Job 30 Unlocked Literal Bible
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ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Now those who are younger than I have nothing but mockery for me— these young men whose fathers I would have refused to allow to work beside the dogs of my flock.
1 MAS ahora los más mozos de días que yo, se ríen de mí; cuyos padres yo desdeñara ponerlos con los perros de mi ganado.
1 “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
2 Indeed, the strength of their fathers' hands, how could it have helped me— men in whom the strength of their mature age had perished?
2 Porque ¿para qué yo habría menester la fuerza de sus manos, en los cuales había perecido con el tiempo?
2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
3 They were thin from poverty and hunger; they gnawed at the dry ground in the darkness of wilderness and desolation.
3 Por causa de la pobreza y del hambre [andaban] solos; huían á la soledad, á lugar tenebroso, asolado y desierto.
3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
4 They plucked saltwort and bushes' leaves; the roots of the broom tree were their food.
4 Que cogían malvas entre los arbustos, y raíces de enebro para calentarse.
4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
5 They were driven out from among people who shouted after them as one would shout after a thief.
5 Eran echados de entre [las gentes], y todos les daban grita como al ladrón.
5 They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,
6 So they had to live in river valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
6 Habitaban en las barrancas de los arroyos, en las cavernas de la tierra, y en las rocas.
6 so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they brayed like donkeys and they gathered together under the nettles.
7 Bramaban entre las matas, y se reunían debajo de las espinas.
7 They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.
8 They were the sons of fools, indeed, sons of nameless people! They were driven out of the land with whips.
8 Hijos de viles, y hombres sin nombre, más bajos que la misma tierra.
8 They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.
9 But now I have become the subject of their taunting song; I have become a byword for them.
9 Y ahora yo soy su canción, y he sido hecho su refrán.
9 “Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
10 They abhor me and stand far off from me; they do not refrain from spitting in my face.
10 Abomínanme, aléjanse de mí, y aun de mi rostro no detuvieron su saliva.
10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
11 For God has unstrung the string to my bow and afflicted me, and those who taunt me cast off restraint before my face.
11 Porque [Dios] desató mi cuerda, y me afligió, por eso se desenfrenaron delante de mi rostro.
11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
12 Upon my right hand rise the rabble; they drive me away and pile up against me their siege mounds.
12 A la mano derecha se levantaron los jóvenes; empujaron mis pies, y sentaron contra mí las vías de su ruina.
12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet. They cast their ways of destruction up against me.
13 They destroy my path; they push forward disaster for me, men who have no one to hold them back.
13 Mi senda desbarataron, aprovecháronse de mi quebrantamiento, contra los cuales no hubo ayudador.
13 They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
14 They come against me like an army through a wide hole in a city wall; in the midst of the destruction they roll themselves in on me.
14 Vinieron como por portillo ancho, revolviéronse á [mi] calamidad.
14 As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
15 Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is driven away as if by the wind; my prosperity passes away as a cloud.
15 Hanse revuelto turbaciones sobre mí; combatieron como viento mi alma, y mi salud pasó como nube.
15 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
16 Now my life is pouring out from within me; many days of suffering have laid hold on me.
16 Y ahora mi alma está derramada en mí; días de aflicción me han aprehendido.
16 “Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
17 In the night my bones in me are pierced; the pains that gnaw at me take no rest.
17 De noche taladra sobre mí mis huesos, y mis pulsos no reposan.
17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
18 God's great force has seized my clothing; it wraps around me like the collar of my tunic.
18 Con la grande copia [de materia] mi vestidura está demudada; cíñeme como el cuello de mi túnica.
18 My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
19 He has thrown me into the mud; I have become like dust and ashes.
19 Derribóme en el lodo, y soy semejante al polvo y á la ceniza.
19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry to you, God, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you merely look at me.
20 Clamo á ti, y no me oyes; preséntome, y no me atiendes.
20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
21 You have changed and become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you persecute me.
21 Haste tornado cruel para mí: con la fortaleza de tu mano me amenazas.
21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
22 You lift me up to the wind and cause it to drive me along; you throw me back and forth in a storm.
22 Levantásteme, é hicísteme cabalgar sobre el viento, y disolviste mi sustancia.
22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
23 For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all the living.
23 Porque yo conozco que me reduces á la muerte; y á la casa determinada á todo viviente.
23 For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
24 However, does no one reach out with his hand to beg for help when he falls? Does no one in trouble call out for help?
24 Mas él no extenderá la mano contra el sepulcro; ¿clamarán [los sepultados] cuando él los quebrantare?
24 “However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
25 Did not I weep for him who was in trouble? Did I not grieve for the needy man?
25 ¿No lloré yo al afligido? Y mi alma ¿no se entristeció sobre el menesteroso?
