Job · Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Job 12 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
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1 Respuesta de Job:
1 Then Job answered,
2 «¡En verdad ustedes todo lo saben! ¡Muertos ustedes, morirá la sabiduría!
2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3 Pues bien; yo también sé unas cuantas cosas; ustedes no son mejores que yo. ¿Y quién ignora lo que me han venido diciendo?
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
4 »Yo, que imploraba ayuda de Dios y de Dios obtenía respuesta, me he convertido en hazmerreír de mis vecinos. Sí, yo, varón justo, soy ahora objeto de burla.
4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
5 Entretanto, los ricos se mofan de los atribulados y están prontos a menospreciar a todos los menesterosos.
5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6 Los ladrones prosperan. ¡Y los que provocan a Dios viven confiados y piensan que pueden controlarlo!
6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
7 »Pregunta a la bestia más estúpida: ella sabe que así es; pregunta a las aves: ellas te lo dirán; o que te enseñe la tierra, o los peces del mar.
7 “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8 Not in this translation
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Not in this translation
9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
10 Porque el alma de todo ser viviente y el hálito de toda la humanidad están en la mano de Dios.
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
11 Así como mi boca puede saborear manjares, mi mente saborea la verdad cuando la oigo,
11 Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
12 y como tú lo dices, los viejos como yo son sabios; comprenden.
12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
13 »Pero la sabiduría y el poder verdaderos pertenecen a Dios. Sólo él sabe lo que debemos hacer; él entiende.
13 “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
14 ¡Y cuán grande es su poder! Lo que él destruye no puede reedificarse. Cuando él acorrala a un hombre, no hay escapatoria.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15 Retiene la lluvia, y la tierra se vuelve un desierto; envía las tormentas, y se inunda el suelo.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 Sí, suyas son la fortaleza y la sabiduría. Tanto los engañadores como los engañados son esclavos suyos.
16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 »Pone en ridículo a los consejeros y a los jueces.
17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18 Convierte a los reyes en esclavos y libera a sus siervos.
18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
19 Los sacerdotes son llevados como esclavos. Derriba a los poderosos.
19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20 Quita la voz a los oradores y la visión a los jefes ancianos.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 Derrama desprecio sobre los príncipes y debilita a los poderosos.
21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 Inunda de luz las tinieblas y descubre las sombras más profundas.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 Exalta a una nación y luego la destruye. La engrandece, y luego la reduce a la nada.
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24 Quita el entendimiento a reyes y presidentes, y los deja errantes, perdidos y a tientas, sin luz que los guíe.
24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 Not in this translation
25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Isaiah 5:21; Job 17:4; Job 17:10; Job 8:8–10; Job 11:12
- 3 Job 13:2–5; 2 Corinthians 11:21–23; Proverbs 26:4; 2 Corinthians 11:5; Job 6:6–7
- 4 Job 30:1; Job 21:3; Psalm 91:15; Job 17:6; Psalm 22:7–8
- 5 Psalm 17:5; Proverbs 13:9; Matthew 25:8; Amos 6:1–6; Psalm 123:3–4
- 6 Job 9:24; Psalm 73:11–12; Psalm 37:35; Psalm 17:14; Job 21:7–15
- 7 Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7; Proverbs 6:6; Job 21:29–30
- 10 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Numbers 16:22; Job 27:3
- 11 Job 34:3; Hebrews 5:14; Job 6:30; 1 Peter 2:3; Philippians 1:10
- 12 Job 32:7; Job 15:10; Job 8:8
- 13 Job 36:5; Job 9:4; Proverbs 2:6–7; James 1:5; Job 28:20–28
- 14 Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7; Malachi 1:4; Job 11:10; Job 37:7
- 15 1 Kings 17:1; Amos 5:8; Genesis 6:17; James 5:17–18; Genesis 6:13
- 16 Job 13:9; Job 12:13; Ezekiel 14:9; 1 Kings 22:22–23; Matthew 6:13
- 17 Isaiah 29:14; 1 Corinthians 1:19–20; 2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 17:14; Job 9:24
- 18 Daniel 2:21; Psalm 116:16; Jeremiah 52:31–34; 2 Chronicles 33:11–14; Revelation 19:16
- 19 Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 37:36–38; Job 35:9; Joshua 10:24; Revelation 19:19–21
- 20 Job 32:9; Job 17:4; Job 12:24; Proverbs 10:21; Job 39:17
- 21 Psalm 107:40; 1 Kings 21:23–24; Ephesians 6:10; Acts 12:23; Exodus 16:24
- 22 Daniel 2:22; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 2:10; Job 3:5; Luke 1:79
- 23 Isaiah 9:3; Isaiah 26:15; Isaiah 60:22; Psalm 107:38; Jeremiah 33:22
- 24 Psalm 107:40; Job 12:20; Hosea 7:11; Isaiah 19:1; Daniel 4:16
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).
How these were chosen
“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).
Speak to the earth, if perchance it may teach thee: and though thou inquire of all things which are upon the earth, they shall not be able to tell thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)