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Domenica, 12 maggio 2024 - Santi Nereo e Achilleo ( Letture di oggi)

Job 42


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EL LIBRO DEL PUEBLO DE DIOSCATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Job respondió al Señor, diciendo:1 Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
2 Yo sé que tú lo puedes todo y que ningún proyecto es irrealizable para ti.2 I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you.
3 Sí, yo hablaba sin entender, de maravillas que me sobrepasan y que ignoro.3 So, who is it that would disguise a lack of knowledge as counsel? Therefore, I have been speaking foolishly, about things whose measure exceeds my knowledge.
4 «Escucha, déjame hablar; yo te interrogaré y tú me instruirás».4 Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.
5 Yo te conocía sólo de oídas, pero ahora te han visto mis ojos.5 By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.
6 Por eso me retracto, y me arrepiento en el polvo y la ceniza.6 Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.
7 Después de haber dirigido estas palabras a Job, el Señor dijo a Elifaz de Temán: «Mi ira se ha encendido contra ti y contra tus dos amigos, porque no han dicho la verdad acerca de mí, como mi servidor Job».7 But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done.
8 Ahora consíganse siete toros y siete carneros, y vayan a ver a mi servidor Job. Ofrecerán un holocausto por ustedes mismos, y mi servidor Job intercederá por ustedes. Y yo, en atención a él, no les infligiré ningún castigo humillante, por no haber dicho la verdad acerca de mí, como mi servidor Job.8 Therefore, have seven bulls and seven rams brought to you, and go to my servant Job, and offer these as a holocaust for yourselves. But also, my servant Job will pray for you; I will accept his face, so that foolishness will not be imputed to you. For you have not been speaking correctly about me, as my servant Job has done.
9 Entonces Elifaz de Temán, Bildad de Súaj y Sofar de Naamá fueron a hacer lo que les había dicho el Señor, y el Señor tuvo consideración con Job.9 So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite departed, and they did just as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job.
10 Después, el Señor cambió la suerte de Job, porque él había intercedido en favor de sus amigos, y duplicó todo lo que Job tenía.10 Likewise, the Lord was moved by the repentance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave to Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Todos sus hermanos y sus hermanas, lo mismo que sus antiguos conocidos, fueron a verlo y celebraron con él un banquete en su casa. Se compadecieron y lo consolaron por toda la desgracia que la había enviado el Señor. Y cada uno de ellos le regló una moneda de plata y un anillo de oro.11 Yet all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and everyone who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house. They also shook their heads over him and comforted him, because of all the bad things that God had inflicted on him. And each one of them gave him one female sheep, and one earring of gold.
12 El Señor bendijo los últimos años de Job mucho más que los primeros. El llegó a poseer catorce mil ovejas, seis mil camellos, mil yuntas de bueyes y mil asnas.12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job even more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.
13 Tuvo además siete hijos y tres hijas.13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.
14 A la primera la llamó «Paloma», a la segunda «Canela», y a la tercera «Sombra para los párpados».14 And he called the name of one, Daylight, and the name of the second, Cinnamon, and the name of the third, Horn of Cosmetics.
15 En todo el país no había mujeres tan hermosas como las hijas de Job. Y su padre les dio una parte de herencia entre sus hermanos.15 And, in the whole world, there were not found women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. And so their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 Después de esto, Job vivió todavía ciento cuarenta años, y vio a sus hijos y a los hijos de sus hijos, hasta la cuarta generación.16 But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to the fourth generation, and he died an old man and full of days.
17 Job murió muy anciano y colmado de días.