Job 4 Free Bible Version
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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered Job.
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Eliphaz el Temanita, y dijo:
2 “Could I say a word? I don't want to upset you but who could keep quiet and not respond?
2 Si probáremos á hablarte, serte ha molesto; mas ¿quién podrá detener las palabras?
3 You've certainly encouraged many people and supported those who are weak.
3 He aquí, tú enseñabas á muchos, y las manos flacas corroborabas;
4 Your advice has helped those who are stumbling not to fall, and you have strengthened those whose knees are weak.
4 Al que vacilaba, enderezaban tus palabras, y esforzabas las rodillas que decaían.
5 But now you're the one suffering and you're upset.
5 Mas ahora que [el mal] sobre ti ha venido, te es duro; y cuando ha llegado hasta ti, te turbas.
6 Wasn't it your reverence for God that gave you confidence and your integrity that gave you hope?
6 ¿Es este tu temor, tu confianza, tu esperanza, y la perfección de tus caminos?
7 Think about it: since when did the innocent die? Since when were good people destroyed?
7 Recapacita ahora, ¿quién que fuera inocente se perdiera? y ¿en dónde los rectos fueron cortados?
8 From what I've seen it's those who plant evil and sow trouble who reap the same!
8 Como yo he visto, los que aran iniquidad y siembran injuria, la siegan.
9 A breath from God destroys them; a blast of his anger wipes them out.
9 Perecen por el aliento de Dios, y por el espíritu de su furor son consumidos.
10 Lions may roar and growl, but their teeth still break.
10 El bramido del león, y la voz del león, y los dientes de los leoncillos son quebrantados.
11 Even a lion dies from lack of food, and the lioness' cubs are scattered.
11 El león viejo perece por falta de presa, y los hijos del león son esparcidos.
12 A word quietly crept up on me; a whisper reached my ear.
12 El negocio también me era á mí oculto; mas mi oído ha percibido algo de ello.
13 Troubling thoughts came to me in nightmares when you fall into a deep sleep.
13 En imaginaciones de visiones nocturnas, cuando el sueño cae sobre los hombres,
14 I became terrified and trembled; all my bones were shaking.
14 Sobrevínome un espanto y un temblor, que estremeció todos mis huesos:
15 Then a breath brushed my face and gave me goose-pimples.
15 Y un espíritu pasó por delante de mí, que hizo se erizara el pelo de mi carne.
16 Something stopped, but I couldn't see its face. My eyes could only make out a shape. It was totally quiet, and then I heard a voice:
16 Paróse un fantasma delante de mis ojos, cuyo rostro yo no conocí, y quedo, oí que decía:
17 ‘Can anyone be right before God? Can anyone be pure before their Maker?
17 ¿Si será el hombre más justo que Dios? ¿si será el varón más limpio que el que lo hizo?
18 If he doesn't even trust his servants, and he says his angels make mistakes,
18 He aquí que en sus siervos no confía, y notó necedad en sus ángeles;
19 how much more does this apply to those who live in these houses made of clay, whose foundations are based on dust, who fall apart like clothing to a moth?
19 ¡Cuánto más en los que habitan en casas de lodo, cuyo fundamento está en el polvo, y que serán quebrantados de la polilla!
20 Alive in the morning, they are dead by evening. They die, unnoticed.
20 De la mañana á la tarde son quebrantados, y se pierden para siempre, sin haber quien lo considere.
21 They are like tent ropes that are pulled up, and they collapse in death. They die without wisdom.’”
21 ¿Su hermosura, no se pierde con ellos mismos? Mueren, y sin sabiduría.
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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 (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 6:1; Job 8:1; Job 2:11; Job 22:1; Job 15:1
- 2 Job 32:18–20; Acts 4:20; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 20:9; 2 Corinthians 2:4–6
- 3 Isaiah 35:3; Proverbs 10:21; Hebrews 12:12; Luke 22:32; Job 16:5
- 4 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Proverbs 12:18; Psalm 145:14; Hebrews 12:12; Proverbs 16:23–24
- 5 Job 19:21; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Job 1:11; Hebrews 12:5; Proverbs 24:10
- 6 Proverbs 3:26; Proverbs 14:26; Job 1:1; Job 17:15; Job 23:11–12
- 7 Psalm 37:25; Job 36:7; 2 Peter 2:9; Acts 28:4; Job 8:20
- 8 Galatians 6:7–8; Proverbs 22:8; Hosea 8:7; 2 Corinthians 9:6; Hosea 10:12–13
- 9 Job 15:30; Isaiah 11:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Isaiah 30:33; Revelation 2:16
- 10 Psalm 58:6; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 57:4; Proverbs 30:14; Job 5:15
- 11 Psalm 34:10; Job 38:39; Job 8:3–4; Job 1:19; Jeremiah 4:7
- 12 Job 26:14; Psalm 62:11; 1 Corinthians 13:12
- 13 Job 33:14–16; Genesis 2:21; Genesis 15:12; Daniel 10:9; Daniel 4:5
- 14 Revelation 1:17; Job 33:19; Luke 1:12; Job 7:14; Psalm 119:120
- 15 Hebrews 1:7; Luke 24:37–39; Psalm 104:4; Daniel 5:6; Isaiah 21:3–4
- 16 1 Kings 19:12
- 17 Job 9:2; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Psalm 143:2; Jeremiah 17:9
- 18 Job 25:5–6; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; Job 15:15–16; Psalm 104:4
- 19 Job 10:9; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; Job 33:6; Psalm 39:11
- 20 Job 20:7; 2 Chronicles 21:20; Psalm 39:13; Job 18:17; Proverbs 10:7
- 21 Job 36:12; Luke 16:22–23; Job 8:22; Psalm 39:11; Luke 12:20
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