Job 42

1 Entonces Job respondió al Señor.

Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

2 “Sé que puedes hacer cualquier cosa. Nadie puede impedirte hacer lo que quieras.

I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you.

3 Tú preguntaste: ‘¿Quién es el que cuestiona mi sabiduría hablando con tanta ignorancia?’ Hablaba de cosas que no entendía, cosas demasiado maravillosas para que yo las supiera.

For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

4 Tú me dijiste: ‘Escúchame, voy a hablar. Voy a interrogarte y debes responderme’.

But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.

5 Antes sólo había oído hablar de ti, pero ahora te he visto con mis propios ojos.

I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you.

6 Por eso me arrepiento de lo que he dicho, y me arrepiento en polvo y ceniza”.

Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

7 Cuando el Señor terminó de hablar con Job, dijo a Elifaz el temanita: “Estoy enojado contigo y con tus dos amigos porque no han dicho la verdad sobre mí, como hizo mi siervo Job.

And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].

8 Tomen, pues, siete toros y siete carneros y vayan donde mi siervo Job, y ofrezcan un holocausto por ustedes. Mi siervo Job orará a favor de ustedes y yo aceptaré su oración y no trataré con ustedes conforme a su insensatez, porque no han dicho la verdad sobre mí, como sí lo hizo mi siervo Job”.

Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

9 Así que Elifaz el temanita, Bildad el suhita y Zofar el naamatita hicieron lo que el Señor les ordenó, y el Señor aceptó la oración de Job.

So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

10 El Señor restauró la prosperidad de Job cuando éste oró por sus amigos, y le dio el doble de lo que tenía antes.

And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.

11 Entonces todos sus hermanos y amigos que había conocido antes vinieron y comieron con él en su casa. Le mostraron su simpatía y lo consolaron por todos los problemas que el Señor le había causado. Cada uno de ellos le dio dinero y un anillo de oro.

And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachmas' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].

12 El Señor bendijo la última parte de la vida de Job más que la primera. Ahora era dueño de 14.000 ovejas, 6.000 camellos, 1.000 yuntas de bueyes y 1.000 asnas.

And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

13 Job también tenía siete hijos y tres hijas.

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

14 Job llamó a la primera hija Jemima, a la segunda Cesia y a la tercera Keren-Hapuc.

And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn.

15 En ningún lugar de la tierra había mujeres tan hermosas como las hijas de Job, y éste les dio la misma herencia que a sus hermanos.

And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance amongst their brethren.

16 Después de esto, Job vivió 140 años, viendo a sus hijos y a sus nietos. En realidad, cuatro generaciones.

And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

17 Entonces Job murió de vejez, habiendo vivido una vida muy plena.

And Job died, an old man and full of days.