Job 27:13-23

Tercer discurso de Zofar

13 «Esta es la herencia que Diostiene reservada para los malvados;esta es la herencia que los desalmadosrecibirán del Todopoderoso:

14 No importa cuántos hijos tengan,la espada los aguarda;jamás sus pequeños comerán hasta saciarse.

15 La muerte sepultará a quienes les sobrevivan;sus viudas no llorarán por ellos.

16 Y aunque amontonen plata como polvo,y apilen vestidos como arcilla,

17 será el justo quien se ponga esos vestidos,y el inocente quien reparta esa plata.

18 Las casas que construyen parecen larvas de polilla,parecen cobertizo de vigilancia.

19 Se acuestan siendo ricos, pero por última vez:cuando despiertan, sus riquezas se han esfumado.

20 Les sobreviene un diluvio de terrores;la tempestad los arrebata por la noche.

21 El viento del este se los lleva, y desaparecen;los arranca del lugar donde viven.

22 Se lanza contra ellos sin clemencia,mientras ellos tratan de huir de su poder.

23 Agita las manos y aplaude burlón;entre silbidos, los arranca de su lugar».

Job 27:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 27

Though Job's friends were become silent, and dropped the controversy with him, he still continued his discourse in this and the four following chapters; in which he asserts his integrity; illustrates and confirms his former sentiments; gives further proof of his knowledge of things, natural and divine; takes notice of his former state of prosperity, and of his present distresses and afflictions, which came upon him, notwithstanding his piety, humanity, and beneficence, and his freedom from the grosser acts of sin, both with respect to God and men, all which he enlarges upon. In this chapter he gives his word and oath for it, that he would never belie himself, and own that he was an hypocrite, when he was not, but would continue to assert his integrity, and the righteousness of his cause, as long as he lived, Job 27:1-6; for to be an hypocrite, and to attempt to conceal his hypocrisy, would be of no advantage to him, either in life, or in death, Job 27:7-10; and was this his character and case, upon their principles, he could expect no other than to be a miserable man, as wicked men are, who have their blessings turned into curses, or taken away from them, and they removed out of the world in the most awful and terrible manner, and under manifest tokens of the wrath and displeasure of God, Job 27:11-23.