Job 38 Revised Version with Apocrypha

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RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909

1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

1 Y RESPONDIÓ Jehová á Job desde un torbellino, y dijo:

2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

2 ¿Quién es ése que oscurece el consejo con palabras sin sabiduría?

3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

3 Ahora ciñe como varón tus lomos; yo te preguntaré, y hazme saber tú.

4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

4 ¿Dónde estabas cuando yo fundaba la tierra? házme[lo] saber, si tienes inteligencia.

5 Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who stretched the line upon it?

5 ¿Quién ordenó sus medidas, si lo sabes? ¿ó quién extendió sobre ella cordel?

6 Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

6 ¿Sobre qué están fundadas sus basas? ¿ó quién puso su piedra angular,

7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

7 Cuando las estrellas todas del alba alababan, y se regocijaban todos los hijos de Dios?

8 [Or who ]shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if ]it had issued out of the womb;

8 ¿Quién encerró con puertas la mar, cuando se derramaba por fuera [como] saliendo de madre;

9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

9 Cuando puse yo nubes por vestidura suya, y por su faja oscuridad.

10 And prescribed for it my decree, and set bars and doors,

10 Y establecí sobre ella mi decreto, y le puse puertas y cerrojo,

11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

11 Y dije: Hasta aquí vendrás, y no pasarás adelante, y ahí parará la hinchazón de tus ondas?

12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days [began, and ]caused the dayspring to know its place;

12 ¿Has tú mandado á la mañana en tus días? ¿has mostrado al alba su lugar,

13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

13 Para que ocupe los fines de la tierra, y que sean sacudidos de ella los impíos?

14 It is changed as clay under the seal; and [all things ]stand forth as a garment:

14 Trasmúdase como lodo bajo de sello, y viene á estar como [con] vestidura:

15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm is broken.

15 Mas la luz de los impíos es quitada de ellos, y el brazo enaltecido es quebrantado.

16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

16 ¿Has entrado tú hasta los profundos de la mar, y has andado escudriñando el abismo?

17 Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

17 ¿Hante sido descubiertas las puertas de la muerte, y has visto las puertas de la sombra de muerte?

18 Hast thou comprehended the breadth of the earth? declare, if thou knowest it all.

18 ¿Has tú considerado hasta las anchuras de la tierra? Declara si sabes todo esto.

19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and as for darkness, where is the place thereof;

19 ¿Por dónde va el camino á la habitación de la luz, y dónde está el lugar de las tinieblas?

20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?

20 ¿Si llevarás tú [ambas cosas] á sus términos, y entenderás las sendas de su casa?

21 [Doubtless], thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!

21 ¿Sabíaslo tú porque hubieses ya nacido, ó [porque es] grande el número de tus días?

22 Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,

22 ¿Has tú entrado en los tesoros de la nieve, ó has visto los tesoros del granizo,

23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

23 Lo cual tengo yo reservado para el tiempo de angustia, para el día de la guerra y de la batalla?

24 By what way is the light parted, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

24 ¿Por qué camino se reparte la luz, y se esparce el viento solano sobre la tierra?

25 Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder;

25 ¿Quién repartió conducto al turbión, y camino á los relámpagos y truenos,

26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

26 Haciendo llover sobre la tierra deshabitada, sobre el desierto, donde no hay hombre,

27 To satisfy the waste and desolate [ground]; and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

27 Para hartar la [tierra] desierta é inculta, y para hacer brotar la tierna hierba?

28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

28 ¿Tiene la lluvia padre? ¿ó quién engendró las gotas del rocío?

29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

29 ¿De qué vientre salió el hielo? y la escarcha del cielo, ¿quién la engendró?

30 The waters are hidden as [with ]stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

30 Las aguas se endurecen á manera de piedra, y congélase la haz del abismo.

31 Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

31 ¿Podrás tú impedir las delicias de las Pléyades, ó desatarás las ligaduras del Orión?

32 Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?

32 ¿Sacarás tú á su tiempo los signos de los cielos, ó guiarás el Arcturo con sus hijos?

33 Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?

33 ¿Supiste tú las ordenanzas de los cielos? ¿dispondrás tú de su potestad en la tierra?

34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

34 ¿Alzarás tú á las nubes tu voz, para que te cubra muchedumbre de aguas?

35 Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

35 ¿Enviarás tú los relámpagos, para que ellos vayan? ¿y diránte ellos: Henos aquí?

36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the mind?

36 ¿Quién puso la sabiduría en el interior? ¿ó quién dió al entendimiento la inteligencia?

37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,

37 ¿Quién puso por cuenta los cielos con sabiduría? y los odres de los cielos, ¿quién los hace parar,

38 When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

38 Cuando el polvo se ha convertido en dureza, y los terrones se han pegado unos con otros?

39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lioness? or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

39 Not in this translation

40 When they couch in their dens, [and ]abide in the covert to lie in wait?

40 Not in this translation

41 Who provideth for the raven his food, when his young ones cry unto God, [and ]wander for lack of meat?

41 Not in this translation

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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).

Quotes verse 38:28 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture IX)
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)
Quotes verse 38:1 Gregory of Nazianzus, Theological Orations (The First Theological Oration)
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)
Quotes verse 38:6 Basil of Caesarea, Hexaemeron (Homily I)
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)
Quotes verse 38:37 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture IX)
… 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)
Quotes verse 38:37 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture IX)
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)

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