Job 15
La Palabra (Hispanoamérica)
Segundo ciclo de discursos (15—21)
Sus desafíos condenan a Job
15 Elifaz de Temán respondió así:
2 ¿Da un sabio respuestas vanas?
¿Llena su vientre de viento del este?
3 ¿Propone argumentos inútiles,
palabras que no valen nada?
4 Peor tú, que te muestras impío
y anulas así los coloquios con Dios.
5 Tu pecado inspira tus palabras,
usas el lenguaje de la astucia.
6 Tu boca te condena, no yo;
tus labios testifican contra ti.
7 ¿Eres el primogénito de la humanidad
y te engendraron antes que a las colinas?
8 ¿Has asistido al consejo divino?
¿Sólo tú posees sabiduría?
9 ¿Qué sabes tú que nosotros no sepamos,
qué entiendes tú que nosotros no entendamos?
10 Entre nosotros hay ancianos venerables,
más repletos de días que tu padre.
11 ¿Te parece poco el consuelo de Dios,
las amables palabras que escuchas?
12 ¿Por qué dejas que te domine la pasión
y miras con ojos desorbitados,
13 haciendo a Dios objeto de tu cólera
y lanzando esas palabras por tu boca?
14 ¿Qué es el ser humano para sentirse puro,
el nacido de mujer para creerse inocente?
15 Si Dios no confía en sus santos
ni le parecen puros los cielos,
16 ¿qué decir del infame y corrompido,
del ser humano que se sacia de maldad?
17 Escúchame, que quiero hablarte,
voy a decirte lo que he visto,
18 lo que han contado los sabios
y han transmitido sus antepasados,
19 aquellos a quienes entregaron el país,
cuando no había mezcla de extranjeros.
20 El malvado vive entre tormentos,
al tirano le esperan años contados;
21 le zumban los oídos con ecos de terrores,
lo asalta el Devastador mientras vive en paz.
22 Que no piense que escapará de las tinieblas,
pues está destinado a la espada;
23 desechado como pasto de buitres,
sabe que es cierta su ruina.
24 Los días tenebrosos lo aterran,
lo atenazan angustia y ansiedad,
como a un rey que se lanza al ataque.
25 Y es que alzó su mano contra Dios
e intentó retar al Todopoderoso,
26 arremetiendo directo contra él
tras la maciza panza de su escudo.
27 Aunque rebosen grasa sus cachetes
y el sebo forre sus lomos,
28 vivirá en pueblos arruinados,
en casas donde nadie habita,
destinadas a ser escombreras.
29 No se enriquecerá ni durarán sus bienes,
no crecerán sus posesiones sobre la tierra.
30 No podrá huir de la oscuridad,
una llama secará sus brotes,
el viento barrerá sus renuevos.
31 Que no confíe en su buena talla,
pues su rama acabará fracasando.
32 Antes de tiempo se marchitará,
sus ramas no reverdecerán.
33 Será viña cuyas uvas no maduran,
olivo que pierde sus flores.
34 No da frutos la casta de los impíos,
el fuego consume sus hogares.
35 Quien se preña de maldad, pare desgracia;
en su vientre se prepara la decepción.
Job 15
Contemporary English Version
Eliphaz's Second Speech
If You Had Any Sense
15 Eliphaz from Teman[a] said:
* 2 Job, if you had any sense,
3 you would stop spreading
all of this hot air.
4 Your words are enough
to make others turn from God
and lead them to doubt.
5 And your sinful, scheming mind
is the source of all you say.
6 I am not here as your judge;
your own words are witnesses
against you.
7 Were you the first human?
Are you older than the hills?
8 Have you ever been present
when God's council[b] meets?
Do you alone have wisdom?
9 Do you know and understand
something we don't?
10 We have the benefit of wisdom
older than your father.
11 And you have been offered
comforting words from God.
Isn't this enough?
12 Your emotions are out of control,
making you look fierce;
13 that's why you attack God
with everything you say.
14 (A) No human is pure and innocent,
15 and neither are angels—
not in the sight of God.
If God doesn't trust his angels,
16 what chance do humans have?
We are so terribly evil
that we thirst for sin.
Just Listen to What I Know
17 Just listen to what I know,
and you will learn
18 wisdom known by others
since ancient times.
19 Those who gained such insights
also gained the land,
and they were not influenced
by foreign teachings.
20 But suffering is in store
each day for those who sin.
21 Even in times of success,
they constantly hear
the threat of doom.
22 Darkness, despair, and death
are their destiny.
23 They scrounge around for food,
all the while dreading
the approaching darkness.
24 They are overcome with despair,
like frightened soldiers facing
a fearsome king in battle.
25 This is because they rebelled
against God All-Powerful
26 and have attacked him
with their weapons.
27 They may be rich and fat,
28 but they will live in the ruins
of deserted towns.
29 Their property and wealth
will shrink and disappear.
30 They won't escape the darkness,
and the blazing breath of God
will set their future aflame.
* 31 They have put their trust
in something worthless;
now they will become worthless
32 like a date palm tree
without a leaf.[c]
33 Or like vineyards or orchards
whose blossoms and unripe fruit
drop to the ground.
34 Yes, the godless and the greedy
will have nothing but flames
feasting on their homes,
35 because they are the parents
of trouble and vicious lies.
Job 15
King James Version
15 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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