Job 17 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 “My spirit is crushed; my life is extinguished; the grave is ready for me.
1 MI ALIENTO está corrompido, acórtanse mis días, y me está aparejado el sepulcro.
1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
2 Mockers surround me. I see how bitterly they ridicule me.
2 No hay conmigo sino escarnecedores, en cuya acrimonia se detienen mis ojos.
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
3 God, you need to put down a pledge for me with yourself, for who else will be my guarantor?
3 Pon ahora, dame fianza para [litigar] contigo: ¿quién tocará ahora mi mano?
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 You have closed their minds to understanding, so do not let them win!
4 Porque [á éstos] has tú escondido su corazón de inteligencia: por tanto, no [los] ensalzarás.
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5 They betray friends to gain benefit for themselves and their children suffer for it.
5 El que denuncia lisonjas á sus prójimos, los ojos de sus hijos desfallezcan.
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 He has made me a proverb of ridicule among the people; they spit in my face.
6 El me ha puesto por parábola de pueblos, y delante [de ellos] he sido como tamboril.
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
7 My eyes are worn out from crying and my body is a shadow of its former self.
7 Y mis ojos se oscurecieron de desabrimiento, y mis pensamientos todos son como sombra.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
8 People who think they are good are shocked to see me. Those who are innocent are troubled by the godless.
8 Los rectos se maravillarán de esto, y el inocente se levantará contra el hipócrita.
8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
9 Those who are right keep going, and those whose hands are clean grow stronger and stronger.
9 No obstante, proseguirá el justo su camino, y el limpio de manos aumentará la fuerza.
9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10 Why don't you come back and repeat again what you've been saying?—yet I still won't find a wise man among you!
10 Mas volved todos vosotros, y venid ahora, que no hallaré entre vosotros sabio.
10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
11 My life is over. My plans are gone. My heart is broken.
11 Pasáronse mis días, fueron arrancados mis pensamientos, los designios de mi corazón.
11 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
12 They turn night into day, and say that daylight is close to darkness.
12 Pusieron la noche por día, y la luz se acorta delante de las tinieblas.
12 They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
13 What am I looking for? To make my home in Sheol, to make my bed in darkness?
13 Si yo espero, el sepulcro es mi casa: haré mi cama en las tinieblas.
13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
14 Should I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?
14 A la huesa tengo dicho: Mi padre eres tú; á los gusanos: Mi madre y mi hermana.
14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
15 So then where is my hope? Can anyone see any hope for me?
15 ¿Dónde pues estará ahora mi esperanza? y mi esperanza ¿quién la verá?
15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
16 Will hope go down with me to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
16 A los rincones de la huesa descenderán, y juntamente descansarán en el polvo.
16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 38:10–14; Psalm 88:3–5; Job 17:13–14; Job 42:16; Job 6:11
- 2 Job 12:4; Job 16:20; 1 Samuel 1:6–7; Matthew 27:39–44; Psalm 35:14–16
- 3 Hebrews 7:22; Proverbs 11:15; Isaiah 38:14; Genesis 44:32; Psalm 119:122
- 4 Matthew 11:25; Matthew 13:11; 2 Samuel 17:14; Isaiah 19:14; 1 Corinthians 1:20
- 5 Psalm 12:2–3; Proverbs 20:19; Proverbs 29:5; Exodus 20:5; 1 Kings 11:12
- 6 Job 30:9; Psalm 44:14; 1 Kings 9:7; Isaiah 5:12; Genesis 31:27
- 7 Psalm 6:7; Job 16:16; Psalm 31:9–10; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Lamentations 5:17
- 8 Habakkuk 1:13; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Job 34:30; Job 22:19; Romans 11:33
- 9 Proverbs 4:18; Isaiah 1:15–16; Job 22:30; Psalm 84:7; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10
- 10 Job 42:7; Job 6:29; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 6:5; Job 17:4
- 11 Job 7:6; Isaiah 38:10; Proverbs 16:9; James 4:13–15; Isaiah 8:10
- 12 Job 24:14–16; Job 7:13–14; Job 7:3–4; Deuteronomy 28:67
- 13 Job 10:21–22; Job 30:23; Job 3:13; Psalm 139:8; Job 14:14
- 14 Psalm 16:10; Job 24:20; Acts 13:34–37; Job 21:32–33; Job 30:30
- 15 Job 13:15; Job 19:10; Job 4:6; Job 6:11; Job 7:6
- 16 Job 3:17–19; Jonah 2:6; Ezekiel 37:11; Isaiah 38:17–18; Job 18:13–14
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences