Job 23

Reina-Valera 1909

King James Version with Apocrypha

1Y RESPONDIÓ Job, y dijo:

1Then Job answered and said,

2Hoy también hablaré con amargura; que es más grave mi llaga que mi gemido.

2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

3¡Quién me diera el saber dónde hallar á Dios! yo iría hasta su silla.

3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

4Ordenaría juicio delante de él, y henchiría mi boca de argumentos.

4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

5Yo sabría lo que él me respondería, y entendería lo que me dijese.

5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

6¿Pleitearía conmigo con grandeza de fuerza? No: antes él la pondría en mí.

6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

7Allí el justo razonaría con él: y escaparía para siempre de mi juez.

7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

8He aquí yo iré al oriente, y no lo hallaré ; y al occidente, y no lo percibiré:

8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

9Si al norte él obrare, yo no lo veré; al mediodía se esconderá, y no lo veré.

9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

10Mas él conoció mi camino: probaráme, y saldré como oro.

10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

11Mis pies tomaron su rastro; guardé su camino, y no me aparté.

11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

12Del mandamiento de sus labios nunca me separé; guardé las palabras de su boca más que mi comida.

12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food .

13Empero si él se determina en una cosa, ¿quién lo apartará? Su alma deseó, é hizo.

13But he is in one mind , and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

14El pues acabará lo que ha determinado de mí: y muchas cosas como estas hay en él.

14For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

15Por lo cual yo me espanto en su presencia: consideraré, y temerélo.

15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

16Dios ha enervado mi corazón, y hame turbado el Omnipotente.

16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

17¿Por qué no fuí yo cortado delante de las tinieblas, y cubrió con oscuridad mi rostro?

17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

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