Job 15 Free Bible Version
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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Eliphaz Temanita, y dijo:
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 “Would a wise man answer with such empty ‘knowledge’ that is just a lot of hot air?
2 ¿Si proferirá el sabio vana sabiduría, y henchirá su vientre de viento solano?
2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3 He wouldn't argue with unprofitable speeches using words that do no good.
3 ¿Disputará con palabras inútiles, y con razones sin provecho?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 But you are doing away with the fear of God, and destroying communion with him.
4 Tú también disipas el temor, y menoscabas la oración delante de Dios.
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5 It's your sins that are doing the talking, and you are choosing deceptive words.
5 Porque tu boca declaró tu iniquidad, pues has escogido el hablar de los astutos.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 Your own mouth is condemning you, not me; your own lips are testifying against you.
6 Tu boca te condenará, y no yo; y tus labios testificarán contra ti.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
7 Were you the very first person to be born? Were you born before the hills were created?
7 ¿Naciste tú primero que Adam? ¿ó fuiste formado antes que los collados?
7 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
8 Were you there listening in God's council? Does wisdom only belong to you?
8 ¿Oíste tú el secreto de Dios, que detienes en ti solo la sabiduría?
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What do you know that we don't? What do you understand that we don't?
9 ¿Qué sabes tú que no sepamos? ¿qué entiendes que no se halle en nosotros?
9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
10 We have among us old, gray-haired people much older than your father!
10 Entre nosotros también hay cano, también hay viejo mucho mayor en días que tu padre.
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
11 Are the comforts God provides too little for you? Are God's gentle words not enough for you?
11 ¿En tan poco tienes las consolaciones de Dios? ¿tienes acaso alguna cosa oculta cerca de ti?
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12 Why do you let yourself be carried away by your emotions?
12 ¿Por qué te enajena tu corazón, y por qué guiñan tus ojos,
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13 Why do your eyes flash in anger that you turn against God and let yourself speak this way?
13 Pues haces frente á Dios con tu espíritu, y sacas [tales] palabras de tu boca?
13 that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14 Who can say they are clean? Which human being can say that they do what is right?
14 ¿Qué cosa es el hombre para que sea limpio, y que se justifique el nacido de mujer?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Look, God doesn't even trust his angels—even the heavenly beings are not pure in his sight!
15 He aquí que en sus santos no confía, y ni los cielos son limpios delante de sus ojos:
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 How much less pure are those who are unclean and corrupt, drinking in sin like water!
16 ¿Cuánto menos el hombre abominable y vil, que bebe la iniquidad como agua?
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 If you are ready to listen to me, I will show you. I will explain my insights.
17 Escúchame; yo te mostraré y te contaré lo que he visto:
17 “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
18 This is what wise men have said, confirmed by their ancestors,
18 (Lo que los sabios nos contaron de sus padres, y no lo encubrieron;
18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19 those to whom alone the land was given before foreigners ever were there.
19 A los cuales solos fué dada la tierra, y no pasó extraño por medio de ellos:)
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
20 The wicked writhe in pain all their lives, through all the years these oppressors survive.
20 Todos los días del impío, él es atormentado de dolor, y el número de años es escondido al violento.
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 Terrifying sounds fill their ears; even when they think they're safe, the destroyer will attack them.
21 Estruendos espantosos hay en sus oídos; en la paz le vendrá quien lo asuele.
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
22 They don't believe they will escape the darkness—they know a sword is waiting for them.
22 El no creerá que ha de volver de las tinieblas, y está mirando al cuchillo.
22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 They wander around looking for food, asking ‘Where is it?’ They know that their day of darkness is close at hand.
23 Desasosegado á comer siempre, sabe que le está aparejado día de tinieblas.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Misery and torment overwhelm them like a king preparing for battle.
24 Tribulación y angustia le asombrarán, y esforzaránse contra él como un rey apercibido para la batalla.
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 They shake their fists in God's face, defiantly challenging the Almighty,
25 Por cuanto él extendió su mano contra Dios, y se esforzó contra el Todopoderoso,
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26 insolently attacking him with their shields.
26 El le acometerá en la cerviz, en lo grueso de las hombreras de sus escudos:
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
27 They have become fat in their rebellion, their bellies bloated with fat.
27 Porque cubrió su rostro con su gordura, é hizo pliegues sobre los ijares;
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28 But their cities will become desolate; they will live in abandoned houses that are crumbling into ruins.
28 Y habitó las ciudades asoladas, las casas inhabitadas, que estaban puestas en montones.
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 They will lose their riches, their wealth will not endure, their possessions will not spread over the earth.
29 No enriquecerá, ni será firme su potencia, ni extenderá por la tierra su hermosura.
29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
30 They will not escape from the darkness. Like a tree whose shoots are burned up in a forest fire, the breath of God will blow him away.
