Job 16
Reina Valera Revisada
Job se queja contra Dios
16 Respondió Job, y dijo:
2 Muchas veces he oído cosas como éstas;
Consoladores importunos sois todos vosotros.
3 ¿No tendrán fin las palabras vacías?
¿O qué te anima a responder?
4 También yo podría hablar como vosotros,
Si vuestra alma estuviera en lugar de la mía;
Yo podría ensartar contra vosotros palabras,
Y por vosotros menear mi cabeza.
5 Pero yo os alentaría con mis palabras,
Y la consolación de mis labios apaciguaría vuestro dolor.
6 Pero aunque hable, mi dolor no cesa;
Y si dejo de hablar, no se aparta de mí.
7 Pero ahora tú, oh Dios, me has extenuado;
Has asolado toda mi familia.
8 Tú me has llenado de arrugas; testigo es mi flacura,
Que se levanta contra mí para testificar en mi rostro.
9 Su furor me despedazó, y me ha aborrecido.
Crujió sus dientes contra mí;
Contra mí aguzó sus ojos mi enemigo.
10 Abrieron contra mí su boca;
Hirieron mis mejillas con afrenta;
Contra mí se juntaron todos.
11 Me ha entregado Dios a los malvados,
Y en las manos de los impíos me hizo caer.
12 Vivía yo tranquilo, y me desmenuzó;
Me agarró por la nuca y me despedazó,
Y me puso por blanco suyo.
13 Me rodearon sus flecheros,
Traspasó mis riñones sin piedad;
Mi hiel derramó por tierra.
14 Me quebrantó con quebranto sobre quebranto;
Me asaltó como un guerrero.
15 Cosí un saco sobre mi piel,
Y hundí mi cabeza en el polvo.
16 Mi rostro está inflamado con el llanto,
Y mis párpados ensombrecidos,
17 A pesar de no haber iniquidad en mis manos,
Y de haber sido pura mi oración.
18 ¡Oh tierra!, no cubras mi sangre,
Y no haya lugar adonde no llegue mi clamor.
19 Mas he aquí que en los cielos está aún mi testigo,
Y mi defensor en las alturas.
20 Mis amigos se burlan de mí;
Mas ante Dios derramaré mis lágrimas.
21 ¡Ojalá pudiese abogar un hombre ante Dios,
Como lo hace con su prójimo!
22 Mas los años que me restan son contados,
Y yo me iré por el camino de donde ya no volveré.
Job 16
English Standard Version
Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You
16 Then Job answered and said:
2 “I have heard (A)many such things;
(B)miserable comforters are you all.
3 Shall (C)windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and (D)shake my head at you.
5 I could strengthen you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6 “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7 Surely now God has worn me out;
(E)he has[a] made desolate all my company.
8 And he has shriveled me up,
which is (F)a witness against me,
and my (G)leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
9 He has (H)torn me in his wrath (I)and hated me;
he has (J)gnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10 Men have (K)gaped at me with their mouth;
they have (L)struck me insolently on the cheek;
they (M)mass themselves together against me.
11 God gives me up to the ungodly
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his (N)target;
13 his (O)archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys (P)and does not spare;
he (Q)pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with (R)breach upon breach;
he (S)runs upon me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed (T)sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid (U)my strength (V)in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is (W)deep darkness,
17 although there is no (X)violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, (Y)cover not my blood,
and let my (Z)cry find no resting place.
19 Even now, behold, my (AA)witness is in heaven,
and he who testifies for me is (AB)on high.
20 My friends (AC)scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
21 that he would (AD)argue the case of a man with God,
as[b] a son of man does with his neighbor.
22 For when a few years have come
I shall go the way (AE)from which I shall not return.
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