit of plants watered for many years.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
he says, For if a man die, he shall live again; and immediately he adds, I will wait till I be made again; and again elsewhere, Who shall raise up on the earth my skin, which endures these things.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)