Job · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Job 12 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Job contestó:
1 Then Job answered,
2 “Ustedes realmente creen que son personas especiales, ¿no es así? Obviamente, cuando mueran, la sabiduría morirá con ustedes.
2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3 Pero yo también tengo conocimientos, y ustedes no son mejores que yo. ¿No sabe todo el mundo las cosas que han dicho?
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
4 Pero mis amigos se ríen de mí porque invoqué a Dios y él me respondió: el hombre inocente que hace el bien se ha convertido en objeto de burla.
4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
5 La gente que está bien desprecia a los que tienen problemas; están dispuestos a empujar a los que ya resbalan.
5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6 Los ladrones viven en paz, y los que hacen enojar a Dios viven seguros, confiando en su propia fuerza como su ‘dios’.
6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
7 “Pero si les preguntas a los animales, ellos te enseñarán; las aves del cielo te lo dirán;
7 “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8 pregúntale a la tierra y ella te enseñará; y los peces del mar te lo dirán.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 ¿Quién de todos ellos no sabe que el Señor ha hecho esto?
9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
10 Él da vida a todo ser viviente, y a toda la humanidad.
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
11 El oído distingue palabras como el paladar distingue los alimentos.
11 Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
12 La sabiduría para distinguir pertenece a los ancianos, y la habilidad para discriminar correctamente pertenece a los que tienen una larga experiencia.
12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
13 Dios tiene sabiduría y poder, el consejo y el entendimiento le pertenecen.
13 “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
14 Si derriba algo, nadie puede reconstruirlo. Si encarcela a alguien, nadie podrá liberarlo.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15 Si Dios retiene las aguas, todo se seca; si las suelta, la tierra se inunda.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 Él es poderoso y victorioso; tanto los engañadores como los engañados están sometidos a él.
16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 Lleva a los consejeros despojados de su sabiduría, convierte a los jueces en necios.
17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18 Él le quita a los reyes sus gruesos collares y los hace vestir taparrabos.
18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
19 Él expulsa a los sacerdotes, despojados de sus vestimentas religiosas, y derriba a los poderosos.
19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20 Quita el consejo de los consejeros fieles, quita el discernimiento de los ancianos.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 Derrama el desprecio sobre los príncipes y les quita el poder de los fuertes.
21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 Él revela lo que está oculto en las tinieblas, y saca a la luz la sombra de la muerte.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 Él engrandece a las naciones y las destruye; expande a las naciones y las arruina.
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24 Él quita el entendimiento de los gobernantes y los hace vagar por el desierto.
24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 Andan a tientas en la oscuridad, sin luz. Él los hace tambalearse como borrachos”.
25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Isaiah 5:21; Job 17:4; Job 17:10; Job 8:8–10; Job 11:12
- 3 Job 13:2–5; 2 Corinthians 11:21–23; Proverbs 26:4; 2 Corinthians 11:5; Job 6:6–7
- 4 Job 30:1; Job 21:3; Psalm 91:15; Job 17:6; Psalm 22:7–8
- 5 Psalm 17:5; Proverbs 13:9; Matthew 25:8; Amos 6:1–6; Psalm 123:3–4
- 6 Job 9:24; Psalm 73:11–12; Psalm 37:35; Psalm 17:14; Job 21:7–15
- 7 Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7; Proverbs 6:6; Job 21:29–30
- 9 Isaiah 41:20; Jeremiah 27:5–6; Romans 11:36; Acts 19:35; 1 Samuel 2:7
- 10 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Numbers 16:22; Job 27:3
- 11 Job 34:3; Hebrews 5:14; Job 6:30; 1 Peter 2:3; Philippians 1:10
- 12 Job 32:7; Job 15:10; Job 8:8
- 13 Job 36:5; Job 9:4; Proverbs 2:6–7; James 1:5; Job 28:20–28
- 14 Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7; Malachi 1:4; Job 11:10; Job 37:7
- 15 1 Kings 17:1; Amos 5:8; Genesis 6:17; James 5:17–18; Genesis 6:13
- 16 Job 13:9; Job 12:13; Ezekiel 14:9; 1 Kings 22:22–23; Matthew 6:13
- 17 Isaiah 29:14; 1 Corinthians 1:19–20; 2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 17:14; Job 9:24
- 18 Daniel 2:21; Psalm 116:16; Jeremiah 52:31–34; 2 Chronicles 33:11–14; Revelation 19:16
- 19 Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 37:36–38; Job 35:9; Joshua 10:24; Revelation 19:19–21
- 20 Job 32:9; Job 17:4; Job 12:24; Proverbs 10:21; Job 39:17
- 21 Psalm 107:40; 1 Kings 21:23–24; Ephesians 6:10; Acts 12:23; Exodus 16:24
- 22 Daniel 2:22; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 2:10; Job 3:5; Luke 1:79
- 23 Isaiah 9:3; Isaiah 26:15; Isaiah 60:22; Psalm 107:38; Jeremiah 33:22
- 24 Psalm 107:40; Job 12:20; Hosea 7:11; Isaiah 19:1; Daniel 4:16
- 25 Job 5:14; Psalm 107:27; Isaiah 24:20; Isaiah 19:14; Deuteronomy 28:29
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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).
How these were chosen
“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).
Speak to the earth, if perchance it may teach thee: and though thou inquire of all things which are upon the earth, they shall not be able to tell thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)