Job · Catholic Public Domain Version
Job 23 Catholic Public Domain Version
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 Then Job answered by saying:
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Job, y dijo:
2 Now again my conversation is in bitterness, and the force of my scourging weighs more heavily on me because of my mourning.
2 Hoy también hablaré con amargura; que es más grave mi llaga que mi gemido.
3 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne?
3 ¡Quién me diera el saber dónde hallar á Dios! yo iría hasta su silla.
4 I would place judgment before his eye, and my mouth would fill with criticism,
4 Ordenaría juicio delante de él, y henchiría mi boca de argumentos.
5 so that I may know the words that he will answer me and understand what he will say to me.
5 Yo sabría lo que él me respondería, y entendería lo que me dijese.
6 I do not want him to contend with me with much strength, nor to overwhelm me with the bulk of his greatness.
6 ¿Pleitearía conmigo con grandeza de fuerza? No: antes él la pondría en mí.
7 Let him show fairness in response to me, and let my judgment reach to victory.
7 Allí el justo razonaría con él: y escaparía para siempre de mi juez.
8 If I go to the east, he does not appear; if I go to the west, I will not understand him.
8 He aquí yo iré al oriente, y no lo [hallaré]; y al occidente, y no lo percibiré:
9 If I turn to the left, what can I do? I will not take hold of him. If I turn myself to the right, I will not see him.
9 Si al norte él obrare, yo no lo veré; al mediodía se esconderá, y no lo veré.
10 Truly, he knows my way and has tested me like gold that passes through fire.
10 Mas él conoció mi camino: probaráme, y saldré como oro.
11 My feet have been following his footsteps; I have kept to his way and have not strayed from it.
11 Mis pies tomaron su rastro; guardé su camino, y no me aparté.
12 I have not withdrawn from the commands of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hidden in my sinews.
12 Del mandamiento de sus labios nunca me separé; guardé las palabras de su boca más que mi comida.
13 For he is alone, and no one is able to disturb his intention; and whatever his spirit wills, that he accomplishes.
13 Empero si él [se determina] en una cosa, ¿quién lo apartará? Su alma deseó, é hizo.
14 And when he fulfills his will in me, many other similar ones will also be present with him.
14 El pues acabará lo que ha determinado de mí: y muchas cosas como estas hay en él.
15 And, for this reason, I have been troubled at his presence, and, when I consider him, I am approached by fear.
15 Por lo cual yo me espanto en su presencia: consideraré, y temerélo.
16 God has weakened my heart, and the Almighty has confused me.
16 Dios ha enervado mi corazón, y hame turbado el Omnipotente.
17 Yet I have not perished because of the threatening darkness, nor has gloom covered my face.
17 ¿Por qué no fuí yo cortado delante de las tinieblas, y cubrió con oscuridad mi rostro?
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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