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Job 9 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
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1 Respuesta de Job:
1 Then Job answered,
2 «Bien sé todo eso; nada nuevo me cuentas. Pero, ¿cómo puede un hombre ser genuinamente bueno a los ojos de Dios?
2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
3 Si Dios quisiera disputar con él, ¿podría el hombre contestar siquiera una entre mil preguntas?
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
4 Porque su sabiduría es profunda y vasto su poder. ¿Quién logró jamás vencerlo?
4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
5 Súbitamente mueve las montañas y las derriba en su furor. Sacude la tierra hasta sus cimientos.
5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
6 Not in this translation
6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
7 El sol deja de salir y las estrellas de brillar si él lo ordena.
7 He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
8 Él solo ha desplegado los cielos y medido a largos pasos los mares.
8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
9 Él hizo la Osa Mayor, el Orión, las Pléyades y las constelaciones del Zodiaco meridional.
9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
10 Realiza inauditos e innumerables milagros.
10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
11 Pasa delante de mí y no lo veo; transita, pero no lo veo.
11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
12 Cuando envía la muerte a llevarse a un hombre, ¿quién puede impedírselo? ¿Quién osa preguntarle: “qué estás haciendo”?
12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
13 Y Dios no depone su ira. Ante él se doblega el orgullo del hombre.
13 “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14 »Y, ¿quién soy yo para que intente discutir con el Dios Todopoderoso, o siquiera razonar con él?
14 How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
15 Aunque yo fuera impecable, no diría ni una palabra; me limitaría a pedir clemencia.
15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
16 Y aun si él diera respuesta a mis plegarias, apenas podría creer que hubiera escuchado mi clamor.
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17 Pues él es quien destruye, quien multiplica mis heridas sin causa alguna.
17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18 No me concede respiro, sino me colma de amargos sufrimientos.
18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19 Sólo él es fuerte y justo. ¿Quién le pedirá cuentas?
19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20 Y yo, ¿soy acaso justo? Mi propia boca lo niega. Aunque creyera que soy perfecto, Dios me declararía convicto de maldad.
20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
21 »Y aunque fuera del todo inocente, no me atrevería ni a pensarlo. ¡Detesto lo que soy!
21 I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
22 Inocente o culpable, para él da lo mismo, pues él destruye a uno y a otro.
22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 Se ríe cuando la calamidad azota al inocente.
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24 La tierra está en manos de los malvados; Dios venda los ojos de los jueces y los deja proceder injustamente. Si no es él, ¿quién es entonces?
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
25 »Veloz se me va la vida cargada de tragedia.
25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
26 Mis años se esfuman como naves fugaces, como águila que se precipita sobre su presa.
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
27 Si yo resolviera olvidarme de mis quejas contra Dios, dar fin a mi tristeza y alegrarme,
27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
28 él entonces volcaría aun mayores penas sobre mí. ¡Porque yo sé que no me tienen por inocente, oh Dios,
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29 sino que me condenan! Entonces, ¿para qué esforzarme?
29 I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
30 Aunque me lavara con el agua más pura y enjuagara mis manos con lejía para dejarlas sin mancha alguna,
30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 aun así me hundirías en el albañal y el lodo; y hasta mi ropa sería menos inmunda de lo que tú me consideras.
31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
32 »Y no puedo defenderme, pues Dios no es simple hombre como yo. Si lo fuera, podríamos discutir esto imparcialmente; pero no hay árbitro entre nosotros, no hay componedor, no hay mediador que nos concilie.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
33 Not in this translation
33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
34 ¡Ay! Que deje de azotarme para que ya no tenga yo que vivir bajo el terror de su castigo.
34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
35 Entonces podría hablarle sin temor, y decirle que yo no me considero culpable.
35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
Cross references (31)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 4:17; Romans 3:20; Psalm 143:2; Job 25:4; 1 Kings 8:46
- 3 Job 10:2; Job 40:2; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 1:8; Psalm 19:12
- 4 Job 36:5; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Exodus 14:17–18; Job 9:19
- 5 Luke 21:11; Matthew 27:51; Habakkuk 3:10; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:18–20
- 7 Isaiah 13:10; Amos 8:9; Luke 21:25–26; Job 37:7; Matthew 24:29
- 8 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 104:2–3; Job 37:18; Zechariah 12:1
- 9 Amos 5:8; Genesis 1:16; Job 38:31–41; Psalm 147:4; Acts 28:13
- 10 Job 5:9; Psalm 72:18; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Daniel 4:2–3
- 11 Job 23:8–9; Job 35:14; Psalm 77:19; 1 Timothy 6:16
- 12 Job 11:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 23:13; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35
- 13 Psalm 89:10; Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 30:7; James 4:6–7
- 14 Job 11:4–5; Job 4:19; Job 9:3; Job 23:7; Job 23:4
- 15 Job 10:15; Job 8:5; Job 22:27; Job 10:2; 1 Peter 2:23
- 16 Exodus 6:9; Psalm 66:18–20; Luke 24:41; Job 29:24; Psalm 18:6
- 17 Job 16:14; Job 2:3; Job 34:6; Job 2:13; Ezekiel 13:13
- 18 Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:15; Hebrews 12:11; Job 3:20; Job 27:2
- 19 Job 9:32–33; Job 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Job 40:9–10; Matthew 6:13
- 20 Psalm 143:2; Job 34:35; Job 9:2; Psalm 130:3; Philippians 3:12–15
- 21 Job 1:1; Psalm 139:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26
- 22 Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; Job 10:8; Ezekiel 21:3–4; Luke 13:2–4
- 23 Job 24:12; Hebrews 11:36–37; Ezekiel 14:19–21; Job 8:20; Job 2:7
- 24 Job 10:3; Psalm 73:3–7; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:7–15; 2 Samuel 15:30
- 25 Job 7:6–7; James 4:14; Psalm 90:9–10; Psalm 39:5; Esther 8:14
- 26 Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 18:2; Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 4:13; 2 Samuel 1:23
- 27 Job 7:13; Psalm 77:2–3; Job 7:11; Jeremiah 8:18
- 28 Psalm 119:120; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 9:20–21; Job 14:16; Job 10:14
- 29 Job 10:7; Job 10:2; Job 10:14–17; Job 21:16–17; Jeremiah 2:35
- 30 Jeremiah 2:22; Psalm 26:6; 1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16–18; Jeremiah 4:14
- 31 Job 15:6; Philippians 3:8–9; Job 9:20; Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 64:6
- 32 Romans 9:20; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 45:9; Numbers 23:19
- 34 Psalm 39:10; Job 33:7; Job 13:11; Psalm 90:11; Job 13:20–22
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).
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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).
That which a certain scripture says: "The earth was delivered into the hands of the ungodly." The flesh was given into the power of the Jews; and this that thereby the bag, as it were, might be rent asunder, whence our purchase-price might run out.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
And this Job said mystically, Which alone spread out the heaven, and walketh upon the sea as on firm ground; signifying to those who understand that He who when present here walked upon the sea is also He who aforetime made the heavens.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
"The earth is given into the hands of the wicked." What is meant by "earth" being "given into the hands of the ungodly"?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
"I slept," because "I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again." "I laid Me down and slept, and rose up again." Rage then the Jews; be "the earth given into the hands of the wicked," be the flesh left to the hands of persecutors, let them on wood suspend it, with nails …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)