Job · Free Bible Version (Versión Biblia Libre en inglés)
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1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind,
1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
2 “Who is this who questions my wisdom by talking so ignorantly?
2 “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Prepare yourself, be strong, for I am going to question you, and you must answer me.
3 Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have such knowledge!
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who decided its dimensions? Don't you know? Who stretched out a measuring line?
5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
6 What do its foundations rest upon? Who laid its cornerstone,
6 What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 when the stars of the morning sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.
7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Who laid down the boundaries of the sea when it was born?
8 “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
9 Who clothed it with clouds, and wrapped it in a blanket of deep darkness?
9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 I set its limits, marking its borders.
10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
11 I said, ‘You may come here, but no farther. Here is where your proud waves stop.’
11 and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
12 During your lifetime, have you ever ordered the morning to begin?
12 “Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 Have you ever told the dawn where to appear that it might take hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wicked out?
13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
14 The earth is changed like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a crumpled garment.
14 It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
15 The ‘light’ of the wicked is taken away from them; their acts of violence are stopped.
15 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
16 Have you entered the sources of the sea? Have you explored their hidden depths?
16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have you been shown where the gates of death are? Have you seen the gates of utter darkness?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 Do you know how far the earth extends? Tell me if you know all this!
18 Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
19 In which direction does light live? Where does darkness dwell?
19 “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
20 Can you take them home? Do you know the way to where they live?
20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
21 Of course you know, because you were already born then! You've lived so long!
21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
22 Have you been to where the snow is kept? Have you seen where the hail is held?
22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 I have stored them up for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle.
23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 Do you know the way to where light comes from, or to where the east wind blows over the earth?
24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
25 Who cuts a channel for the rain to flow? Who creates a path for the thunderbolt?
25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
26 Who brings rain to an uninhabited land, to a desert where nobody lives,
26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
27 to water a parched wasteland to make the green grass grow?
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
28 Does the rain have a father? Who was the father of the dewdrops?
28 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
29 Who was the mother of ice? Does the frost of the air have a mother?
29 Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
30 Water turns into rock-hard ice; its surface freezes solid.
30 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
31 Can you tie together the stars of the Pleiades? Can you loosen the belt of the Orion constellation?
31 “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
32 Can you guide the stars of Mazzaroth at the right time? Can you direct the Great Bear constellation and its other stars?
32 Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you apply them to the earth?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
34 Can you shout to the clouds and command them to pour rain down on you?
34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 Can you send out bolts of lightning and direct them, so that they can answer you saying, ‘Here we are’?
35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who has placed wisdom inside people? Who has given understanding to the mind?
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
37 Who is clever enough to count the clouds? Who can turn heaven's water jars on their sides
37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
38 when the dust has baked into a solid mass?
38 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
39 Can you hunt prey for the lion? Can you feed the lion cubs
39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40 as they crouch down in their dens and lie in wait in the bushes?
40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God, weak from starvation?”
