1 And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: — 2 Who [is] this — darkening counsel, By words without knowledge? 3 Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know. 4 Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding. 5 Who placed its measures — if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line? 6 On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone? 7 In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy, 8 And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out. 9 In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors, 11 And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.' 12 Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place? 13 To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it, 14 It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed. 15 And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken. 16 Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down? 17 Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see? 18 Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare — if thou hast known it all. 19 Where [is] this — the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where [is] this — its place? 20 That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house. 21 Thou hast known — for then thou art born And the number of thy days [are] many! 22 Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see? 23 That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle. 24 Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth. 25 Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices? 26 To cause [it] to rain on a land — no man, A wilderness — no man in it. 27 To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass? 28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it? 30 As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured. 31 Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open? 32 Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort? 33 Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth? 34 Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee? 35 Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, 'Behold us?' 36 Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding? 37 Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down, 38 In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together? 39 Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil? 40 When they bow down in dens — Abide in a thicket for a covert? 41 Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.
Job · Traducción literal de Young
Job 38 Traducción literal de Young
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), en inglés, leído por Winfred W. Henson · Sobre las grabaciones
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
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).
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)