Job 42
1 Entonces Job respondió al Señor.
Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
2 “Sé que puedes hacer cualquier cosa. Nadie puede impedirte hacer lo que quieras.
I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from 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.
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 Tú me dijiste: ‘Escúchame, voy a hablar. Voy a interrogarte y debes responderme’.
Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.
5 Antes sólo había oído hablar de ti, pero ahora te he visto con mis propios ojos.
By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.
6 Por eso me arrepiento de lo que he dicho, y me arrepiento en polvo y ceniza”.
Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers 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.
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 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”.
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 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 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 El Señor restauró la prosperidad de Job cuando éste oró por sus amigos, y le dio el doble de lo que tenía antes.
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 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.
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 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 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 Job también tenía siete hijos y tres hijas.
And he had 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 name of one, Daylight, and the name of the second, Cinnamon, and the name of the third, Horn of Cosmetics.
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, 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 140 años, viendo a sus hijos y a sus nietos. En realidad, cuatro generaciones.
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,
17 Entonces Job murió de vejez, habiendo vivido una vida muy plena.
and he died an old man and full of days.
