Job 9 Free Bible Version
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1 Job replied,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Job, y dijo:
2 “Yes, I know all that! But how can anyone be right before God?
2 Ciertamente yo conozco que es así: ¿y cómo se justificará el hombre con Dios?
3 If you wanted to argue with God, God could ask a thousand questions that no one could answer.
3 Si quisiere contender con él, no le podrá responder á una [cosa] de mil.
4 God is so wise and so powerful that no one could challenge him and win.
4 El es sabio de corazón, y poderoso en fortaleza: ¿quién se endureció contra él, y quedó en paz?
5 God moves the mountains suddenly; he overturns them in his anger.
5 Que arranca los montes con su furor, y no conocen quién los trastornó:
6 He shakes the earth, making its foundations quake.
6 Que remueve la tierra de su lugar, y hace temblar sus columnas:
7 He is the one who can command the sun not to rise and the stars not to shine.
7 Que manda al sol, y no sale; y sella las estrellas:
8 He alone is the one who stretches out the heavens and walks on the waves of the sea.
8 El que extiende solo los cielos, y anda sobre las alturas de la mar:
9 He made the constellations of the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the southern sky.
9 El que hizo el Arcturo, y el Orión, y las Pléyadas, y los lugares secretos del mediodía:
10 He is the one who does incredible things that are beyond our understanding, marvelous things that are uncountable.
10 El que hace cosas grandes é incomprensibles, y maravillosas, sin número.
11 But when he passes by me, I don't see him; when he moves on, he is invisible to me.
11 He aquí que él pasará delante de mí, y yo no lo veré; y pasará, y no lo entenderé.
12 If he takes away, who can prevent him? Who is going to ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
12 He aquí, arrebatará; ¿quién le hará restituir? ¿Quién le dirá, Qué haces?
13 God does not restrain his anger; he crushes Rahab's helpers underfoot.
13 Dios no tornará atrás su ira, y debajo de él se encorvan los que ayudan á los soberbios.
14 So how much less could I answer God, or choose my words to argue with him!
14 ¿Cuánto menos le responderé yo, y hablaré con él palabras estudiadas?
15 Even though I'm right, I can't answer him. I must plead for mercy from my judge.
15 Que aunque fuese yo justo, no responderé; antes habré de rogar á mi juez.
16 Even if I called him to come and he responded, I don't believe he would listen to me.
16 Que si yo le invocase, y él me respondiese, aun no creeré que haya escuchado mi voz.
17 He pounds me with the winds of a storm; he wounds me time and again, without giving a reason.
17 Porque me ha quebrado con tempestad, y ha aumentado mis heridas sin causa.
18 He doesn't give me a chance even to catch my breath; instead he fills my life with bitter suffering.
18 No me ha concedido que tome mi aliento; mas hame hartado de amarguras.
19 If it's a question of strength, then God is the strongest. If it's a question of justice, then who will set a time for my case?
19 Si [habláremos] de [su] potencia, fuerte por cierto es; si de juicio, ¿quién me emplazará?
20 Even though I am right, my own mouth would condemn me; even though I am innocent, he would prove me wrong.
20 Si yo me justificare, me condenará mi boca; si [me dijere] perfecto, esto me hará inicuo.
21 I am innocent! I don't care what happens to me. I hate my life!
21 [Bien que] yo [fuese] íntegro, no conozco mi alma: reprocharé mi vida.
22 That's why I say, ‘It makes no difference to God. He destroys both the innocent and the wicked.’
22 Una cosa resta que yo diga: Al perfecto y al impío él los consume.
23 When disaster strikes suddenly he mocks the despair of the innocent.
23 Si azote mata de presto, ríese de la prueba de los inocentes.
24 The earth has been handed over to the wicked; he blinds the eyes of the judges—if it's not him who does this, then who is it?
24 La tierra es entregada en manos de los impíos, y él cubre el rostro de sus jueces. Si no [es él], ¿quién [es]? ¿dónde está?
25 The days of my life race by like a runner, rushing past without me seeing any happiness.
25 Mis días han sido más ligeros que un correo; huyeron, y no vieron el bien.
26 They pass by like fast sailing ships, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
26 Pasaron cual navíos veloces: como el águila que se arroja á la comida.
27 If I said to myself, ‘I will forget my complaints; I will stop crying and be happy,’
27 Si digo: Olvidaré mi queja, dejaré mi aburrimiento, y esforzaréme:
28 I would still be terrified at all my suffering because you, God, will not say I'm innocent.
28 Contúrbanme todos mis trabajos; sé que no me darás por libre.
29 Since I'm condemned, what's the point in arguing?
29 Yo soy impío, ¿para qué trabajaré en vano?
30 Even if I wash myself with pure mountain water and clean my hands with soap,
30 Aunque me lave con aguas de nieve, y limpie mis manos con la misma limpieza,
31 you would toss me into a slime pit so that even my own clothes would hate me!
