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Job 9 Catholic Public Domain Version

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RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 And Job, responding, said:
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Job, y dijo:
2 Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.
2 Ciertamente yo conozco que es así: ¿y cómo se justificará el hombre con Dios?
3 If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.
3 Si quisiere contender con él, no le podrá responder á una [cosa] de mil.
4 He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace?
4 El es sabio de corazón, y poderoso en fortaleza: ¿quién se endureció contra él, y quedó en paz?
5 He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it.
5 Que arranca los montes con su furor, y no conocen quién los trastornó:
6 He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble.
6 Que remueve la tierra de su lugar, y hace temblar sus columnas:
7 He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal.
7 Que manda al sol, y no sale; y sella las estrellas:
8 He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea.
8 El que extiende solo los cielos, y anda sobre las alturas de la mar:
9 He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south.
9 El que hizo el Arcturo, y el Orión, y las Pléyadas, y los lugares secretos del mediodía:
10 He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered.
10 El que hace cosas grandes é incomprensibles, y maravillosas, sin número.
11 If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will not understand.
11 He aquí que él pasará delante de mí, y yo no lo veré; y pasará, y no lo entenderé.
12 If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, “Why did you do so?”
12 He aquí, arrebatará; ¿quién le hará restituir? ¿Quién le dirá, Qué haces?
13 God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry the world,
13 Dios no tornará atrás su ira, y debajo de él se encorvan los que ayudan á los soberbios.
14 what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?
14 ¿Cuánto menos le responderé yo, y hablaré con él palabras estudiadas?
15 And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge.
15 Que aunque fuese yo justo, no responderé; antes habré de rogar á mi juez.
16 And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice.
16 Que si yo le invocase, y él me respondiese, aun no creeré que haya escuchado mi voz.
17 For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause.
17 Porque me ha quebrado con tempestad, y ha aumentado mis heridas sin causa.
18 He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness.
18 No me ha concedido que tome mi aliento; mas hame hartado de amarguras.
19 If strength is sought, he is most strong; if equity in judgment, no one would dare to give testimony for me.
19 Si [habláremos] de [su] potencia, fuerte por cierto es; si de juicio, ¿quién me emplazará?
20 If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved.
20 Si yo me justificare, me condenará mi boca; si [me dijere] perfecto, esto me hará inicuo.
21 And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.
21 [Bien que] yo [fuese] íntegro, no conozco mi alma: reprocharé mi vida.
22 There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes.
22 Una cosa resta que yo diga: Al perfecto y al impío él los consume.
23 If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.
23 Si azote mata de presto, ríese de la prueba de los inocentes.
24 Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?
24 La tierra es entregada en manos de los impíos, y él cubre el rostro de sus jueces. Si no [es él], ¿quién [es]? ¿dónde está?
25 My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.
25 Mis días han sido más ligeros que un correo; huyeron, y no vieron el bien.
26 They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.
26 Pasaron cual navíos veloces: como el águila que se arroja á la comida.
27 If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.
27 Si digo: Olvidaré mi queja, dejaré mi aburrimiento, y esforzaréme:
28 I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
28 Contúrbanme todos mis trabajos; sé que no me darás por libre.
29 Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
29 Yo soy impío, ¿para qué trabajaré en vano?
30 If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,
30 Aunque me lave con aguas de nieve, y limpie mis manos con la misma limpieza,
31 yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.
31 Aun me hundirás en el hoyo, y mis propios vestidos me abominarán.
32 For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.
32 Porque no es hombre como yo, para que yo le responda, y vengamos juntamente á juicio.
33 There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.
33 No hay entre nosotros árbitro que ponga su mano sobre nosotros ambos.
