Job · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Job 38 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 El Señor respondió a Job desde el torbellino:
1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
2 ¿Quién es este que oscurece el propósito de Dios con palabras sin conocimiento?
2 “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Prepárate como un guerrero; yo te haré preguntas y tú me responderás.
3 Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
4 ¿Dónde estabas cuando puse los cimientos de la tierra? Dímelo, si lo sabes.
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
5 ¿Quién fijó sus medidas? Dímelo, si tienes sabiduría. ¿Quién extendió sobre ella la cuerda de medir?
5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
6 ¿Sobre qué descansan sus columnas? ¿Quién puso su piedra angular,
6 What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 mientras las estrellas de la mañana cantaban juntas y todos los hijos de Dios gritaban de alegría?
7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 ¿Dónde estabas cuando nació el mar y salió de su escondite,
8 “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
9 cuando hice de las nubes su ropa y lo envolví en nubes espesas,
9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 cuando le fijé un límite y le puse puertas con cerrojos,
10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
11 y le dije: «Hasta aquí llegarás y no más allá; aquí se detendrá el orgullo de tus olas»?
11 and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
12 ¿Has dado alguna vez órdenes a la mañana? ¿Has indicado al amanecer su lugar,
12 “Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 para que tome la tierra por sus bordes y sacuda de ella a los malvados?
13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
14 La tierra cambia como el barro bajo un sello y se colorea como una prenda.
14 It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
15 A los malvados se les quita la luz y se les rompe el brazo orgulloso.
15 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
16 ¿Has llegado a los manantiales del mar o caminado por los lugares ocultos de sus profundidades?
16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 ¿Se te han abierto las puertas de la muerte? ¿Te han visto los guardianes de las puertas de la oscuridad?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 ¿Has contemplado la extensión de la tierra? Dímelo, si la conoces toda.
18 Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
19 ¿Cuál es el camino hacia la morada de la luz? ¿Dónde se guarda la oscuridad,
19 “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
20 para que puedas llevarla hasta sus límites y guiarla a su casa?
20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
21 ¡Sin duda lo sabes, porque ya habías nacido entonces y tienes muchísimos años!
21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
22 ¿Has entrado en los depósitos de la nieve? ¿Has visto los almacenes del granizo,
22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 que guardo para el tiempo de angustia, para el día de la guerra y la batalla?
23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 ¿Por qué camino se reparte la luz y se esparce el viento del este sobre la tierra?
24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
25 ¿Quién abrió un canal para la lluvia y un camino para los relámpagos,
25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
26 para hacer llover sobre una tierra sin habitantes, sobre un desierto donde nadie vive,
26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
27 para regar la tierra desolada y hacer brotar pasto verde en el suelo seco?
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
28 ¿Tiene padre la lluvia? ¿Quién dio origen a las gotas del rocío?
28 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
29 ¿De qué vientre salió el hielo? ¿Quién dio a luz la escarcha del cielo?
29 Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
30 Las aguas se endurecen como piedra y la superficie de las profundidades queda cubierta.
30 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
31 ¿Puedes atar los lazos de las Pléyades o soltar las cuerdas de Orión?
31 “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
32 ¿Haces salir a Mazarot a su debido tiempo? ¿Guías a la Osa y a sus hijos?
32 Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
33 ¿Conoces las leyes de los cielos? ¿Les diste dominio sobre la tierra?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
34 ¿Puedes alzar la voz hacia las nubes y hacer que te cubra una abundancia de agua?
34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 ¿Envías los relámpagos para que salgan y te digan: «Aquí estamos»?
35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 ¿Quién puso sabiduría en las nubes altas y dio entendimiento a las luces del norte?
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
37 ¿Quién tiene sabiduría para contar las nubes? ¿Quién inclina hacia la tierra los odres del cielo,
37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
38 cuando el suelo se endurece como metal y se junta en terrones?
38 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
39 ¿Cazas alimento para la leona? ¿Consigues carne suficiente para sus cachorros,
39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40 cuando están tendidos en sus cuevas y esperan entre los matorrales?
40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 ¿Quién consigue alimento para el cuervo cuando sus crías claman a Dios y vagan por falta de comida?
41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
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).
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“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)