1 Then Job answered: 2 “Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die! 3 But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? 4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock. 5 The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping. 6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands. 7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. 8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? 10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind. 11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food? 12 Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life. 13 Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His. 14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released. 15 If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land. 16 True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His. 17 He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges. 18 He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists. 19 He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established. 20 He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders. 21 He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty. 22 He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light. 23 He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them. 24 He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland. 25 They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
Job 12 Majority Standard Bible
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Referencias cruzadas (23)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 2 Isaías 5:21; Job 17:4; Job 17:10; Job 8:8–10; Job 11:12
- 3 Job 13:2–5; 2 Corintios 11:21–23; Proverbios 26:4; 2 Corintios 11:5; Job 6:6–7
- 4 Job 30:1; Job 21:3; Salmo 91:15; Job 17:6; Salmo 22:7–8
- 5 Salmo 17:5; Proverbios 13:9; Mateo 25:8; Amós 6:1–6; Salmo 123:3–4
- 6 Job 9:24; Salmo 73:11–12; Salmo 37:35; Salmo 17:14; Job 21:7–15
- 7 Isaías 1:3; Jeremías 8:7; Proverbios 6:6; Job 21:29–30
- 9 Isaías 41:20; Jeremías 27:5–6; Romanos 11:36; Hechos 19:35; 1 Samuel 2:7
- 10 Hechos 17:28; Job 33:4; Hechos 17:25; Números 16:22; Job 27:3
- 11 Job 34:3; Hebreos 5:14; Job 6:30; 1 Pedro 2:3; Filipenses 1:10
- 12 Job 32:7; Job 15:10; Job 8:8
- 13 Job 36:5; Job 9:4; Proverbios 2:6–7; Santiago 1:5; Job 28:20–28
- 14 Isaías 22:22; Apocalipsis 3:7; Malaquías 1:4; Job 11:10; Job 37:7
- 15 1 Reyes 17:1; Amós 5:8; Génesis 6:17; Santiago 5:17–18; Génesis 6:13
- 16 Job 13:9; Job 12:13; Ezequiel 14:9; 1 Reyes 22:22–23; Mateo 6:13
- 17 Isaías 29:14; 1 Corintios 1:19–20; 2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 17:14; Job 9:24
- 18 Daniel 2:21; Salmo 116:16; Jeremías 52:31–34; 2 Crónicas 33:11–14; Apocalipsis 19:16
- 19 Isaías 45:1; Isaías 37:36–38; Job 35:9; Josué 10:24; Apocalipsis 19:19–21
- 20 Job 32:9; Job 17:4; Job 12:24; Proverbios 10:21; Job 39:17
- 21 Salmo 107:40; 1 Reyes 21:23–24; Efesios 6:10; Hechos 12:23; Éxodo 16:24
- 22 Daniel 2:22; 1 Corintios 4:5; 1 Corintios 2:10; Job 3:5; Lucas 1:79
- 23 Isaías 9:3; Isaías 26:15; Isaías 60:22; Salmo 107:38; Jeremías 33:22
- 24 Salmo 107:40; Job 12:20; Oseas 7:11; Isaías 19:1; Daniel 4:16
- 25 Job 5:14; Salmo 107:27; Isaías 24:20; Isaías 19:14; Deuteronomio 28:29
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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).
Speak to the earth, if perchance it may teach thee: and though thou inquire of all things which are upon the earth, they shall not be able to tell thee.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)