Job 23

Then answered Job, and said,

Y RESPONDIÓ Job, y dijo:

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job answered,

Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans.

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

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

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me.

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

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

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

Would he with his power contend against me? he would truly not lay such doings to my charge.

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

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

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

There would an upright one argue with him; and I should be allowed to escape for ever by my judge.

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

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

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

But, lo, I go eastward––and he is not there; and to the west–– and I cannot perceive him;

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

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

“If I go east, he is not there. If I go west, I can’t find him.

When he doth great things at the north, I behold him not; he hideth himself in the south––and I see him not.

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

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

He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.

But he knoweth the way that I take: were he to probe me, I should come forth as gold.

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

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

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

On his steps my foot hath held fast: his way have I kept, and swerved not.

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

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

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth.

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

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

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

But he is unchangeably one, and who can turn him? And what his will desireth, even that he doth.

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

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

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

For he will bring to completion what hath been destined for me: and like these hath he many other things with him.

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

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

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

Therefore am I terrified at his presence: I will reflect, and be in dread of him.

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

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

Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

Still God hath made timid my heart, and the Almighty hath terrified me;

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

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

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Because I was not destroyed before this darkness, and because he hath not hidden from my face this gloom.

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

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

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.