Job 18

1 Y respondió Baldad Sujita, y dijo:

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

2 ¿Cuándo pondréis fin a las palabras? Entendéd, y después hablemos.

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

3 ¿Por qué somos tenidos por bestias? ¿en vuestros ojos, somos viles?

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

4 Oh tú que despedazas tu alma con tu furor, ¿será dejada la tierra por tu causa, y serán traspasadas las peñas de su lugar?

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

5 Ciertamente la luz de los impíos será apagada, y la centella de su fuego no resplandecerá.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

6 La luz se oscurecerá en su tienda, y su candil se apagará sobre él.

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

7 Los pasos de su potencia serán acortados, y su mismo consejo le echará a perder.

The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

8 Porque red será echada en sus pies, y sobre red andará.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

9 Lazo prenderá su calcañar: esforzará contra él a los sedientos.

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

10 Su cuerda está escondida en la tierra, y su orzuelo sobre la senda.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

11 De todas partes le asombrarán temores; y con sus mismos pies le ahuyentarán.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

12 Su fuerza será hambrienta, y a su costilla estará aparejado quebrantamiento.

His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

13 Comerá los ramos de su cuero, y el primogénito de la muerte tragará sus miembros.

The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

14 Su confianza será arrancada de su tienda, y le harán llevar al rey de los espantos.

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

15 En su misma tienda morará como si no fuese suya: piedrazufre será esparcida sobre su morada.

There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

16 Abajo se secarán sus raíces, y arriba serán cortados sus ramos.

His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

17 Su memoria perecerá de la tierra, y no tendrá nombre por las calles.

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

18 De la luz será lanzado a las tinieblas, y será echado del mundo.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

19 No tendrá hijo ni nieto en su pueblo, ni sucesor en sus moradas.

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

20 Sobre su día se espantarán los por venir, y a los antiguos tomarán pavor.

Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

21 Ciertamente tales son las moradas del impío, y este es el lugar del que no conoció a Dios.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”