Job · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Job 9 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Job respondió:
1 Then Job answered,
2 “¡Sí, todo eso lo sé! Pero, ¿cómo puede alguien tener la razón delante Dios?
2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
3 Si quisieras discutir con Dios, éste podría hacer mil preguntas que nadie puede responder.
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
4 Dios es tan sabio y poderoso que nadie podría desafiarlo y ganarle.
4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
5 “Dios mueve las montañas de repente; las derriba en su ira.
5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
6 Él sacude la tierra, haciendo temblar sus cimientos.
6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
7 Él es quien puede ordenar que el sol no salga y que las estrellas no brillen.
7 He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
8 Sólo él es quien extiende los cielos y camina sobre las olas del mar.
8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
9 Él hizo las constelaciones de la Osa, de Orión, de las Pléyades y las estrellas del cielo austral.
9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
10 Él es quien hace cosas increíbles que están más allá de nuestro entendimiento, cosas maravillosas que son incontables.
10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
11 “Pero cuando pasa junto a mí, no lo veo; cuando camina hacia adelante, es invisible para mí.
11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
12 Si él quita, ¿Quién podrá impedírselo? ¿Quién va a preguntarle: ‘Qué haces’?
12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
13 Dios no refrena su ira, y aplasta a los ayudantes de Rahab.
13 “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14 “Así que, ¡cuánto menos podría responder a Dios, o elegir mis palabras para discutir con él!
14 How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
15 Aunque tenga razón, no puedo responderle. Debo implorar la misericordia de mi juez.
15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
16 Aunque lo llamara para que viniera y él respondiera, no creo que me escuchara.
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17 “Me golpea con vientos de tormenta; me hiere una y otra vez, sin dar razón.
17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18 No me da la oportunidad ni siquiera de recuperar el aliento; en cambio, llena mi vida de amargo sufrimiento.
18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19 Si de fuerza se trata, Dios es el más fuerte. Si es cuestión de justicia, entonces ¿quién fijará un tiempo para mi caso?
19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20 Aunque tenga razón, mi propia boca me condenaría; aunque sea inocente, él demostraría que estoy equivocado.
20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
21 ¡Soy inocente! No me importa lo que me pase. ¡Odio mi vida!
21 I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
22 Por eso digo: ‘A Dios le da igual. Él destruye tanto al inocente como al malvado’.
22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 Cuando el desastre golpea de repente, se burla de la desesperación de los inocentes.
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24 La tierra ha sido entregada al malvado; él ciega los ojos de los jueces; y si no es él, entonces ¿quién?
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
25 Los días de mi vida corren como un corredor, pasando a toda prisa sin que yo vea ninguna felicidad.
25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
26 Pasan como veloces veleros, como el águila que se abalanza sobre su presa.
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
27 “Si me dijera a mí mismo: ‘Olvidaré mis quejas; dejaré de llorar y seré feliz’,
27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
28 seguiría aterrado por todo mi sufrimiento, porque tú, Dios, no dirás que soy inocente.
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29 Ya que estoy condenado, ¿qué sentido tiene discutir?
29 I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
30 ¡Aunque me lavara con agua pura de la montaña y me limpiara las manos con jabón,
30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 me arrojarías a un pozo de lodo de modo que hasta mis propias ropas me odiarían!
31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
32 Porque Dios no es un ser mortal como yo, no puedo defenderme ni llevarlo a juicio.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
33 Si hubiera un árbitro ¡que pudiera reunirnos a los dos!
33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
34 ¡Ojalá Dios dejara de golpearme con su vara y de aterrorizarme!
34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
35 Entonces podría hablar sin tener miedo; pero como lo tengo, no puedo!”
35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 4:17; Romans 3:20; Psalm 143:2; Job 25:4; 1 Kings 8:46
- 3 Job 10:2; Job 40:2; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 1:8; Psalm 19:12
- 4 Job 36:5; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Exodus 14:17–18; Job 9:19
- 5 Luke 21:11; Matthew 27:51; Habakkuk 3:10; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:18–20
- 6 Haggai 2:6; Psalm 75:3; Hebrews 12:26; Job 26:11; Isaiah 2:21
- 7 Isaiah 13:10; Amos 8:9; Luke 21:25–26; Job 37:7; Matthew 24:29
- 8 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 104:2–3; Job 37:18; Zechariah 12:1
- 9 Amos 5:8; Genesis 1:16; Job 38:31–41; Psalm 147:4; Acts 28:13
- 10 Job 5:9; Psalm 72:18; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Daniel 4:2–3
- 11 Job 23:8–9; Job 35:14; Psalm 77:19; 1 Timothy 6:16
- 12 Job 11:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 23:13; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35
- 13 Psalm 89:10; Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 30:7; James 4:6–7
- 14 Job 11:4–5; Job 4:19; Job 9:3; Job 23:7; Job 23:4
- 15 Job 10:15; Job 8:5; Job 22:27; Job 10:2; 1 Peter 2:23
- 16 Exodus 6:9; Psalm 66:18–20; Luke 24:41; Job 29:24; Psalm 18:6
- 17 Job 16:14; Job 2:3; Job 34:6; Job 2:13; Ezekiel 13:13
- 18 Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:15; Hebrews 12:11; Job 3:20; Job 27:2
- 19 Job 9:32–33; Job 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Job 40:9–10; Matthew 6:13
- 20 Psalm 143:2; Job 34:35; Job 9:2; Psalm 130:3; Philippians 3:12–15
- 21 Job 1:1; Psalm 139:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26
- 22 Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; Job 10:8; Ezekiel 21:3–4; Luke 13:2–4
- 23 Job 24:12; Hebrews 11:36–37; Ezekiel 14:19–21; Job 8:20; Job 2:7
- 24 Job 10:3; Psalm 73:3–7; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:7–15; 2 Samuel 15:30
- 25 Job 7:6–7; James 4:14; Psalm 90:9–10; Psalm 39:5; Esther 8:14
- 26 Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 18:2; Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 4:13; 2 Samuel 1:23
- 27 Job 7:13; Psalm 77:2–3; Job 7:11; Jeremiah 8:18
- 28 Psalm 119:120; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 9:20–21; Job 14:16; Job 10:14
- 29 Job 10:7; Job 10:2; Job 10:14–17; Job 21:16–17; Jeremiah 2:35
- 30 Jeremiah 2:22; Psalm 26:6; 1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16–18; Jeremiah 4:14
- 31 Job 15:6; Philippians 3:8–9; Job 9:20; Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 64:6
- 32 Romans 9:20; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 45:9; Numbers 23:19
- 33 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 John 2:1–2; Job 9:19; Psalm 106:23; 1 Kings 3:16–28
- 34 Psalm 39:10; Job 33:7; Job 13:11; Psalm 90:11; Job 13:20–22
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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).
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And this Job said mystically, Which alone spread out the heaven, and walketh upon the sea as on firm ground; signifying to those who understand that He who when present here walked upon the sea is also He who aforetime made the heavens.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)