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Job 4 Catholic Public Domain Version
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1 But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Eliphaz el Temanita, y dijo:
2 If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?
2 Si probáremos á hablarte, serte ha molesto; mas ¿quién podrá detener las palabras?
3 Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.
3 He aquí, tú enseñabas á muchos, y las manos flacas corroborabas;
4 Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees.
4 Al que vacilaba, enderezaban tus palabras, y esforzabas las rodillas que decaían.
5 But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed.
5 Mas ahora que [el mal] sobre ti ha venido, te es duro; y cuando ha llegado hasta ti, te turbas.
6 Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?
6 ¿Es este tu temor, tu confianza, tu esperanza, y la perfección de tus caminos?
7 Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?
7 Recapacita ahora, ¿quién que fuera inocente se perdiera? y ¿en dónde los rectos fueron cortados?
8 In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,
8 Como yo he visto, los que aran iniquidad y siembran injuria, la siegan.
9 perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.
9 Perecen por el aliento de Dios, y por el espíritu de su furor son consumidos.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away.
10 El bramido del león, y la voz del león, y los dientes de los leoncillos son quebrantados.
11 The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered.
11 El león viejo perece por falta de presa, y los hijos del león son esparcidos.
12 Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.
12 El negocio también me era á mí oculto; mas mi oído ha percibido algo de ello.
13 In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep,
13 En imaginaciones de visiones nocturnas, cuando el sueño cae sobre los hombres,
14 fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified.
14 Sobrevínome un espanto y un temblor, que estremeció todos mis huesos:
15 And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up.
15 Y un espíritu pasó por delante de mí, que hizo se erizara el pelo de mi carne.
16 There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze.
16 Paróse un fantasma delante de mis ojos, cuyo rostro yo no conocí, y quedo, oí que decía:
17 Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?
17 ¿Si será el hombre más justo que Dios? ¿si será el varón más limpio que el que lo hizo?
18 Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection.
18 He aquí que en sus siervos no confía, y notó necedad en sus ángeles;
19 How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?
19 ¡Cuánto más en los que habitan en casas de lodo, cuyo fundamento está en el polvo, y que serán quebrantados de la polilla!
20 From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.
20 De la mañana á la tarde son quebrantados, y se pierden para siempre, sin haber quien lo considere.
21 But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom.
21 ¿Su hermosura, no se pierde con ellos mismos? Mueren, y sin sabiduría.
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Eliphaz the Temanite
One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1
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 6:1; Job 8:1; Job 2:11; Job 22:1; Job 15:1
- 2 Job 32:18–20; Acts 4:20; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 20:9; 2 Corinthians 2:4–6
- 3 Isaiah 35:3; Proverbs 10:21; Hebrews 12:12; Luke 22:32; Job 16:5
- 4 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Proverbs 12:18; Psalm 145:14; Hebrews 12:12; Proverbs 16:23–24
- 5 Job 19:21; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Job 1:11; Hebrews 12:5; Proverbs 24:10
- 6 Proverbs 3:26; Proverbs 14:26; Job 1:1; Job 17:15; Job 23:11–12
- 7 Psalm 37:25; Job 36:7; 2 Peter 2:9; Acts 28:4; Job 8:20
- 8 Galatians 6:7–8; Proverbs 22:8; Hosea 8:7; 2 Corinthians 9:6; Hosea 10:12–13
- 9 Job 15:30; Isaiah 11:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Isaiah 30:33; Revelation 2:16
- 10 Psalm 58:6; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 57:4; Proverbs 30:14; Job 5:15
- 11 Psalm 34:10; Job 38:39; Job 8:3–4; Job 1:19; Jeremiah 4:7
- 12 Job 26:14; Psalm 62:11; 1 Corinthians 13:12
- 13 Job 33:14–16; Genesis 2:21; Genesis 15:12; Daniel 10:9; Daniel 4:5
- 14 Revelation 1:17; Job 33:19; Luke 1:12; Job 7:14; Psalm 119:120
- 15 Hebrews 1:7; Luke 24:37–39; Psalm 104:4; Daniel 5:6; Isaiah 21:3–4
- 16 1 Kings 19:12
- 17 Job 9:2; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Psalm 143:2; Jeremiah 17:9
- 18 Job 25:5–6; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; Job 15:15–16; Psalm 104:4
- 19 Job 10:9; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; Job 33:6; Psalm 39:11
- 20 Job 20:7; 2 Chronicles 21:20; Psalm 39:13; Job 18:17; Proverbs 10:7
- 21 Job 36:12; Luke 16:22–23; Job 8:22; Psalm 39:11; Luke 12:20
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