Job · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Job 3 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Después, Job comenzó a hablar y maldijo el día de su nacimiento.
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 Dijo:
2 Job answered:
3 ¡Que desaparezca el día en que nací, y la noche en que se dijo: «Ha venido al mundo un varón»!
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4 ¡Que aquel día sea oscuridad! Que Dios no se fije en él desde lo alto, ni brille la luz sobre él.
4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5 Que la oscuridad y la noche más negra se adueñen de él. Que lo cubra una nube y lo aterren las sombras del día.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
6 Que la oscuridad más espesa se apodere de aquella noche. Que no disfrute de los días del año ni se cuente entre los meses.
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Que aquella noche sea estéril, que en ella no se oiga ninguna voz de alegría.
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Que la maldigan los que maldicen el día, los que están dispuestos a despertar a Leviatán.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Que sus estrellas de la mañana se oscurezcan. Que espere la luz sin recibirla y no vea los primeros rayos del amanecer.
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10 Porque no cerró las puertas del vientre de mi madre, ni ocultó de mis ojos el sufrimiento.
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 ¿Por qué no morí al salir del vientre de mi madre? ¿Por qué no di mi último suspiro al nacer?
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 ¿Por qué hubo rodillas que me recibieron y pechos que me dieron leche?
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 Ahora estaría acostado y tranquilo; dormiría en paz,
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 junto a los reyes y los sabios de la tierra que se construyeron grandes casas,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 o junto a los gobernantes que poseían oro y llenaban sus casas de plata.
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 O nunca habría existido, como un niño que nace muerto, como los pequeños que nunca vieron la luz.
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17 Allí los malvados dejan de causar problemas y descansan los que ya no tienen fuerzas.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18 Allí los prisioneros descansan juntos y ya no oyen la voz del capataz.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 Allí están el pequeño y el grande, y el esclavo queda libre de su amo.
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20 ¿Por qué da Dios luz al que sufre y vida al que está lleno de amargura,
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21 a los que desean la muerte sin que llegue y la buscan más que a un tesoro escondido,
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 a los que se llenan de alegría y se regocijan cuando encuentran el sepulcro?
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 ¿Por qué da luz al hombre que no ve su camino y a quien Dios tiene encerrado?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 En lugar de comer, suspiro; mis gritos de dolor fluyen como el agua.
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25 Lo que temo me sobreviene y mi corazón se llena de angustia.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 No tengo paz, ni tranquilidad, ni descanso; solo me llega el dolor.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 20:14–15; Psalm 106:33; Psalm 39:2–3; Job 2:9–10; Job 3:3
- 3 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Jeremiah 15:10; Job 10:18–19
- 4 Matthew 27:45; Amos 5:18; Revelation 16:10; Deuteronomy 11:12; Joel 2:2
- 5 Job 10:21–22; Job 28:3; Jeremiah 2:6; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 107:14
- 7 Isaiah 13:20–22; Jeremiah 7:34; Revelation 18:22–23; Isaiah 24:8
- 8 Job 41:1; Job 41:10; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:17–18; Job 41:25
- 9 Job 41:18; Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 30:26
- 10 Ecclesiastes 6:3–5; Genesis 20:18; Jeremiah 20:17; 1 Samuel 1:5; Genesis 29:31
- 11 Isaiah 46:3; Job 10:18–19; Hosea 9:14; Jeremiah 15:10; Psalm 139:13–16
- 12 Genesis 30:3; Isaiah 66:12; Genesis 50:23; Ezekiel 16:4–5
- 13 Ecclesiastes 9:10; Job 14:10–12; Job 21:13; Job 7:21; Ecclesiastes 6:3–5
- 14 Job 15:28; Psalm 89:48; Isaiah 14:10–16; Psalm 49:14; Psalm 49:6–10
- 15 1 Kings 10:27; Job 22:25; Zephaniah 1:18; Numbers 22:18; Job 27:16–17
- 16 Psalm 58:8; Ecclesiastes 6:3; 1 Corinthians 15:8
- 17 Revelation 14:13; Job 17:16; Isaiah 57:1–2; Job 14:13; Hebrews 4:11
- 18 Job 39:7; Exodus 5:15–19; Judges 4:3; Exodus 5:6–8; Isaiah 14:3–4
- 19 Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Job 30:23; Psalm 49:2; Luke 16:22–23
- 20 Jeremiah 20:18; Job 7:15–16; 1 Samuel 1:10; Proverbs 31:6; Job 6:9
- 21 Revelation 9:6; Proverbs 2:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; 1 Kings 19:4
- 23 Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7; Isaiah 40:27; Job 12:14; Lamentations 3:9
- 24 Psalm 102:9; Psalm 42:3–4; Psalm 80:5; Psalm 38:8; Job 33:20
- 25 Job 1:5; Job 30:15; Job 31:23
- 26 Job 7:14; Job 27:9; Psalm 143:11
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