Job 16
Nueva Versión Internacional (Castilian)
Quinto discurso de Job
16 A esto, Job contestó:
2 «He escuchado muchas cosas como estas;
¡valiente consuelo el de[a] todos vosotros!
3 ¿No habrá fin a vuestras peroratas?
¿Qué os irrita tanto que seguís contendiendo?
4 ¡También yo podría hablar del mismo modo
si estuvierais vosotros en mi lugar!
¡También yo pronunciaría bellos discursos contra vosotros,
meneando con sarcasmo la cabeza!
5 ¡Os infundiría nuevos bríos con la boca;
os daría consuelo con los labios!
6 »Si hablo, mi dolor no disminuye;
si me callo, tampoco se me calma.
7 Ciertamente Dios me ha destruido;
ha exterminado[b] a toda mi familia.
8 Me tiene acorralado, y da testimonio contra mí;
mi deplorable estado se levanta y me condena.
9 »En su enojo, Dios me desgarra y me persigue;
rechina los dientes contra mí;
en mí clava su mirada mi adversario.
10 La gente se mofa de mí abiertamente;
burlones, me dan de bofetadas,
y todos juntos se ponen en mi contra.
11 Dios me ha entregado en manos de gente inicua;
me ha arrojado en las garras de los malvados.
12 Yo vivía tranquilo, pero él me destrozó;
me agarró por el cuello y me hizo pedazos;
¡me hizo blanco de sus ataques!
13 Sus arqueros me rodearon.
Sin piedad me perforaron los riñones,
y mi hiel se derramó por el suelo.
14 Abriéndome herida tras herida,
se lanzaron contra mí como un guerrero.
15 »El luto es parte de mi cuerpo;
en el polvo tengo enterrada la frente.[c]
16 De tanto llorar tengo enrojecida la cara,
profundas ojeras tengo en torno a los ojos;
17 pero mis manos están libres de violencia,
y es pura mi oración.
18 »¡Ah, tierra, no cubras mi sangre!
¡No dejes que se acalle mi clamor!
19 Ahora mismo tengo en los cielos un testigo;
en lo alto se encuentra mi abogado.
20 Mi intercesor es mi amigo,[d]
y ante él me deshago en lágrimas
21 para que interceda ante Dios en favor mío,
como quien apela por su amigo.
22 Pasarán solo unos cuantos años
antes de que yo emprenda el viaje sin regreso.
Job 16
New King James Version
Job Reproaches His Pitiless Friends
16 Then Job answered and said:
2 “I have heard many such things;
(A)Miserable[a] comforters are you all!
3 Shall [b]words of wind have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 I also could speak as you do,
If your soul were in my soul’s place.
I could heap up words against you,
And (B)shake my head at you;
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.
6 “Though I speak, my grief is not relieved;
And if I remain silent, how am I eased?
7 But now He has (C)worn me out;
You (D)have made desolate all my company.
8 You have shriveled me up,
And it is a (E)witness against me;
My leanness rises up against me
And bears witness to my face.
9 (F)He tears me in His wrath, and hates me;
He gnashes at me with His teeth;
(G)My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.
10 They (H)gape at me with their mouth,
They (I)strike me reproachfully on the cheek,
They gather together against me.
11 God (J)has delivered me to the ungodly,
And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but He has (K)shattered me;
He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces;
He has (L)set me up for His target,
13 His archers surround me.
He pierces my [c]heart and does not pity;
He pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with wound upon wound;
He runs at me like a [d]warrior.
15 “I have sewn sackcloth over my skin,
And (M)laid my [e]head in the dust.
16 My face is [f]flushed from weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Although no violence is in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, do not cover my blood,
And (N)let my cry have no resting place!
19 Surely even now (O)my witness is in heaven,
And my evidence is on high.
20 My friends scorn me;
My eyes pour out tears to God.
21 (P)Oh, that one might plead for a man with God,
As a man pleads for his [g]neighbor!
22 For when a few years are finished,
I shall (Q)go the way of no return.
Job 16
English Standard Version
Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You
16 Then Job answered and said:
2 “I have heard (A)many such things;
(B)miserable comforters are you all.
3 Shall (C)windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and (D)shake my head at you.
5 I could strengthen you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6 “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7 Surely now God has worn me out;
(E)he has[a] made desolate all my company.
8 And he has shriveled me up,
which is (F)a witness against me,
and my (G)leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
9 He has (H)torn me in his wrath (I)and hated me;
he has (J)gnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10 Men have (K)gaped at me with their mouth;
they have (L)struck me insolently on the cheek;
they (M)mass themselves together against me.
11 God gives me up to the ungodly
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his (N)target;
13 his (O)archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys (P)and does not spare;
he (Q)pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with (R)breach upon breach;
he (S)runs upon me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed (T)sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid (U)my strength (V)in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is (W)deep darkness,
17 although there is no (X)violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, (Y)cover not my blood,
and let my (Z)cry find no resting place.
19 Even now, behold, my (AA)witness is in heaven,
and he who testifies for me is (AB)on high.
20 My friends (AC)scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
21 that he would (AD)argue the case of a man with God,
as[b] a son of man does with his neighbor.
22 For when a few years have come
I shall go the way (AE)from which I shall not return.
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