Job · Revised Version with Apocrypha
Job 15 Revised Version with Apocrypha
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1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
1 Y RESPONDIÓ Eliphaz Temanita, y dijo:
2 Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
2 ¿Si proferirá el sabio vana sabiduría, y henchirá su vientre de viento solano?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
3 ¿Disputará con palabras inútiles, y con razones sin provecho?
4 Yea, thou doest away with fear, and restrainest devotion before God.
4 Tú también disipas el temor, y menoscabas la oración delante de Dios.
5 For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
5 Porque tu boca declaró tu iniquidad, pues has escogido el hablar de los astutos.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
6 Tu boca te condenará, y no yo; y tus labios testificarán contra ti.
7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
7 ¿Naciste tú primero que Adam? ¿ó fuiste formado antes que los collados?
8 Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
8 ¿Oíste tú el secreto de Dios, que detienes en ti solo la sabiduría?
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
9 ¿Qué sabes tú que no sepamos? ¿qué entiendes que no se halle en nosotros?
10 With us are both the grayheaded and the very aged men, much elder than thy father.
10 Entre nosotros también hay cano, también hay viejo mucho mayor en días que tu padre.
11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word [that dealeth ]gently with thee?
11 ¿En tan poco tienes las consolaciones de Dios? ¿tienes acaso alguna cosa oculta cerca de ti?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
12 ¿Por qué te enajena tu corazón, y por qué guiñan tus ojos,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such ]words go out of thy mouth.
13 Pues haces frente á Dios con tu espíritu, y sacas [tales] palabras de tu boca?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
14 ¿Qué cosa es el hombre para que sea limpio, y que se justifique el nacido de mujer?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
15 He aquí que en sus santos no confía, y ni los cielos son limpios delante de sus ojos:
16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, a man that drinketh iniquity like water!
16 ¿Cuánto menos el hombre abominable y vil, que bebe la iniquidad como agua?
17 I will shew thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare:
17 Escúchame; yo te mostraré y te contaré lo que he visto:
18 (Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;
18 (Lo que los sabios nos contaron de sus padres, y no lo encubrieron;
19 Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:)
19 A los cuales solos fué dada la tierra, y no pasó extraño por medio de ellos:)
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
20 Todos los días del impío, él es atormentado de dolor, y el número de años es escondido al violento.
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him:
21 Estruendos espantosos hay en sus oídos; en la paz le vendrá quien lo asuele.
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword:
22 El no creerá que ha de volver de las tinieblas, y está mirando al cuchillo.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:
23 Desasosegado á comer siempre, sabe que le está aparejado día de tinieblas.
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle:
24 Tribulación y angustia le asombrarán, y esforzaránse contra él como un rey apercibido para la batalla.
25 Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
25 Por cuanto él extendió su mano contra Dios, y se esforzó contra el Todopoderoso,
26 He runneth upon him with a [stiff ]neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers:
26 El le acometerá en la cerviz, en lo grueso de las hombreras de sus escudos:
27 Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his flanks;
27 Porque cubrió su rostro con su gordura, é hizo pliegues sobre los ijares;
28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
28 Y habitó las ciudades asoladas, las casas inhabitadas, que estaban puestas en montones.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth.
29 No enriquecerá, ni será firme su potencia, ni extenderá por la tierra su hermosura.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
30 No se escapará de las tinieblas: la llama secará sus ramos, y con el aliento de su boca perecerá.
31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself: for vanity shall be his recompence.
