Job 9 Bible in Basic English
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1 And Job made answer and said,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Job, y dijo:
2 Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
2 Ciertamente yo conozco que es así: ¿y cómo se justificará el hombre con Dios?
3 If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
3 Si quisiere contender con él, no le podrá responder á una [cosa] de mil.
4 He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
4 El es sabio de corazón, y poderoso en fortaleza: ¿quién se endureció contra él, y quedó en paz?
5 It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:
5 Que arranca los montes con su furor, y no conocen quién los trastornó:
6 Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:
6 Que remueve la tierra de su lugar, y hace temblar sus columnas:
7 Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.
7 Que manda al sol, y no sale; y sella las estrellas:
8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:
8 El que extiende solo los cielos, y anda sobre las alturas de la mar:
9 Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south:
9 El que hizo el Arcturo, y el Orión, y las Pléyadas, y los lugares secretos del mediodía:
10 Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.
10 El que hace cosas grandes é incomprensibles, y maravillosas, sin número.
11 See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.
11 He aquí que él pasará delante de mí, y yo no lo veré; y pasará, y no lo entenderé.
12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?
12 He aquí, arrebatará; ¿quién le hará restituir? ¿Quién le dirá, Qué haces?
13 God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.
13 Dios no tornará atrás su ira, y debajo de él se encorvan los que ayudan á los soberbios.
14 How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
14 ¿Cuánto menos le responderé yo, y hablaré con él palabras estudiadas?
15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.
15 Que aunque fuese yo justo, no responderé; antes habré de rogar á mi juez.
16 If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.
16 Que si yo le invocase, y él me respondiese, aun no creeré que haya escuchado mi voz.
17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.
17 Porque me ha quebrado con tempestad, y ha aumentado mis heridas sin causa.
18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
18 No me ha concedido que tome mi aliento; mas hame hartado de amarguras.
19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
19 Si [habláremos] de [su] potencia, fuerte por cierto es; si de juicio, ¿quién me emplazará?
20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
20 Si yo me justificare, me condenará mi boca; si [me dijere] perfecto, esto me hará inicuo.
21 I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.
21 [Bien que] yo [fuese] íntegro, no conozco mi alma: reprocharé mi vida.
22 It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.
22 Una cosa resta que yo diga: Al perfecto y al impío él los consume.
23 If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
23 Si azote mata de presto, ríese de la prueba de los inocentes.
24 The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?
24 La tierra es entregada en manos de los impíos, y él cubre el rostro de sus jueces. Si no [es él], ¿quién [es]? ¿dónde está?
25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
25 Mis días han sido más ligeros que un correo; huyeron, y no vieron el bien.
26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
26 Pasaron cual navíos veloces: como el águila que se arroja á la comida.
27 If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;
27 Si digo: Olvidaré mi queja, dejaré mi aburrimiento, y esforzaréme:
28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.
28 Contúrbanme todos mis trabajos; sé que no me darás por libre.
29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
29 Yo soy impío, ¿para qué trabajaré en vano?
30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
30 Aunque me lave con aguas de nieve, y limpie mis manos con la misma limpieza,
31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
31 Aun me hundirás en el hoyo, y mis propios vestidos me abominarán.
32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
32 Porque no es hombre como yo, para que yo le responda, y vengamos juntamente á juicio.
33 There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.
33 No hay entre nosotros árbitro que ponga su mano sobre nosotros ambos.
34 Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:
34 Quite de sobre mí su vara, y su terror no me espante.
35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.
35 Entonces hablaré, y no le temeré: porque así no estoy en mí mismo.
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 4:17; Romans 3:20; Psalm 143:2; Job 25:4; 1 Kings 8:46
- 3 Job 10:2; Job 40:2; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 1:8; Psalm 19:12
- 4 Job 36:5; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Exodus 14:17–18; Job 9:19
- 5 Luke 21:11; Matthew 27:51; Habakkuk 3:10; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:18–20
- 6 Haggai 2:6; Psalm 75:3; Hebrews 12:26; Job 26:11; Isaiah 2:21
- 7 Isaiah 13:10; Amos 8:9; Luke 21:25–26; Job 37:7; Matthew 24:29
- 8 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 104:2–3; Job 37:18; Zechariah 12:1
- 9 Amos 5:8; Genesis 1:16; Job 38:31–41; Psalm 147:4; Acts 28:13
- 10 Job 5:9; Psalm 72:18; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Daniel 4:2–3
- 11 Job 23:8–9; Job 35:14; Psalm 77:19; 1 Timothy 6:16
- 12 Job 11:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 23:13; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35
- 13 Psalm 89:10; Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 30:7; James 4:6–7
- 14 Job 11:4–5; Job 4:19; Job 9:3; Job 23:7; Job 23:4
- 15 Job 10:15; Job 8:5; Job 22:27; Job 10:2; 1 Peter 2:23
- 16 Exodus 6:9; Psalm 66:18–20; Luke 24:41; Job 29:24; Psalm 18:6
- 17 Job 16:14; Job 2:3; Job 34:6; Job 2:13; Ezekiel 13:13
- 18 Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:15; Hebrews 12:11; Job 3:20; Job 27:2
- 19 Job 9:32–33; Job 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Job 40:9–10; Matthew 6:13
- 20 Psalm 143:2; Job 34:35; Job 9:2; Psalm 130:3; Philippians 3:12–15
- 21 Job 1:1; Psalm 139:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26
- 22 Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; Job 10:8; Ezekiel 21:3–4; Luke 13:2–4
- 23 Job 24:12; Hebrews 11:36–37; Ezekiel 14:19–21; Job 8:20; Job 2:7
- 24 Job 10:3; Psalm 73:3–7; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:7–15; 2 Samuel 15:30
- 25 Job 7:6–7; James 4:14; Psalm 90:9–10; Psalm 39:5; Esther 8:14
- 26 Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 18:2; Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 4:13; 2 Samuel 1:23
- 27 Job 7:13; Psalm 77:2–3; Job 7:11; Jeremiah 8:18
- 28 Psalm 119:120; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 9:20–21; Job 14:16; Job 10:14
- 29 Job 10:7; Job 10:2; Job 10:14–17; Job 21:16–17; Jeremiah 2:35
- 30 Jeremiah 2:22; Psalm 26:6; 1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16–18; Jeremiah 4:14
- 31 Job 15:6; Philippians 3:8–9; Job 9:20; Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 64:6
- 32 Romans 9:20; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 45:9; Numbers 23:19
- 33 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 John 2:1–2; Job 9:19; Psalm 106:23; 1 Kings 3:16–28
- 34 Psalm 39:10; Job 33:7; Job 13:11; Psalm 90:11; Job 13:20–22
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).
That which a certain scripture says: "The earth was delivered into the hands of the ungodly." The flesh was given into the power of the Jews; and this that thereby the bag, as it were, might be rent asunder, whence our purchase-price might run out.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
And this Job said mystically, Which alone spread out the heaven, and walketh upon the sea as on firm ground; signifying to those who understand that He who when present here walked upon the sea is also He who aforetime made the heavens.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
"The earth is given into the hands of the wicked." What is meant by "earth" being "given into the hands of the ungodly"?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
"I slept," because "I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again." "I laid Me down and slept, and rose up again." Rage then the Jews; be "the earth given into the hands of the wicked," be the flesh left to the hands of persecutors, let them on wood suspend it, with nails …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)