Job 18
King James Version
18 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Job 18
Reina Valera Actualizada
Segunda intervención de Bildad
18 Entonces intervino Bildad el sujita
y dijo:
2 —¿Cuándo pondrán fin a las palabras? Reflexionen primero, y después hablaremos.
3 ¿Por qué somos tenidos por animales
y por impuros ante sus ojos?
4 ¡Oh, el que despedaza su alma
con su furor!
¿Será abandonada la tierra por tu causa? ¿Será removida la peña de su lugar?
5 »Ciertamente se extingue la luz de los impíos
y no resplandece la lumbre de su fuego.
6 La luz se oscurece en su morada
y se apaga la lámpara que está sobre él.
7 Los pasos de su vigor son estrechados;
su propio plan lo hace caer.
8 Porque por sus propios pies es echado en la red
y deambula en la maraña.
9 Una trampa lo atrapa por el talón;
el enredo se apodera de él.
10 Para él está escondida una cuerda en el suelo;
para él hay un lazo en el sendero.
11 Por todas partes lo sobrecogen
los terrores
y lo persiguen pisando sus talones.
12 En su riqueza está hambriento
y a su lado está lista la desgracia.
13 Carcome parte de su piel;
el primogénito de la muerte
devora sus miembros.
14 Es arrancado de su morada,
objeto de su confianza,
y es conducido ante el rey
de los espantos.
15 El fuego habita en su tienda;
el azufre es esparcido sobre su morada.
16 Por abajo se secan sus raíces,
y por arriba se marchitan sus ramas.
17 Su memoria perece en la tierra
y no tiene nombre en las calles.
18 Lo empujan de la luz a las tinieblas;
lo echan fuera del mundo.
19 No tendrá prole ni descendiente
en su pueblo
ni sobreviviente en sus moradas.
20 Los que vengan del oeste
se horrorizarán de su día,
y los que vengan del este
serán sobrecogidos por el espanto.
21 Tales son las moradas del impío,
y tal será el lugar del que no
conoce a Dios.
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