25 Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
26 When I hoped for good, then evil came; when I waited for light, darkness came instead.
26 Cuando esperaba yo el bien, entonces vino el mal; y cuando esperaba luz, la oscuridad vino.
26 When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
27 My heart is troubled and does not rest; days of affliction have come on me.
27 Mis entrañas hierven, y no reposan; días de aflicción me han sobrecogido.
27 My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
28 I have gone about like one who was living in the dark, but not because of the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
28 Denegrido ando, y no por el sol: levantádome he en la congregación, y clamado.
28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
29 I am a brother to jackals, a companion of ostriches.
29 He venido á ser hermano de los dragones, y compañero de los buhos.
29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
30 My skin is black and falls away from me; my bones are burned with heat.
30 Mi piel está denegrida sobre mí, y mis huesos se secaron con ardentía.
30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
31 Therefore my harp is tuned for songs of mourning, my flute for the singing of those who wail.
31 Y hase tornado mi arpa en luto, y mi órgano en voz de lamentadores.
31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 12:4; Luke 23:35; Psalm 35:15–16; Psalm 69:12; 2 Kings 2:23
- 3 Job 24:5; Hebrews 11:38; Job 24:13–16
- 4 Luke 15:16; Amos 7:14; 2 Kings 4:38–39
- 5 Daniel 4:25; Psalm 109:10; Daniel 4:32–33; Genesis 4:12–14
- 6 1 Samuel 22:1–2; Judges 6:2; Isaiah 2:19; Revelation 6:15
- 7 Genesis 16:12; Job 6:5; Job 11:12
- 8 Proverbs 16:22; Isaiah 32:6; Mark 6:24; Proverbs 1:22; Job 40:4
- 9 Job 17:6; Lamentations 3:63; Lamentations 3:14; Psalm 35:15–16; Psalm 69:11–12
- 10 Isaiah 50:6; Matthew 26:67; Psalm 88:8; Numbers 12:14; Deuteronomy 25:9
- 11 Job 12:21; Job 12:18; Ruth 1:21; James 1:26; Psalm 32:9
- 12 Job 19:12; Job 19:18; Psalm 140:4–5; Isaiah 3:5
- 13 Zechariah 1:15; Isaiah 3:12; Psalm 69:26
- 14 Psalm 69:14–15; Isaiah 8:7–8; Psalm 18:4; Job 22:16
- 15 Hosea 13:3; Job 6:4; Job 31:23; Psalm 88:15; Psalm 55:4–5
- 16 Psalm 42:4; Psalm 22:14; Isaiah 53:12; Job 3:24; Psalm 40:12
- 17 Job 7:4; Isaiah 38:13; Psalm 22:2; Psalm 6:2–6; Job 33:19–21
- 18 Job 2:7; Job 19:20; Job 7:5; Isaiah 1:5–6; Psalm 38:5
- 19 Job 9:31; Job 42:6; Psalm 69:14; Genesis 18:27; Jeremiah 38:6
- 20 Job 19:7; Lamentations 3:8; Psalm 80:4–5; Psalm 22:2; Matthew 15:23
- 21 Job 16:9–14; Job 10:14–17; Job 19:6–9; Job 10:3; 1 Peter 5:6
- 22 Job 27:21; Psalm 1:4; Ezekiel 5:2; Psalm 18:10; Hosea 4:19
- 23 Ecclesiastes 12:5–7; Hebrews 9:27; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Job 14:5
- 24 Matthew 27:39–44; Psalm 35:25; Judges 5:31; Job 19:7
- 25 Romans 12:15; Psalm 35:13–14; Jeremiah 13:17; Luke 19:41; Isaiah 58:7–8
- 26 Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 14:19; Job 3:25–26; Psalm 97:11; Micah 1:12
- 27 Lamentations 2:11; Jeremiah 31:20; Lamentations 1:20; Psalm 22:4; Jeremiah 4:19
- 28 Psalm 42:9; Psalm 43:2; Psalm 38:6; Job 19:7; Lamentations 3:1–3
- 29 Micah 1:8; Psalm 102:6; Malachi 1:3; Job 17:14; Psalm 44:19
- 30 Lamentations 4:8; Psalm 102:3; Psalm 119:83; Lamentations 3:4; Lamentations 5:10
- 31 Lamentations 5:15; Isaiah 21:4; Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 24:7–9; Ecclesiastes 3:4
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences