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1 Respuesta de Elifaz de Temán:
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 «¿Debe un sabio como tú hablar así? Tus argumentos son puro viento.
2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3 No está bien hablar tan neciamente. ¿Qué bien hacen tales palabras?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 ¿No tienes temor de Dios? ¿No le tienes reverencia? Tus pecados inspiran las palabras de tu boca. Lo que dices se funda en astuto engaño.
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5 Not in this translation
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 ¿Por qué habría yo de condenarte? De ello se encarga tu propia boca.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
7 »¿Eres acaso el hombre más sabio que ha existido? ¿Naciste antes que fueran hechas las colinas? ¿Tienes parte en el consejo de Dios? ¿Acaso eres tú el único sabio?
7 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
8 Not in this translation
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 ¿Qué sabes tú más que nosotros? ¿Qué entiendes que no entendamos?
9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
10 Hay entre nosotros ancianos mucho mayores que tu padre.
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
11 El consuelo de Dios, ¿será demasiado insignificante para ti? ¿Es su dulzura demasiado áspera?
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12 »¿Qué haces, dejándote arrastrar por la ira? ¿Por qué te relampaguean los ojos?
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13 ¿Por qué te vuelves contra Dios y le echas en cara todos estos perversos razonamientos?
13 that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14 »¿Qué hombre en toda la tierra podrá ser tan puro y justo como tú dices ser?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 ¡Vaya! ¡Dios no confía ni siquiera en los ángeles! ¡Ni siquiera los cielos pueden ser absolutamente puros comparados con él!
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 ¡Cuánto menos uno como tú, corrupto y pecaminoso, que bebe el pecado como agua!
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 »Escúchame, y te responderé por experiencia propia, confirmada con la experiencia de los sabios varones que recibieron esto de sus padres, nuestros antepasados, los únicos a quienes se les dio la tierra.
17 “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
18 Not in this translation
18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19 Not in this translation
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
20 El hombre impío anda siempre atribulado en su vida.
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 Está cercado de terrores, y si tiene días buenos, pronto se le desvanecen.
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
22 No se atreve a salir en la oscuridad, por miedo a que lo maten.
22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 Anda errante mendigando alimento. Vive en el temor, la zozobra y la angustia. Sus enemigos lo vencen como un rey que derrota a sus enemigos.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Not in this translation
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 Protegiéndose con escudo de latón, alza el puño contra Dios, desafiando al Todopoderoso, atacándolo neciamente.
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26 Not in this translation
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
27 »Este perverso hombre está gordo y rico, y ha vivido en ciudades conquistadas luego de matar a sus habitantes.
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28 Not in this translation
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 Pero no será siempre rico ni continuará extendiendo sus posesiones.
29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
30 No; las tinieblas lo envolverán para siempre; el aliento de Dios lo destruirá; el fuego consumirá cuanto posee.
30 He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
31 Que ya no confíe en vanas riquezas; que no se engañe más, pues el dinero en que confía será su única recompensa.
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 Antes que muera, toda esa insignificancia le saltará a la vista. Porque todo lo que constituía su seguridad, desaparecerá,
32 It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
33 y caerá en tierra como uva marchita. ¡Qué poca sustancia darán sus esperanzas!
33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
34 Porque los impíos son estériles: no logran producir nada realmente bueno. El fuego de Dios los consume junto con todas sus posesiones.
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 Lo único que pueden concebir es pecado; su corazón sólo da a luz maldad».
35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
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Eliphaz the Temanite
One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 2:11; Job 42:7; Job 4:1; Job 42:9; Job 22:1
- 2 Job 6:26; Job 8:2; Hosea 12:1; Job 11:2–3; James 3:13
- 3 Matthew 12:36–37; Colossians 4:6; Malachi 3:13–15; Job 26:1–3; 1 Timothy 6:4–5
- 4 Romans 3:31; Psalm 36:1–3; Job 6:14; 1 Chronicles 10:13–14; Galatians 2:21
- 6 Luke 19:22; Matthew 12:37; Job 9:20; Job 40:8; Job 34:5–9
- 7 Psalm 90:2; Job 38:4–41; Job 12:12; Proverbs 8:22–25; Genesis 4:1
- 9 Job 13:2; 2 Corinthians 11:5; 2 Corinthians 10:7; Job 26:3–4; Job 12:3
- 10 Job 32:6–7; Job 12:12; Job 8:8–10; Deuteronomy 32:7; Proverbs 16:31
- 11 2 Corinthians 1:3–5; Job 13:2; Job 5:8–26; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Corinthians 7:6
- 12 Psalm 35:19; Mark 7:21–22; Job 17:2; Job 11:13; James 1:14–15
- 13 James 3:2–6; Job 15:25–27; Psalm 34:13; Job 12:6; Malachi 3:13
- 14 Ecclesiastes 7:20; Job 14:4; Proverbs 20:9; Romans 7:18; Job 25:4–6
- 15 Job 25:5; Job 4:18; Isaiah 6:2–5; Job 5:1
- 16 Proverbs 19:28; Job 34:7; Romans 3:9–19; Titus 3:3; Psalm 53:3
- 17 Job 33:1; Job 13:5–6; Job 5:27; Job 34:2; Job 36:2
- 20 James 5:1–6; Job 27:13; Job 24:1; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 90:12
- 21 Job 18:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Leviticus 26:36; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Job 1:13–19
- 22 Job 20:24–25; Job 27:14; Isaiah 8:21–22; Matthew 27:5; Job 19:29
- 23 Job 18:12; Psalm 109:10; Psalm 59:15; Amos 5:20; Ecclesiastes 11:8
- 25 Psalm 52:7; Job 9:4; Daniel 5:23; Psalm 73:9; Malachi 3:13
- 27 Psalm 17:10; Psalm 73:7; Jeremiah 5:28; Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 32:15
- 29 Job 27:16–17; James 1:11; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 49:16–17; Luke 16:19–22
- 30 Job 4:9; Job 15:22; Job 18:5–6; Job 20:26; Matthew 25:41
- 31 Isaiah 59:4; Galatians 6:3; Psalm 62:10; Galatians 6:7–8; Hosea 8:7
- 32 Ecclesiastes 7:17; Psalm 55:23; Job 22:16; Hosea 9:16; Isaiah 27:11
- 33 Deuteronomy 28:39–40; Isaiah 33:9; Revelation 6:13
- 34 Job 8:13; Job 27:8; Micah 7:2; Job 8:22; Matthew 24:51
- 35 Psalm 7:14; Hosea 10:13; Isaiah 59:4–5; James 1:15; Galatians 6:7–8
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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).
But when I lifted myself proudly against Thee, and "ran against the Lord, even on His neck, with the thick bosses" of my buckler, even these inferior things were placed above me, and pressed upon me, and nowhere was there alleviation or breathing space.
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)