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Dios no hace caso a los malvados

35 Elihú continuó su discurso:

¿Crees que es justo afirmar:
“Tengo razón contra Dios”?
O decir: “¿Qué más le da?
¿qué saco yo con no pecar?”.
Voy a responder a tus argumentos
y, de paso, a los de tus amigos.
Contempla atento el cielo,
fíjate en las nubes tan altas.
¿Qué mal le causas a Dios cuando pecas
o en qué le afectan tus numerosos delitos?
Si eres honrado, ¿qué le das
o qué recibe de tu mano?
Tu maldad afectaría a alguien como tú;
tu honradez, a los seres humanos.
La gente protesta bajo la dura opresión,
pide socorro ante el poder del tirano;
10 pero no dice: “¿Dónde está mi Hacedor,
que llena la noche de cantos de júbilo
11 y nos hace más sabios
que las bestias de la tierra,
más inteligentes que las aves del cielo?”.
12 Algunos protestan, pero no responde;
el orgullo de los malvados tiene la culpa.
13 Dios no escucha falsedades,
el Todopoderoso no hace ni caso.
14 Y menos cuando dices: “No lo veo,
le he expuesto mi causa y espero”.
15 Pero como su cólera no estalla
ni parece prestar atención al delito,
16 Job abre su boca y echa viento,
multiplicando palabras sin sentido.

35 Then Elihu said:

“Do you think this is just?
    You say, ‘I am in the right,(A) not God.’(B)
Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,[a]
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’(C)

“I would like to reply to you
    and to your friends with you.
Look up at the heavens(D) and see;
    gaze at the clouds so high above you.(E)
If you sin, how does that affect him?
    If your sins are many, what does that do to him?(F)
If you are righteous, what do you give to him,(G)
    or what does he receive(H) from your hand?(I)
Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,(J)
    and your righteousness only other people.(K)

“People cry out(L) under a load of oppression;(M)
    they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.(N)
10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,(O)
    who gives songs(P) in the night,(Q)
11 who teaches(R) us(S) more than he teaches[b] the beasts of the earth
    and makes us wiser than[c] the birds in the sky?’
12 He does not answer(T) when people cry out
    because of the arrogance(U) of the wicked.(V)
13 Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea;
    the Almighty pays no attention to it.(W)
14 How much less, then, will he listen
    when you say that you do not see him,(X)
that your case(Y) is before him
    and you must wait for him,(Z)
15 and further, that his anger never punishes(AA)
    and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.[d](AB)
16 So Job opens his mouth with empty talk;(AC)
    without knowledge he multiplies words.”(AD)

Footnotes

  1. Job 35:3 Or you
  2. Job 35:11 Or night, / 11 who teaches us by
  3. Job 35:11 Or us wise by
  4. Job 35:15 Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.