Job 20
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Reina-Valera 1909
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:
1Y RESPONDIÓ Sophar Naamathita, y dijo:
2Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me.
2Por cierto mis pensamientos me hacen responder, y por tanto me apresuro.
3I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, but out of my understanding my spirit answereth me.
3La reprensión de mi censura he oído, y háceme responder el espíritu de mi inteligencia.
4Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,
4¿No sabes esto que fué siempre, desde el tiempo que fué puesto el hombre sobre la tierra,
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
5Que la alegría de los impíos es breve, y el gozo del hipócrita por un momento?
6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
6Si subiere su altivez hasta el cielo, y su cabeza tocare en las nubes,
7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'
7Con su estiércol perecerá para siempre: los que le hubieren visto, dirán: ¿Qué es de él?
8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
8Como sueño volará, y no será hallado: y disiparáse como visión nocturna.
9The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
9El ojo que le habrá visto, nunca más le verá; ni su lugar le echará más de ver.
10His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.
10Sus hijos pobres andarán rogando; y sus manos tornarán lo que él robó.
11His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
11Sus huesos están llenos de sus mocedades, y con él serán sepultados en el polvo.
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
12Si el mal se endulzó en su boca, si lo ocultaba debajo de su lengua;
13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
13Si le parecía bien, y no lo dejaba, mas antes lo detenía entre su paladar;
14Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
14Su comida se mudará en sus entrañas, hiel de áspides será dentro de él.
15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
15Devoró riquezas, mas vomitarálas; de su vientre las sacará Dios.
16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
16Veneno de áspides chupará; matarálo lengua de víbora.
17He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.
17No verá los arroyos, los ríos, los torrentes de miel y de manteca.
18That which he laboured for shall he give back, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.
18Restituirá el trabajo conforme á la hacienda que tomó; y no tragará, ni gozará.
19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
19Por cuanto quebrantó y desamparó á los pobres, robó casas, y no las edificó;
20Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,
20Por tanto, no sentirá él sosiego en su vientre, ni salvará nada de lo que codiciaba.
21There was nothing left that he devoured not — therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
21No quedó nada que no comiese: por tanto su bien no será durable.
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; the hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.
22Cuando fuere lleno su bastimento, tendrá angustia: las manos todas de los malvados vendrán sobre él.
23It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh.
23Cuando se pusiere á henchir su vientre, Dios enviará sobre él el furor de su ira, y harála llover sobre él y sobre su comida.
24If he flee from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
24Huirá de las armas de hierro, y el arco de acero le atravesará.
25He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall; terrors are upon him.
25Desenvainará y sacará saeta de su aljaba, y relumbrante pasará por su hiel: sobre él vendrán terrores.
26All darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown by man shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tent.
26Todas tinieblas están guardadas para sus secretos: fuego no soplado lo devorará; su sucesor será quebrantado en su tienda.
27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
27Los cielos descubrirán su iniquidad, y la tierra se levantará contra él.
28The increase of his house shall depart, his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
28Los renuevos de su casa serán trasportados; serán derramados en el día de su furor.
29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
29Esta es la parte que Dios apareja al hombre impío, y la heredad que Dios le señala por su palabra.
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