Job · Free Bible Version (Versión Biblia Libre en inglés)
Job 7 Free Bible Version (Versión Biblia Libre en inglés)
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1 “Isn't life for human beings like serving a sentence of hard labor? Don't their days pass like those of a hired laborer?
1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
2 Like some slave longing for a bit of shade, like a hired hand anxiously waiting for pay day,
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
3 I've been given months of emptiness and nights of misery.
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 When I go to bed I ask, ‘When shall I get up?’ But the night goes on and on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
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 My body is covered with maggots and caked in dirt; my skin is cracked, with oozing sores.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
6 My days pass quicker than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 Remember that my life is just a breath; I will not see happiness again.
7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
8 Those watching me won't see me anymore; your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
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 When a cloud disappears, it's gone, just as anyone who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
10 They will never return home, and the people they knew will forget them.
10 He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
11 So, no, I won't hold my tongue—I will speak in the agony of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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 Am I the sea or a sea monster that you have to guard me?
12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
13 If I tell myself, ‘I'll feel better if I lie down on my bed,’ or ‘it will help me to lie down on my couch,’
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
14 then you scare me so much with dreams and terrify me with visions
14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
15 that I would rather be strangled—I would rather die than become just a bag of bones.
15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
16 I hate my life! I know I won't live long. Leave me alone because my life is just a breath.
16 I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 Why are human beings so important to you; why are you so concerned about them
17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
18 that you inspect them every morning and test them every moment? Won't you ever stop staring at me?
18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
19 Won't you ever leave me alone long enough to catch my breath?
19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
20 What have I done wrong? What have I done to you, Watcher of Humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I'm a burden even to myself?
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 If so why don't you pardon my sins, and take away my guilt? Right now I'm going to lie down in the dust, and though you will look for me, I will be gone.”
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.”
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
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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)