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Job 23 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
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BBE Bible in Basic English
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 And Job made answer and said,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Job, y dijo:
2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
2 Hoy también hablaré con amargura; que es más grave mi llaga que mi gemido.
3 If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
3 ¡Quién me diera el saber dónde hallar á Dios! yo iría hasta su silla.
4 I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
4 Ordenaría juicio delante de él, y henchiría mi boca de argumentos.
5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.
5 Yo sabría lo que él me respondería, y entendería lo que me dijese.
6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
6 ¿Pleitearía conmigo con grandeza de fuerza? No: antes él la pondría en mí.
7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
7 Allí el justo razonaría con él: y escaparía para siempre de mi juez.
8 See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;
8 He aquí yo iré al oriente, y no lo [hallaré]; y al occidente, y no lo percibiré:
9 I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.
9 Si al norte él obrare, yo no lo veré; al mediodía se esconderá, y no lo veré.
10 For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.
10 Mas él conoció mi camino: probaráme, y saldré como oro.
11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
11 Mis pies tomaron su rastro; guardé su camino, y no me aparté.
12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
12 Del mandamiento de sus labios nunca me separé; guardé las palabras de su boca más que mi comida.
13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
13 Empero si él [se determina] en una cosa, ¿quién lo apartará? Su alma deseó, é hizo.
14 For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.
14 El pues acabará lo que ha determinado de mí: y muchas cosas como estas hay en él.
15 For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.
15 Por lo cual yo me espanto en su presencia: consideraré, y temerélo.
16 For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.
16 Dios ha enervado mi corazón, y hame turbado el Omnipotente.
17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
17 ¿Por qué no fuí yo cortado delante de las tinieblas, y cubrió con oscuridad mi rostro?
Cross references (16)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Job 10:1; Job 7:11; Psalm 32:4; Job 6:2–3; Psalm 77:2–9
  2. 3 Job 16:21; Job 31:35–37; Hebrews 4:6; Jeremiah 14:7; Job 13:3
  3. 4 Job 13:18; Daniel 9:18–19; Job 37:19; Genesis 18:25–32; Joshua 7:8–9
  4. 5 1 Corinthians 4:3–4; Job 13:22–23; Job 10:2; Job 42:2–6
  5. 6 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Job 13:21; Job 9:33–34; Ezekiel 20:35; Job 9:19
  6. 7 Job 13:3; Isaiah 1:18; Romans 8:1; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 3:5
  7. 8 Psalm 10:1; Job 9:11; Job 35:14; 1 Timothy 6:16; Psalm 13:1–3
  8. 9 Isaiah 8:17; Psalm 89:46
  9. 10 James 1:12; 1 Peter 1:7; James 1:2–4; Psalm 139:1–3; Zechariah 13:9
  10. 11 Psalm 44:18; 2 Peter 2:20–22; Psalm 17:5; Psalm 125:5; Romans 2:7
  11. 12 Jeremiah 15:16; Psalm 119:11; Psalm 119:103; John 4:34; Psalm 19:9–10
  12. 13 Psalm 115:3; Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 46:10; Daniel 4:35; Job 12:14
  13. 14 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Psalm 97:2; Romans 11:33; Isaiah 40:27–28
  14. 15 Psalm 119:120; Job 31:23; Psalm 77:3; Job 10:15; Job 23:3
  15. 16 Psalm 22:14; Job 27:2; Isaiah 6:5; Psalm 88:16; Deuteronomy 20:3
  16. 17 Job 19:8; Isaiah 57:1; 2 Kings 22:20; Job 18:6; Job 22:11

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).

  1. Quotes verse 23:8 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book X, Chapters XXIII–XXVIII)

    Place there is none; we go both "backward" and "forward," and there is no place.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)