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1 Al fin habló Job, y maldijo el día de su nacimiento.
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 «Maldito sea el día en que nací —dijo— y la noche en que fui concebido.
2 Job answered:
3 Not in this translation
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4 Que ese día se vuelva oscuridad; que Dios en lo alto no lo tome en cuenta; que no brille en él ninguna luz.
4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5 Que las tinieblas se adueñen de él; que una nube negra lo cubra con su sombra.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
6 Que sea borrado del calendario y jamás vuelva a contarse entre los días del mes de ese año.
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Que aquella noche sea helada y sin alegría.
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Que la maldigan los que profieren maldiciones.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Que se esfumen las estrellas de esa noche; que suspire por la luz, y no la vea jamás; que nunca vea la luz matutina.
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10 Maldita sea por no haber cerrado el vientre de mi madre; por dejarme nacer para llegar a ver toda esta aflicción.
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 »¿Por qué no morí al nacer?
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 ¿Por qué la partera me dejó vivir? ¿Por qué me amamantaron con pechos?
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 Si hubiera muerto al nacer, ahora estaría yo tranquilo, dormido y en reposo,
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 junto con dignatarios y reyes con toda su pompa; con opulentos príncipes cuyos castillos están llenos de ricos tesoros.
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 Not in this translation
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 ¡Ojalá hubiera sido un aborto! ¡No haber respirado ni visto la luz jamás!
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17 Porque en la muerte dejan los malvados de hostigar y los cansados hallan reposo.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18 Allá, hasta los cautivos tienen alivio, sin un brutal carcelero que los maltrate.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 Ricos y pobres por igual están allí, y el esclavo se ve al fin libre de su amo.
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20 »¡Ay! ¿Por qué dar luz y vida a quienes yacen en aflicción y amargura, que suspiran por la muerte, y no llega; que buscan la muerte como otros buscan alimento o dinero?
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21 Not in this translation
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 ¡Qué bendito alivio reciben al fin al morir!
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 ¿Por qué dejar que nazca un hombre si Dios lo ha de encerrar en una vida de incertidumbre y frustración?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 Los suspiros no me dejan comer; mis gemidos se derraman como agua.
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25 Lo que siempre temí me ha sobrevenido.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 No encuentro paz ni sosiego; no hallo reposo, sino sólo agitación».
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 20:14–15; Psalm 106:33; Psalm 39:2–3; Job 2:9–10; Job 3:3
- 4 Matthew 27:45; Amos 5:18; Revelation 16:10; Deuteronomy 11:12; Joel 2:2
- 5 Job 10:21–22; Job 28:3; Jeremiah 2:6; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 107:14
- 7 Isaiah 13:20–22; Jeremiah 7:34; Revelation 18:22–23; Isaiah 24:8
- 8 Job 41:1; Job 41:10; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:17–18; Job 41:25
- 9 Job 41:18; Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 30:26
- 10 Ecclesiastes 6:3–5; Genesis 20:18; Jeremiah 20:17; 1 Samuel 1:5; Genesis 29:31
- 11 Isaiah 46:3; Job 10:18–19; Hosea 9:14; Jeremiah 15:10; Psalm 139:13–16
- 12 Genesis 30:3; Isaiah 66:12; Genesis 50:23; Ezekiel 16:4–5
- 13 Ecclesiastes 9:10; Job 14:10–12; Job 21:13; Job 7:21; Ecclesiastes 6:3–5
- 14 Job 15:28; Psalm 89:48; Isaiah 14:10–16; Psalm 49:14; Psalm 49:6–10
- 16 Psalm 58:8; Ecclesiastes 6:3; 1 Corinthians 15:8
- 17 Revelation 14:13; Job 17:16; Isaiah 57:1–2; Job 14:13; Hebrews 4:11
- 18 Job 39:7; Exodus 5:15–19; Judges 4:3; Exodus 5:6–8; Isaiah 14:3–4
- 19 Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Job 30:23; Psalm 49:2; Luke 16:22–23
- 20 Jeremiah 20:18; Job 7:15–16; 1 Samuel 1:10; Proverbs 31:6; Job 6:9
- 23 Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7; Isaiah 40:27; Job 12:14; Lamentations 3:9
- 24 Psalm 102:9; Psalm 42:3–4; Psalm 80:5; Psalm 38:8; Job 33:20
- 25 Job 1:5; Job 30:15; Job 31:23
- 26 Job 7:14; Job 27:9; Psalm 143:11
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What the Fathers said
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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).
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