41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
Referencias cruzadas (40)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 40:6; 2 Reyes 2:11; Job 37:1–2; Éxodo 19:16–19; 1 Reyes 19:11
- 2 Job 42:3; Job 35:16; 1 Timoteo 1:7; Job 34:35; Job 27:11
- 3 Job 40:7; Jeremías 1:17; Éxodo 12:11; 1 Reyes 18:46; 1 Pedro 1:13
- 4 Salmo 104:5; Hebreos 1:10; Proverbios 30:4; Hebreos 1:2; Salmo 102:25
- 5 Isaías 40:12; Job 11:9; Zacarías 2:1–2; Proverbios 8:27; Isaías 40:22
- 6 Job 26:7; Salmo 104:5; Salmo 93:1; Isaías 28:16; 2 Pedro 3:5
- 7 Apocalipsis 5:11; Job 1:6; Esdras 3:11–12; Apocalipsis 22:16; Apocalipsis 2:28
- 8 Génesis 1:9; Proverbios 8:29; Jeremías 5:22; Salmo 104:8–9; Salmo 33:7
- 9 Génesis 1:2
- 10 Jeremías 5:22; Salmo 104:9; Salmo 33:7; Job 26:10; Génesis 1:9–10
- 11 Salmo 89:9; Proverbios 8:29; Salmo 65:6–7; Lucas 8:32–33; Marcos 4:39–41
- 12 Salmo 74:16; Salmo 148:3–5; Génesis 1:5; Job 8:9; Salmo 136:7–8
- 13 Salmo 104:35; Job 37:3; Éxodo 14:27; Salmo 104:21–22; Job 24:13–17
- 14 Salmo 104:6; Salmo 104:2
- 15 Salmo 10:15; Salmo 37:17; Job 18:5; Proverbios 4:19; Ezequiel 30:22
- 16 Proverbios 8:24; Salmo 77:19; Job 26:5–6; Jeremías 51:36
- 17 Salmo 9:13; Salmo 107:18; Job 3:5; Job 12:22; Salmo 107:14
- 18 Apocalipsis 20:9; Salmo 89:11–12; Jeremías 31:37; Isaías 40:28; Job 28:24
- 19 Ezequiel 32:8; Mateo 27:45; Isaías 45:7; Génesis 1:3–4; Amós 4:13
- 20 Job 26:10; Génesis 10:19; Génesis 23:17
- 21 Job 15:7; Job 38:4; Job 38:12
- 22 Job 37:6; Salmo 135:7; Salmo 33:7; Job 6:16
- 23 Josué 10:11; Isaías 30:30; Apocalipsis 16:21; Éxodo 9:18; Job 36:13
- 24 Job 38:12–13; Jonás 4:8; Mateo 24:27
- 25 Job 28:26; Salmo 29:3–10; Job 36:27–28; Job 37:3–6
- 26 Jeremías 14:22; Salmo 107:35; Hebreos 6:7–8; Isaías 35:1–2; Isaías 43:19–20
- 27 Salmo 107:35; Salmo 104:14
- 28 Jeremías 14:22; Salmo 147:8; Jeremías 10:13; Proverbios 3:20; Deuteronomio 33:13
- 29 Salmo 147:16–17; Job 37:10; Job 6:16; Job 38:8
- 30 Job 37:10
- 31 Amós 5:8; Job 9:9
- 32 Job 38:31; 2 Reyes 23:5; Job 9:9
- 33 Jeremías 31:35–36; Génesis 8:22; Salmo 148:6; Job 38:12–13; Jeremías 33:25
- 34 Job 22:11; Zacarías 10:1; Santiago 5:18; Job 36:27–28; 1 Samuel 12:18
- 35 Job 36:32; Job 37:3; 2 Reyes 1:14; Apocalipsis 11:5–6; Números 16:35
- 36 Job 32:8; Salmo 51:6; Proverbios 2:6; Eclesiastés 2:26; Santiago 1:5
- 37 Salmo 147:4; Génesis 9:15; Génesis 8:1; Génesis 15:5
- 39 Salmo 104:21; Job 4:10–11; Salmo 34:10; Salmo 145:15–16
- 40 Job 37:8; Números 24:9; Números 23:24; Génesis 49:9
- 41 Lucas 12:24; Mateo 6:26; Salmo 147:9; Salmo 104:27–28
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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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).
Who is the father of the rain? And who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And yet, O talkative Dialectician, I will ask thee one small question, and answer thou me, as He saith to Job, Who through whirlwind and cloud giveth Divine admonitions. Are there many mansions in God's House, as thou hast heard, or only one?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Put then a limit to your thought, so that your curiosity in investigating the incomprehensible may not incur the reproaches of Job, and you be not asked by him, "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?" If ever you hear in the Psalms, "I bear up the pillars of it;" see in these pillars the power which sustains it.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… condensed the air into clouds, and bade them carry the waters of the rain, now bringing golden-tinted clouds from the north, now changing these into one uniform appearance, and again transforming them into manifold circles and other shapes? Who can number the clouds in wisdom?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds, and hath bent down the heaven to the earth: and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom: and, the cloud is not rent under Him.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)