| 1 Job respondió así: | 1 Then Job answered , and said: |
| 2 «¿Hasta cuándo pensáis atormentarme, | aplastándome con tanta palabrería? | 2 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words? |
| 3 Ya me habéis humillado diez veces, | me habéis atacado sin pudor. | 3 Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me. |
| 4 Aun en caso de haber pecado, | solo a mí afectaría mi culpa. | 4 For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me. |
| 5 Pero ya que queréis someterme | usando mi dolor como prueba, | 5 But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches. |
| 6 sabed que Dios me ha hecho daño, | que me ha copado en sus redes. | 6 At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges. |
| 7 Si grito “Violencia”, no oigo respuesta; | imploro “Socorro”, pero no hay justicia. | 7 Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge. |
| 8 Ha vallado mi camino para que no pase, | ha velado mi senda con densa oscuridad. | 8 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness. |
| 9 Me ha despojado de mi honor, | dejando mi cabeza sin corona. | 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head. |
| 10 Me socava por doquier y me deshago, | ha arrancado la raíz de mi esperanza. | 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up. |
| 11 Ha atizado su cólera contra mí, | me tiene como un enemigo. | 11 His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy. |
| 12 Sus tropas han venido en masa, | construyen terraplenes de ataque, | asedian mi tienda por doquier. | 12 His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. |
| 13 Ha alejado de mí a mis parientes, | mis conocidos me tienen por extraño; | 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. |
| 14 me abandonan vecinos e íntimos, | me olvidan los huéspedes de mi casa. | 14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me. |
| 15 Las siervas me tratan como a intruso, | me consideran igual que a un extraño. | 15 They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes. |
| 16 Llamo a mi siervo y no responde, | aunque se lo pida por favor. | 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth. |
| 17 Hasta mi vida repugna a mi esposa, | doy asco a mis propios hermanos. | 17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb. |
| 18 Incluso los niños me rechazan; | me levanto y me dan la espalda. | 18 Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me. |
| 19 Todos mis íntimos me aborrecen, | los más amigos se vuelven contra mí. | 19 They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me. |
| 20 Mis huesos se pegan a mi piel y a mi carne, | he escapado con la piel de mis dientes. | 20 The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth. |
| 21 ¡Piedad, piedad, amigos míos, | que me ha herido la mano de Dios! | 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me. |
| 22 ¿Por qué me perseguís como Dios | y no os hartáis de escarnecerme? | 22 Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh? |
| 23 ¡Ojalá se escribieran mis palabras! | ¡Ojalá se grabaran en cobre, | 23 Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book? |
| 24 con cincel de hierro y con plomo | se escribieran para siempre en la roca! | 24 With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone. |
| 25 Yo sé que mi redentor vive | y que al fin se alzará sobre el polvo: | 25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. |
| 26 después que me arranquen la piel, | ya sin carne, veré a Dios. | 26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God. |
| 27 Yo mismo lo veré, y no otro; | mis propios ojos lo verán. | ¡Tal ansia me consume por dentro! | 27 Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom. |
| 28 Cuando decís: “¿Cómo acosarlo, | qué pretexto hallaremos contra él?”, | 28 Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him? |
| 29 temblad entonces ante la espada | (pues vuestra cólera merece la espada) | y pensad que hay un juicio por llegar». | 29 Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment. |
