Job 38 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Jehová á Job desde un torbellino, y dijo:
2 “Who is this who questions my wisdom by talking so ignorantly?
2 ¿Quién es ése que oscurece el consejo con palabras sin sabiduría?
3 Prepare yourself, be strong, for I am going to question you, and you must answer me.
3 Ahora ciñe como varón tus lomos; yo te preguntaré, y hazme saber tú.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have such knowledge!
4 ¿Dónde estabas cuando yo fundaba la tierra? házme[lo] saber, si tienes inteligencia.
5 Who decided its dimensions? Don't you know? Who stretched out a measuring line?
5 ¿Quién ordenó sus medidas, si lo sabes? ¿ó quién extendió sobre ella cordel?
6 What do its foundations rest upon? Who laid its cornerstone,
6 ¿Sobre qué están fundadas sus basas? ¿ó quién puso su piedra angular,
7 when the stars of the morning sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.
7 Cuando las estrellas todas del alba alababan, y se regocijaban todos los hijos de Dios?
8 Who laid down the boundaries of the sea when it was born?
8 ¿Quién encerró con puertas la mar, cuando se derramaba por fuera [como] saliendo de madre;
9 Who clothed it with clouds, and wrapped it in a blanket of deep darkness?
9 Cuando puse yo nubes por vestidura suya, y por su faja oscuridad.
10 I set its limits, marking its borders.
10 Y establecí sobre ella mi decreto, y le puse puertas y cerrojo,
11 I said, ‘You may come here, but no farther. Here is where your proud waves stop.’
11 Y dije: Hasta aquí vendrás, y no pasarás adelante, y ahí parará la hinchazón de tus ondas?
12 During your lifetime, have you ever ordered the morning to begin?
12 ¿Has tú mandado á la mañana en tus días? ¿has mostrado al alba su lugar,
13 Have you ever told the dawn where to appear that it might take hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wicked out?
13 Para que ocupe los fines de la tierra, y que sean sacudidos de ella los impíos?
14 The earth is changed like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a crumpled garment.
14 Trasmúdase como lodo bajo de sello, y viene á estar como [con] vestidura:
15 The ‘light’ of the wicked is taken away from them; their acts of violence are stopped.
15 Mas la luz de los impíos es quitada de ellos, y el brazo enaltecido es quebrantado.
16 Have you entered the sources of the sea? Have you explored their hidden depths?
16 ¿Has entrado tú hasta los profundos de la mar, y has andado escudriñando el abismo?
17 Have you been shown where the gates of death are? Have you seen the gates of utter darkness?
17 ¿Hante sido descubiertas las puertas de la muerte, y has visto las puertas de la sombra de muerte?
18 Do you know how far the earth extends? Tell me if you know all this!
18 ¿Has tú considerado hasta las anchuras de la tierra? Declara si sabes todo esto.
19 In which direction does light live? Where does darkness dwell?
19 ¿Por dónde va el camino á la habitación de la luz, y dónde está el lugar de las tinieblas?
20 Can you take them home? Do you know the way to where they live?
20 ¿Si llevarás tú [ambas cosas] á sus términos, y entenderás las sendas de su casa?
21 Of course you know, because you were already born then! You've lived so long!
21 ¿Sabíaslo tú porque hubieses ya nacido, ó [porque es] grande el número de tus días?
22 Have you been to where the snow is kept? Have you seen where the hail is held?
22 ¿Has tú entrado en los tesoros de la nieve, ó has visto los tesoros del granizo,
23 I have stored them up for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle.
23 Lo cual tengo yo reservado para el tiempo de angustia, para el día de la guerra y de la batalla?
24 Do you know the way to where light comes from, or to where the east wind blows over the earth?
24 ¿Por qué camino se reparte la luz, y se esparce el viento solano sobre la tierra?
25 Who cuts a channel for the rain to flow? Who creates a path for the thunderbolt?
25 ¿Quién repartió conducto al turbión, y camino á los relámpagos y truenos,
26 Who brings rain to an uninhabited land, to a desert where nobody lives,
26 Haciendo llover sobre la tierra deshabitada, sobre el desierto, donde no hay hombre,
27 to water a parched wasteland to make the green grass grow?
27 Para hartar la [tierra] desierta é inculta, y para hacer brotar la tierna hierba?
28 Does the rain have a father? Who was the father of the dewdrops?
28 ¿Tiene la lluvia padre? ¿ó quién engendró las gotas del rocío?
29 Who was the mother of ice? Does the frost of the air have a mother?
29 ¿De qué vientre salió el hielo? y la escarcha del cielo, ¿quién la engendró?
30 Water turns into rock-hard ice; its surface freezes solid.
30 Las aguas se endurecen á manera de piedra, y congélase la haz del abismo.
31 Can you tie together the stars of the Pleiades? Can you loosen the belt of the Orion constellation?
31 ¿Podrás tú impedir las delicias de las Pléyades, ó desatarás las ligaduras del Orión?
32 Can you guide the stars of Mazzaroth at the right time? Can you direct the Great Bear constellation and its other stars?
32 ¿Sacarás tú á su tiempo los signos de los cielos, ó guiarás el Arcturo con sus hijos?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you apply them to the earth?
33 ¿Supiste tú las ordenanzas de los cielos? ¿dispondrás tú de su potestad en la tierra?
34 Can you shout to the clouds and command them to pour rain down on you?
34 ¿Alzarás tú á las nubes tu voz, para que te cubra muchedumbre de aguas?
35 Can you send out bolts of lightning and direct them, so that they can answer you saying, ‘Here we are’?
35 ¿Enviarás tú los relámpagos, para que ellos vayan? ¿y diránte ellos: Henos aquí?
