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Job 7 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 The life of a man on the earth is a battle, and his days are like the days of a hired hand.
1 CIERTAMENTE tiempo [limitado] tiene el hombre sobre la tierra, y sus días son como los días del jornalero.
2 Just as a servant desires the shade, and just as the hired hand looks forward to the end of his work,
2 Como el siervo anhela la sombra, y como el jornalero espera [el reposo] de su trabajo:
3 so also have I had empty months and have counted my burdensome nights.
3 Así poseo yo meses de vanidad, y noches de trabajo me dieron por cuenta.
4 If I lie down to sleep, I will say, “When will I rise?” And next I will hope for the evening and will be filled with sorrows even until darkness.
4 Cuando estoy acostado, digo: ¿Cuándo me levantaré? Y mide [mi corazón] la noche, y estoy harto de devaneos hasta el alba.
5 My flesh is clothed with particles of rottenness and filth; my skin is dried up and tightened.
5 Mi carne está vestida de gusanos, y de costras de polvo; mi piel hendida y abominable.
6 My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.
6 Y mis días fueron más ligeros que la lanzadera del tejedor, y fenecieron sin esperanza.
7 Remember that my life is wind, and my eye will not return to see good things.
7 Acuérdate que mi vida es viento, y que mis ojos no volverán á ver el bien.
8 Neither will the sight of man gaze upon me; your eyes are upon me, and I will not endure.
8 Los ojos de los que me ven, no me verán más: tus ojos sobre mí, y dejaré de ser.
9 Just as a cloud is consumed and passes away, so he who descends to hell will not ascend.
9 La nube se consume, y se va: así el que desciende al sepulcro no subirá;
10 He will not return again to his house, nor will his own place know him any longer.
10 No tornará más á su casa, ni su lugar le conocerá más.
11 And because of this, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from 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 an ocean or a whale, that you have encircled me in a prison?
12 ¿Soy yo la mar, ó ballena, que me pongas guarda?
13 If I say, “My bed will comfort me, and I will find rest, speaking with myself on my blanket,”
13 Cuando digo: Mi cama me consolará, mi cama atenuará mis quejas;
14 then you will frighten me with dreams, and strike dread through visions,
14 Entonces me quebrantarás con sueños, y me turbarás con visiones.
15 so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.
15 Y así mi alma tuvo por mejor el ahogamiento, y [quiso] la muerte más que mis huesos.
16 I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.
16 Aburríme: no he de vivir yo para siempre; déjame, pues que mis días son vanidad.
17 What is man, that you should praise him? Or why do you place your heart near him?
17 ¿Qué es el hombre, para que lo engrandezcas, y que pongas sobre él tu corazón,
18 You visit him at dawn, and you test him unexpectedly.
18 Y lo visites todas las mañanas, y todos los momentos lo pruebes?
19 How long will you not spare me, nor release me to ingest my saliva?
19 ¿Hasta cuándo no me dejarás, ni me soltarás hasta que trague mi saliva?
20 I have sinned; what should I do for you, O keeper of men? Why have you set me against you, so that I have become burdensome even to myself?
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 do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.
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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"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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