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Job 5
Reina-Valera 1960
Job 5
Reina-Valera 1960
5 Ahora, pues, da voces; ¿habrá quien te responda?
¿Y a cuál de los santos te volverás?
2 Es cierto que al necio lo mata la ira,
Y al codicioso lo consume la envidia.
3 Yo he visto al necio que echaba raíces,
Y en la misma hora maldije su habitación.
4 Sus hijos estarán lejos de la seguridad;
En la puerta serán quebrantados,
Y no habrá quién los libre.
5 Su mies comerán los hambrientos,
Y la sacarán de entre los espinos,
Y los sedientos beberán su hacienda.
6 Porque la aflicción no sale del polvo,
Ni la molestia brota de la tierra.
7 Pero como las chispas se levantan para volar por el aire,
Así el hombre nace para la aflicción.
8 Ciertamente yo buscaría a Dios,
Y encomendaría a él mi causa;
9 El cual hace cosas grandes e inescrutables,
Y maravillas sin número;
10 Que da la lluvia sobre la faz de la tierra,
Y envía las aguas sobre los campos;
11 Que pone a los humildes en altura,
Y a los enlutados levanta a seguridad;
12 Que frustra los pensamientos de los astutos,
Para que sus manos no hagan nada;
13 Que prende a los sabios en la astucia de ellos,(A)
Y frustra los designios de los perversos.
14 De día tropiezan con tinieblas,
Y a mediodía andan a tientas como de noche.
15 Así libra de la espada al pobre, de la boca de los impíos,
Y de la mano violenta;
16 Pues es esperanza al menesteroso,
Y la iniquidad cerrará su boca.
17 He aquí, bienaventurado es el hombre a quien Dios castiga;
Por tanto, no menosprecies la corrección del Todopoderoso.(B)
18 Porque él es quien hace la llaga, y él la vendará;
Él hiere, y sus manos curan.
19 En seis tribulaciones te librará,
Y en la séptima no te tocará el mal.
20 En el hambre te salvará de la muerte,
Y del poder de la espada en la guerra.
21 Del azote de la lengua serás encubierto;
No temerás la destrucción cuando viniere.
22 De la destrucción y del hambre te reirás,
Y no temerás de las fieras del campo;
23 Pues aun con las piedras del campo tendrás tu pacto,
Y las fieras del campo estarán en paz contigo.
24 Sabrás que hay paz en tu tienda;
Visitarás tu morada, y nada te faltará.
25 Asimismo echarás de ver que tu descendencia es mucha,
Y tu prole como la hierba de la tierra.
26 Vendrás en la vejez a la sepultura,
Como la gavilla de trigo que se recoge a su tiempo.
27 He aquí lo que hemos inquirido, lo cual es así;
Óyelo, y conócelo tú para tu provecho.
Job 5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Job 5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 5
1 Call now! Will anyone respond to you?
To which of the holy ones[a] will you turn?
2 Surely impatience kills the fool
and indignation slays the simpleton.
3 I have seen a fool spreading his roots,(A)
but I cursed his household suddenly:
4 May his children be far from safety;
may they be crushed at the gate[b] without a rescuer.
5 What they have reaped may the hungry eat up,
or God take away by blight,
or the thirsty swallow their substance.
6 For not from dust does mischief come,
nor from the soil does trouble sprout.
7 Human beings beget mischief
as sparks[c] fly upward.
8 In your place, I would appeal to God,
and to God I would state my plea.
9 [d]He does things great and unsearchable,
things marvelous and innumerable.
10 He gives rain upon the earth
and sends water upon the fields;
11 (B)He sets up the lowly on high,
and those who mourn are raised to safety.
12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning,
so that their hands achieve no success;
13 He catches the wise in their own ruses,(C)
and the designs of the crafty are routed.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime,
at noonday they grope as though it were night.
15 But he saves the poor from the sword of their mouth,[e]
from the hand of the mighty.
16 Thus the needy have hope,
and iniquity closes its mouth.
17 Happy the one whom God reproves!
The Almighty’s[f] discipline do not reject.
18 For he wounds, but he binds up;(D)
he strikes, but his hands give healing.
19 Out of six troubles he will deliver you,
and at the seventh[g] no evil shall touch you.
20 In famine he will deliver you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword;
21 From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden,
and you shall not fear approaching ruin.
22 At ruin and want you shall laugh;
the beasts of the earth, do not fear.
23 With the stones of the field shall your covenant be,
and the wild beasts shall be at peace with you.
24 And you shall know that your tent is secure;
taking stock of your household, you shall miss nothing.
25 You shall know that your descendants are many,
and your offspring like the grass of the earth.
26 You shall approach the grave in full vigor,
as a shock of grain comes in at its season.
27 See, this we have searched out; so it is!
This we have heard, and you should know.
Footnotes
- 5:1 Holy ones: members of the heavenly court; cf. 1:6 and note. They were viewed as heavenly intercessors.
- 5:4 At the gate: of the city, where justice was administered.
- 5:7 Sparks: in Hebrew, “sons of resheph,” which the ancient versions took as the name of a bird. Resheph was an underworld deity of plague, but the word also means “flames” in Sg 8:6.
- 5:9 Perhaps to be omitted here; it is a duplicate of 9:10.
- 5:15 From the sword of their mouth: the Hebrew is obscure.
- 5:17 Almighty: standard translation of Heb. Shaddai.
- 5:19 Six…the seventh: proverbial expression for any large number; cf. Prv 24:16; Lk 17:4.
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