Job · Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Job 38 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
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1 Entonces el Señor respondió a Job desde el torbellino:
1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
2 «¿Por qué con tu ignorancia niegas mi providencia?
2 “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Prepárate ahora para la lucha pues voy a exigir de ti algunas respuestas y tendrás que responderme.
3 Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
4 »¿Dónde estabas tú cuando yo eché las bases de la tierra? Dímelo, si tanto sabes.
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
5 ¿Sabes cómo se calcularon las dimensiones y quién fue el agrimensor?
5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
6 ¿En qué se apoyan sus bases, y quién puso la piedra angular mientras las estrellas de la mañana cantaban unidas y todos los ángeles clamaban de júbilo?
6 What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 Not in this translation
7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 »¿Quién decretó las fronteras de los mares cuando ellos surgieron potentes desde lo profundo? ¿Quién los vistió de nubes y densas tinieblas,
8 “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
9 Not in this translation
9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 y los encerró
10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
11 diciendo: “¡Hasta aquí llegarán, y no más allá; y aquí se detendrá el orgullo de sus olas!”.
11 and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
12 »¿Alguna vez ordenaste al amanecer que apareciera y mandaste a la aurora que surgiera en el oriente?
12 “Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 ¿Alguna vez ordenaste al día que se extendiera hasta los confines de la tierra para poner fin a las maldades nocturnas?
13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
14 ¿Alguna vez diste a la aurora su manto rojo,
14 It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
15 e invadiste la madriguera de los malvados y detuviste el brazo que estaba a punto de herir?
15 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
16 »¿Has explorado las fuentes en donde nacen los mares, o has andado por los rincones del abismo?
16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 ¿Se te ha revelado el sitio en donde están las puertas de la muerte? ¿Sabes cuál es la extensión de la tierra? ¡Dímelo; si lo sabes!
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 Not in this translation
18 Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
19 »¿De dónde viene la luz, y cómo se llega allá? O dime respecto a la oscuridad: ¿de dónde viene?
19 “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
20 ¿Puedes descubrir sus fronteras o ir a sus fuentes?
20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
21 Pero ¡naturalmente que sabes todo esto, pues naciste antes que todo ello fuera creado, y tienes mucha experiencia!
21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
22 »¿Has ido a los tesoros de la nieve, o visto en dónde se fabrica y almacena el granizo? Porque reservado lo tengo para cuando lo necesite en la guerra.
22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 Not in this translation
23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 ¿Dónde está el sendero que lleva al punto de donde se distribuye la luz? ¿Cuál es el origen del viento oriental?
24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
25 ¿Quién abrió los valles para que corran los torrentes de lluvia? ¿Quién trazó la senda al relámpago, para que la lluvia caiga en los desiertos estériles, de modo que la tierra reseca y yerma se sacie de agua, y nazca la tierna hierba?
25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
26 Not in this translation
26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
27 Not in this translation
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
28 ¿Acaso tiene padre la lluvia? ¿De dónde viene el rocío?
28 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
29 ¿Quién es la madre del hielo y la escarcha?
29 Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
30 Porque el agua se transforma en hielo, duro como la piedra.
30 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
31 »¿Puedes detener las estrellas? ¿Puedes frenar a Orión o las Pléyades?
31 “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
32 ¿Puedes garantizar la correcta sucesión de las estaciones, o guiar la constelación de la Osa con sus satélites a través de los cielos?
32 Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
33 ¿Conoces las leyes del universo, y cómo los cielos influyen en la tierra?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
34 »¿Puedes gritarles a las nubes y hacer que llueva?
34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 ¿Puedes hacer que salga el relámpago y que el rayo caiga donde tú mandes?
35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 ¿Quién da la intuición y el instinto?
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
37 ¿Quién es tan sabio que pueda enumerar todas las nubes? ¿Quién puede derramar los cántaros del cielo cuando todo se ha vuelto polvo y terrones?
37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
38 Not in this translation
38 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
39 »¿Puedes tú, como la leona, cazar la presa para satisfacer el hambre de sus cachorros que esperan en su guarida, o mantenerte al acecho en la selva?
39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40 Not in this translation
40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 ¿Quién alimenta a los cuervos cuando sus polluelos claman a Dios, y se agitan hambrientos en sus nidos?