34 Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.
34 Quite de sobre mí su vara, y su terror no me espante.
35 I will speak and I will not fear him, for in fearfulness I am not able to respond.
35 Entonces hablaré, y no le temeré: porque así no estoy en mí mismo.
Cross references (33)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Job 4:17; Romans 3:20; Psalm 143:2; Job 25:4; 1 Kings 8:46
  2. 3 Job 10:2; Job 40:2; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 1:8; Psalm 19:12
  3. 4 Job 36:5; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Exodus 14:17–18; Job 9:19
  4. 5 Luke 21:11; Matthew 27:51; Habakkuk 3:10; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:18–20
  5. 6 Haggai 2:6; Psalm 75:3; Hebrews 12:26; Job 26:11; Isaiah 2:21
  6. 7 Isaiah 13:10; Amos 8:9; Luke 21:25–26; Job 37:7; Matthew 24:29
  7. 8 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 104:2–3; Job 37:18; Zechariah 12:1
  8. 9 Amos 5:8; Genesis 1:16; Job 38:31–41; Psalm 147:4; Acts 28:13
  9. 10 Job 5:9; Psalm 72:18; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Daniel 4:2–3
  10. 11 Job 23:8–9; Job 35:14; Psalm 77:19; 1 Timothy 6:16
  11. 12 Job 11:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 23:13; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35
  12. 13 Psalm 89:10; Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 30:7; James 4:6–7
  13. 14 Job 11:4–5; Job 4:19; Job 9:3; Job 23:7; Job 23:4
  14. 15 Job 10:15; Job 8:5; Job 22:27; Job 10:2; 1 Peter 2:23
  15. 16 Exodus 6:9; Psalm 66:18–20; Luke 24:41; Job 29:24; Psalm 18:6
  16. 17 Job 16:14; Job 2:3; Job 34:6; Job 2:13; Ezekiel 13:13
  17. 18 Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:15; Hebrews 12:11; Job 3:20; Job 27:2
  18. 19 Job 9:32–33; Job 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Job 40:9–10; Matthew 6:13
  19. 20 Psalm 143:2; Job 34:35; Job 9:2; Psalm 130:3; Philippians 3:12–15
  20. 21 Job 1:1; Psalm 139:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26
  21. 22 Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; Job 10:8; Ezekiel 21:3–4; Luke 13:2–4
  22. 23 Job 24:12; Hebrews 11:36–37; Ezekiel 14:19–21; Job 8:20; Job 2:7
  23. 24 Job 10:3; Psalm 73:3–7; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:7–15; 2 Samuel 15:30
  24. 25 Job 7:6–7; James 4:14; Psalm 90:9–10; Psalm 39:5; Esther 8:14
  25. 26 Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 18:2; Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 4:13; 2 Samuel 1:23
  26. 27 Job 7:13; Psalm 77:2–3; Job 7:11; Jeremiah 8:18
  27. 28 Psalm 119:120; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 9:20–21; Job 14:16; Job 10:14
  28. 29 Job 10:7; Job 10:2; Job 10:14–17; Job 21:16–17; Jeremiah 2:35
  29. 30 Jeremiah 2:22; Psalm 26:6; 1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16–18; Jeremiah 4:14
  30. 31 Job 15:6; Philippians 3:8–9; Job 9:20; Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 64:6
  31. 32 Romans 9:20; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 45:9; Numbers 23:19
  32. 33 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 John 2:1–2; Job 9:19; Psalm 106:23; 1 Kings 3:16–28
  33. 34 Psalm 39:10; Job 33:7; Job 13:11; Psalm 90:11; Job 13:20–22

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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).

  1. Quotes verse 9:24 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter VII — 1-13)

    That which a certain scripture says: "The earth was delivered into the hands of the ungodly." The flesh was given into the power of the Jews; and this that thereby the bag, as it were, might be rent asunder, whence our purchase-price might run out.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 9:8 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XI)

    And this Job said mystically, Which alone spread out the heaven, and walketh upon the sea as on firm ground; signifying to those who understand that He who when present here walked upon the sea is also He who aforetime made the heavens.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  3. Quotes verse 9:24 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XXXVII)

    "The earth is given into the hands of the wicked." What is meant by "earth" being "given into the hands of the ungodly"?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 9:24 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XXXVIII)

    "I slept," because "I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again." "I laid Me down and slept, and rose up again." Rage then the Jews; be "the earth given into the hands of the wicked," be the flesh left to the hands of persecutors, let them on wood suspend it, with nails …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)