Job 27

1Job prosiguió su exposición, diciendo:

2“Por la vida de Dios, quien no me hace justicia, y por la vida del Todopoderoso, que ha colmado de amargura mi alma.

3Mientras en mí quede mi espíritu, y el soplo de Dios en mis narices,

4mis labios no hablarán falsedad, ni mi lengua proferirá mentira.

5Lejos de mí daros la razón, hasta que fallezca defenderé mi inocencia.

6Sostengo mi justicia, y no cederé; mi conciencia no condena a ninguno de mis días.

7Sea tratado como malvado mi enemigo, y mi adversario, como perverso.

8Pues ¿cuál es la esperanza del hipócrita, cuando Dios le corta la vida, y le arranca el alma?

9¿Acaso Dios oirá sus gritos cuando le sobrevenga la angustia?

10¿Podrá deleitarse en el Omnipotente, invocar a Dios en todo tiempo?

11Os mostraré la conducta de Dios; no ocultaré los planes del Todopoderoso.

12Si todos vosotros lo habéis visto, ¿por qué os agotáis en vanos discursos?

13Esta es la suerte que Dios reserva al malvado, y la herencia de los violentos de parte del Todopoderoso:

14Si tiene muchos hijos, es para la espada, y sus nietos nunca se hartan de pan.

15Sus sobrevivientes serán sepultados por la muerte, y sus viudas no los llorarán.

16Aunque amontone plata como tierra, y como lodo acumule vestidos,

17el los prepara, pero se vestirá de ellos el justo, y el inocente poseerá su plata.

18La casa que él hace es como la de la polilla, como la cabaña que construye el guarda campo.

19Se acuesta rico, y no se levanta más, abre sus ojos y deja de existir.

20Cual diluvio caen sobre él terrores, le arrastra un torbellino nocturno.

21Le arrebata el solano, y se va; le arranca de su lugar a manera de un huracán.

22Pues Él se le echa encima sin piedad. Busca cómo escaparse de sus manos;

23pero se baten las manos sobre él, y le silbarán echándolo de su propio lugar.”

1Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit:

2[Vivit Deus, qui abstulit judicium meum, et Omnipotens, qui ad amaritudinem adduxit animam meam.

3Quia donec superest halitus in me, et spiritus Dei in naribus meis,

4non loquentur labia mea iniquitatem, nec lingua mea meditabitur mendacium.

5Absit a me ut justos vos esse judicem: donec deficiam, non recedam ab innocentia mea.

6Justificationem meam, quam cœpi tenere, non deseram: neque enim reprehendit me cor meum in omni vita mea.

7Sit ut impius, inimicus meus, et adversarius meus quasi iniquus.

8Quæ est enim spes hypocritæ, si avare rapiat, et non liberet Deus animam ejus?

9Numquid Deus audiet clamorem ejus, cum venerit super eum angustia?

10aut poterit in Omnipotente delectari, et invocare Deum omni tempore?

11Docebo vos per manum Dei quæ Omnipotens habeat, nec abscondam.

12Ecce vos omnes nostis: et quid sine causa vana loquimini?

13Hæc est pars hominis impii apud Deum, et hæreditas violentorum, quam ob Omnipotente suscipient.

14Si multiplicati fuerint filii ejus, in gladio erunt, et nepotes ejus non saturabuntur pane:

15qui reliqui fuerint ex eo sepelientur in interitu, et viduæ illius non plorabunt.

16Si comportaverit quasi terram argentum, et sicut lutum præparaverit vestimenta:

17præparabit quidem, sed justus vestietur illis, et argentum innocens dividet.

18Ædificavit sicut tinea domum suam, et sicut custos fecit umbraculum.

19Dives, cum dormierit, nihil secum auferet: aperiet oculos suos, et nihil inveniet.

20Apprehendet eum quasi aqua inopia: nocte opprimet eum tempestas.

21Tollet eum ventus urens, et auferet, et velut turbo rapiet eum de loco suo.

22Et mittet super eum, et non parcet: de manu ejus fugiens fugiet.

23Stringet super eum manus suas, et sibilabit super illum, intuens locum ejus.]

1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

3As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

4My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

6My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

7Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

9Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

10Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

11I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?

13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

14If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

15They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

16If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

17He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

18He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

19The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

20Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.

21A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

22And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.

23He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.