Job 14
La Palabra (Hispanoamérica)
14 El ser humano, nacido de mujer,
es corto de días y largo de aflicciones;
2 como brote florece y se marchita,
huye como sombra pasajera.
3 ¿Y en uno así clavas los ojos
y lo llevas a juicio contigo?
4 ¡Nadie hará puro lo impuro!
5 Si sus días están ya contados,
si conoces el número de sus meses
(una frontera infranqueable),
6 deja de mirarlo y que descanse,
hasta que acabe sus días de jornalero.
7 Aunque un árbol sea talado,
tiene esperanza de retoñar,
de que no le faltarán renuevos.
8 Aunque sean viejas sus raíces soterradas,
aunque agonice su tocón en el polvo,
9 reverdece cuando siente el agua,
rebrota como una planta joven.
10 Pero el ser humano, al morir, desaparece;
cuando expira el mortal, ¿dónde está?
11 Como agua evaporada en un lago,
como río que se seca y aridece,
12 el ser humano se acuesta y no se levanta;
se desgastarán los cielos y no despertará,
nadie lo espabilará de su sueño.
13 ¡Ojalá me escondieras
en el reino de los muertos
oculto hasta que pase tu cólera!
¡Ojalá pusieras una fecha para acordarte de mí!
14 ¿Pero puede un muerto revivir?
¡Aguardaría todo el tiempo de mi milicia,
esperando que llegase mi relevo!
15 Llamarías y yo respondería,
añorarías la obra de tus manos.
16 Seguro que contarías mis pasos,
pero no vigilarías mis errores;
17 meterías mis delitos en un saco
y cubrirías con cal mis fallos.
18 Como monte que se hunde erosionado,
como riscos desplazados de su sitio,
19 como agua que desgasta las rocas
y avenida que arrastra la tierra,
así destruyes la esperanza del mortal.
20 Lo destrozas para siempre y se va,
lo desfiguras y lo haces desaparecer.
21 Si prosperan sus hijos, no lo sabe;
si se hunden en la miseria, ni se entera.
22 Sólo siente su propio dolor,
lamenta sólo su existencia.
Job 14
English Standard Version
Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All
14 “Man who is (A)born of a woman
is (B)few of days and (C)full of trouble.
2 He comes out like (D)a flower and (E)withers;
he flees like (F)a shadow and continues not.
3 And do you (G)open your eyes on such a one
and (H)bring me into judgment with you?
4 Who can bring (I)a clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one.
5 Since his (J)days are determined,
and (K)the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
6 (L)look away from him and leave him alone,[a]
that he may enjoy, like (M)a hired hand, his day.
7 “For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root grow old in the earth,
and (N)its stump die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out (O)branches like a young plant.
10 But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and (P)where is he?
11 (Q)As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
till (R)the heavens are no more he will not awake
or be (S)roused out of his sleep.
13 Oh that you would (T)hide me in (U)Sheol,
that you would (V)conceal me (W)until your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my (X)service I would (Y)wait,
till my renewal[b] should come.
15 You would (Z)call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the (AA)work of your hands.
16 For then you would (AB)number my steps;
you would not keep (AC)watch over my sin;
17 my transgression would be (AD)sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.
18 “But the mountain falls and (AE)crumbles away,
and (AF)the rock is removed from its place;
19 the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so you destroy the hope of man.
20 You prevail forever against him, and he passes;
you change his countenance, and send him away.
21 His sons come to honor, and he (AG)does not know it;
they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
22 He feels only the pain of his own body,
and he mourns only for himself.”
La Palabra, (versión hispanoamericana) © 2010 Texto y Edición, Sociedad Bíblica de España
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