Job 24 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)
1 Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?
1 PUESTO que no son ocultos los tiempos al Todopoderoso, ¿por qué los que le conocen no ven sus días?
1 “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.
2 Traspasan los términos, roban los ganados, y apaciéntanlos.
2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
3 They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
3 Llévanse el asno de los huérfanos; prenden el buey de la viuda.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
4 Hacen apartar del camino á los menesterosos: y todos los pobres de la tierra se esconden.
4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.
5 He aquí, como asnos monteses en el desierto, salen á su obra madrugando para robar; el desierto es mantenimiento de sus hijos.
5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.
6 En el campo siegan su pasto, y los impíos vendimian la viña [ajena].
6 They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.
7 Al desnudo hacen dormir sin ropa, y que en el frío no tenga cobertura.
7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
8 Con las avenidas de los montes se mojan, y abrazan las peñas sin tener abrigo.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
9 The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
9 Quitan el pecho á los huérfanos, y de sobre el pobre toman la prenda.
9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.
10 Al desnudo hacen andar sin vestido, y á los hambrientos quitan los hacecillos.
10 so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.
11 De dentro de sus paredes exprimen el aceite, pisan los lagares, y mueren de sed.
11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.
12 De la ciudad gimen los hombres, y claman las almas de los heridos de muerte: mas Dios no puso estorbo.
12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
13 Ellos son los que, rebeldes á la luz, nunca conocieron sus caminos, ni estuvieron en sus veredas.
13 “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
14 A la luz se levanta el matador, mata al pobre y al necesitado, y de noche es como ladrón.
14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
15 El ojo del adúltero está aguardando la noche, diciendo: No me verá nadie: y esconde su rostro.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
16 En las tinieblas minan las casas, que de día para sí señalaron; no conocen la luz.
16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
17 Porque la mañana es á todos ellos como sombra de muerte; si son conocidos, terrores de sombra de muerte [los toman].
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.
18 Son instables más que la superficie de las aguas; su porción es maldita en la tierra; no andarán por el camino de las viñas.
18 “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.
19 La sequía y el calor arrebatan las aguas de la nieve; y el sepulcro á los pecadores.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
20 Olvidaráse de ellos el seno materno; de ellos sentirán los gusanos dulzura; nunca más habrá de ellos memoria, y como un árbol serán los impíos quebrantados.
20 The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
21 He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.
21 A la mujer estéril que no paría, afligió; y á la viuda nunca hizo bien.
21 He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.
22 Mas á los fuertes adelantó con su poder: levantóse, y no se da por segura la vida.
22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
23 He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.
23 Le dieron á crédito, y se afirmó: sus ojos están sobre los caminos de ellos.
23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.
24 Fueron ensalzados por un poco, mas desaparecen, y son abatidos como cada cual: serán encerrados, y cortados como cabezas de espigas.
24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
25 And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?
25 Y si no, ¿quién me desmentirá ahora, ó reducirá á nada mis palabras?
25 If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Acts 1:7; Ecclesiastes 3:17; 2 Peter 3:7–8; Ecclesiastes 8:6–7; Psalm 36:10
- 2 Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17; Proverbs 23:10; Proverbs 22:28; Hosea 5:10
- 3 Deuteronomy 24:6; Job 22:6–9; Job 31:16–17; Deuteronomy 24:17–21; Deuteronomy 24:10–13
- 4 Proverbs 28:28; Job 24:14; Ezekiel 22:29; Amos 2:7; James 5:4–6
- 5 Micah 2:1; Psalm 104:23; Job 5:5; Job 39:5–7; Acts 23:12
- 6 Micah 6:15; Judges 6:3–6; Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:51
- 7 Exodus 22:26–27; Job 22:6; Deuteronomy 24:11–13; Job 24:10; Proverbs 31:21
- 8 Lamentations 4:5; Hebrews 11:38; Song of Songs 5:2
- 9 Nehemiah 5:5; 2 Kings 4:1
- 10 Amos 2:7–8; Deuteronomy 24:19; Amos 5:11–12
- 11 Jeremiah 22:13; James 5:4; Deuteronomy 25:4
- 12 Ecclesiastes 4:1; Psalm 50:21; Romans 2:4–5; Ecclesiastes 8:11–12; Malachi 2:17
- 13 John 3:19–20; Proverbs 4:19; Jude 6; 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12; 1 John 2:19
- 14 1 Thessalonians 5:2; Micah 2:1–2; Revelation 3:3; Psalm 10:8–10; Ephesians 5:7–11
- 15 Psalm 10:11; Proverbs 7:9–10; Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9:9; Proverbs 6:32–35
- 16 John 3:20; Ephesians 5:11–13; Ezekiel 12:12; Matthew 6:19; Ezekiel 12:5–7
- 17 Job 3:5; Jeremiah 2:26; 2 Corinthians 5:10–11; Revelation 6:16–17; Psalm 73:18–19
- 18 Deuteronomy 28:16–20; Malachi 2:2; Isaiah 23:10; Psalm 73:18–20; Psalm 69:22
- 19 Psalm 49:14; Proverbs 14:32; Luke 16:22; Job 21:13; Psalm 68:2
- 20 Proverbs 10:7; Daniel 4:14; Job 18:16–17; Ecclesiastes 8:10; Matthew 3:10
- 21 Job 29:13; 1 Samuel 1:6–7; Job 22:9; Job 31:16–18; Job 24:3
- 22 Daniel 6:4–9; John 19:12–16; Revelation 16:13–14; Esther 3:8–10; Revelation 17:2
- 23 Proverbs 15:3; Revelation 2:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Psalm 73:3–12; Amos 8:7
- 24 Psalm 37:10; James 1:11; Psalm 92:7; James 5:1–3; Psalm 37:35–36
- 25 Job 9:24; Job 11:2–3; Job 6:28; Job 27:4; Job 15:2
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