31 No confíe el iluso en la vanidad; porque ella será su recompensa.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
32 El será cortado antes de su tiempo, y sus renuevos no reverdecerán.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
33 El perderá su agraz como la vid, y derramará su flor como la oliva.
34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
34 Porque la sociedad de los hipócritas será asolada, y fuego consumirá las tiendas de soborno.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
35 Concibieron dolor, y parieron iniquidad; y las entrañas de ellos meditan engaño.
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Eliphaz the Temanite
One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1
Cross references (35)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 2:11; Job 42:7; Job 4:1; Job 42:9; Job 22:1
- 2 Job 6:26; Job 8:2; Hosea 12:1; Job 11:2–3; James 3:13
- 3 Matthew 12:36–37; Colossians 4:6; Malachi 3:13–15; Job 26:1–3; 1 Timothy 6:4–5
- 4 Romans 3:31; Psalm 36:1–3; Job 6:14; 1 Chronicles 10:13–14; Galatians 2:21
- 5 Jeremiah 9:3–5; James 1:26; Luke 6:45; Psalm 52:2–4; Jeremiah 9:8
- 6 Luke 19:22; Matthew 12:37; Job 9:20; Job 40:8; Job 34:5–9
- 7 Psalm 90:2; Job 38:4–41; Job 12:12; Proverbs 8:22–25; Genesis 4:1
- 8 Romans 11:34; Jeremiah 23:18; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Psalm 25:14; Matthew 11:25
- 9 Job 13:2; 2 Corinthians 11:5; 2 Corinthians 10:7; Job 26:3–4; Job 12:3
- 10 Job 32:6–7; Job 12:12; Job 8:8–10; Deuteronomy 32:7; Proverbs 16:31
- 11 2 Corinthians 1:3–5; Job 13:2; Job 5:8–26; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Corinthians 7:6
- 12 Psalm 35:19; Mark 7:21–22; Job 17:2; Job 11:13; James 1:14–15
- 13 James 3:2–6; Job 15:25–27; Psalm 34:13; Job 12:6; Malachi 3:13
- 14 Ecclesiastes 7:20; Job 14:4; Proverbs 20:9; Romans 7:18; Job 25:4–6
- 15 Job 25:5; Job 4:18; Isaiah 6:2–5; Job 5:1
- 16 Proverbs 19:28; Job 34:7; Romans 3:9–19; Titus 3:3; Psalm 53:3
- 17 Job 33:1; Job 13:5–6; Job 5:27; Job 34:2; Job 36:2
- 18 Job 8:8; Psalm 71:18; Isaiah 38:19; Psalm 78:3–6; Job 15:10
- 19 Joel 3:17; Deuteronomy 32:8; Genesis 10:25; Genesis 10:32
- 20 James 5:1–6; Job 27:13; Job 24:1; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 90:12
- 21 Job 18:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Leviticus 26:36; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Job 1:13–19
- 22 Job 20:24–25; Job 27:14; Isaiah 8:21–22; Matthew 27:5; Job 19:29
- 23 Job 18:12; Psalm 109:10; Psalm 59:15; Amos 5:20; Ecclesiastes 11:8
- 24 Proverbs 6:11; Proverbs 24:34; Romans 2:9; Job 6:2–4; Psalm 119:143
- 25 Psalm 52:7; Job 9:4; Daniel 5:23; Psalm 73:9; Malachi 3:13
- 26 2 Chronicles 32:13–17; 2 Chronicles 28:22; Genesis 49:8; Psalm 18:40; Job 16:12
- 27 Psalm 17:10; Psalm 73:7; Jeremiah 5:28; Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 32:15
- 28 Job 3:14; Jeremiah 51:37; Micah 7:18; Jeremiah 26:18; Jeremiah 9:11
- 29 Job 27:16–17; James 1:11; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 49:16–17; Luke 16:19–22
- 30 Job 4:9; Job 15:22; Job 18:5–6; Job 20:26; Matthew 25:41
- 31 Isaiah 59:4; Galatians 6:3; Psalm 62:10; Galatians 6:7–8; Hosea 8:7
- 32 Ecclesiastes 7:17; Psalm 55:23; Job 22:16; Hosea 9:16; Isaiah 27:11
- 33 Deuteronomy 28:39–40; Isaiah 33:9; Revelation 6:13
- 34 Job 8:13; Job 27:8; Micah 7:2; Job 8:22; Matthew 24:51
- 35 Psalm 7:14; Hosea 10:13; Isaiah 59:4–5; James 1:15; Galatians 6:7–8
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