Job 33
Biblia del Jubileo
33 Por tanto, Job, oye ahora mis razones, y escucha todas mis palabras.
2 He aquí yo abriré ahora mi boca, y mi lengua hablará en mi boca.
3 Mis razones declararán la rectitud de mi corazón, y mis labios proferirán conocimiento puro.
4 El espíritu de Dios me hizo, y el soplo del Omnipotente me dio vida.
5 Si pudieres, respóndeme; dispón tus palabras, estás delante de mí.
6 Heme aquí a mí en lugar de Dios, conforme a tu dicho: De lodo soy yo también formado.
7 He aquí que mi terror no te espantará, ni mi mano se agravará sobre ti.
8 De cierto tú dijiste a oídos míos, y yo oí la voz de tus palabras que decían:
9 Yo soy limpio y sin rebelión; y soy inocente, y no hay iniquidad en mí.
10 He aquí que Dios buscó achaques contra mí, y me tiene por su enemigo;
11 puso mis pies en el cepo, y guardó todas mis sendas.
12 He aquí en esto no has hablado justamente; yo te responderé que mayor es Dios que el hombre.
13 ¶ ¿Por qué tomaste pleito contra él? Porque él no contestará todas sus palabras.
14 Sin embargo, en una o en dos maneras habla Dios al que no ve.
15 Por sueño de visión nocturna, cuando el sueño cae sobre los hombres, cuando se adormecen sobre el lecho;
16 entonces revela al oído de los hombres, y les sella su instrucción;
17 para quitar al hombre de su propia obra, y cubrir al varón de la soberbia.
18 Así detendrá su alma de corrupción, y su vida de ser pasado a espada.
19 También sobre su cama es castigado con dolor fuerte en todos sus huesos,
20 que le hace que su vida aborrezca el pan, y su alma la comida suave.
21 Su carne desfallece sin verse, y sus huesos, que antes no se veían, aparecen.
22 Su alma se acercará al sepulcro, y su vida a los enterradores.
23 Si tuviera cerca de él un mensajero, un intérprete, uno entre mil que mostrare al hombre su rectitud;
24 que le diga que Dios tuvo de él misericordia, que lo libró de descender al sepulcro, que halló rescate;
25 se enternecerá su carne más que de niño, y volverá a los días de su juventud.
26 Orará a Dios, y le amará, y verá su faz con gritos de alegría; y él dará al hombre el pago de su justicia.
27 El mira sobre los hombres; y el que dijere: Pequé, y pervertí lo recto, y no me ha aprovechado;
28 Dios rescatará su alma, que no pase a la huesa, y su vida se verá en luz.
29 He aquí, todas estas cosas hace Dios dos y tres veces con el hombre;
30 para apartar su alma de la huesa, e iluminarlo con la luz de los vivientes.
31 Escucha, Job, y óyeme; calla, y yo hablaré.
32 Y si tuvieres palabras, respóndeme; habla, porque yo te quiero justificar.
33 Y si no, óyeme tú a mí; calla, y te enseñaré sabiduría.
Job 33
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 33
1 Therefore, O Job, hear my discourse;
listen to all my words.
2 Behold, now I open my mouth;
my tongue and voice form words.
3 I will state directly what is in my mind,
my lips shall speak knowledge clearly;
4 For the spirit of God made me,
the breath of the Almighty keeps me alive.(A)
5 If you are able, refute me;
draw up your arguments and take your stand.
6 Look, I am like you before God,
I too was pinched from clay.[a](B)
7 Therefore fear of me should not dismay you,
nor should I weigh heavily upon you.
8 But you have said in my hearing,
as I listened to the sound of your words:
9 “I am clean, without transgression;
I am innocent, there is no guilt in me.(C)
10 Yet he invents pretexts against me
and counts me as an enemy.[b](D)
11 He puts my feet in the stocks,
watches all my paths!”(E)
12 In this you are not just, let me tell you;
for God is greater than mortals.
13 Why, then, do you make complaint against him
that he gives no reply to their words?(F)
14 For God does speak, once,
even twice, though you do not see it:[c]
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls upon mortals
as they slumber in their beds.
16 It is then he opens their ears
and with a warning, terrifies them,
17 By turning mortals from acting
and keeping pride away from a man,
18 He holds his soul from the pit,
his life from passing to the grave.
19 Or he is chastened on a bed of pain,
suffering continually in his bones,
20 So that to his appetite food is repulsive,
his throat rejects the choicest nourishment.(G)
21 His flesh is wasted, it cannot be seen;
bones, once invisible, appear;
22 His soul draws near to the pit,
his life to the place of the dead.
23 If then there be a divine messenger,[d]
a mediator, one out of a thousand,
to show him what is right,
24 He will take pity on him and say,
“Deliver him from going down to the pit;
I have found him a ransom.”
25 Then his flesh shall become soft as a boy’s;
he shall be again as in the days of his youth.
26 He shall pray and God will favor him;
he shall see God’s face with rejoicing;(H)
for he restores a person’s righteousness.
27 He shall sing before all and say,
“I sinned and did wrong,
yet I was not punished accordingly.
28 He delivered me from passing to the pit,
and my life sees light.”
29 See, all these things God does,
two, even three times, for a man,
30 Bringing back his soul from the pit
to the light, in the light of the living.
31 Be attentive, Job, listen to me!
Be silent and I will speak.
32 If you have anything to say, then answer me.
Speak out! I should like to see you justified.
33 If not, then you listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.
Footnotes
- 33:6 Pinched from clay: a reference to the tradition that human beings were made from clay; cf. Gn 2:7; Jb 10:9; Is 64:7.
- 33:10 Enemy: see note on 1:1; cf. 13:24.
- 33:14 Elihu asserts that God speaks through warning in dream and also through pain. However, his presupposition is that the restored person admits sinfulness (v. 27). This of course is not relevant to Job’s situation.
- 33:23 Divine messenger: or “angel,” one of the thousands who serve as mediators.
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