Job 27
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27 Job continuó con su discurso, y dijo:
2 «¡Vive Dios, el Todopoderoso,
que me amarga la vida al negarme su justicia!
3 Pero mientras me quede vida,
mientras quede en mí el hálito divino,
4 no emitirán mis labios nada reprochable,
ni mi lengua pronunciará engaño alguno.
5 Jamás podré dar a ustedes la razón;
sostendré mi inocencia hasta la muerte.
6 No renunciaré a insistir en mi justicia;
mientras viva, tendré la conciencia tranquila.
7 ¡Que sean mis enemigos como los malvados!
¡Que sean mis adversarios como los inicuos!
8 »¿Que fin le espera al malvado y ladrón,
cuando Dios le arrebate la vida?
9 ¿Acaso Dios escuchará su clamor
cuando le sobrevenga la angustia?
10 ¿Hallará placer al lado del Todopoderoso?
¿Invocará acaso a Dios en todo momento?
11 ¡Voy a enseñarles algo del poder de Dios!
¡Les voy a revelar lo que sé del Todopoderoso!
12 No hay duda de que todos ustedes lo han visto;
entonces, ¿por qué dicen tantas tonterías?»
Tercera reprensión de Sofar a Job
13 «El Dios Todopoderoso tiene ya preparada
la herencia de los malvados y violentos:
14 Podrán tener muchos hijos, pero morirán por la espada;
los más pequeños siempre carecerán de pan.
15 Si acaso alguno sobrevive, no será sepultado,
ni su viuda llorará su muerte.
16 Podrá vivir entre montones de plata,
y acumular grandes cantidades de ropa,
17 pero al final los hombres justos e inocentes
se pondrán esa ropa y se repartirán la plata.
18 »La casa que edifica está carcomida por dentro;
es tan frágil como una choza de vigilancia.
19 Se va a descansar seguro de sus riquezas,
pero al despertar ya está en la miseria.
20 Entonces el terror lo domina como un río,
y en la noche lo arrastra como un torbellino.
21 Un viento calcinante lo lanza a las alturas;
una fuerte tempestad lo arranca de su lugar.
22 Dios lo castigará sin piedad,
y aunque quiera escapar, no lo conseguirá.
23 Al verlo, la gente aplaudirá
y se alegrará de verlo arruinado.»
Job 27
Modern English Version
Job’s Last Words to His Friends
27 Moreover Job continued his discourse:
2 “As God lives, who has taken away my judgment,
and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
3 all the while my spirit is in me,
and the breath of God is in my nostrils,
4 my lips will not speak wickedness,
nor my tongue utter deceit.
5 God forbid that I should justify you.
Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6 My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go;
my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.
7 “Let my enemy be like the wicked,
and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite,
though he may gain much, when God takes away his soul?
9 Will God hear his cry
when trouble comes upon him?
10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call upon God?
11 “I will teach you about the hand of God;
what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
12 Look, all of you have seen it;
why then have you become altogether vain?
13 “This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
and the inheritance that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
15 Those who survive him will be buried in death,
and their widows will not weep.
16 Though he heaps up silver like the dust
and piles up clothing like the clay—
17 he may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.
18 He builds his house like a moth,
and like a booth that the watchman makes.
19 The rich man will lie down, but he will not be gathered;
he opens his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terrors overtake him like floodwaters;
a tempest steals him away in the night.
21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs;
it sweeps him out of his place.
22 For God will cast it upon him and not spare;
he would flee from its power.
23 Men will clap their hands at him
and will hiss him out of his place.
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