Job 35
The Voice
35 Elihu continued advising.
2 Elihu: Job, is this your idea of justice,
that you would say, “My righteousness exceeds God’s”?
3 For you say something like, “What good does it do You if I do right?
What is in it for me if I don’t sin?”
4 I will return your words with my own,
and I will answer your friends with you.
5 Look at the skies above and take notice.
See how high the clouds are—they are so far above you!
6 Surely, if the clouds maintain such a distance,
one must wonder: how high up and far away is God?
If you sin, how much have you really accomplished against Him?
If you pile up your sins, if you stack them high, what does it do to Him?
7 Likewise, if you are righteous, what does that confer to Him,
or what gift does He receive from your outstretched hand of righteous generosity?
8 Listen! Your wickedness affects your own kind,
and your righteousness only helps other human beings.
9 People call out to God when they feel the crush of oppression.
They implore Him for deliverance from the strong hand of tyranny.
10 But none of them pleads in this way: “Where is God, my Creator,
who gives songs of comfort in the silence and suffering of night,
11 Who enlightens us more than the animals of the field,
who instructs us in wisdom more than the birds of the air?”
12 And so, in the absence of such prayers,
God does not answer the cries of the people
because they cry with the arrogance of the wicked.
13 Indeed, God does not hear the vain and empty cry,
nor does the Highest One[a] pay it any mind.
14 How much less must He hear you—
you who say you cannot see Him,[b]
You who say you have already pled your case before Him
but that you are still waiting for Him.
15 And now, here we are.
Because God has not been swift to punish in His anger,
because He does not concern Himself with great arrogance,[c]
16 Job opens his mouth and out comes empty talk.
Yes, he heaps up words with ignorance.
Job 35
La Biblia de las Américas
Eliú censura de nuevo a Job
35 Entonces continuó Eliú, y dijo:
2 ¿Piensas que esto es justo(A)?
Dices: «Mi justicia es más que la de Dios».
3 Porque dices: «¿Qué ventaja será para ti(B)?
¿Qué ganaré yo por no haber pecado(C)?».
4 Yo te daré razones,
y a tus amigos contigo.
5 Mira a los cielos(D) y ve,
contempla las nubes, son más altas que tú(E).
6 Si has pecado, ¿qué logras tú contra Él?
Y si tus transgresiones son muchas, ¿qué le haces(F)?
7 Si eres justo, ¿qué le das(G),
o qué recibe Él de tu mano?
8 Para un hombre como tú es tu maldad,
y para un hijo de hombre tu justicia.
9 A causa de la multitud de opresiones claman los hombres(H);
gritan a causa del brazo de los poderosos(I).
10 Pero ninguno dice: «¿Dónde está Dios mi Hacedor(J),
que inspira[a] cánticos en la noche(K),
11 que nos enseña(L) más que a las bestias de la tierra,
y nos hace más sabios que las aves de los cielos?».
12 Allí claman, pero Él no responde(M)
a causa del orgullo de los malos.
13 Ciertamente el clamor vano[b] no escuchará Dios,
el Todopoderoso[c] no lo tomará en cuenta(N).
14 Cuánto menos cuando dices que no le contemplas(O),
que la causa está delante de Él(P) y tienes que esperarle.
15 Y ahora, porque Él no ha castigado[d] con su ira,
ni se ha fijado bien en la transgresión[e],
16 Job abre vanamente su boca,
multiplica palabras sin sabiduría(Q).
Job 35
King James Version
35 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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