Job · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Job 14 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
1 EL HOMBRE nacido de mujer, corto de días, y harto de sinsabores:
1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
2 Que sale como una flor y es cortado; y huye como la sombra, y no permanece.
2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3 And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?
3 ¿Y sobre éste abres tus ojos, y me traes á juicio contigo?
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?
4 ¿Quién hará limpio de inmundo? Nadie.
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.
5 Ciertamente sus días están determinados, y el número de sus meses está cerca de ti: tú le pusiste términos, de los cuales no pasará.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
6 Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.
6 Si tú lo dejares, él dejará [de ser]: entre tanto deseará, como el jornalero, su día.
6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
7 A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.
7 Porque si el árbol fuere cortado, aun queda de él esperanza; retoñecerá aún, y sus renuevos no faltarán.
7 “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
8 If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:
8 Si se envejeciere en la tierra su raíz, y su tronco fuere muerto en el polvo,
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
9 At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
9 Al percibir el agua reverdecerá, y hará copa como planta.
9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
10 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?
10 Mas el hombre morirá, y será cortado; y perecerá el hombre, ¿y dónde estará él?
10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11 As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up:
11 Las aguas de la mar se fueron, y agotóse el río, secóse.
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
12 So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.
12 Así el hombre yace, y no se tornará á levantar: hasta que no haya cielo no despertarán, ni se levantarán de su sueño.
12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
13 Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me?
13 ¡Oh quién me diera que me escondieses en el sepulcro, que me encubrieras hasta apaciguarse tu ira, que me pusieses plazo, y de mí te acordaras!
13 “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
14 Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.
14 Si el hombre muriere, ¿[volverá] á vivir? Todos los días de mi edad esperaré, hasta que venga mi mutación.
14 If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
15 Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.
15 Aficionado á la obra de tus manos, llamarás, y yo te responderé.
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
16 Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.
16 Pues ahora me cuentas los pasos, y no das tregua á mi pecado.
16 But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
17 Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.
17 Tienes sellada en saco mi prevaricación, y coacervas mi iniquidad.
17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
18 A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.
18 Y ciertamente el monte que cae se deshace, y las peñas son traspasadas de su lugar;
18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
19 Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.
19 Las piedras son desgastadas con el agua impetuosa, que se lleva el polvo de la tierra: de tal manera haces tú perecer la esperanza del hombre.
19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
20 Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.
20 Para siempre serás más fuerte que él, y él se va; demudarás su rostro, y enviaráslo.
20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
21 Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.
21 Sus hijos serán honrados, y él no lo sabrá; ó serán humillados, y no entenderá de ellos.
21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
22 But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.
22 Mas su carne sobre él se dolerá, y entristecerse ha en él su alma.
22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 5:7; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Job 7:1; Matthew 11:11
- 2 Isaiah 40:6–8; 1 Peter 1:24; Job 8:9; Psalm 103:15–16; 1 Chronicles 29:15
- 3 Psalm 144:3; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 8:4; Job 13:27; Job 13:25
- 4 John 3:6; Job 15:14; Ephesians 2:3; Romans 8:8–9; Job 25:4–6
- 5 Psalm 39:4; Acts 17:26; Job 12:10; Hebrews 9:27; Psalm 104:29
- 6 Job 7:19; Psalm 39:13; Job 7:1–2; Job 10:20; Job 7:16
- 7 Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 11:1; Job 14:14; Daniel 4:23–25; Job 19:10
- 8 1 Corinthians 15:36; John 12:24; Isaiah 26:19
- 9 Romans 11:17–24; Ezekiel 17:22–24; Ezekiel 17:3–10; Ezekiel 19:10
- 10 Job 19:26; Job 7:7–10; Genesis 49:33; Proverbs 14:32; Luke 16:22–23
- 11 Isaiah 19:5; Jeremiah 15:18; Job 6:15–18
- 12 Job 10:21–22; Isaiah 26:19; Ecclesiastes 3:19–21; Job 3:13; 2 Peter 3:10–13
- 13 Isaiah 57:1–2; Isaiah 26:20–21; Mark 13:32; Job 3:17–19; Isaiah 12:1
- 14 1 Corinthians 15:51–52; Acts 26:8; Psalm 27:14; Job 7:1; Job 13:15
- 15 Job 13:22; Psalm 138:8; Job 7:21; Job 10:3; Job 10:8
- 16 Job 10:6; Job 31:4; Psalm 139:1–4; Job 34:21; Proverbs 5:21
- 17 Deuteronomy 32:34; Hosea 13:12; Job 21:19
- 18 Revelation 6:14; Job 18:4; Jeremiah 4:24; Psalm 102:25–26; Isaiah 54:10
- 19 Job 7:6; Job 19:10; Job 27:8; Luke 12:19–20; Genesis 6:17
- 20 Job 2:12; Job 14:14; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Lamentations 4:8
- 21 Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 2:18–19; Isaiah 63:16; Isaiah 39:7–8; Psalm 39:6
- 22 Job 19:26; Job 33:19–21; Proverbs 14:32; Job 19:22; Job 19:20
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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).
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“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).
For it comes from the righteous anger of God, whereof the Scriptures say, "Man, that is born of woman, is of few days and full of anger:" for the anger of God is not like that of man, the disturbance of an excited man, but the calm fixing of righteous punishment.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Again, the rod of Aaron, though cut off and dead, budded, without the scent of waters, and though under a roof, sprouted forth into blossoms as in the fields; and though set in dry places, yielded in one night the flowers and fruit of plants watered for many years.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
he says, For if a man die, he shall live again; and immediately he adds, I will wait till I be made again; and again elsewhere, Who shall raise up on the earth my skin, which endures these things.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)