Job 15
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Y RESPONDIÓ Eliphaz Temanita, y dijo:
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
¿Si proferirá el sabio vana sabiduría, y henchirá su vientre de viento solano?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
¿Disputará con palabras inútiles, y con razones sin provecho?
4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
Tú también disipas el temor, y menoscabas la oración delante de Dios.
5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Porque tu boca declaró tu iniquidad, pues has escogido el hablar de los astutos.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.
Tu boca te condenará, y no yo; y tus labios testificarán contra ti.
7 Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
¿Naciste tú primero que Adam? ¿ó fuiste formado antes que los collados?
8 Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
¿Oíste tú el secreto de Dios, que detienes en ti solo la sabiduría?
9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
¿Qué sabes tú que no sepamos? ¿qué entiendes que no se halle en nosotros?
10 With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.
Entre nosotros también hay cano, también hay viejo mucho mayor en días que tu padre.
11 Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
¿En tan poco tienes las consolaciones de Dios? ¿tienes acaso alguna cosa oculta cerca de ti?
12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
¿Por qué te enajena tu corazón, y por qué guiñan tus ojos,
13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
Pues haces frente á Dios con tu espíritu, y sacas [tales] palabras de tu boca?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
¿Qué cosa es el hombre para que sea limpio, y que se justifique el nacido de mujer?
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
He aquí que en sus santos no confía, y ni los cielos son limpios delante de sus ojos:
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
¿Cuánto menos el hombre abominable y vil, que bebe la iniquidad como agua?
17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
Escúchame; yo te mostraré y te contaré lo que he visto:
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
(Lo que los sabios nos contaron de sus padres, y no lo encubrieron;
19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
A los cuales solos fué dada la tierra, y no pasó extraño por medio de ellos: )
20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Todos los días del impío, él es atormentado de dolor, y el número de años es escondido al violento.
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
Estruendos espantosos hay en sus oídos; en la paz le vendrá quien lo asuele.
22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
El no creerá que ha de volver de las tinieblas, y está mirando al cuchillo.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Desasosegado á comer siempre, sabe que le está aparejado día de tinieblas.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Tribulación y angustia le asombrarán, y esforzaránse contra él como un rey apercibido para la batalla.
25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
Por cuanto él extendió su mano contra Dios, y se esforzó contra el Todopoderoso,
26 He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:
El le acometerá en la cerviz, en lo grueso de las hombreras de sus escudos:
27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks.
Porque cubrió su rostro con su gordura, é hizo pliegues sobre los ijares;
28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
Y habitó las ciudades asoladas, las casas inhabitadas, que estaban puestas en montones.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth.
No enriquecerá, ni será firme su potencia, ni extenderá por la tierra su hermosura.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
No se escapará de las tinieblas: la llama secará sus ramos, y con el aliento de su boca perecerá.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.
No confíe el iluso en la vanidad; porque ella será su recompensa.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
El será cortado antes de su tiempo, y sus renuevos no reverdecerán.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
El perderá su agraz como la vid, y derramará su flor como la oliva.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Porque la sociedad de los hipócritas será asolada, y fuego consumirá las tiendas de soborno.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.
Concibieron dolor, y parieron iniquidad; y las entrañas de ellos meditan engaño.
