Job 38 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Jehová á Job desde un torbellino, y dijo:
2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
2 ¿Quién es ése que oscurece el consejo con palabras sin sabiduría?
3 Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
3 Ahora ciñe como varón tus lomos; yo te preguntaré, y hazme saber tú.
4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
4 ¿Dónde estabas cuando yo fundaba la tierra? házme[lo] saber, si tienes inteligencia.
5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
5 ¿Quién ordenó sus medidas, si lo sabes? ¿ó quién extendió sobre ella cordel?
6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,
6 ¿Sobre qué están fundadas sus basas? ¿ó quién puso su piedra angular,
7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
7 Cuando las estrellas todas del alba alababan, y se regocijaban todos los hijos de Dios?
8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
8 ¿Quién encerró con puertas la mar, cuando se derramaba por fuera [como] saliendo de madre;
9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
9 Cuando puse yo nubes por vestidura suya, y por su faja oscuridad.
10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
10 Y establecí sobre ella mi decreto, y le puse puertas y cerrojo,
11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
11 Y dije: Hasta aquí vendrás, y no pasarás adelante, y ahí parará la hinchazón de tus ondas?
12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;
12 ¿Has tú mandado á la mañana en tus días? ¿has mostrado al alba su lugar,
13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?
13 Para que ocupe los fines de la tierra, y que sean sacudidos de ella los impíos?
14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;
14 Trasmúdase como lodo bajo de sello, y viene á estar como [con] vestidura:
15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
15 Mas la luz de los impíos es quitada de ellos, y el brazo enaltecido es quebrantado.
16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
16 ¿Has entrado tú hasta los profundos de la mar, y has andado escudriñando el abismo?
17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
17 ¿Hante sido descubiertas las puertas de la muerte, y has visto las puertas de la sombra de muerte?
18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
18 ¿Has tú considerado hasta las anchuras de la tierra? Declara si sabes todo esto.
19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;
19 ¿Por dónde va el camino á la habitación de la luz, y dónde está el lugar de las tinieblas?
20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?
20 ¿Si llevarás tú [ambas cosas] á sus términos, y entenderás las sendas de su casa?
21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.
21 ¿Sabíaslo tú porque hubieses ya nacido, ó [porque es] grande el número de tus días?
22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,
22 ¿Has tú entrado en los tesoros de la nieve, ó has visto los tesoros del granizo,
23 Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?
23 Lo cual tengo yo reservado para el tiempo de angustia, para el día de la guerra y de la batalla?
24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?
24 ¿Por qué camino se reparte la luz, y se esparce el viento solano sobre la tierra?
25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;
25 ¿Quién repartió conducto al turbión, y camino á los relámpagos y truenos,
26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
26 Haciendo llover sobre la tierra deshabitada, sobre el desierto, donde no hay hombre,
27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
27 Para hartar la [tierra] desierta é inculta, y para hacer brotar la tierna hierba?
28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
28 ¿Tiene la lluvia padre? ¿ó quién engendró las gotas del rocío?
29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
29 ¿De qué vientre salió el hielo? y la escarcha del cielo, ¿quién la engendró?
30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
30 Las aguas se endurecen á manera de piedra, y congélase la haz del abismo.
31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?
31 ¿Podrás tú impedir las delicias de las Pléyades, ó desatarás las ligaduras del Orión?
32 Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
32 ¿Sacarás tú á su tiempo los signos de los cielos, ó guiarás el Arcturo con sus hijos?
33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
33 ¿Supiste tú las ordenanzas de los cielos? ¿dispondrás tú de su potestad en la tierra?
34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
34 ¿Alzarás tú á las nubes tu voz, para que te cubra muchedumbre de aguas?
35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
35 ¿Enviarás tú los relámpagos, para que ellos vayan? ¿y diránte ellos: Henos aquí?
36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
36 ¿Quién puso la sabiduría en el interior? ¿ó quién dió al entendimiento la inteligencia?
