Job 8 Free Bible Version
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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Bildad Suhita, y dijo:
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2 “How much longer will you go on talking like this? The words coming out of your mouth are a lot of hot air!
2 ¿Hasta cuándo hablarás tales cosas, y las palabras de tu boca serán [como] un viento fuerte?
2 “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
3 ¿Acaso pervertirá Dios el derecho, ó el Todopoderoso pervertirá la justicia?
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4 Your children must have sinned against him, and so they deserved the punishment he inflicted on them.
4 Si tus hijos pecaron contra él, él los echó en el lugar de su pecado.
4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
5 But if you pray to God and ask for his help,
5 Si tú de mañana buscares á Dios, y rogares al Todopoderoso;
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
6 if you live a clean life and do what is right, then he would act to make things right for you in your home.
6 Si fueres limpio y derecho, cierto luego se despertará sobre ti, y hará próspera la morada de tu justicia.
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7 Though you began with next to nothing, you will end up with so much!
7 Y tu principio habrá sido pequeño, y tu postrimería acrecerá en gran manera.
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8 Why don't you ask what previous generations discovered, examine what our ancestors found out? We were born yesterday and don't know anything!
8 Porque pregunta ahora á la edad pasada, y disponte para inquirir de sus padres de ellos;
8 “Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
9 Our days on earth fade as quickly as a passing shadow.
9 Pues nosotros somos de ayer, y no sabemos, siendo nuestros días sobre la tierra como sombra.
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
10 Won't they teach you and explain what they know?
10 ¿No te enseñarán ellos, te dirán, y de su corazón sacarán palabras?
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds grow without water?
11 ¿Crece el junco sin lodo? ¿crece el prado sin agua?
11 “Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
12 Even without being cut, while they are still flowering, they wither faster than grass.
12 Aun él en su verdor no será cortado, y antes de toda hierba se secará.
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
13 This is what happens to everyone who forgets God. The hopes of those who live without God come to nothing.
13 Tales son los caminos de todos los que olvidan á Dios: y la esperanza del impío perecerá:
13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
14 Their confidence is like holding on to a flimsy spider's web.
14 Porque su esperanza será cortada, y su confianza es casa de araña.
14 whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
15 They look to their home to provide security, but it provides no support. They try to hang onto it, but it doesn't last.
15 Apoyaráse él sobre su casa, mas no permanecerá en pie; atendráse á ella, mas no se afirmará.
15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
16 Those who live without God are like a luxuriant plant growing in the sun, spreading its shoots all over the garden.
16 [A manera de un árbol], está verde delante del sol, y sus renuevos salen sobre su huerto;
16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
17 It twists its roots down through the stones, and holds on to rock.
17 Vanse entretejiendo sus raíces junto á [una] fuente, y enlazándose hasta un lugar pedregoso.
17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
18 But when it's cut down, the place where it was disowns it, saying, ‘I never even saw you.’
18 Si le arrancaren de su lugar, éste negarále entonces, [diciendo]: Nunca te vi.
18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
19 Its life is over, and others spring up from the earth to take its place.
19 Ciertamente éste será el gozo de su camino; y de la tierra de donde se [traspusiere], nacerán otros.
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
20 Look, God doesn't reject someone who is innocent, and he doesn't support those who are guilty.
20 He aquí, Dios no aborrece al perfecto, ni toma la mano de los malignos.
20 “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
21 He can make you laugh with happiness again and shout for joy.
21 Aun henchirá tu boca de risa, y tus labios de júbilo.
21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
22 Those who hate you will be put to shame, and the place where the wicked live will be destroyed.”
22 Los que te aborrecen, serán vestidos de confusión; y la habitación de los impíos perecerá.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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Bildad
Bildad the Shuhite, one of Job's three friends, who answered Job in the dialogues and was rebuked by the LORD.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 8:1; Job 18:1
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 2:11
- 2 Job 6:26; Job 15:2; 1 Kings 19:11; Job 7:11; Job 18:2
- 3 2 Chronicles 19:7; Deuteronomy 32:4; Genesis 18:25; Ezekiel 33:20; Job 34:10–12
- 4 Job 1:5; Job 5:4; Job 1:18–19; Genesis 19:13–25; Job 18:16–19
- 5 James 4:7–10; Matthew 7:7–8; Job 11:13; Isaiah 55:6–7; Hebrews 3:7–8
- 6 Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 3:10; Job 5:24; Psalm 7:6; Proverbs 15:8
- 7 Job 42:12–13; Matthew 13:31–32; Proverbs 19:20; Zechariah 4:10; Proverbs 4:18
- 8 Deuteronomy 4:32; Job 15:18; Deuteronomy 32:7; Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11
- 9 1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalm 144:4; Job 14:2; Psalm 102:11; Genesis 47:9
- 10 Proverbs 18:15; Matthew 12:35; Deuteronomy 6:7; Psalm 145:4; Deuteronomy 11:19
- 11 Exodus 2:3; Isaiah 19:5–7
- 12 Jeremiah 17:6; Psalm 129:6–7; James 1:10–11; Matthew 13:20; 1 Peter 1:24
- 13 Psalm 9:17; Job 13:16; Job 11:20; Proverbs 10:28; Job 15:34
- 14 Isaiah 59:5–6
- 15 Job 27:18; Luke 6:47–49; Matthew 7:24–27; Proverbs 10:28; Psalm 49:11
- 16 Psalm 80:11; Job 21:7–15; Psalm 37:35–36; Psalm 73:3–12; Job 5:3
- 17 Job 18:16; Isaiah 5:24; Mark 11:20; Job 29:19; Isaiah 40:24
- 18 Job 7:10; Job 7:8; Psalm 37:36; Psalm 92:7; Job 20:9
- 19 Job 20:5; Psalm 113:7; 1 Samuel 2:8; Ezekiel 17:24; Matthew 13:20–21
- 20 Job 4:7; Psalm 37:37; Psalm 37:24; Isaiah 45:1; Psalm 94:14
- 21 Psalm 126:2; Genesis 21:6; Psalm 126:6; Psalm 32:11; Luke 6:21
- 22 Psalm 132:18; Psalm 35:26; Psalm 109:29; Job 18:14; Job 8:18
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