Job · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Job 7 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 “¿No es la vida de los seres humanos como una condena a trabajos forzados? ¿No pasan sus días como los de un jornalero?
1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
2 Como un esclavo que anhela un poco de sombra, como un obrero que espera ansiosamente el día de la paga,
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
3 me han tocado meses de vacío y noches de miseria.
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 Cuando me acuesto me pregunto: ‘¿Cuándo me levantaré?’ Pero la noche sigue y sigue, y doy vueltas en la cama hasta el amanecer.
4 When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
5 Mi cuerpo está cubierto de gusanos y sucio; mi piel está agrietada, con llagas que supuran.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
6 Mis días pasan más rápido que la lanzadera de un tejedor y llegan a su fin sin esperanza.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 Recuerda que mi vida es sólo un soplo; no volveré a ver la felicidad.
7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
8 Los que me miran ya no me verán; sus ojos me buscarán, pero yo me habré ido.
8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
9 Cuando una nube desaparece, se va, al igual que quien baja al Seol no vuelve a subir.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
10 Nunca volverán a casa, y la gente que conocían los olvidará.
10 He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
11 “Entonces no, no me callaré; hablaré en la agonía de mi espíritu; me quejaré en la amargura de mi alma.
11 “Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 ¿Acaso soy el mar, o soy un monstruo marino para que ustedes tengan que cuidarme?
12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
13 Si me digo a mí mismo: ‘Me sentiré mejor si me acuesto en mi cama’, o ‘me servirá recostarme en mi sofá’,
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
14 entonces me asustas tanto con sueños y con visiones
14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
15 que prefiero ser estrangulado; prefiero morir antes que convertirme en un simple saco de huesos.
15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
16 “¡Odio mi vida! Sé que no viviré mucho tiempo. Déjame en paz porque mi vida es sólo un soplo.
16 I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 ¿Por qué los seres humanos son tan importantes para ti? ¿Por qué te preocupas tanto por ellos
17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
18 que los vigilas cada mañana y los examinas a cada momento? ¿No dejarás nunca de mirarme?
18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
19 ¿No me dejarás nunca en paz el tiempo suficiente para recuperar el aliento?
19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
20 ¿Qué he hecho mal? ¿Qué te he hecho, Vigilante de la Humanidad? ¿Por qué me has convertido en tu objetivo, de tal modo que soy una carga hasta para mí mismo?
20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
21 Si es así, ¿por qué no perdonas mis pecados y quitas mi culpa? Ahora mismo voy a tumbarme en el polvo, y aunque me busques, me habré ido”.
21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 14:5–6; Psalm 39:4; Job 5:7; Job 14:13–14; Leviticus 25:50
- 2 Leviticus 19:13; Deuteronomy 24:15; James 5:4; Malachi 3:5; Jeremiah 6:4
- 3 Psalm 6:6; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Job 16:7; Job 29:2; Psalm 39:5
- 4 Deuteronomy 28:67; Job 7:13–14; Psalm 77:4; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 130:6
- 5 Isaiah 14:11; Job 17:14; Job 2:7–8; Isaiah 1:6; Acts 12:23
- 6 Job 9:25; Job 17:15; Job 17:11; Isaiah 38:12–13; Isaiah 40:6–7
- 7 James 4:14; Psalm 78:39; Jeremiah 15:15; Psalm 89:47; Job 10:21–22
- 8 Job 20:9; Psalm 37:36; Job 8:18; Psalm 90:8–9; Job 13:27
- 9 Job 10:21; 2 Samuel 14:14; Job 30:15; Job 16:22; Job 14:10–14
- 10 Job 8:18; Job 20:9; Psalm 103:16; Job 27:23; Job 27:21
- 11 1 Samuel 1:10; Psalm 40:9; Job 10:1; Isaiah 38:15; Job 21:25
- 12 Job 7:17; Lamentations 3:7; Ezekiel 32:2–3; Job 38:6–11; Job 41:1–34
- 13 Psalm 6:6; Psalm 77:4; Job 7:3–4; Job 9:27–28
- 14 Genesis 41:8; Daniel 2:1; Genesis 40:5–7; Judges 7:13–14; Matthew 27:19
- 15 Matthew 27:5; 2 Samuel 17:23
- 16 1 Kings 19:4; Job 10:1; Job 9:21; Job 14:6; Psalm 62:9
- 17 Hebrews 2:6; Psalm 8:4; Psalm 144:3; Job 34:14–15; Job 7:12
- 18 1 Peter 1:7; Jeremiah 9:7; Isaiah 38:12–13; Job 14:3; Genesis 22:1
- 19 Job 9:18; Psalm 13:1–3; Job 14:6; Psalm 6:3; Psalm 94:3
- 20 Lamentations 3:12; Psalm 36:6; Job 3:24; Job 7:11–12; Psalm 21:12
- 21 Job 10:14; Daniel 12:2; 1 John 1:9; Lamentations 5:20–22; Isaiah 64:9
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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).
"For I shall not live alway, that I should suffer long." Next, his being conscious to himself of many good works.
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