Job 18
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Bildad describe al impío
18 Entonces respondió Bildad suhita y dijo:
2 ¿Hasta cuándo estaréis rebuscando palabras?
Mostrad entendimiento y entonces hablaremos.
3 ¿Por qué somos considerados como bestias,
y torpes(A) a vuestros ojos?
4 ¡Oh tú, que te desgarras en tu[a] ira!
¿Ha de ser abandonada la tierra por tu causa,
o removida la roca de su lugar?
5 Ciertamente la luz de los impíos se apaga(B),
y no brillará la llama[b] de su fuego.
6 La luz en su tienda se oscurece,
y su lámpara sobre él se apaga(C).
7 Su vigoroso paso[c] es acortado,
y su propio designio lo hace caer(D).
8 Porque es arrojado en la red por sus propios pies(E),
y sobre mallas camina.
9 Por el calcañar lo aprisiona un lazo,
y una trampa se cierra sobre él.
10 Escondido está en la tierra un lazo para él,
y una trampa le aguarda en la senda.
11 Por todas partes le atemorizan terrores(F),
y le hostigan a cada paso(G).
12 Se agota por el hambre su vigor(H),
y la desgracia está presta a su lado.
13 Devora[d] su piel la enfermedad,
devora sus miembros[e] el primogénito de la muerte(I).
14 Es arrancado de la seguridad de su tienda[f](J),
y se le conduce[g] al rey de los terrores(K).
15 Nada suyo[h] mora en su tienda;
azufre(L) es esparcido sobre su morada.
16 Por abajo se secan sus raíces,
y por arriba se marchita su ramaje(M).
17 Su memoria perece de la tierra,
y no tiene nombre en toda la región(N).
18 Es lanzado[i] de la luz a las tinieblas(O),
y de la tierra habitada lo echan(P).
19 No tiene descendencia ni posteridad entre su pueblo,
ni sobreviviente alguno donde él peregrinó(Q).
20 De su destino[j] se asombran los del occidente[k](R),
y los del oriente[l] se sobrecogen de terror.
21 Ciertamente tales son las moradas del impío(S),
este es el lugar del que no conoce a Dios.
Footnotes
- Job 18:4 Lit., El que se desgarra en su
- Job 18:5 Lit., chispa
- Job 18:7 Lit., Los pasos de su fuerza
- Job 18:13 En heb., Come partes de
- Job 18:13 O, partes
- Job 18:14 Lit., de su tienda, de su confianza
- Job 18:14 O, tú o ella lo conduciréis
- Job 18:15 O posiblemente, Fuego
- Job 18:18 Lit., Lo lanzan
- Job 18:20 Lit., día
- Job 18:20 Lit., los que vienen detrás
- Job 18:20 Lit., los que han ido delante
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.
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