Job · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Job 12 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Job respondió:
1 Then Job answered,
2 ¡Sin duda ustedes lo saben todo, y cuando mueran se acabará la sabiduría!
2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3 Pero yo también tengo entendimiento. No soy inferior a ustedes. ¿Quién no sabe esas cosas?
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
4 Soy motivo de burla para mi prójimo, yo que oro a Dios y recibo respuesta. ¡Se burlan del hombre justo e inocente!
4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
5 El que vive tranquilo desprecia al que sufre; así trata a quien está a punto de caer.
5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6 Las tiendas de los destructores están llenas de riquezas. Los que provocan la ira de Dios viven seguros, aun los que hacen de su fuerza su dios.
6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
7 Pregunta a los animales y te enseñarán; pregunta a las aves del cielo y te lo explicarán.
7 “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8 Pregunta a los animales que se arrastran por la tierra y te instruirán; los peces del mar también te lo dirán.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 ¿Quién no reconoce en todo esto la obra de la mano del Señor?
9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
10 En su mano están la vida de todo ser vivo y el aliento de todos los hombres.
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
11 El oído distingue las palabras, como la boca distingue el sabor de los alimentos.
11 Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
12 Los ancianos tienen sabiduría y una vida larga da entendimiento.
12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
13 En Dios están la sabiduría y la fuerza; suyos son el poder y el entendimiento.
13 “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
14 Lo que él derriba nadie lo reconstruye; al que él encierra nadie lo libera.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15 Si retiene las aguas, todo se seca; si las suelta, arrasan la tierra.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 En él están la fuerza y los planes sabios; en sus manos están el engañado y el que lo engaña.
16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 Quita la sabiduría de los consejeros sabios y vuelve necios a los jueces.
17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18 Desata las cadenas de los reyes y luego los ata con las suyas.
18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
19 Lleva cautivos a los sacerdotes y derriba a los que parecían seguros.
19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20 Deja sin efecto las palabras de los hombres de confianza y quita el buen juicio a los ancianos.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 Cubre de vergüenza a los jefes y quita el poder a los fuertes.
21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 Descubre lo que está escondido en la oscuridad y saca a la luz las sombras más profundas.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 Engrandece a las naciones y las destruye; extiende sus territorios y luego las abandona.
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24 Quita la sabiduría a los gobernantes de la tierra y los hace vagar por un desierto sin caminos.
24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 Andan a tientas en la oscuridad, sin luz, y se tambalean sin ayuda como borrachos.
25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Isaiah 5:21; Job 17:4; Job 17:10; Job 8:8–10; Job 11:12
- 3 Job 13:2–5; 2 Corinthians 11:21–23; Proverbs 26:4; 2 Corinthians 11:5; Job 6:6–7
- 4 Job 30:1; Job 21:3; Psalm 91:15; Job 17:6; Psalm 22:7–8
- 5 Psalm 17:5; Proverbs 13:9; Matthew 25:8; Amos 6:1–6; Psalm 123:3–4
- 6 Job 9:24; Psalm 73:11–12; Psalm 37:35; Psalm 17:14; Job 21:7–15
- 7 Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7; Proverbs 6:6; Job 21:29–30
- 9 Isaiah 41:20; Jeremiah 27:5–6; Romans 11:36; Acts 19:35; 1 Samuel 2:7
- 10 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Numbers 16:22; Job 27:3
- 11 Job 34:3; Hebrews 5:14; Job 6:30; 1 Peter 2:3; Philippians 1:10
- 12 Job 32:7; Job 15:10; Job 8:8
- 13 Job 36:5; Job 9:4; Proverbs 2:6–7; James 1:5; Job 28:20–28
- 14 Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7; Malachi 1:4; Job 11:10; Job 37:7
- 15 1 Kings 17:1; Amos 5:8; Genesis 6:17; James 5:17–18; Genesis 6:13
- 16 Job 13:9; Job 12:13; Ezekiel 14:9; 1 Kings 22:22–23; Matthew 6:13
- 17 Isaiah 29:14; 1 Corinthians 1:19–20; 2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 17:14; Job 9:24
- 18 Daniel 2:21; Psalm 116:16; Jeremiah 52:31–34; 2 Chronicles 33:11–14; Revelation 19:16
- 19 Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 37:36–38; Job 35:9; Joshua 10:24; Revelation 19:19–21
- 20 Job 32:9; Job 17:4; Job 12:24; Proverbs 10:21; Job 39:17
- 21 Psalm 107:40; 1 Kings 21:23–24; Ephesians 6:10; Acts 12:23; Exodus 16:24
- 22 Daniel 2:22; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 2:10; Job 3:5; Luke 1:79
- 23 Isaiah 9:3; Isaiah 26:15; Isaiah 60:22; Psalm 107:38; Jeremiah 33:22
- 24 Psalm 107:40; Job 12:20; Hosea 7:11; Isaiah 19:1; Daniel 4:16
- 25 Job 5:14; Psalm 107:27; Isaiah 24:20; Isaiah 19:14; Deuteronomy 28:29
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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).
Speak to the earth, if perchance it may teach thee: and though thou inquire of all things which are upon the earth, they shall not be able to tell thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)