Job 23

1 Y RESPONDIÓ Job, y dijo:

Then Job answered and said,

2 Hoy también hablaré con amargura; que es más grave mi llaga que mi gemido.

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

3 ¡Quién me diera el saber dónde hallar á Dios! yo iría hasta su silla.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

4 Ordenaría juicio delante de él, y henchiría mi boca de argumentos.

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

5 Yo sabría lo que él me respondería, y entendería lo que me dijese.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

6 ¿Pleitearía conmigo con grandeza de fuerza? No: antes él la pondría en mí.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

7 Allí el justo razonaría con él: y escaparía para siempre de mi juez.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

8 He aquí yo iré al oriente, y no lo [hallaré]; y al occidente, y no lo percibiré:

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

9 Si al norte él obrare, yo no lo veré; al mediodía se esconderá, y no lo veré.

On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

10 Mas él conoció mi camino: probaráme, y saldré como oro.

But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

11 Mis pies tomaron su rastro; guardé su camino, y no me aparté.

My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

12 Del mandamiento de sus labios nunca me separé; guardé las palabras de su boca más que mi comida.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

13 Empero si él [se determina] en una cosa, ¿quién lo apartará? Su alma deseó, é hizo.

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.

14 El pues acabará lo que ha determinado de mí: y muchas cosas como estas hay en él.

For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

15 Por lo cual yo me espanto en su presencia: consideraré, y temerélo.

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

16 Dios ha enervado mi corazón, y hame turbado el Omnipotente.

For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:

17 ¿Por qué no fuí yo cortado delante de las tinieblas, y cubrió con oscuridad mi rostro?

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.