Job 2
1 Un día los seres celestiales vinieron a presentarse ante el Señor, y Satanás vino con ellos a presentarse al Señor.
On another day, the angels came again and gathered together in front of Yahweh, and Satan came too.
2 El Señor le preguntó a Satanás: “¿Qué has estado haciendo?” “Viajando por la tierra, yendo de aquí para allá”, respondió Satanás.
Yahweh asked Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan replied, “I have come from the earth, where I have been traveling back and forth, seeing what is happening.”
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”.
Yahweh asked Satan, “Have you (noticed/thought about) my [faithful] servant Job? He is very godly/righteous [DOU], he greatly respects/reveres me, and he [always] avoids doing evil things. And he still acts in a very godly/righteous manner, even though you persuaded me to [let you] cause disastrous things to happen to him for no reason.”
4 “¡Piel por piel!” Satanás replicó. “Un hombre renunciará a todo para salvar su vida.
Satan replied to Yahweh, “He praises you only because you bless him [IDM]. People will give up everything they have to save their own lives.
5 Pero extiende tu mano y hiere sus huesos y su carne, y verás que definitivamente te maldecirá en tu cara”.
But if you harm his body [MTY], he will surely curse you openly [IDM]!”
6 Entonces el Señor le dijo a Satanás: “Muy bien, tienes el poder de hacerle lo que quieras, pero no lo mates”.
Yahweh replied to Satan, “(All right/Okay), you may do to him whatever you want to do, but do not cause him to die.”
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.
So Satan left, and he caused Job to be afflicted with very painful boils, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
8 Job tomó un trozo de cerámica rota para rascarse mientras estaba sentado en las cenizas.
Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped the boils on his skin, and he sat in ashes [as people did when they were mourning for those who had died].
9 Su mujer le dijo: “¿Aún te aferras a tu integridad? Maldice a Dios y muérete”.
His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to (be loyal to/faithfully trust in) God? You should curse God, and then you will 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.
But Job replied, “You talk like people who do not know God talk. (Should we accept only the good things that God [does for us]?/We should not accept only the good things that God [does for us].) [RHQ] We should also accept bad things.” So in spite of all these [things that happened to] Job, [he] did not say anything against God.
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.
Among Job’s friends were Eliphaz from Teman [town], Bildad from Shuah [land] and Zophar from Naamah [land]. When they heard about all the terrible things that had happened to Job, they left their home areas and went together to Job to console/comfort him [DOU].
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.
When they saw Job from a distance, they almost did not recognize him. They wailed loudly, they tore their robes, and they threw dust over their heads [to show how sorry they were because of what had happened to Job].
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.
Then they sat on the ground with Job for seven days. None of them said anything to Job, because they saw that he was suffering greatly, [and they did not think that anything that they said would lessen his pain].
