Job 36 JPS Tanakh (1917)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Numbers like (22-2) in the text give the Hebrew verse numbering where it differs.
1 Elihu also proceeded, and said:
1 Y AÑADIÓ Eliú, y dijo:
2 Suffer me a little, and I will tell thee; for there are yet words on God's behalf.
2 Espérame un poco, y enseñarte he; porque todavía [tengo] razones en orden á Dios.
3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
3 Tomaré mi noticia de lejos, y atribuiré justicia á mi Hacedor.
4 For truly my words are not false; one that is upright in mind is with thee.
4 Porque de cierto no son mentira mis palabras; contigo [está] el que es íntegro en [sus] conceptos.
5 Behold, God is mighty, yet He despiseth not any; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
5 He aquí que Dios es grande, mas no desestima á nadie: es poderoso en fuerza de sabiduría.
6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked; but giveth to the poor their right.
6 No otorgará vida al impío, y á los afligidos dará su derecho.
7 He withdraweth not His eyes from the righteous; but with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
7 No quitará sus ojos del justo; antes bien con los reyes los pondrá en solio para siempre, y serán ensalzados.
8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
8 Y si estuvieren prendidos en grillos, y aprisionados en las cuerdas de aflicción,
9 Then He declareth unto them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
9 El les dará á conocer la obra de ellos, y que prevalecieron sus rebeliones.
10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
10 Despierta además el oído de ellos para la corrección, y díce[les] que se conviertan de la iniquidad.
11 If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
11 Si oyeren, y [le] sirvieren, acabarán sus días en bien, y sus años en deleites.
12 But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
12 Mas si no oyeren, serán pasados á cuchillo, y perecerán sin sabiduría.
13 But they that are godless in heart lay up anger; they cry not for help when He bindeth them.
13 Empero los hipócritas de corazón lo irritarán más, y no clamarán cuando él los atare.
14 Their soul perisheth in youth, and their life as that of the depraved.
14 Fallecerá el alma de ellos en su mocedad, y su vida entre los sodomitas.
15 He delivereth the afflicted by His affliction, and openeth their ear by tribulation.
15 Al pobre librará de su pobreza, y en la aflicción despertará su oído.
16 Yea, He hath allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table is full of fatness;
16 Asimismo te apartaría de la boca de la angustia á lugar espacioso, [libre] de todo apuro; y te asentará mesa llena de grosura.
17 And thou art full of the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold on them.
17 Mas tú has llenado el juicio del impío, [en vez] de sustentar el juicio y la justicia.
18 For beware of wrath, lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
18 Por lo cual [teme] que [en su] ira no te quite con golpe, el cual no puedas apartar de ti con gran rescate.
19 Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?
19 ¿Hará él estima de tus riquezas, ni del oro, ni de todas las fuerzas del poder?
20 Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
20 No anheles la noche, en que desaparecen los pueblos de su lugar.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
21 Guárdate, no tornes á la iniquidad; pues ésta escogiste más bien que la aflicción.
22 Behold, God doeth loftily in His power; who is a teacher like Him?
22 He aquí que Dios es excelso con su potencia: ¿qué enseñador semejante á él?
23 Who hath enjoined Him His way? Or who hath said: 'Thou hast wrought unrighteousness'?
23 ¿Quién le ha prescrito su camino? ¿y quién [le] dirá: Iniquidad has hecho?
24 Remember that thou magnify His work, whereof men have sung.
24 Acuérdate de engrandecer su obra, la cual contemplan los hombres.
25 All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.
25 Los hombres todos la ven; mírala el hombre de lejos.
26 Behold, God is great, beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
26 He aquí, Dios es grande, y nosotros no le conocemos; ni se puede rastrear el número de sus años.
27 For He draweth away the drops of water, which distil rain from His vapour;
27 El reduce las gotas de las aguas, al derramarse la lluvia según el vapor;
28 Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men.
28 Las cuales destilan las nubes, goteando en abundancia sobre los hombres.
29 Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?
29 ¿Quién podrá tampoco comprender la extensión de las nubes, y el sonido estrepitoso de su pabellón?
30 Behold, He spreadeth His light upon it; and He covereth the depths of the sea.
30 He aquí que sobre él extiende su luz, y cobija [con ella] las raíces de la mar.
31 For by these He judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.
31 Bien que por esos medios castiga á los pueblos, á la multitud da comida.
32 He covereth His hands with the lightning, and giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
32 Con las nubes encubre la luz, y mándale [no brillar], interponiendo [aquéllas].
33 The noise thereof telleth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.
33 Tocante á ella anunciará [el trueno], su compañero, [que hay] acumulación de ira sobre el que se eleva.
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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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).
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“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).
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)