31 Aun me hundirás en el hoyo, y mis propios vestidos me abominarán.
32 For God is not a mortal being like me, I can't defend myself or take him to court.
32 Porque no es hombre como yo, para que yo le responda, y vengamos juntamente á juicio.
33 If only there was an arbitrator who could bring us both together!
33 No hay entre nosotros árbitro que ponga su mano sobre nosotros ambos.
34 I wish God would stop beating me with his rod and terrifying me!
34 Quite de sobre mí su vara, y su terror no me espante.
35 Then I could speak up without being afraid—but since I am, I can't!”
35 Entonces hablaré, y no le temeré: porque así no estoy en mí mismo.
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 4:17; Romans 3:20; Psalm 143:2; Job 25:4; 1 Kings 8:46
- 3 Job 10:2; Job 40:2; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 1:8; Psalm 19:12
- 4 Job 36:5; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Exodus 14:17–18; Job 9:19
- 5 Luke 21:11; Matthew 27:51; Habakkuk 3:10; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:18–20
- 6 Haggai 2:6; Psalm 75:3; Hebrews 12:26; Job 26:11; Isaiah 2:21
- 7 Isaiah 13:10; Amos 8:9; Luke 21:25–26; Job 37:7; Matthew 24:29
- 8 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 104:2–3; Job 37:18; Zechariah 12:1
- 9 Amos 5:8; Genesis 1:16; Job 38:31–41; Psalm 147:4; Acts 28:13
- 10 Job 5:9; Psalm 72:18; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Daniel 4:2–3
- 11 Job 23:8–9; Job 35:14; Psalm 77:19; 1 Timothy 6:16
- 12 Job 11:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 23:13; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35
- 13 Psalm 89:10; Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 30:7; James 4:6–7
- 14 Job 11:4–5; Job 4:19; Job 9:3; Job 23:7; Job 23:4
- 15 Job 10:15; Job 8:5; Job 22:27; Job 10:2; 1 Peter 2:23
- 16 Exodus 6:9; Psalm 66:18–20; Luke 24:41; Job 29:24; Psalm 18:6
- 17 Job 16:14; Job 2:3; Job 34:6; Job 2:13; Ezekiel 13:13
- 18 Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:15; Hebrews 12:11; Job 3:20; Job 27:2
- 19 Job 9:32–33; Job 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Job 40:9–10; Matthew 6:13
- 20 Psalm 143:2; Job 34:35; Job 9:2; Psalm 130:3; Philippians 3:12–15
- 21 Job 1:1; Psalm 139:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26
- 22 Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; Job 10:8; Ezekiel 21:3–4; Luke 13:2–4
- 23 Job 24:12; Hebrews 11:36–37; Ezekiel 14:19–21; Job 8:20; Job 2:7
- 24 Job 10:3; Psalm 73:3–7; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:7–15; 2 Samuel 15:30
- 25 Job 7:6–7; James 4:14; Psalm 90:9–10; Psalm 39:5; Esther 8:14
- 26 Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 18:2; Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 4:13; 2 Samuel 1:23
- 27 Job 7:13; Psalm 77:2–3; Job 7:11; Jeremiah 8:18
- 28 Psalm 119:120; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 9:20–21; Job 14:16; Job 10:14
- 29 Job 10:7; Job 10:2; Job 10:14–17; Job 21:16–17; Jeremiah 2:35
- 30 Jeremiah 2:22; Psalm 26:6; 1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16–18; Jeremiah 4:14
- 31 Job 15:6; Philippians 3:8–9; Job 9:20; Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 64:6
- 32 Romans 9:20; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 45:9; Numbers 23:19
- 33 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 John 2:1–2; Job 9:19; Psalm 106:23; 1 Kings 3:16–28
- 34 Psalm 39:10; Job 33:7; Job 13:11; Psalm 90:11; Job 13:20–22
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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).
That which a certain scripture says: "The earth was delivered into the hands of the ungodly." The flesh was given into the power of the Jews; and this that thereby the bag, as it were, might be rent asunder, whence our purchase-price might run out.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
And this Job said mystically, Which alone spread out the heaven, and walketh upon the sea as on firm ground; signifying to those who understand that He who when present here walked upon the sea is also He who aforetime made the heavens.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
"The earth is given into the hands of the wicked." What is meant by "earth" being "given into the hands of the ungodly"?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
"I slept," because "I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again." "I laid Me down and slept, and rose up again." Rage then the Jews; be "the earth given into the hands of the wicked," be the flesh left to the hands of persecutors, let them on wood suspend it, with nails …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)