37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
37 ¿Quién puso por cuenta los cielos con sabiduría? y los odres de los cielos, ¿quién los hace parar,
38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
38 Cuando el polvo se ha convertido en dureza, y los terrones se han pegado unos con otros?
39 Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,
39 Not in this translation
40 When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
40 Not in this translation
41 Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
41 Not in this translation
Cross references (40)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 40:6; 2 Kings 2:11; Job 37:1–2; Exodus 19:16–19; 1 Kings 19:11
- 2 Job 42:3; Job 35:16; 1 Timothy 1:7; Job 34:35; Job 27:11
- 3 Job 40:7; Jeremiah 1:17; Exodus 12:11; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Peter 1:13
- 4 Psalm 104:5; Hebrews 1:10; Proverbs 30:4; Hebrews 1:2; Psalm 102:25
- 5 Isaiah 40:12; Job 11:9; Zechariah 2:1–2; Proverbs 8:27; Isaiah 40:22
- 6 Job 26:7; Psalm 104:5; Psalm 93:1; Isaiah 28:16; 2 Peter 3:5
- 7 Revelation 5:11; Job 1:6; Ezra 3:11–12; Revelation 22:16; Revelation 2:28
- 8 Genesis 1:9; Proverbs 8:29; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 104:8–9; Psalm 33:7
- 9 Genesis 1:2
- 10 Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 104:9; Psalm 33:7; Job 26:10; Genesis 1:9–10
- 11 Psalm 89:9; Proverbs 8:29; Psalm 65:6–7; Luke 8:32–33; Mark 4:39–41
- 12 Psalm 74:16; Psalm 148:3–5; Genesis 1:5; Job 8:9; Psalm 136:7–8
- 13 Psalm 104:35; Job 37:3; Exodus 14:27; Psalm 104:21–22; Job 24:13–17
- 14 Psalm 104:6; Psalm 104:2
- 15 Psalm 10:15; Psalm 37:17; Job 18:5; Proverbs 4:19; Ezekiel 30:22
- 16 Proverbs 8:24; Psalm 77:19; Job 26:5–6; Jeremiah 51:36
- 17 Psalm 9:13; Psalm 107:18; Job 3:5; Job 12:22; Psalm 107:14
- 18 Revelation 20:9; Psalm 89:11–12; Jeremiah 31:37; Isaiah 40:28; Job 28:24
- 19 Ezekiel 32:8; Matthew 27:45; Isaiah 45:7; Genesis 1:3–4; Amos 4:13
- 20 Job 26:10; Genesis 10:19; Genesis 23:17
- 21 Job 15:7; Job 38:4; Job 38:12
- 22 Job 37:6; Psalm 135:7; Psalm 33:7; Job 6:16
- 23 Joshua 10:11; Isaiah 30:30; Revelation 16:21; Exodus 9:18; Job 36:13
- 24 Job 38:12–13; Jonah 4:8; Matthew 24:27
- 25 Job 28:26; Psalm 29:3–10; Job 36:27–28; Job 37:3–6
- 26 Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 107:35; Hebrews 6:7–8; Isaiah 35:1–2; Isaiah 43:19–20
- 27 Psalm 107:35; Psalm 104:14
- 28 Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 147:8; Jeremiah 10:13; Proverbs 3:20; Deuteronomy 33:13
- 29 Psalm 147:16–17; Job 37:10; Job 6:16; Job 38:8
- 30 Job 37:10
- 31 Amos 5:8; Job 9:9
- 32 Job 38:31; 2 Kings 23:5; Job 9:9
- 33 Jeremiah 31:35–36; Genesis 8:22; Psalm 148:6; Job 38:12–13; Jeremiah 33:25
- 34 Job 22:11; Zechariah 10:1; James 5:18; Job 36:27–28; 1 Samuel 12:18
- 35 Job 36:32; Job 37:3; 2 Kings 1:14; Revelation 11:5–6; Numbers 16:35
- 36 Job 32:8; Psalm 51:6; Proverbs 2:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26; James 1:5
- 37 Psalm 147:4; Genesis 9:15; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 15:5
- 39 Psalm 104:21; Job 4:10–11; Psalm 34:10; Psalm 145:15–16
- 40 Job 37:8; Numbers 24:9; Numbers 23:24; Genesis 49:9
- 41 Luke 12:24; Matthew 6:26; Psalm 147:9; Psalm 104:27–28
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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 is the father of the rain? And who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And yet, O talkative Dialectician, I will ask thee one small question, and answer thou me, as He saith to Job, Who through whirlwind and cloud giveth Divine admonitions. Are there many mansions in God's House, as thou hast heard, or only one?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Put then a limit to your thought, so that your curiosity in investigating the incomprehensible may not incur the reproaches of Job, and you be not asked by him, "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?" If ever you hear in the Psalms, "I bear up the pillars of it;" see in these pillars the power which sustains it.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… condensed the air into clouds, and bade them carry the waters of the rain, now bringing golden-tinted clouds from the north, now changing these into one uniform appearance, and again transforming them into manifold circles and other shapes? Who can number the clouds in wisdom?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds, and hath bent down the heaven to the earth: and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom: and, the cloud is not rent under Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)