Job 36 Geneva Bible (1599)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Original 16th-century spelling.
2 Suffer me a litle, and I will instruct thee: for I haue yet to speake on Gods behalfe.
2 Espérame un poco, y enseñarte he; porque todavía [tengo] razones en orden á Dios.
2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.
3 I will fetche my knowledge afarre off, and will attribute righteousnes vnto my Maker.
3 Tomaré mi noticia de lejos, y atribuiré justicia á mi Hacedor.
3 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 For truely my wordes shall not be false, and he that is perfect in knowledge, speaketh with thee.
4 Porque de cierto no son mentira mis palabras; contigo [está] el que es íntegro en [sus] conceptos.
4 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5 Behold, the mighty God casteth away none that is mighty and valiant of courage.
5 He aquí que Dios es grande, mas no desestima á nadie: es poderoso en fuerza de sabiduría.
5 “Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
6 He mainteineth not the wicked, but he giueth iudgement to the afflicted.
6 No otorgará vida al impío, y á los afligidos dará su derecho.
6 He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.
7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but they are with Kings in ye throne, where he placeth them for euer: thus they are exalted.
7 No quitará sus ojos del justo; antes bien con los reyes los pondrá en solio para siempre, y serán ensalzados.
7 He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
8 And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,
8 Y si estuvieren prendidos en grillos, y aprisionados en las cuerdas de aflicción,
8 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
9 Then will he shewe them their worke and their sinnes, because they haue bene proude.
9 El les dará á conocer la obra de ellos, y que prevalecieron sus rebeliones.
9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
10 He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth them that they returne from iniquity.
10 Despierta además el oído de ellos para la corrección, y díce[les] que se conviertan de la iniquidad.
10 He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
11 If they obey and serue him, they shall end their dayes in prosperity, and their yeres in pleasures.
11 Si oyeren, y [le] sirvieren, acabarán sus días en bien, y sus años en deleites.
11 If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12 But if they wil not obey, they shall passe by the sworde, and perish without knowledge.
12 Mas si no oyeren, serán pasados á cuchillo, y perecerán sin sabiduría.
12 But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
13 But the hypocrites of heart increase the wrath: for they call not when he bindeth them.
13 Empero los hipócritas de corazón lo irritarán más, y no clamarán cuando él los atare.
13 “But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
14 Their soule dyeth in youth, and their life among the whoremongers.
14 Fallecerá el alma de ellos en su mocedad, y su vida entre los sodomitas.
14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
15 He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, and openeth their eare in trouble.
15 Al pobre librará de su pobreza, y en la aflicción despertará su oído.
15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
16 Euen so woulde he haue taken thee out of the streight place into a broade place and not shut vp beneath: and that which resteth vpon thy table, had bene full of fat.
16 Asimismo te apartaría de la boca de la angustia á lugar espacioso, [libre] de todo apuro; y te asentará mesa llena de grosura.
16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
17 But thou art ful of the iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things.
17 Mas tú has llenado el juicio del impío, [en vez] de sustentar el juicio y la justicia.
17 “But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
18 For Gods wrath is, least hee should take that away in thine abundance: for no multitude of giftes can deliuer thee.
18 Por lo cual [teme] que [en su] ira no te quite con golpe, el cual no puedas apartar de ti con gran rescate.
18 Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
19 Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.
19 ¿Hará él estima de tus riquezas, ni del oro, ni de todas las fuerzas del poder?
19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
20 Be not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place.
20 No anheles la noche, en que desaparecen los pueblos de su lugar.
20 Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21 Take thou heede: looke not to iniquitie: for thou hast chosen it rather then affliction.
21 Guárdate, no tornes á la iniquidad; pues ésta escogiste más bien que la aflicción.
21 Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
22 Beholde, God exalteth by his power: what teacher is like him?
22 He aquí que Dios es excelso con su potencia: ¿qué enseñador semejante á él?
22 Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
23 Who hath appointed to him his way? or who can say, Thou hast done wickedly?
23 ¿Quién le ha prescrito su camino? ¿y quién [le] dirá: Iniquidad has hecho?
23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?
24 Remember that thou magnifie his worke, which men behold.
24 Acuérdate de engrandecer su obra, la cual contemplan los hombres.
24 “Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
25 All men see it, and men beholde it afarre off.
25 Los hombres todos la ven; mírala el hombre de lejos.
25 All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
26 Beholde, God is excellent, and we knowe him not, neither can the nomber of his yeres bee searched out.
26 He aquí, Dios es grande, y nosotros no le conocemos; ni se puede rastrear el número de sus años.
26 Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
27 When he restraineth the droppes of water, the rayne powreth down by the vapour thereof,
27 El reduce las gotas de las aguas, al derramarse la lluvia según el vapor;
27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
28 Which raine the cloudes do droppe and let fall abundantly vpon man.
28 Las cuales destilan las nubes, goteando en abundancia sobre los hombres.
28 which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
29 Who can know the diuisions of ye clouds and the thunders of his tabernacle?
29 ¿Quién podrá tampoco comprender la extensión de las nubes, y el sonido estrepitoso de su pabellón?