36 Who has placed wisdom inside people? Who has given understanding to the mind?
36 ¿Quién puso la sabiduría en el interior? ¿ó quién dió al entendimiento la inteligencia?
37 Who is clever enough to count the clouds? Who can turn heaven's water jars on their sides
37 ¿Quién puso por cuenta los cielos con sabiduría? y los odres de los cielos, ¿quién los hace parar,
38 when the dust has baked into a solid mass?
38 Cuando el polvo se ha convertido en dureza, y los terrones se han pegado unos con otros?
39 Can you hunt prey for the lion? Can you feed the lion cubs
39 Not in this translation
40 as they crouch down in their dens and lie in wait in the bushes?
40 Not in this translation
41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God, weak from starvation?”
41 Not in this translation
Cross references (40)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 40:6; 2 Kings 2:11; Job 37:1–2; Exodus 19:16–19; 1 Kings 19:11
- 2 Job 42:3; Job 35:16; 1 Timothy 1:7; Job 34:35; Job 27:11
- 3 Job 40:7; Jeremiah 1:17; Exodus 12:11; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Peter 1:13
- 4 Psalm 104:5; Hebrews 1:10; Proverbs 30:4; Hebrews 1:2; Psalm 102:25
- 5 Isaiah 40:12; Job 11:9; Zechariah 2:1–2; Proverbs 8:27; Isaiah 40:22
- 6 Job 26:7; Psalm 104:5; Psalm 93:1; Isaiah 28:16; 2 Peter 3:5
- 7 Revelation 5:11; Job 1:6; Ezra 3:11–12; Revelation 22:16; Revelation 2:28
- 8 Genesis 1:9; Proverbs 8:29; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 104:8–9; Psalm 33:7
- 9 Genesis 1:2
- 10 Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 104:9; Psalm 33:7; Job 26:10; Genesis 1:9–10
- 11 Psalm 89:9; Proverbs 8:29; Psalm 65:6–7; Luke 8:32–33; Mark 4:39–41
- 12 Psalm 74:16; Psalm 148:3–5; Genesis 1:5; Job 8:9; Psalm 136:7–8
- 13 Psalm 104:35; Job 37:3; Exodus 14:27; Psalm 104:21–22; Job 24:13–17
- 14 Psalm 104:6; Psalm 104:2
- 15 Psalm 10:15; Psalm 37:17; Job 18:5; Proverbs 4:19; Ezekiel 30:22
- 16 Proverbs 8:24; Psalm 77:19; Job 26:5–6; Jeremiah 51:36
- 17 Psalm 9:13; Psalm 107:18; Job 3:5; Job 12:22; Psalm 107:14
- 18 Revelation 20:9; Psalm 89:11–12; Jeremiah 31:37; Isaiah 40:28; Job 28:24
- 19 Ezekiel 32:8; Matthew 27:45; Isaiah 45:7; Genesis 1:3–4; Amos 4:13
- 20 Job 26:10; Genesis 10:19; Genesis 23:17
- 21 Job 15:7; Job 38:4; Job 38:12
- 22 Job 37:6; Psalm 135:7; Psalm 33:7; Job 6:16
- 23 Joshua 10:11; Isaiah 30:30; Revelation 16:21; Exodus 9:18; Job 36:13
- 24 Job 38:12–13; Jonah 4:8; Matthew 24:27
- 25 Job 28:26; Psalm 29:3–10; Job 36:27–28; Job 37:3–6
- 26 Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 107:35; Hebrews 6:7–8; Isaiah 35:1–2; Isaiah 43:19–20
- 27 Psalm 107:35; Psalm 104:14
- 28 Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 147:8; Jeremiah 10:13; Proverbs 3:20; Deuteronomy 33:13
- 29 Psalm 147:16–17; Job 37:10; Job 6:16; Job 38:8
- 30 Job 37:10
- 31 Amos 5:8; Job 9:9
- 32 Job 38:31; 2 Kings 23:5; Job 9:9
- 33 Jeremiah 31:35–36; Genesis 8:22; Psalm 148:6; Job 38:12–13; Jeremiah 33:25
- 34 Job 22:11; Zechariah 10:1; James 5:18; Job 36:27–28; 1 Samuel 12:18
- 35 Job 36:32; Job 37:3; 2 Kings 1:14; Revelation 11:5–6; Numbers 16:35
- 36 Job 32:8; Psalm 51:6; Proverbs 2:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26; James 1:5
- 37 Psalm 147:4; Genesis 9:15; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 15:5
- 39 Psalm 104:21; Job 4:10–11; Psalm 34:10; Psalm 145:15–16
- 40 Job 37:8; Numbers 24:9; Numbers 23:24; Genesis 49:9
- 41 Luke 12:24; Matthew 6:26; Psalm 147:9; Psalm 104:27–28
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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).
How these were chosen
“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).
Who is the father of the rain? And who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And yet, O talkative Dialectician, I will ask thee one small question, and answer thou me, as He saith to Job, Who through whirlwind and cloud giveth Divine admonitions. Are there many mansions in God's House, as thou hast heard, or only one?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Put then a limit to your thought, so that your curiosity in investigating the incomprehensible may not incur the reproaches of Job, and you be not asked by him, "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?" If ever you hear in the Psalms, "I bear up the pillars of it;" see in these pillars the power which sustains it.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… condensed the air into clouds, and bade them carry the waters of the rain, now bringing golden-tinted clouds from the north, now changing these into one uniform appearance, and again transforming them into manifold circles and other shapes? Who can number the clouds in wisdom?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds, and hath bent down the heaven to the earth: and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom: and, the cloud is not rent under Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)