Job · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Job 15 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Elifaz el temanita respondió:
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 ¿Responde un sabio con conocimientos inútiles? ¿Acaso da a luz el viento del este?
2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3 ¿Discute con palabras que no sirven y con argumentos sin valor?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 Tú debilitas el temor de Dios y con tus quejas interrumpes la adoración tranquila ante él.
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5 Tu pecado guía tus palabras y has adoptado el lenguaje de los mentirosos.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 Tu propia boca te condena, no yo; tus labios dan testimonio contra ti.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
7 ¿Fuiste el primer hombre que nació? ¿Existías antes que los montes?
7 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
8 ¿Estuviste presente en el consejo secreto de Dios? ¿Te has quedado con toda la sabiduría?
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 ¿Qué sabes tú que nosotros no sepamos? ¿Qué entiendes que nosotros no entendamos?
9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
10 Entre nosotros hay hombres de cabello blanco y de muchos años, mucho mayores que tu padre.
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
11 ¿No te bastan el consuelo de Dios y las palabras amables que te han dirigido?
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12 ¿Por qué te dejas llevar por tu corazón y levantas así los ojos,
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13 volviéndote contra Dios y diciendo esas cosas?
13 that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14 ¿Qué es el hombre para que sea puro? ¿Cómo puede ser justo el nacido de mujer?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Dios no confía ni siquiera en sus seres santos, y los cielos no son puros ante sus ojos.
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 ¡Cuánto menos este ser repugnante e impuro, el hombre que bebe la maldad como agua!
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 Escúchame y presta atención; te contaré lo que he visto,
17 “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
18 lo que los sabios recibieron de sus padres y no nos han ocultado.
18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19 Solo a ellos se les dio la tierra y no había extranjeros entre ellos.
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
20 El malvado sufre toda su vida y son pocos los años reservados para el cruel.
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 Oye ruidos que lo aterrorizan; cuando está en paz, le llega la destrucción.
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
22 No espera salir a salvo de la oscuridad; la espada lo aguarda.
22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 Anda buscando pan y pregunta: «¿Dónde está?». Sabe que le espera el día de la desgracia.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Teme mucho aquel día oscuro; la angustia y el dolor lo dominan.
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 Porque levantó la mano contra Dios y se llenó de orgullo contra el Todopoderoso,
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26 se lanzó contra él como un guerrero cubierto con una gruesa coraza, como un rey listo para la batalla.
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
27 Su rostro está cubierto de grasa y su cuerpo ha engordado.
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28 Se ha instalado en ciudades destruidas, en casas donde nadie tenía derecho a vivir, destinadas a quedar en ruinas.
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 No se enriquecerá ni conservará lo que tiene; sus espigas no se doblarán hasta el suelo.
29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
30 No saldrá de la oscuridad; el fuego quemará sus ramas y el viento se llevará sus brotes.
30 He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
31 Que no se engañe poniendo su esperanza en lo falso, porque el engaño será su recompensa.
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 Su rama será cortada antes de tiempo y su hoja dejará de estar verde.
32 It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
33 Será como una vid que pierde sus uvas antes de madurar, como un olivo que deja caer sus flores.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
34 La comunidad de los malvados no da fruto, y el fuego consume las tiendas de los que aceptan sobornos para juzgar injustamente.
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 Conciben maldad y dan a luz sufrimiento; el fruto que producen es su propia vergüenza.
35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
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Eliphaz the Temanite
One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1
Cross references (35)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 2:11; Job 42:7; Job 4:1; Job 42:9; Job 22:1
- 2 Job 6:26; Job 8:2; Hosea 12:1; Job 11:2–3; James 3:13
- 3 Matthew 12:36–37; Colossians 4:6; Malachi 3:13–15; Job 26:1–3; 1 Timothy 6:4–5
- 4 Romans 3:31; Psalm 36:1–3; Job 6:14; 1 Chronicles 10:13–14; Galatians 2:21
- 5 Jeremiah 9:3–5; James 1:26; Luke 6:45; Psalm 52:2–4; Jeremiah 9:8
- 6 Luke 19:22; Matthew 12:37; Job 9:20; Job 40:8; Job 34:5–9
- 7 Psalm 90:2; Job 38:4–41; Job 12:12; Proverbs 8:22–25; Genesis 4:1
- 8 Romans 11:34; Jeremiah 23:18; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Psalm 25:14; Matthew 11:25
- 9 Job 13:2; 2 Corinthians 11:5; 2 Corinthians 10:7; Job 26:3–4; Job 12:3
- 10 Job 32:6–7; Job 12:12; Job 8:8–10; Deuteronomy 32:7; Proverbs 16:31
- 11 2 Corinthians 1:3–5; Job 13:2; Job 5:8–26; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Corinthians 7:6
- 12 Psalm 35:19; Mark 7:21–22; Job 17:2; Job 11:13; James 1:14–15
- 13 James 3:2–6; Job 15:25–27; Psalm 34:13; Job 12:6; Malachi 3:13
- 14 Ecclesiastes 7:20; Job 14:4; Proverbs 20:9; Romans 7:18; Job 25:4–6
- 15 Job 25:5; Job 4:18; Isaiah 6:2–5; Job 5:1
- 16 Proverbs 19:28; Job 34:7; Romans 3:9–19; Titus 3:3; Psalm 53:3
- 17 Job 33:1; Job 13:5–6; Job 5:27; Job 34:2; Job 36:2
- 18 Job 8:8; Psalm 71:18; Isaiah 38:19; Psalm 78:3–6; Job 15:10
- 19 Joel 3:17; Deuteronomy 32:8; Genesis 10:25; Genesis 10:32
- 20 James 5:1–6; Job 27:13; Job 24:1; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 90:12
- 21 Job 18:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Leviticus 26:36; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Job 1:13–19
- 22 Job 20:24–25; Job 27:14; Isaiah 8:21–22; Matthew 27:5; Job 19:29
- 23 Job 18:12; Psalm 109:10; Psalm 59:15; Amos 5:20; Ecclesiastes 11:8
- 24 Proverbs 6:11; Proverbs 24:34; Romans 2:9; Job 6:2–4; Psalm 119:143
- 25 Psalm 52:7; Job 9:4; Daniel 5:23; Psalm 73:9; Malachi 3:13
- 26 2 Chronicles 32:13–17; 2 Chronicles 28:22; Genesis 49:8; Psalm 18:40; Job 16:12
- 27 Psalm 17:10; Psalm 73:7; Jeremiah 5:28; Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 32:15
- 28 Job 3:14; Jeremiah 51:37; Micah 7:18; Jeremiah 26:18; Jeremiah 9:11
- 29 Job 27:16–17; James 1:11; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 49:16–17; Luke 16:19–22
- 30 Job 4:9; Job 15:22; Job 18:5–6; Job 20:26; Matthew 25:41
- 31 Isaiah 59:4; Galatians 6:3; Psalm 62:10; Galatians 6:7–8; Hosea 8:7
- 32 Ecclesiastes 7:17; Psalm 55:23; Job 22:16; Hosea 9:16; Isaiah 27:11
- 33 Deuteronomy 28:39–40; Isaiah 33:9; Revelation 6:13
- 34 Job 8:13; Job 27:8; Micah 7:2; Job 8:22; Matthew 24:51
- 35 Psalm 7:14; Hosea 10:13; Isaiah 59:4–5; James 1:15; Galatians 6:7–8
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