Job · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Job 9 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 And Job answered, and said:
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Job, y dijo:
2 Indeed I know 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 will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
3 Si quisiere contender con él, no le podrá responder á una [cosa] de mil.
4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?
4 El es sabio de corazón, y poderoso en fortaleza: ¿quién se endureció contra él, y quedó en paz?
5 Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.
5 Que arranca los montes con su furor, y no conocen quién los trastornó:
6 Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
6 Que remueve la tierra de su lugar, y hace temblar sus columnas:
7 Who commandeth tile sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:
7 Que manda al sol, y no sale; y sella las estrellas:
8 Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.
8 El que extiende solo los cielos, y anda sobre las alturas de la mar:
9 Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.
9 El que hizo el Arcturo, y el Orión, y las Pléyadas, y los lugares secretos del mediodía:
10 Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.
10 El que hace cosas grandes é incomprensibles, y maravillosas, sin número.
11 If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall 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 examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?
12 He aquí, arrebatará; ¿quién le hará restituir? ¿Quién le dirá, Qué haces?
13 God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up 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 have words with him?
14 ¿Cuánto menos le responderé yo, y hablaré con él palabras estudiadas?
15 I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.
15 Que aunque fuese yo justo, no responderé; antes habré de rogar á mi juez.
16 And if he should hear me when I call, I should 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 shall 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 alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.
18 No me ha concedido que tome mi aliento; mas hame hartado de amarguras.
19 If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.
19 Si [habláremos] de [su] potencia, fuerte por cierto es; si de juicio, ¿quién me emplazará?
20 If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.
20 Si yo me justificare, me condenará mi boca; si [me dijere] perfecto, esto me hará inicuo.
21 Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.
21 [Bien que] yo [fuese] íntegro, no conozco mi alma: reprocharé mi vida.
22 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.
22 Una cosa resta que yo diga: Al perfecto y al impío él los consume.
23 If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.
23 Si azote mata de presto, ríese de la prueba de los inocentes.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?
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 post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
25 Mis días han sido más ligeros que un correo; huyeron, y no vieron el bien.
26 They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.
26 Pasaron cual navíos veloces: como el águila que se arroja á la comida.
27 If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.
27 Si digo: Olvidaré mi queja, dejaré mi aburrimiento, y esforzaréme:
28 I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
28 Contúrbanme todos mis trabajos; sé que no me darás por libre.
29 But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
29 Yo soy impío, ¿para qué trabajaré en vano?
30 If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:
30 Aunque me lave con aguas de nieve, y limpie mis manos con la misma limpieza,
31 Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,
31 Aun me hundirás en el hoyo, y mis propios vestidos me abominarán.
32 For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may 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 none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.
33 No hay entre nosotros árbitro que ponga su mano sobre nosotros ambos.
34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
34 Quite de sobre mí su vara, y su terror no me espante.
35 I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.
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.
- 2 Job 4:17; Romans 3:20; Psalm 143:2; Job 25:4; 1 Kings 8:46
- 3 Job 10:2; Job 40:2; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 1:8; Psalm 19:12
- 4 Job 36:5; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Exodus 14:17–18; Job 9:19
- 5 Luke 21:11; Matthew 27:51; Habakkuk 3:10; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:18–20
- 6 Haggai 2:6; Psalm 75:3; Hebrews 12:26; Job 26:11; Isaiah 2:21
- 7 Isaiah 13:10; Amos 8:9; Luke 21:25–26; Job 37:7; Matthew 24:29
- 8 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 104:2–3; Job 37:18; Zechariah 12:1
- 9 Amos 5:8; Genesis 1:16; Job 38:31–41; Psalm 147:4; Acts 28:13
- 10 Job 5:9; Psalm 72:18; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Daniel 4:2–3
- 11 Job 23:8–9; Job 35:14; Psalm 77:19; 1 Timothy 6:16
- 12 Job 11:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 23:13; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35
- 13 Psalm 89:10; Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 30:7; James 4:6–7
- 14 Job 11:4–5; Job 4:19; Job 9:3; Job 23:7; Job 23:4
- 15 Job 10:15; Job 8:5; Job 22:27; Job 10:2; 1 Peter 2:23
- 16 Exodus 6:9; Psalm 66:18–20; Luke 24:41; Job 29:24; Psalm 18:6
- 17 Job 16:14; Job 2:3; Job 34:6; Job 2:13; Ezekiel 13:13
- 18 Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:15; Hebrews 12:11; Job 3:20; Job 27:2
- 19 Job 9:32–33; Job 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Job 40:9–10; Matthew 6:13
- 20 Psalm 143:2; Job 34:35; Job 9:2; Psalm 130:3; Philippians 3:12–15
- 21 Job 1:1; Psalm 139:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26
- 22 Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; Job 10:8; Ezekiel 21:3–4; Luke 13:2–4
- 23 Job 24:12; Hebrews 11:36–37; Ezekiel 14:19–21; Job 8:20; Job 2:7
- 24 Job 10:3; Psalm 73:3–7; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:7–15; 2 Samuel 15:30
- 25 Job 7:6–7; James 4:14; Psalm 90:9–10; Psalm 39:5; Esther 8:14
- 26 Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 18:2; Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 4:13; 2 Samuel 1:23
- 27 Job 7:13; Psalm 77:2–3; Job 7:11; Jeremiah 8:18
- 28 Psalm 119:120; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 9:20–21; Job 14:16; Job 10:14
- 29 Job 10:7; Job 10:2; Job 10:14–17; Job 21:16–17; Jeremiah 2:35
- 30 Jeremiah 2:22; Psalm 26:6; 1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16–18; Jeremiah 4:14
- 31 Job 15:6; Philippians 3:8–9; Job 9:20; Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 64:6
- 32 Romans 9:20; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 45:9; Numbers 23:19
- 33 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 John 2:1–2; Job 9:19; Psalm 106:23; 1 Kings 3:16–28
- 34 Psalm 39:10; Job 33:7; Job 13:11; Psalm 90:11; Job 13:20–22
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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).
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)
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)
"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)
"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)