Job 38 Geneva Bible (1599)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Jehová á Job desde un torbellino, y dijo:
2 Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?
2 ¿Quién es ése que oscurece el consejo con palabras sin sabiduría?
3 Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee and declare thou vnto me.
3 Ahora ciñe como varón tus lomos; yo te preguntaré, y hazme saber tú.
4 Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,
4 ¿Dónde estabas cuando yo fundaba la tierra? házme[lo] saber, si tienes inteligencia.
5 Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:
5 ¿Quién ordenó sus medidas, si lo sabes? ¿ó quién extendió sobre ella cordel?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:
6 ¿Sobre qué están fundadas sus basas? ¿ó quién puso su piedra angular,
7 When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:
7 Cuando las estrellas todas del alba alababan, y se regocijaban todos los hijos de Dios?
8 Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:
8 ¿Quién encerró con puertas la mar, cuando se derramaba por fuera [como] saliendo de madre;
9 When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:
9 Cuando puse yo nubes por vestidura suya, y por su faja oscuridad.
10 When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,
10 Y establecí sobre ella mi decreto, y le puse puertas y cerrojo,
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.
11 Y dije: Hasta aquí vendrás, y no pasarás adelante, y ahí parará la hinchazón de tus ondas?
12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,
12 ¿Has tú mandado á la mañana en tus días? ¿has mostrado al alba su lugar,
13 That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
13 Para que ocupe los fines de la tierra, y que sean sacudidos de ella los impíos?
14 It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.
14 Trasmúdase como lodo bajo de sello, y viene á estar como [con] vestidura:
15 And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.
15 Mas la luz de los impíos es quitada de ellos, y el brazo enaltecido es quebrantado.
16 Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?
16 ¿Has entrado tú hasta los profundos de la mar, y has andado escudriñando el abismo?
17 Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?
17 ¿Hante sido descubiertas las puertas de la muerte, y has visto las puertas de la sombra de muerte?
18 Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.
18 ¿Has tú considerado hasta las anchuras de la tierra? Declara si sabes todo esto.
19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse,
19 ¿Por dónde va el camino á la habitación de la luz, y dónde está el lugar de las tinieblas?
20 That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?
20 ¿Si llevarás tú [ambas cosas] á sus términos, y entenderás las sendas de su casa?
21 Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?
21 ¿Sabíaslo tú porque hubieses ya nacido, ó [porque es] grande el número de tus días?
22 Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,
22 ¿Has tú entrado en los tesoros de la nieve, ó has visto los tesoros del granizo,
23 Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?
23 Lo cual tengo yo reservado para el tiempo de angustia, para el día de la guerra y de la batalla?
24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?
24 ¿Por qué camino se reparte la luz, y se esparce el viento solano sobre la tierra?
25 Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,
25 ¿Quién repartió conducto al turbión, y camino á los relámpagos y truenos,
26 To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?
26 Haciendo llover sobre la tierra deshabitada, sobre el desierto, donde no hay hombre,
27 To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?
27 Para hartar la [tierra] desierta é inculta, y para hacer brotar la tierna hierba?
28 Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?
28 ¿Tiene la lluvia padre? ¿ó quién engendró las gotas del rocío?
29 Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?
29 ¿De qué vientre salió el hielo? y la escarcha del cielo, ¿quién la engendró?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.
30 Las aguas se endurecen á manera de piedra, y congélase la haz del abismo.
31 Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?
31 ¿Podrás tú impedir las delicias de las Pléyades, ó desatarás las ligaduras del Orión?
32 Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
32 ¿Sacarás tú á su tiempo los signos de los cielos, ó guiarás el Arcturo con sus hijos?
33 Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?
33 ¿Supiste tú las ordenanzas de los cielos? ¿dispondrás tú de su potestad en la tierra?
34 Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?
34 ¿Alzarás tú á las nubes tu voz, para que te cubra muchedumbre de aguas?
35 Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?
35 ¿Enviarás tú los relámpagos, para que ellos vayan? ¿y diránte ellos: Henos aquí?
36 Who hath put wisedome in the reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?
36 ¿Quién puso la sabiduría en el interior? ¿ó quién dió al entendimiento la inteligencia?
37 Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,
37 ¿Quién puso por cuenta los cielos con sabiduría? y los odres de los cielos, ¿quién los hace parar,
38 When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?
38 Cuando el polvo se ha convertido en dureza, y los terrones se han pegado unos con otros? 39 Not in this translation 40 Not in this translation 41 Not in this translation
Cross references (37)
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
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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)