Job 14 Majority Standard Bible
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1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
1 EL HOMBRE nacido de mujer, corto de días, y harto de sinsabores:
2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
2 Que sale como una flor y es cortado; y huye como la sombra, y no permanece.
3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
3 ¿Y sobre éste abres tus ojos, y me traes á juicio contigo?
4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
4 ¿Quién hará limpio de inmundo? Nadie.
5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
5 Ciertamente sus días están determinados, y el número de sus meses está cerca de ti: tú le pusiste términos, de los cuales no pasará.
6 look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
6 Si tú lo dejares, él dejará [de ser]: entre tanto deseará, como el jornalero, su día.
7 For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
7 Porque si el árbol fuere cortado, aun queda de él esperanza; retoñecerá aún, y sus renuevos no faltarán.
8 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
8 Si se envejeciere en la tierra su raíz, y su tronco fuere muerto en el polvo,
9 at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
9 Al percibir el agua reverdecerá, y hará copa como planta.
10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
10 Mas el hombre morirá, y será cortado; y perecerá el hombre, ¿y dónde estará él?
11 As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
11 Las aguas de la mar se fueron, y agotóse el río, secóse.
12 so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
12 Así el hombre yace, y no se tornará á levantar: hasta que no haya cielo no despertarán, ni se levantarán de su sueño.
13 If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
13 ¡Oh quién me diera que me escondieses en el sepulcro, que me encubrieras hasta apaciguarse tu ira, que me pusieses plazo, y de mí te acordaras!
14 When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
14 Si el hombre muriere, ¿[volverá] á vivir? Todos los días de mi edad esperaré, hasta que venga mi mutación.
15 You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
15 Aficionado á la obra de tus manos, llamarás, y yo te responderé.
16 For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
16 Pues ahora me cuentas los pasos, y no das tregua á mi pecado.
17 My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
17 Tienes sellada en saco mi prevaricación, y coacervas mi iniquidad.
18 But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
18 Y ciertamente el monte que cae se deshace, y las peñas son traspasadas de su lugar;
19 as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
19 Las piedras son desgastadas con el agua impetuosa, que se lleva el polvo de la tierra: de tal manera haces tú perecer la esperanza del hombre.
20 You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
20 Para siempre serás más fuerte que él, y él se va; demudarás su rostro, y enviaráslo.
21 If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.
21 Sus hijos serán honrados, y él no lo sabrá; ó serán humillados, y no entenderá de ellos.
22 He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”
22 Mas su carne sobre él se dolerá, y entristecerse ha en él su alma.
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 5:7; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Job 7:1; Matthew 11:11
- 2 Isaiah 40:6–8; 1 Peter 1:24; Job 8:9; Psalm 103:15–16; 1 Chronicles 29:15
- 3 Psalm 144:3; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 8:4; Job 13:27; Job 13:25
- 4 John 3:6; Job 15:14; Ephesians 2:3; Romans 8:8–9; Job 25:4–6
- 5 Psalm 39:4; Acts 17:26; Job 12:10; Hebrews 9:27; Psalm 104:29
- 6 Job 7:19; Psalm 39:13; Job 7:1–2; Job 10:20; Job 7:16
- 7 Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 11:1; Job 14:14; Daniel 4:23–25; Job 19:10
- 8 1 Corinthians 15:36; John 12:24; Isaiah 26:19
- 9 Romans 11:17–24; Ezekiel 17:22–24; Ezekiel 17:3–10; Ezekiel 19:10
- 10 Job 19:26; Job 7:7–10; Genesis 49:33; Proverbs 14:32; Luke 16:22–23
- 11 Isaiah 19:5; Jeremiah 15:18; Job 6:15–18
- 12 Job 10:21–22; Isaiah 26:19; Ecclesiastes 3:19–21; Job 3:13; 2 Peter 3:10–13
- 13 Isaiah 57:1–2; Isaiah 26:20–21; Mark 13:32; Job 3:17–19; Isaiah 12:1
- 14 1 Corinthians 15:51–52; Acts 26:8; Psalm 27:14; Job 7:1; Job 13:15
- 15 Job 13:22; Psalm 138:8; Job 7:21; Job 10:3; Job 10:8
- 16 Job 10:6; Job 31:4; Psalm 139:1–4; Job 34:21; Proverbs 5:21
- 17 Deuteronomy 32:34; Hosea 13:12; Job 21:19
- 18 Revelation 6:14; Job 18:4; Jeremiah 4:24; Psalm 102:25–26; Isaiah 54:10
- 19 Job 7:6; Job 19:10; Job 27:8; Luke 12:19–20; Genesis 6:17
- 20 Job 2:12; Job 14:14; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Lamentations 4:8
- 21 Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 2:18–19; Isaiah 63:16; Isaiah 39:7–8; Psalm 39:6
- 22 Job 19:26; Job 33:19–21; Proverbs 14:32; Job 19:22; Job 19:20
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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).
For it comes from the righteous anger of God, whereof the Scriptures say, "Man, that is born of woman, is of few days and full of anger:" for the anger of God is not like that of man, the disturbance of an excited man, but the calm fixing of righteous punishment.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Again, the rod of Aaron, though cut off and dead, budded, without the scent of waters, and though under a roof, sprouted forth into blossoms as in the fields; and though set in dry places, yielded in one night the flowers and fruit of plants watered for many years.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
he says, For if a man die, he shall live again; and immediately he adds, I will wait till I be made again; and again elsewhere, Who shall raise up on the earth my skin, which endures these things.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)