Job 17
1 MI ALIENTO está corrompido, acórtanse mis días, y me está aparejado el sepulcro.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2 No hay conmigo sino escarnecedores, en cuya acrimonia se detienen mis ojos.
Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
3 Pon ahora, dame fianza para [litigar] contigo: ¿quién tocará ahora mi mano?
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?
4 Porque [á éstos] has tú escondido su corazón de inteligencia: por tanto, no [los] ensalzarás.
For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt them.
5 El que denuncia lisonjas á sus prójimos, los ojos de sus hijos desfallezcan.
He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
6 El me ha puesto por parábola de pueblos, y delante [de ellos] he sido como tamboril.
But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
7 Y mis ojos se oscurecieron de desabrimiento, y mis pensamientos todos son como sombra.
My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Los rectos se maravillarán de esto, y el inocente se levantará contra el hipócrita.
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.
9 No obstante, proseguirá el justo su camino, y el limpio de manos aumentará la fuerza.
Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
10 Mas volved todos vosotros, y venid ahora, que no hallaré entre vosotros sabio.
But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 Pasáronse mis días, fueron arrancados mis pensamientos, los designios de mi corazón.
My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 Pusieron la noche por día, y la luz se acorta delante de las tinieblas.
They change the night into day. The light, they say, is near to the darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, (Sheol h7585)
14 A la huesa tengo dicho: Mi padre eres tú; á los gusanos: Mi madre y mi hermana.
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
15 ¿Dónde pues estará ahora mi esperanza? y mi esperanza ¿quién la verá?
where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
