1 The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling. 2 As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work; 3 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. 4 If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall arise? and again I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness. 5 My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust, my skin is withered and drawn together. 6 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. 7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things. 8 Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more. 9 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up. 10 Nor shall he return my more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more. 11 Wherefore I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison? 13 If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with myself on my couch: 14 Thou wilt frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions. 15 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death. 16 I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing. 17 What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? 18 Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly. 19 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle? 20 I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself? 21 Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.
Job · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
Job 7 Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
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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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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)