41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 40:6; 2 Kings 2:11; Job 37:1–2; Exodus 19:16–19; 1 Kings 19:11
- 2 Job 42:3; Job 35:16; 1 Timothy 1:7; Job 34:35; Job 27:11
- 3 Job 40:7; Jeremiah 1:17; Exodus 12:11; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Peter 1:13
- 4 Psalm 104:5; Hebrews 1:10; Proverbs 30:4; Hebrews 1:2; Psalm 102:25
- 5 Isaiah 40:12; Job 11:9; Zechariah 2:1–2; Proverbs 8:27; Isaiah 40:22
- 6 Job 26:7; Psalm 104:5; Psalm 93:1; Isaiah 28:16; 2 Peter 3:5
- 8 Genesis 1:9; Proverbs 8:29; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 104:8–9; Psalm 33:7
- 10 Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 104:9; Psalm 33:7; Job 26:10; Genesis 1:9–10
- 11 Psalm 89:9; Proverbs 8:29; Psalm 65:6–7; Luke 8:32–33; Mark 4:39–41
- 12 Psalm 74:16; Psalm 148:3–5; Genesis 1:5; Job 8:9; Psalm 136:7–8
- 13 Psalm 104:35; Job 37:3; Exodus 14:27; Psalm 104:21–22; Job 24:13–17
- 14 Psalm 104:6; Psalm 104:2
- 15 Psalm 10:15; Psalm 37:17; Job 18:5; Proverbs 4:19; Ezekiel 30:22
- 16 Proverbs 8:24; Psalm 77:19; Job 26:5–6; Jeremiah 51:36
- 17 Psalm 9:13; Psalm 107:18; Job 3:5; Job 12:22; Psalm 107:14
- 19 Ezekiel 32:8; Matthew 27:45; Isaiah 45:7; Genesis 1:3–4; Amos 4:13
- 20 Job 26:10; Genesis 10:19; Genesis 23:17
- 21 Job 15:7; Job 38:4; Job 38:12
- 22 Job 37:6; Psalm 135:7; Psalm 33:7; Job 6:16
- 24 Job 38:12–13; Jonah 4:8; Matthew 24:27
- 25 Job 28:26; Psalm 29:3–10; Job 36:27–28; Job 37:3–6
- 28 Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 147:8; Jeremiah 10:13; Proverbs 3:20; Deuteronomy 33:13
- 29 Psalm 147:16–17; Job 37:10; Job 6:16; Job 38:8
- 30 Job 37:10
- 31 Amos 5:8; Job 9:9
- 32 Job 38:31; 2 Kings 23:5; Job 9:9
- 33 Jeremiah 31:35–36; Genesis 8:22; Psalm 148:6; Job 38:12–13; Jeremiah 33:25
- 34 Job 22:11; Zechariah 10:1; James 5:18; Job 36:27–28; 1 Samuel 12:18
- 35 Job 36:32; Job 37:3; 2 Kings 1:14; Revelation 11:5–6; Numbers 16:35
- 36 Job 32:8; Psalm 51:6; Proverbs 2:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26; James 1:5
- 37 Psalm 147:4; Genesis 9:15; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 15:5
- 39 Psalm 104:21; Job 4:10–11; Psalm 34:10; Psalm 145:15–16
- 41 Luke 12:24; Matthew 6:26; Psalm 147:9; Psalm 104:27–28
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).
Who is the father of the rain? And who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And yet, O talkative Dialectician, I will ask thee one small question, and answer thou me, as He saith to Job, Who through whirlwind and cloud giveth Divine admonitions. Are there many mansions in God's House, as thou hast heard, or only one?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Put then a limit to your thought, so that your curiosity in investigating the incomprehensible may not incur the reproaches of Job, and you be not asked by him, "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?" If ever you hear in the Psalms, "I bear up the pillars of it;" see in these pillars the power which sustains it.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… condensed the air into clouds, and bade them carry the waters of the rain, now bringing golden-tinted clouds from the north, now changing these into one uniform appearance, and again transforming them into manifold circles and other shapes? Who can number the clouds in wisdom?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds, and hath bent down the heaven to the earth: and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom: and, the cloud is not rent under Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)