Job · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Job 3 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Después de esto Job abrió su boca y maldijo su día.
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 Y Job habló:
2 Job answered:
3 Perezca el día cuando nací y la noche cuando se dijo: Un varón fue concebido.
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4 Sea aquel día oscuridad. No pregunte ʼElohim desde lo alto por él, ni claridad lo ilumine.
4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5 Que la oscuridad y las tinieblas reclamen [ese día] para ellas, repose sobre él una nube, llénelo de terror la calina del día.
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 la oscuridad se apodere de aquella noche. No se cuente entre los días del año ni aparezca en el número de los meses.
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 Sea esa noche estéril y los gritos de júbilo no penetren en ella.
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Maldíganla los que maldicen en el día, los que se aprestan a excitar al cocodrilo.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Oscurézcanse las estrellas de su alborada. Espere la luz, y no le venga, ni contemple los destellos de la aurora,
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 porque no cerró las puertas de la matriz donde yo estaba, ni escondió la miseria de mis ojos.
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 yo en la matriz o expiré al salir del vientre?
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 hallé rodillas que me acogieron y pechos que me amamantaron?
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 Pues ahora yacería tranquilo, dormiría y tendría descanso
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 con reyes y consejeros de la tierra que reedificaron ruinas para ellos,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 o con príncipes que tuvieron oro, que llenaron de plata sus palacios.
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 ¡Oh! ¿Por qué no fui escondido como aborto, como los fetos que nunca ven la luz?
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17 Allí dejan de perturbar los perversos. Allí descansan los de agotadas fuerzas.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18 Allí también los cautivos gozan del reposo, sin oír la voz del capataz.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 Allí están el pequeño y el grande, y el esclavo está libre de su amo.
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20 ¿Por qué se da luz al desdichado, y vida a los de ánimo amargado,
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21 a los que ansían la muerte y no les llega aunque la busquen más que tesoros escondidos,
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 a los que se alegran grandemente, y se regocijan cuando hallan la tumba,
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 al hombre para quien su camino está oculto, y a quien ʼElohim tiene acorralado?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 Porque en lugar de mi pan viene mi suspiro, y mis gemidos corren como aguas,
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25 porque me cayó lo que temía y el terror que tenía me aconteció.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 ¡No tengo paz, ni tranquilidad, ni reposo, sino me vino turbación!
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
Cross references (23)
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
- 3 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Jeremiah 15:10; Job 10:18–19
- 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
- 15 1 Kings 10:27; Job 22:25; Zephaniah 1:18; Numbers 22:18; Job 27:16–17
- 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
- 21 Revelation 9:6; Proverbs 2:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; 1 Kings 19:4
- 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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