Job 23 Berean Standard Bible
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2 “Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
2 Hoy también hablaré con amargura; que es más grave mi llaga que mi gemido.
2 “Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
3 If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
3 ¡Quién me diera el saber dónde hallar á Dios! yo iría hasta su silla.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
4 I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
4 Ordenaría juicio delante de él, y henchiría mi boca de argumentos.
4 I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
5 Yo sabría lo que él me respondería, y entendería lo que me dijese.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.
6 Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
6 ¿Pleitearía conmigo con grandeza de fuerza? No: antes él la pondría en mí.
6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
7 Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
7 Allí el justo razonaría con él: y escaparía para siempre de mi juez.
7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
8 If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.
8 He aquí yo iré al oriente, y no lo [hallaré]; y al occidente, y no lo percibiré:
8 “If I go east, he is not there. If I go west, I can’t find him.
9 When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.
9 Si al norte él obrare, yo no lo veré; al mediodía se esconderá, y no lo veré.
9 He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.
10 Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
10 Mas él conoció mi camino: probaráme, y saldré como oro.
10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
11 My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
11 Mis pies tomaron su rastro; guardé su camino, y no me aparté.
11 My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
12 I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
12 Del mandamiento de sus labios nunca me separé; guardé las palabras de su boca más que mi comida.
12 I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
13 But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
13 Empero si él [se determina] en una cosa, ¿quién lo apartará? Su alma deseó, é hizo.
13 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
14 For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.
14 El pues acabará lo que ha determinado de mí: y muchas cosas como estas hay en él.
14 For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.
15 Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
15 Por lo cual yo me espanto en su presencia: consideraré, y temerélo.
15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
16 Dios ha enervado mi corazón, y hame turbado el Omnipotente.
16 For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.
17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
17 ¿Por qué no fuí yo cortado delante de las tinieblas, y cubrió con oscuridad mi rostro?
17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 10:1; Job 7:11; Psalm 32:4; Job 6:2–3; Psalm 77:2–9
- 3 Job 16:21; Job 31:35–37; Hebrews 4:6; Jeremiah 14:7; Job 13:3
- 4 Job 13:18; Daniel 9:18–19; Job 37:19; Genesis 18:25–32; Joshua 7:8–9
- 5 1 Corinthians 4:3–4; Job 13:22–23; Job 10:2; Job 42:2–6
- 6 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Job 13:21; Job 9:33–34; Ezekiel 20:35; Job 9:19
- 7 Job 13:3; Isaiah 1:18; Romans 8:1; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 3:5
- 8 Psalm 10:1; Job 9:11; Job 35:14; 1 Timothy 6:16; Psalm 13:1–3
- 9 Isaiah 8:17; Psalm 89:46
- 10 James 1:12; 1 Peter 1:7; James 1:2–4; Psalm 139:1–3; Zechariah 13:9
- 11 Psalm 44:18; 2 Peter 2:20–22; Psalm 17:5; Psalm 125:5; Romans 2:7
- 12 Jeremiah 15:16; Psalm 119:11; Psalm 119:103; John 4:34; Psalm 19:9–10
- 13 Psalm 115:3; Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 46:10; Daniel 4:35; Job 12:14
- 14 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Psalm 97:2; Romans 11:33; Isaiah 40:27–28
- 15 Psalm 119:120; Job 31:23; Psalm 77:3; Job 10:15; Job 23:3
- 16 Psalm 22:14; Job 27:2; Isaiah 6:5; Psalm 88:16; Deuteronomy 20:3
- 17 Job 19:8; Isaiah 57:1; 2 Kings 22:20; Job 18:6; Job 22:11
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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).
Place there is none; we go both "backward" and "forward," and there is no place.
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