Job 2
1 Y otro día aconteció que vinieron los hijos de Dios para presentarse delante del SEÑOR, y vino también entre ellos Satanás compareciendo delante del SEÑOR.
On another day, the angels came again and gathered together in front of Yahweh, and Satan came too.
2 Y dijo el SEÑOR a Satanás: ¿De dónde vienes? Respondió Satanás al SEÑOR, 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 el SEÑOR 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 aún retiene su perfección, habiéndome tú incitado contra él, para que lo arruinara 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 al SEÑOR: Piel por piel, todo lo que el hombre tiene dará por su alma.
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 tócalo a él mismo, 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 el SEÑOR 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 del SEÑOR, e hirió a Job de una maligna sarna desde la planta de su pie hasta la coronilla 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 Entonces le dijo su mujer: ¿Aún retienes tu simplicidad? Blasfema 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 locas, has hablado. Está bien: recibimos el bien de Dios, ¿y el mal no lo 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 tres amigos de Job, Elifaz temanita, y Bildad suhita, y Zofar naamatita, luego que oyeron todo este mal que le había sobrevenido, vinieron cada uno de su lugar; porque habían concertado de venir juntos a condolerse 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 lo conocieron, y lloraron a voz en grito; y cada uno de ellos rasgó 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 Así se sentaron con él en tierra por siete días y siete noches, y ninguno le hablaba palabra, porque veían que el dolor era muy grande.
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].
