Job 16 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
BBE Bible in Basic English
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
2 Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
2 Muchas veces he oído cosas como estas: consoladores molestos sois todos vosotros.
2 “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
3 ¿Tendrán fin las palabras ventosas? ó ¿qué te animará á responder?
3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
4 También yo hablaría como vosotros. Ojalá vuestra alma estuviera en lugar de la mía, que yo os tendría compañía en las palabras, y sobre vosotros movería mi cabeza.
4 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
5 I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
5 [Mas] yo os alentaría con mis palabras, y la consolación de mis labios apaciguaría [el dolor vuestro].
5 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
6 Si hablo, mi dolor no cesa; y si dejo [de hablar], no se aparta de mí.
6 “Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
7 Empero ahora me ha fatigado: has tú asolado toda mi compañía.
7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
8 Tú me has arrugado; testigo es mi flacura, que se levanta contra mí para testificar en mi rostro.
8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
9 Su furor [me] destrizó, y me ha sido contrario: crujió sus dientes contra mí; contra mí aguzó sus ojos mi enemigo.
9 He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
10 Abrieron contra mí su boca; hirieron mis mejillas con afrenta; contra mí se juntaron todos.
10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
11 Hame entregado Dios al mentiroso, y en las manos de los impíos me hizo estremecer
11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
12 Próspero estaba, y desmenuzóme: y arrebatóme por la cerviz, y despedazóme, y púsome por blanco suyo.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
13 Cercáronme sus flecheros, partió mis riñones, y no perdonó: mi hiel derramó por tierra.
13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
14 Quebrantóme de quebranto sobre quebranto; corrió contra mí como un gigante.
14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.
15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
15 Yo cosí saco sobre mi piel, y cargué mi cabeza de polvo.
15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
16 Mi rostro está enlodado con lloro, y mis párpados entenebrecidos:
16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
17 A pesar de no haber iniquidad en mis manos, y de haber sido mi oración pura.
17 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
18 ¡Oh tierra! no cubras mi sangre, y no haya lugar á mi clamor.
18 “Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
19 Mas he aquí que en los cielos está mi testigo, y mi testimonio en las alturas.
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
20 Disputadores [son] mis amigos: [mas] á Dios destilarán mis ojos.
20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
21 ¡Ojalá pudiese disputar el hombre con Dios, como con su prójimo!
21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
22 Mas los años contados vendrán, y yo iré el camino por donde no volveré.
22 For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 13:4–5; James 1:19; Psalm 69:26; Philippians 1:16; Job 6:6
- 3 Job 6:26; Job 15:2; Job 32:3–6; Titus 2:8; Titus 1:11
- 4 Psalm 109:25; Psalm 22:7; Lamentations 2:15; 2 Kings 19:21; Jeremiah 18:16
- 5 Proverbs 27:9; Isaiah 35:3–4; Galatians 6:1; Proverbs 27:17; Job 6:14
- 6 Job 10:1; Psalm 88:15–18; Psalm 77:1–9
- 7 Job 7:3; Job 1:15–19; Proverbs 3:11–12; Micah 6:13; Job 3:17
- 8 Job 10:17; Job 19:20; Ruth 1:21; Psalm 109:24; Psalm 106:15
- 9 Psalm 35:16; Job 13:24; Lamentations 2:16; Hosea 6:1; Job 19:11
- 10 Psalm 35:15; Psalm 22:13; Isaiah 50:6; Lamentations 3:30; Micah 5:1
- 11 Psalm 27:12; Psalm 7:14; Psalm 31:8; Job 2:7; Job 1:13–19
- 12 Job 7:20; Lamentations 3:11–12; Lamentations 3:4; Job 9:17; Psalm 44:19
- 13 Job 20:25; Job 6:4; Lamentations 2:11; Romans 8:32; Genesis 49:23
- 14 Job 9:17; Joel 2:7; Judges 15:8; Lamentations 3:3–5; Psalm 42:7
- 15 Genesis 37:34; Psalm 7:5; 1 Kings 21:27; Isaiah 22:12; Psalm 75:5
- 16 Lamentations 1:16; Mark 14:34; Psalm 102:3–5; Job 17:7; Psalm 32:3
- 17 Proverbs 15:8; Psalm 66:18–19; Job 27:6–7; Job 8:5–6; Psalm 7:3–5
- 18 Isaiah 26:21; Ezekiel 24:7; Psalm 66:18–19; Genesis 4:11; Nehemiah 4:5
- 19 Romans 1:9; Genesis 31:50; 1 Thessalonians 2:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; Romans 9:1
- 20 Hebrews 5:7; Psalm 142:2; Job 17:2; Job 12:4–5; Psalm 109:4
- 21 Ecclesiastes 6:10; Isaiah 45:9; Romans 9:20; Job 40:1–5; Job 31:35
- 22 Job 14:10; Job 14:14; Job 7:9–10; Job 14:5; Ecclesiastes 12:5
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