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Job 14 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
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1 »¡Cuán frágil es el hombre! ¡Cuán pocos sus días y cuán atribulados!
1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 Un instante abre su corola como flor, y se marchita; como sombra de efímera nube, pronto se desvanece.
2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3 ¿Tan duro has de ser con los frágiles hombres, y exigirles cuentas?
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
4 ¿Cómo puedes exigir pureza de quien nació impuro?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
5 Brevísima vida has concedido al hombre; no le das más que unos meses. No puede tener ni una pequeña prórroga de vida.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
6 ¿No le otorgarás algún reposo? Aparta tu mirar airado y concédele unos momentos de alivio antes que muera.
6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
7 »Porque para el árbol hay esperanza: si lo cortan, retoña y produce nuevas ramas tiernas.
7 “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
8 Aunque sus raíces envejezcan en la tierra y su tronco degenere, puede revivir y echar renuevos al contacto del agua, como planta de vivero.
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
9 Not in this translation
9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
10 Pero cuando el hombre muere y es sepultado, ¿a dónde va su espíritu?
10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11 Como agua que se evapora de un lago; como río que desaparece en la sequía, así el hombre yace por última vez y no vuelve a levantarse hasta que los cielos ya no existan; no se levantará ni se despertará de su sueño.
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
12 Not in this translation
12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
13 »¡Ay, quisieras tú ocultarme entre los muertos y olvidarte de mí hasta que tu ira acabe; pero marca tu calendario para que vuelvas a recordarme!
13 “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
14 »Si el hombre muere, ¿volverá a vivir? Este pensamiento me da esperanza, de modo que en mi angustia ansiosamente aguardo la dulce muerte.
14 If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
15 Si me llamaras, yo acudiría, tú me recompensarías por cuanto hice.
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
16 Pero en vez de eso, sólo me permites dar unos cuantos pasos en el escenario de la vida, y señalas todos los errores que cometo.
16 But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
17 Los reúnes como pruebas en mi contra.
17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
18 »Los montes se desgastan y desaparecen. Las rocas se desprenden de su sitio. El agua convierte en arena las rocas. Los torrentes erosionan el suelo. De igual modo desvaneces tú la esperanza humana.
18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
19 Not in this translation
19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
20 Siempre prevaleces sobre el hombre, y él desaparece del escenario. Lo vuelves viejo y arrugado, y luego lo despides. Jamás se entera si sus hijos alcanzan honra; si fracasan y se enfrentan al desastre, él no lo sabe.
20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
21 Not in this translation
21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
22 Sólo siente el dolor de su cuerpo y la aflicción de su alma».
22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”
Cross references (18)
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
- 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
- 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
- 20 Job 2:12; Job 14:14; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Lamentations 4:8
- 22 Job 19:26; Job 33:19–21; Proverbs 14:32; Job 19:22; Job 19:20
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).
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)