Job · King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Job 3 King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
1 DESPUÉS de esto abrió Job su boca, y maldijo su día.
2 And Job spake, and said,
2 Y exclamó Job, y dijo:
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.
3 Perezca el día en que yo nací, y la noche que se dijo: Varón es concebido.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
4 Sea aquel día sombrío, y Dios no cuide de él desde arriba, ni claridad sobre él resplandezca.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
5 Aféenlo tinieblas y sombra de muerte; repose sobre él nublado, que lo haga horrible como caliginoso día.
6 As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
6 Ocupe la oscuridad aquella noche; no sea contada entre los días del año, ni venga en el número de los meses.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
7 ¡Oh si fuere aquella noche solitaria, que no viniera canción alguna en ella!
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
8 Maldíganla los que maldicen al día, los que se aprestan para levantar su llanto.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
9 Oscurézcanse las estrellas de su alba; espere la luz, y no venga, ni vea los párpados de la mañana:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
10 Por cuanto no cerró las puertas del vientre donde yo estaba, ni escondió de mis ojos la miseria.
11 Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
11 ¿Por qué no morí yo desde la matriz, o fuí traspasado en saliendo del vientre?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
12 ¿Por qué me previnieron las rodillas? ¿y para qué las tetas que mamase?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
13 Pues que ahora yaciera yo, y reposara; durmiera, y entonces tuviera reposo,
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
14 Con los reyes y con los consejeros de la tierra, que edifican para sí los desiertos;
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
15 O con los príncipes que poseían el oro, que henchían sus casas de plata.
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
16 O ¿por qué no fuí escondido como aborto, como los pequeñitos que nunca vieron luz?
17 There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
17 Allí los impíos dejan el perturbar, y allí descansan los de cansadas fuerzas.
18 [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
18 Allí asimismo reposan los cautivos; no oyen la voz del exactor.
19 The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
19 Allí están el chico y el grande; y el siervo libre de su señor.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
20 ¿Por qué se da luz al trabajado, y vida á los de ánimo en amargura,
21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
21 Que esperan la muerte, y ella no llega, aunque la buscan más que tesoros;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
22 Que se alegran sobremanera, y se gozan, cuando hallan el sepulcro?
23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
23 ¿[Por qué] al hombre que no sabe por donde vaya, y al cual Dios ha encerrado?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
24 Pues antes que mi pan viene mi suspiro; y mis gemidos corren como aguas.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
25 Porque el temor que me espantaba me ha venido, y hame acontecido lo que temía.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
26 No he tenido paz, no me aseguré, ni me estuve reposado; vínome no obstante turbación.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 20:14–15; Psalm 106:33; Psalm 39:2–3; Job 2:9–10; Job 3:3
- 3 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Jeremiah 15:10; Job 10:18–19
- 4 Matthew 27:45; Amos 5:18; Revelation 16:10; Deuteronomy 11:12; Joel 2:2
- 5 Job 10:21–22; Job 28:3; Jeremiah 2:6; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 107:14
- 7 Isaiah 13:20–22; Jeremiah 7:34; Revelation 18:22–23; Isaiah 24:8
- 8 Job 41:1; Job 41:10; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:17–18; Job 41:25
- 9 Job 41:18; Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 30:26
- 10 Ecclesiastes 6:3–5; Genesis 20:18; Jeremiah 20:17; 1 Samuel 1:5; Genesis 29:31
- 11 Isaiah 46:3; Job 10:18–19; Hosea 9:14; Jeremiah 15:10; Psalm 139:13–16
- 12 Genesis 30:3; Isaiah 66:12; Genesis 50:23; Ezekiel 16:4–5
- 13 Ecclesiastes 9:10; Job 14:10–12; Job 21:13; Job 7:21; Ecclesiastes 6:3–5
- 14 Job 15:28; Psalm 89:48; Isaiah 14:10–16; Psalm 49:14; Psalm 49:6–10
- 15 1 Kings 10:27; Job 22:25; Zephaniah 1:18; Numbers 22:18; Job 27:16–17
- 16 Psalm 58:8; Ecclesiastes 6:3; 1 Corinthians 15:8
- 17 Revelation 14:13; Job 17:16; Isaiah 57:1–2; Job 14:13; Hebrews 4:11
- 18 Job 39:7; Exodus 5:15–19; Judges 4:3; Exodus 5:6–8; Isaiah 14:3–4
- 19 Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Job 30:23; Psalm 49:2; Luke 16:22–23
- 20 Jeremiah 20:18; Job 7:15–16; 1 Samuel 1:10; Proverbs 31:6; Job 6:9
- 21 Revelation 9:6; Proverbs 2:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; 1 Kings 19:4
- 23 Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7; Isaiah 40:27; Job 12:14; Lamentations 3:9
- 24 Psalm 102:9; Psalm 42:3–4; Psalm 80:5; Psalm 38:8; Job 33:20
- 25 Job 1:5; Job 30:15; Job 31:23
- 26 Job 7:14; Job 27:9; Psalm 143:11
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And this he declared, when he said, "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me; and that which I was afraid of is come unto me." And again, "But I wept for every helpless man, and groaned when I saw a man in distress." So because of this, nothing of what happened confounded him, none of those …
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