Job 2
1 Un día los seres celestiales vinieron a presentarse ante el Señor, y Satanás vino con ellos a presentarse al Señor.
But it happened that, on a certain day, when the sons of God had arrived and they stood before the Lord, Satan likewise arrived among them, and he stood in his sight.
2 El Señor le preguntó a Satanás: “¿Qué has estado haciendo?” “Viajando por la tierra, yendo de aquí para allá”, respondió Satanás.
So the Lord said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Answering, he said, “I have circled the land, and walked around in it.”
3 “¿Te has fijado en mi siervo Job?”, le preguntó el Señor. “No hay nadie como él en la tierra, un hombre íntegro que hace lo correcto, que respeta a Dios y evita el mal. Y él ha mantenido su integridad, aunque tú querías que lo perjudicara sin motivo”.
And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you not considered my servant, Job, that there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil, and still retaining his innocence? Yet you have stirred me against him, so that I would afflict him to no purpose.”
4 “¡Piel por piel!” Satanás replicó. “Un hombre renunciará a todo para salvar su vida.
Answering him, Satan said, “Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, he will give for his life.
5 Pero extiende tu mano y hiere sus huesos y su carne, y verás que definitivamente te maldecirá en tu cara”.
Yet send your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and then you will see whether or not he blesses you to your face.”
6 Entonces el Señor le dijo a Satanás: “Muy bien, tienes el poder de hacerle lo que quieras, pero no lo mates”.
Therefore, the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but even so, spare his life.”
7 Entonces Satanás salió de la presencia del Señor y le infligió a Job unas horribles llagas en la piel desde la planta de los pies hasta la parte superior de la cabeza.
And so, Satan departed from the face of the Lord and he struck Job with a very serious ulcer from the sole of the foot all the way to the crown of his head.
8 Job tomó un trozo de cerámica rota para rascarse mientras estaba sentado en las cenizas.
So he took a shard of earthenware and scraped the discharge, while sitting on a heap of refuse.
9 Su mujer le dijo: “¿Aún te aferras a tu integridad? Maldice a Dios y muérete”.
But his wife said to him, “Do you still continue in your simplicity? Bless God and die.”
10 Pero él le dijo: “¡Hablas como lo haría cualquier mujer insensata! ¿Debemos recibir sólo el bien de Dios, y no el mal?” A pesar de todo esto, Job no dijo nada pecaminoso.
He said to her, “You have spoken like one of the foolish wives. If we accepted good things from the hand of God, why should we not accept bad things?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.
11 Cuando tres de los amigos de Job se enteraron de todos los problemas que le habían ocurrido, cada uno de ellos salió de su casa: Elifaz el temanita, Bildad el suhita y Zofar el naamatita. Se reunieron y fueron a confortarlo y consolarlo.
And so, three friends of Job, hearing about all the evil that had befallen him, arrived, each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had agreed to come together to visit and console him.
12 Cuando vieron a Job de lejos, apenas lo reconocieron. Prorrumpieron en fuertes lamentos, se rasgaron las vestiduras y arrojaron polvo al aire sobre sus cabezas.
And when they had raised up their eyes from a distance, they did not recognize him, and, crying out, they wept, and, tearing their garments, they scattered dust over their heads into the sky.
13 Se sentaron en el suelo con él durante siete días y siete noches. Ninguno de ellos le dijo nada porque veían lo mucho que sufría.
And they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his sorrow was very great.
