Job · Literal Standard Version
Job 36 Literal Standard Version
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1 And Elihu adds and says:
1 Y AÑADIÓ Eliú, y dijo:
2 “Honor me a little, and I show you, || That yet for God [are] words.
2 Espérame un poco, y enseñarte he; porque todavía [tengo] razones en orden á Dios.
3 I lift up my knowledge from afar, || And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
3 Tomaré mi noticia de lejos, y atribuiré justicia á mi Hacedor.
4 For my words [are] truly not false, || The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
4 Porque de cierto no son mentira mis palabras; contigo [está] el que es íntegro en [sus] conceptos.
5 Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, || Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
5 He aquí que Dios es grande, mas no desestima á nadie: es poderoso en fuerza de sabiduría.
6 He does not revive the wicked, || And appoints the judgment of the poor;
6 No otorgará vida al impío, y á los afligidos dará su derecho.
7 He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, || And [from] kings on the throne, || And causes them to sit forever, and they are high,
7 No quitará sus ojos del justo; antes bien con los reyes los pondrá en solio para siempre, y serán ensalzados.
8 And if prisoners in chains || They are captured with cords of affliction,
8 Y si estuvieren prendidos en grillos, y aprisionados en las cuerdas de aflicción,
9 Then He declares to them their work, || And their transgressions, || Because they have become mighty,
9 El les dará á conocer la obra de ellos, y que prevalecieron sus rebeliones.
10 And He uncovers their ear for instruction, || And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
10 Despierta además el oído de ellos para la corrección, y díce[les] que se conviertan de la iniquidad.
11 If they hear and serve, || They complete their days in good, || And their years in pleasantness.
11 Si oyeren, y [le] sirvieren, acabarán sus días en bien, y sus años en deleites.
12 And if they do not listen, || They pass away by the dart, || And expire without knowledge.
12 Mas si no oyeren, serán pasados á cuchillo, y perecerán sin sabiduría.
13 And the profane in heart set the face, || They do not cry when He has bound them.
13 Empero los hipócritas de corazón lo irritarán más, y no clamarán cuando él los atare.
14 Their soul dies in youth, || And their life among the defiled.
14 Fallecerá el alma de ellos en su mocedad, y su vida entre los sodomitas.
15 He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, || And uncovers their ear in oppression.
15 Al pobre librará de su pobreza, y en la aflicción despertará su oído.
16 And He also moved you from a narrow place || [To] a broad place—no constriction under it, || And the sitting beyond of your table has been 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 you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, || Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
17 Mas tú has llenado el juicio del impío, [en vez] de sustentar el juicio y la justicia.
18 Lest He move you with a stroke, || And the abundance of an atonement not turn you 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 Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
19 ¿Hará él estima de tus riquezas, ni del oro, ni de todas las fuerzas del poder?
20 Do not desire the night, || For the going up of peoples in their stead.
20 No anheles la noche, en que desaparecen los pueblos de su lugar.
21 Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, || For you have fixed on this || Rather than [on] affliction.
21 Guárdate, no tornes á la iniquidad; pues ésta escogiste más bien que la aflicción.
22 Behold, God sits on high by His power, || Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
22 He aquí que Dios es excelso con su potencia: ¿qué enseñador semejante á él?
23 Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
23 ¿Quién le ha prescrito su camino? ¿y quién [le] dirá: Iniquidad has hecho?
24 Remember that you magnify His work || That men have beheld.
24 Acuérdate de engrandecer su obra, la cual contemplan los hombres.
25 All men have looked on it, || Man looks attentively from afar.
25 Los hombres todos la ven; mírala el hombre de lejos.
26 Behold, God [is] high, || And we do not know the number of His years, || Indeed, there [is] no searching.
26 He aquí, Dios es grande, y nosotros no le conocemos; ni se puede rastrear el número de sus años.
27 When He diminishes droppings of the waters, || They refine rain according to its vapor,
27 El reduce las gotas de las aguas, al derramarse la lluvia según el vapor;
28 Which clouds drop, || They distill on man abundantly.
28 Las cuales destilan las nubes, goteando en abundancia sobre los hombres.
29 Indeed, do [any] understand || The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
29 ¿Quién podrá tampoco comprender la extensión de las nubes, y el sonido estrepitoso de su pabellón?
30 Behold, He has spread His light over it, || And He has covered the roots of the sea,
30 He aquí que sobre él extiende su luz, y cobija [con ella] las raíces de la mar.
31 For He judges peoples by them, || He gives food in abundance.
31 Bien que por esos medios castiga á los pueblos, á la multitud da comida.
32 By two palms He has covered the light, || And lays a charge over it in meeting,
32 Con las nubes encubre la luz, y mándale [no brillar], interponiendo [aquéllas].
33 His shout shows it, || The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
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
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
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)