Job 2
1 Y otro día aconteció que vinieron los hijos de Dios para presentarse delante de Jehová, y vino también entre ellos Satanás, pareciendo delante de Jehová.
On another day, the angels came again and gathered together in front of Yahweh, and Satan came too.
2 Y dijo Jehová a Satanás: ¿De dónde vienes? Respondió Satanás a Jehová, y dijo: De rodear la tierra, y de andar por ella.
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 Y Jehová dijo a Satanás: ¿No has considerado a mi siervo Job, que no hay otro como él en la tierra, varón perfecto y recto, temeroso de Dios, y apartado de mal, y que aun retiene su perfección, habiéndome tú incitado contra él, para que le echase a perder sin causa?
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 Y respondiendo Satanás dijo a Jehová: Piel por piel, todo lo que el hombre tiene dará por 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 Mas extiende ahora tu mano, y toca a su hueso, y a su carne, y verás si no te blasfema en tu rostro.
But if you harm his body [MTY], he will surely curse you openly [IDM]!”
6 Y Jehová dijo a Satanás: He aquí, él está en tu mano; mas guarda su vida.
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 Y salió Satanás de delante de Jehová, e hirió a Job de una mala sarna desde la planta de su pie, hasta la mollera de su 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 Y tomaba una teja para rascarse con ella, y estaba sentado en medio de ceniza.
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 Y su mujer le decía: ¿Aun tú retienes tu simplicidad? 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 Y él le dijo: Como suele hablar cualquiera de las mujeres insensatas, hablas tú. Está bien: recibimos el bien de Dios, ¿y el mal no recibiremos? En todo esto no pecó Job con sus labios.
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 Y oyeron tres amigos de Job todo este mal que había venido sobre él: y vinieron cada uno de su lugar, Elifaz Temanita, y Baldad Suita, y Sofar Naamatita: porque habían concertado de venir juntos a condolecerse de él, y a consolarle.
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 Los cuales alzando los ojos desde lejos, no le conocieron, y lloraron a alta voz, y cada uno de ellos rompió su manto, y esparcieron polvo sobre sus cabezas hacia el cielo.
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 Y asentáronse con él en tierra siete días y siete noches, y ninguno le hablaba palabra, porque veían que el dolor era grande mucho.
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].