29 Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?
30 Beholde, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.
30 He aquí que sobre él extiende su luz, y cobija [con ella] las raíces de la mar.
30 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
31 For thereby hee iudgeth the people, and giueth meate abundantly.
31 Bien que por esos medios castiga á los pueblos, á la multitud da comida.
31 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
32 He couereth the light with the clouds, and commandeth them to go against it.
32 Con las nubes encubre la luz, y mándale [no brillar], interponiendo [aquéllas].
32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
33 His companion sheweth him thereof, and there is anger in rising vp.
33 Tocante á ella anunciará [el trueno], su compañero, [que hay] acumulación de ira sobre el que se eleva.
33 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.
Cross references (31)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 21:3; Job 13:7–8; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Ezekiel 2:7; Hebrews 13:22
- 3 James 3:17; James 1:17; Psalm 145:17; Job 8:3; Daniel 9:14
- 4 Proverbs 8:7–8; Job 37:16; Psalm 49:3; 1 Corinthians 14:20; 2 Timothy 3:16–17
- 5 Psalm 22:24; Psalm 138:6; Jeremiah 10:12; Psalm 147:5; Job 37:23
- 6 Psalm 140:12; Psalm 72:12–14; 2 Peter 2:9; Job 5:15; Exodus 22:22–24
- 7 Psalm 34:15; Psalm 33:18; 1 Samuel 2:8; Psalm 113:7–8; 2 Thessalonians 3:3
- 8 Psalm 107:10; Proverbs 5:22; Job 13:27; Psalm 116:3; Job 19:6
- 9 1 Corinthians 11:32; Job 15:25; Psalm 119:71; Ezekiel 18:28–31; Romans 5:20
- 10 Isaiah 55:6–7; Job 36:15; Matthew 3:8; 2 Kings 17:13; Job 33:16–23
- 11 Jeremiah 7:23; Isaiah 1:19; Jeremiah 26:13; Deuteronomy 4:30; Hebrews 11:8
- 12 Job 4:21; Romans 2:8–9; Isaiah 3:11; Isaiah 1:20; Deuteronomy 18:15–22
- 13 Romans 2:5; Job 27:8–10; Job 36:8; 2 Chronicles 28:13; Job 35:9–10
- 14 Job 22:16; Job 15:32; Deuteronomy 23:17; Psalm 55:23; Job 21:23–25
- 15 Job 36:10
- 16 Psalm 23:5; Psalm 118:5; Psalm 31:8; Psalm 18:19; Psalm 63:5
- 17 Romans 1:32; Revelation 18:4; Job 34:36; Job 16:5; Job 22:11
- 18 Ephesians 5:6; Job 33:24; Romans 1:18; Psalm 110:5; Psalm 49:7–8
- 19 Proverbs 11:4; Proverbs 11:21; Job 9:13; James 5:3; Isaiah 37:36
- 20 Job 34:20; Exodus 12:29; Job 34:25; 2 Kings 19:35; Job 14:13
- 21 Psalm 66:18; Hebrews 11:25; 1 Peter 3:17; Matthew 16:24; Daniel 3:16–18
- 22 1 Samuel 2:7–8; Romans 13:1; Luke 1:52; Jeremiah 27:5–8; Isaiah 48:17
- 23 1 Corinthians 2:16; Isaiah 40:13–14; Job 8:3; Job 34:10; Ephesians 1:11
- 24 Revelation 15:3; Psalm 145:10–12; Psalm 72:18; Psalm 111:2–4; Luke 1:46
- 26 Psalm 90:2; Psalm 145:3; Job 11:7–9; 1 Kings 8:27; 1 Corinthians 13:12
- 27 Psalm 147:8; Job 5:9; Psalm 148:8; Job 38:25–28; Psalm 65:9–13
- 28 Proverbs 3:20; Genesis 7:11–12; Job 37:11–13
- 29 Job 37:16; Job 37:2–5; Psalm 29:3–10; Job 26:14; Nahum 1:3
- 30 Job 38:25; Exodus 14:22; Exodus 14:28; Genesis 1:9; Psalm 18:11–16
- 31 Psalm 136:25; Job 37:13; Acts 14:17; Psalm 104:13–15; Psalm 65:9–13
- 32 Psalm 18:11; Psalm 147:8–9; Job 37:15; Psalm 148:8; Psalm 135:7
- 33 Job 37:2; Job 36:29; 2 Samuel 22:14; 1 Kings 18:41–45; Joel 2:22
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Learn then thine own weakness; learn from this instance the mightiness of God: for He hath numbered the drops of rain, which have been poured down on all the earth, not only now but in all time.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
He who planned all with weight and measure, He who, according to the word of Job, knows the number of the drops of rain, knew how long His work would last, and for how much consumption of fire He ought to allow.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)