Job 2
1 Otra vez hubo un día cuando los hijos de ʼElohim se presentaron ante Yavé, y Satán llegó con ellos a presentarse delante de Yavé.
Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
2 Yavé preguntó a Satán: ¿De dónde vienes? Y Satán respondió a Yavé: De rodear la tierra y andar por ella.
The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
3 Yavé preguntó a Satán: ¿No has considerado a mi esclavo Job, que no hay otro como él en la tierra, varón intachable, recto, temeroso de ʼElohim y apartado del mal, quien aún se aferra a su integridad a pesar de que me incitaste contra él para arruinarlo sin causa?
The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
4 Satán respondió a Yavé: ¡Piel por piel! Todo lo que el hombre tiene lo dará por su vida.
Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
5 Pero extiende ahora tu mano y toca sus huesos y su carne, y verás cómo te maldice en tu propia Presencia.
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
6 Yavé respondió a Satán: Ahí está en tu mano. Pero no toques su vida.
The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
7 Satán salió de la Presencia de Yavé e hirió a Job con una úlcera maligna desde la planta del pie hasta la coronilla.
So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
8 Estaba sentado en ceniza. Tomó un pedazo de vasija de barro y se rascaba con él.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
9 Entonces su esposa le dijo: ¿Aún te aferras a tu integridad? ¡Maldice a ʼElohim y muérete!
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
10 Pero él le respondió: Tú hablaste como suelen hablar las mujeres insensatas. Si recibimos el bien de ʼElohim, ¿no debemos aceptar también el mal? En todo esto Job no pecó con sus labios.
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11 Entonces tres amigos de Job, Elifaz temanita, Bildad suhita y Sofar naamatita, cuando oyeron acerca de todo este mal que le llegó, convinieron en ir juntos a él, cada uno de su lugar, para condolerse de él y consolarlo.
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
12 Pero cuando levantaron los ojos desde lejos y no pudieron reconocerlo, lloraron a gritos. Cada uno de ellos rasgó su ropa, y lanzaron polvo hacia el cielo sobre sus cabezas.
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
13 Estuvieron sentados con él en el suelo durante siete días y siete noches, sin hablarle una palabra, porque veían que su dolor era muy grande.
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
