Job · Brenton's English Septuagint
Job 7 Brenton's English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?
1 CIERTAMENTE tiempo [limitado] tiene el hombre sobre la tierra, y sus días son como los días del jornalero.
2 Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay?
2 Como el siervo anhela la sombra, y como el jornalero espera [el reposo] de su trabajo:
3 So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.
3 Así poseo yo meses de vanidad, y noches de trabajo me dieron por cuenta.
4 Whenever I lie down, I say, When [will it be] day? and whenever I rise up, again [I say] when [will it be] evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.
4 Cuando estoy acostado, digo: ¿Cuándo me levantaré? Y mide [mi corazón] la noche, y estoy harto de devaneos hasta el alba.
5 And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
5 Mi carne está vestida de gusanos, y de costras de polvo; mi piel hendida y abominable.
6 And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.
6 Y mis días fueron más ligeros que la lanzadera del tejedor, y fenecieron sin esperanza.
7 Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again see good.
7 Acuérdate que mi vida es viento, y que mis ojos no volverán á ver el bien.
8 The eye of him that sees me shall not see me [again]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.
8 Los ojos de los que me ven, no me verán más: tus ojos sobre mí, y dejaré de ser.
9 [I am] as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:
9 La nube se consume, y se va: así el que desciende al sepulcro no subirá;
10 and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.
10 No tornará más á su casa, ni su lugar le conocerá más.
11 Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.
11 Por tanto yo no reprimiré mi boca; hablaré en la angustia de mi espíritu, y quejaréme con la amargura de mi alma.
12 Am I a sea, or a serpent, that thou hast set a watch over me?
12 ¿Soy yo la mar, ó ballena, que me pongas guarda?
13 I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.
13 Cuando digo: Mi cama me consolará, mi cama atenuará mis quejas;
14 Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.
14 Entonces me quebrantarás con sueños, y me turbarás con visiones.
15 Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death.
15 Y así mi alma tuvo por mejor el ahogamiento, y [quiso] la muerte más que mis huesos.
16 For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life [is] vain.
16 Aburríme: no he de vivir yo para siempre; déjame, pues que mis días son vanidad.
17 For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? or that thou givest heed to him?
17 ¿Qué es el hombre, para que lo engrandezcas, y que pongas sobre él tu corazón,
18 Wilt thou visit him till the morning, and judge him till [the time of] rest?
18 Y lo visites todas las mañanas, y todos los momentos lo pruebes?
19 How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?
19 ¿Hasta cuándo no me dejarás, ni me soltarás hasta que trague mi saliva?
20 If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? why hast thou made me as thine accuser, and [why] am I a burden to thee?
20 Pequé, ¿qué te haré, oh Guarda de los hombres? ¿por qué me has puesto contrario á ti, y que á mí mismo sea pesado?
21 Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning, I am no more.
21 ¿Y por qué no quitas mi rebelión, y perdonas mi iniquidad? porque ahora dormiré en el polvo, y si me buscares de mañana, ya no seré.
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.
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