Job · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Job 7 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 ¿No tiene el hombre un tiempo de sufrimiento en la tierra? ¿No son sus días como los de un trabajador a sueldo?
1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
2 Como el esclavo que desea la sombra del atardecer y el trabajador que espera su pago,
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
3 así me han tocado meses de dolor sin sentido y noches de agotamiento.
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 Cuando me acuesto, pienso: «¿Cuándo podré levantarme?». La noche se alarga y no dejo de dar vueltas hasta el amanecer.
4 When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
5 Mi cuerpo está cubierto de gusanos y polvo; mi piel se endurece y vuelve a agrietarse.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
6 Mis días pasan más rápido que el hilo del tejedor y terminan sin esperanza.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 Recuerda que mi vida es un soplo y que nunca volveré a ver el bien.
7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
8 Los que ahora me ven ya no me verán. Tus ojos me buscarán, pero yo ya no estaré.
8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
9 Como una nube que se desvanece, el que baja al lugar de los muertos no vuelve a subir.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
10 No regresa a su casa y su lugar ya no lo reconoce.
10 He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
11 Por eso no guardaré silencio. Hablaré desde el dolor de mi espíritu y daré rienda suelta a mi amarga queja.
11 “Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 ¿Soy el mar o un monstruo marino, para que me pongas bajo vigilancia?
12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
13 Cuando pienso: «Mi cama me dará consuelo; allí descansaré de mi enfermedad»,
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
14 me envías sueños y visiones que me aterrorizan.
14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
15 Por eso prefiero una muerte dolorosa a estos sufrimientos.
15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
16 Ya no deseo vivir. ¡No quiero vivir para siempre! Déjame en paz, pues mis días son un soplo.
16 I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 ¿Qué es el hombre para que le des tanta importancia y fijes tu atención en él,
17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
18 para que lo examines cada mañana y lo pongas a prueba a cada momento?
18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
19 ¿Hasta cuándo seguirás mirándome? ¿No me darás siquiera un momento para respirar?
19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
20 Si he pecado, ¿qué te he hecho, guardián de los hombres? ¿Por qué me has convertido en el blanco de tus golpes, hasta volverme una carga para mí mismo?
20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
21 ¿Por qué no perdonas mi pecado y quitas mi culpa? Pronto bajaré al polvo; me buscarás, pero ya no estaré.
21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 14:5–6; Psalm 39:4; Job 5:7; Job 14:13–14; Leviticus 25:50
- 2 Leviticus 19:13; Deuteronomy 24:15; James 5:4; Malachi 3:5; Jeremiah 6:4
- 3 Psalm 6:6; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Job 16:7; Job 29:2; Psalm 39:5
- 4 Deuteronomy 28:67; Job 7:13–14; Psalm 77:4; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 130:6
- 5 Isaiah 14:11; Job 17:14; Job 2:7–8; Isaiah 1:6; Acts 12:23
- 6 Job 9:25; Job 17:15; Job 17:11; Isaiah 38:12–13; Isaiah 40:6–7
- 7 James 4:14; Psalm 78:39; Jeremiah 15:15; Psalm 89:47; Job 10:21–22
- 8 Job 20:9; Psalm 37:36; Job 8:18; Psalm 90:8–9; Job 13:27
- 9 Job 10:21; 2 Samuel 14:14; Job 30:15; Job 16:22; Job 14:10–14
- 10 Job 8:18; Job 20:9; Psalm 103:16; Job 27:23; Job 27:21
- 11 1 Samuel 1:10; Psalm 40:9; Job 10:1; Isaiah 38:15; Job 21:25
- 12 Job 7:17; Lamentations 3:7; Ezekiel 32:2–3; Job 38:6–11; Job 41:1–34
- 13 Psalm 6:6; Psalm 77:4; Job 7:3–4; Job 9:27–28
- 14 Genesis 41:8; Daniel 2:1; Genesis 40:5–7; Judges 7:13–14; Matthew 27:19
- 15 Matthew 27:5; 2 Samuel 17:23
- 16 1 Kings 19:4; Job 10:1; Job 9:21; Job 14:6; Psalm 62:9
- 17 Hebrews 2:6; Psalm 8:4; Psalm 144:3; Job 34:14–15; Job 7:12
- 18 1 Peter 1:7; Jeremiah 9:7; Isaiah 38:12–13; Job 14:3; Genesis 22:1
- 19 Job 9:18; Psalm 13:1–3; Job 14:6; Psalm 6:3; Psalm 94:3
- 20 Lamentations 3:12; Psalm 36:6; Job 3:24; Job 7:11–12; Psalm 21:12
- 21 Job 10:14; Daniel 12:2; 1 John 1:9; Lamentations 5:20–22; Isaiah 64:9
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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).
"For I shall not live alway, that I should suffer long." Next, his being conscious to himself of many good works.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)