1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment? 2 As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment: 3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me. 4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light. 5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again. 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope. 7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good. 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone. 9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again. 10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him. 11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry. 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me? 13 When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease; 14 Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear; 15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains. 16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath. 17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him, 18 And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute? 19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space? 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself? 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
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Referencias cruzadas (21)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 14:5–6; Salmo 39:4; Job 5:7; Job 14:13–14; Levítico 25:50
- 2 Levítico 19:13; Deuteronomio 24:15; Santiago 5:4; Malaquías 3:5; Jeremías 6:4
- 3 Salmo 6:6; Eclesiastés 1:14; Job 16:7; Job 29:2; Salmo 39:5
- 4 Deuteronomio 28:67; Job 7:13–14; Salmo 77:4; Salmo 6:6; Salmo 130:6
- 5 Isaías 14:11; Job 17:14; Job 2:7–8; Isaías 1:6; Hechos 12:23
- 6 Job 9:25; Job 17:15; Job 17:11; Isaías 38:12–13; Isaías 40:6–7
- 7 Santiago 4:14; Salmo 78:39; Jeremías 15:15; Salmo 89:47; Job 10:21–22
- 8 Job 20:9; Salmo 37:36; Job 8:18; Salmo 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; Salmo 103:16; Job 27:23; Job 27:21
- 11 1 Samuel 1:10; Salmo 40:9; Job 10:1; Isaías 38:15; Job 21:25
- 12 Job 7:17; Lamentaciones 3:7; Ezequiel 32:2–3; Job 38:6–11; Job 41:1–34
- 13 Salmo 6:6; Salmo 77:4; Job 7:3–4; Job 9:27–28
- 14 Génesis 41:8; Daniel 2:1; Génesis 40:5–7; Jueces 7:13–14; Mateo 27:19
- 15 Mateo 27:5; 2 Samuel 17:23
- 16 1 Reyes 19:4; Job 10:1; Job 9:21; Job 14:6; Salmo 62:9
- 17 Hebreos 2:6; Salmo 8:4; Salmo 144:3; Job 34:14–15; Job 7:12
- 18 1 Pedro 1:7; Jeremías 9:7; Isaías 38:12–13; Job 14:3; Génesis 22:1
- 19 Job 9:18; Salmo 13:1–3; Job 14:6; Salmo 6:3; Salmo 94:3
- 20 Lamentaciones 3:12; Salmo 36:6; Job 3:24; Job 7:11–12; Salmo 21:12
- 21 Job 10:14; Daniel 12:2; 1 Juan 1:9; Lamentaciones 5:20–22; Isaías 64:9
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Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
"For I shall not live alway, that I should suffer long." Next, his being conscious to himself of many good works.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)