Job 19
Traducción en lenguaje actual
Quinta respuesta de Job
19 Job respondió:
2 «Tanta palabrería de ustedes
me atormenta y me lastima;
¿Cuándo van a dejarme en paz?
3 Una y otra vez
me insultan sin compasión.
¡Debería darles vergüenza!
4 Aun cuando yo haya pecado,
eso no les afecta.
5 Lo que ustedes realmente quieren
es sentirse mejores que yo;
se aprovechan de verme humillado
para lanzarme sus ataques.
6 Pero voy a decirles algo:
es Dios quien me hizo daño,
¡es Dios quien me tendió una trampa!
7 »A gritos pido ayuda,
pero nadie me responde,
ni conoce la justicia.
8 Dios no me deja pasar,
me tiene cerrado el camino.
9 Me quitó mis riquezas;
10 me dejó como a un árbol
destrozado y sin raíces.
11 »Tan grande es su enojo contra mí
que me considera su enemigo;
12 me ataca como un ejército,
¡me tiene completamente rodeado!
13 »Dios ha hecho que me abandonen
mis amigos y mis hermanos;
14 también ha hecho que me olviden
mis parientes y conocidos.
15 Los que antes comían en mi mesa,
hoy me ven como a un extraño;
¡aun las jóvenes que me servían
ahora dicen que no me conocen!
16 Pido que mis esclavos me sirvan,
y ni con ruegos me atienden.
17 Tengo tan mal aliento
que nadie en la casa me aguanta.
18-19 Todos mis amigos y seres queridos
se han puesto en mi contra;
¡hasta los niños se burlan de mí!
20 La piel se me pega a los huesos;
¡estoy a un paso de la muerte!
21-22 »Amigos míos,
¡tengan lástima de mí!
Dios se ha vuelto mi enemigo,
no hagan ustedes lo mismo.
23-24 »¡Cómo quisiera que mis palabras
quedaran grabadas para siempre
en una placa de hierro!
25 Yo sé que mi Dios vive,
sé que triunfará sobre la muerte,
y me declarará inocente.
26 Cuando mi cuerpo haya sido destruido,
veré a Dios con mis propios ojos.
27 Estoy seguro de que lo veré,
¡con ansias espero el momento!
28 »Ustedes sólo piensan en perseguirme,
pues creen que soy culpable;
29 pero tengan mucho cuidado.
Dios es el juez de todos nosotros;
cuando él los juzgue,
los castigará con la muerte».
Job 19
American Standard Version
19 Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul,
And break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me:
Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
4 And be it indeed that I have erred,
Mine error remaineth with myself.
5 [a]If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,
And plead against me my reproach;
6 Know now that God hath [b]subverted me in my cause,
And hath compassed me with his net.
7 Behold, I [c]cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:
I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass,
And hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory,
And taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone;
And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me,
And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.
12 His troops come on together,
And cast up their way against me,
And encamp round about my tent.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me,
And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed,
And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that [d]dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger:
I am an alien in their sight.
16 I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer,
Though I entreat him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife,
And [e]my supplication to the children [f]of mine own mother.
18 Even young children despise me;
If I arise, they speak against me.
19 All [g]my familiar friends abhor me,
And they whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,
And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;
For the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24 That with an iron pen and lead
They were graven in the rock for ever!
25 [h]But as for me I know that my [i]Redeemer liveth,
And at last he will stand up upon the [j]earth:
26 [k]And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed,
Then without my flesh shall I see God;
27 Whom I, even I, shall see, [l]on my side,
And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger.
My [m]heart is consumed within me.
28 If ye say, How we will persecute him!
And that the root of the matter is found in me;
29 Be ye afraid of the sword:
For [n]wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,
That ye may know there is a judgment.
Footnotes
- Job 19:5 Or, Will ye indeed . . . reproach?
- Job 19:6 Or, overthrown me
- Job 19:7 Or, cry out, Violence!
- Job 19:15 Or, sojourn
- Job 19:17 Or, I make supplication. Or, I am loathsome
- Job 19:17 Or, of my body
- Job 19:19 Hebrew the men of my council.
- Job 19:25 Or, For
- Job 19:25 Or, vindicator. Hebrew goel.
- Job 19:25 Hebrew dust.
- Job 19:26 Or, And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, Yet from my flesh shall I see God
- Job 19:27 Or, for myself
- Job 19:27 Hebrew reins.
- Job 19:29 Or, wrathful are
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