Job 23
Reina-Valera Antigua
23 Y RESPONDIO Job, y dijo:
2 Hoy también hablaré con amargura; Que es más grave mi llaga que mi gemido.
3 Quién me diera el saber dónde hallar á Dios! Yo iría hasta su silla.
4 Ordenaría juicio delante de él, Y henchiría mi boca de argumentos.
5 Yo sabría lo que él me respondería, Y entendería lo que me dijese.
6 ¿Pleitearía conmigo con grandeza de fuerza? No: antes él la pondría en mí.
7 Allí el justo razonaría con él: Y escaparía para siempre de mi juez.
8 He aquí yo iré al oriente, y no lo hallaré; Y al occidente, y no lo percibiré:
9 Si al norte él obrare, yo no lo veré; Al mediodía se esconderá, y no lo veré.
10 Mas él conoció mi camino: Probaráme, y saldré como oro.
11 Mis pies tomaron su rastro; Guardé su camino, y no me aparté.
12 Del mandamiento de sus labios nunca me separé; Guardé las palabras de su boca más que mi comida.
13 Empero si él se determina en una cosa, ¿quién lo apartará? Su alma deseó, é hizo.
14 El pues acabará lo que ha determinado de mí: Y muchas cosas como estas hay en él.
15 Por lo cual yo me espanto en su presencia: Consideraré, y temerélo.
16 Dios ha enervado mi corazón, Y hame turbado el Omnipotente.
17 ¿Por qué no fuí yo cortado delante de las tinieblas, Y cubrió con oscuridad mi rostro?
Job 23
New King James Version
Job Proclaims God’s Righteous Judgments
23 Then Job answered and said:
2 “Even today my (A)complaint is bitter;
[a]My hand is listless because of my groaning.
3 (B)Oh, that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!
4 I would present my case before Him,
And fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words which He would answer me,
And understand what He would say to me.
6 (C)Would He contend with me in His great power?
No! But He would take note of me.
7 There the upright could reason with Him,
And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
8 “Look,(D) I go forward, but He is not there,
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;
9 When He works on the left hand, I cannot behold Him;
When He turns to the right hand, I cannot see Him.
10 But (E)He knows the way that I take;
When (F)He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 (G)My foot has held fast to His steps;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
12 I have not departed from the (H)commandment of His lips;
(I)I have treasured the words of His mouth
More than my [b]necessary food.
13 “But He is unique, and who can make Him change?
And whatever (J)His soul desires, that He does.
14 For He performs what is (K)appointed for me,
And many such things are with Him.
15 Therefore I am terrified at His presence;
When I consider this, I am afraid of Him.
16 For God (L)made my heart weak,
And the Almighty terrifies me;
17 Because I was not (M)cut off [c]from the presence of darkness,
And He did not hide deep darkness from my face.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