30 No se escapará de las tinieblas: la llama secará sus ramos, y con el aliento de su boca perecerá.
30 He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
31 They should not trust in things that are worthless, for their reward will be worthless.
31 No confíe el iluso en la vanidad; porque ella será su recompensa.
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 This will be paid in full before their time has come. They are like tree branches that wither,
32 El será cortado antes de su tiempo, y sus renuevos no reverdecerán.
32 It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
33 like vines that lose their unripe grapes, or olive trees that lose their flowers.
33 El perderá su agraz como la vid, y derramará su flor como la oliva.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
34 For those who reject God are barren, and fire will burn up the homes of those who love bribes.
34 Porque la sociedad de los hipócritas será asolada, y fuego consumirá las tiendas de soborno.
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 They plan trouble and produce evil, giving birth to deception.”
35 Concibieron dolor, y parieron iniquidad; y las entrañas de ellos meditan engaño.
35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
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Eliphaz the Temanite
One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1
Cross references (35)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 2:11; Job 42:7; Job 4:1; Job 42:9; Job 22:1
- 2 Job 6:26; Job 8:2; Hosea 12:1; Job 11:2–3; James 3:13
- 3 Matthew 12:36–37; Colossians 4:6; Malachi 3:13–15; Job 26:1–3; 1 Timothy 6:4–5
- 4 Romans 3:31; Psalm 36:1–3; Job 6:14; 1 Chronicles 10:13–14; Galatians 2:21
- 5 Jeremiah 9:3–5; James 1:26; Luke 6:45; Psalm 52:2–4; Jeremiah 9:8
- 6 Luke 19:22; Matthew 12:37; Job 9:20; Job 40:8; Job 34:5–9
- 7 Psalm 90:2; Job 38:4–41; Job 12:12; Proverbs 8:22–25; Genesis 4:1
- 8 Romans 11:34; Jeremiah 23:18; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Psalm 25:14; Matthew 11:25
- 9 Job 13:2; 2 Corinthians 11:5; 2 Corinthians 10:7; Job 26:3–4; Job 12:3
- 10 Job 32:6–7; Job 12:12; Job 8:8–10; Deuteronomy 32:7; Proverbs 16:31
- 11 2 Corinthians 1:3–5; Job 13:2; Job 5:8–26; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Corinthians 7:6
- 12 Psalm 35:19; Mark 7:21–22; Job 17:2; Job 11:13; James 1:14–15
- 13 James 3:2–6; Job 15:25–27; Psalm 34:13; Job 12:6; Malachi 3:13
- 14 Ecclesiastes 7:20; Job 14:4; Proverbs 20:9; Romans 7:18; Job 25:4–6
- 15 Job 25:5; Job 4:18; Isaiah 6:2–5; Job 5:1
- 16 Proverbs 19:28; Job 34:7; Romans 3:9–19; Titus 3:3; Psalm 53:3
- 17 Job 33:1; Job 13:5–6; Job 5:27; Job 34:2; Job 36:2
- 18 Job 8:8; Psalm 71:18; Isaiah 38:19; Psalm 78:3–6; Job 15:10
- 19 Joel 3:17; Deuteronomy 32:8; Genesis 10:25; Genesis 10:32
- 20 James 5:1–6; Job 27:13; Job 24:1; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 90:12
- 21 Job 18:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Leviticus 26:36; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Job 1:13–19
- 22 Job 20:24–25; Job 27:14; Isaiah 8:21–22; Matthew 27:5; Job 19:29
- 23 Job 18:12; Psalm 109:10; Psalm 59:15; Amos 5:20; Ecclesiastes 11:8
- 24 Proverbs 6:11; Proverbs 24:34; Romans 2:9; Job 6:2–4; Psalm 119:143
- 25 Psalm 52:7; Job 9:4; Daniel 5:23; Psalm 73:9; Malachi 3:13
- 26 2 Chronicles 32:13–17; 2 Chronicles 28:22; Genesis 49:8; Psalm 18:40; Job 16:12
- 27 Psalm 17:10; Psalm 73:7; Jeremiah 5:28; Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 32:15
- 28 Job 3:14; Jeremiah 51:37; Micah 7:18; Jeremiah 26:18; Jeremiah 9:11
- 29 Job 27:16–17; James 1:11; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 49:16–17; Luke 16:19–22
- 30 Job 4:9; Job 15:22; Job 18:5–6; Job 20:26; Matthew 25:41
- 31 Isaiah 59:4; Galatians 6:3; Psalm 62:10; Galatians 6:7–8; Hosea 8:7
- 32 Ecclesiastes 7:17; Psalm 55:23; Job 22:16; Hosea 9:16; Isaiah 27:11
- 33 Deuteronomy 28:39–40; Isaiah 33:9; Revelation 6:13
- 34 Job 8:13; Job 27:8; Micah 7:2; Job 8:22; Matthew 24:51
- 35 Psalm 7:14; Hosea 10:13; Isaiah 59:4–5; James 1:15; Galatians 6:7–8
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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).
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