Skip to the text

Job · Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)

Job 23 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)

Leer en español
About ONBV
  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Dynamic (thought for thought)
  • 2008
  • CC BY-SA 4.0

Audio: Reina-Valera Antigua (RVA), read by Joyfull · About the recordings

ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Respuesta de Job:
1 Then Job answered,
2 «Mi respuesta es aún hoy amarga, pues mi castigo es mucho más grave de lo que mi falta merece.
2 “Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
3 ¡Si supiera yo dónde hallar a Dios, para acudir a su trono y hablar con él allí!
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
4 Le expondría mi causa, y escucharía su respuesta y comprendería lo que desea.
4 I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 Not in this translation
5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.
6 ¿Querría él simplemente anonadarme con su grandeza? No, él escucharía compasivamente.
6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
7 Los hombres justos y honrados podrían discutir con él, y ser absueltos por mi juez.
7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
8 »Pero en vano trato de hallarlo. Lo busco por aquí, lo busco por allá, y no puedo hallarlo.
8 “If I go east, he is not there. If I go west, I can’t find him.
9 Lo busco en donde realiza sus obras en el norte, y no lo encuentro allí. Tampoco puedo hallarlo en el sur, donde también se esconde.
9 He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.
10 Pero él conoce cada detalle de lo que a mí me ocurre; y cuando me haya examinado, me declarará completamente inocente: tan puro como oro macizo.
10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
11 En los senderos de Dios me he mantenido, siguiendo tras sus pasos. No me he apartado.
11 My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
12 No he rechazado sus mandamientos, sino que en ellos me he deleitado más que en mi alimento de cada día.
12 I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
13 »Sin embargo, su intención respecto a mí sigue invariable, ¿y quién podrá apartarlo de sus propósitos? Lo que él quiere, eso hace.
13 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
14 Así es que me hará cuanto ha planeado, y aún hay más que esperar.
14 For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.
15 Con razón me aterrorizo tanto en su presencia. Al pensar en ella, el terror me atenaza.
15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
16 Dios me ha dado un corazón desfalleciente. El Todopoderoso me ha aterrado con las tinieblas y la espesa e impenetrable oscuridad que me rodean.
16 For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.
17 Not in this translation
17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Cross references (14)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Job 10:1; Job 7:11; Psalm 32:4; Job 6:2–3; Psalm 77:2–9
  2. 3 Job 16:21; Job 31:35–37; Hebrews 4:6; Jeremiah 14:7; Job 13:3
  3. 4 Job 13:18; Daniel 9:18–19; Job 37:19; Genesis 18:25–32; Joshua 7:8–9
  4. 6 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Job 13:21; Job 9:33–34; Ezekiel 20:35; Job 9:19
  5. 7 Job 13:3; Isaiah 1:18; Romans 8:1; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 3:5
  6. 8 Psalm 10:1; Job 9:11; Job 35:14; 1 Timothy 6:16; Psalm 13:1–3
  7. 9 Isaiah 8:17; Psalm 89:46
  8. 10 James 1:12; 1 Peter 1:7; James 1:2–4; Psalm 139:1–3; Zechariah 13:9
  9. 11 Psalm 44:18; 2 Peter 2:20–22; Psalm 17:5; Psalm 125:5; Romans 2:7
  10. 12 Jeremiah 15:16; Psalm 119:11; Psalm 119:103; John 4:34; Psalm 19:9–10
  11. 13 Psalm 115:3; Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 46:10; Daniel 4:35; Job 12:14
  12. 14 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Psalm 97:2; Romans 11:33; Isaiah 40:27–28
  13. 15 Psalm 119:120; Job 31:23; Psalm 77:3; Job 10:15; Job 23:3
  14. 16 Psalm 22:14; Job 27:2; Isaiah 6:5; Psalm 88:16; Deuteronomy 20:3

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).

  1. Quotes verse 23:8 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book X, Chapters XXIII–XXVIII)

    Place there is none; we go both "backward" and "forward," and there is no place.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)