Job 14 Free Bible Version
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1 “Life is short and full of trouble,
1 EL HOMBRE nacido de mujer, corto de días, y harto de sinsabores:
2 like a flower that blooms and withers, like a passing shadow that soon disappears.
2 Que sale como una flor y es cortado; y huye como la sombra, y no permanece.
3 Do you even notice me, God, and why do you have to drag me to court?
3 ¿Y sobre éste abres tus ojos, y me traes á juicio contigo?
4 Who can bring something clean of what is unclean? No one.
4 ¿Quién hará limpio de inmundo? Nadie.
5 You have determined how long we shall live—the number of months, a time limit on our lives.
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.
6 So leave us alone and give us some peace—so like a laborer we could enjoy a few hours of rest at the end of the day.
6 Si tú lo dejares, él dejará [de ser]: entre tanto deseará, como el jornalero, su día.
7 Even a tree that's cut down has the hope of sprouting again, of sending up shoots and continuing to live.
7 Porque si el árbol fuere cortado, aun queda de él esperanza; retoñecerá aún, y sus renuevos no faltarán.
8 Even though its roots grow old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,
8 Si se envejeciere en la tierra su raíz, y su tronco fuere muerto en el polvo,
9 just a trickle of water will make it bud and grow branches like a young plant.
9 Al percibir el agua reverdecerá, y hará copa como planta.
10 But human beings die, their strength dwindles away; they perish, and where are they then?
10 Mas el hombre morirá, y será cortado; y perecerá el hombre, ¿y dónde estará él?
11 Like water evaporating from a lake and a river that dries up and disappears,
11 Las aguas de la mar se fueron, y agotóse el río, secóse.
12 so human beings lie down and don't get up again. Until the heavens cease to exist they will not awake from their 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.
13 I wish you would hide me in Sheol; conceal me there until your anger is gone. Set a definite time for me there, and 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!
14 Will the dead live again? Then I would have hope through all my time of trouble until my release comes.
14 Si el hombre muriere, ¿[volverá] á vivir? Todos los días de mi edad esperaré, hasta que venga mi mutación.
15 You would call and I would answer you; you would long for me, the being that you made.
15 Aficionado á la obra de tus manos, llamarás, y yo te responderé.
16 Then you would look after me and wouldn't be watching me to see if I sinned.
16 Pues ahora me cuentas los pasos, y no das tregua á mi pecado.
17 My sins would be sealed up in a bag and you would cover my guilt.
17 Tienes sellada en saco mi prevaricación, y coacervas mi iniquidad.
18 But just as the mountains crumble and fall, and the rocks tumble down;
18 Y ciertamente el monte que cae se deshace, y las peñas son traspasadas de su lugar;
19 as water wears away the stones, as floods wash away the soil, so you destroy the hope people have.
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.
20 You continually overpower them and they pass away; you distort their faces in death and send them away.
20 Para siempre serás más fuerte que él, y él se va; demudarás su rostro, y enviaráslo.
21 Their children may become important or fall from their positions, but they don't know or see any of this.
21 Sus hijos serán honrados, y él no lo sabrá; ó serán humillados, y no entenderá de ellos.
22 As people die they only know their own pain and are sad for themselves.”
22 Mas su carne sobre él se dolerá, y entristecerse ha en él su alma.
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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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)