Ecclesiastes · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Ecclesiastes 9 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Reflexioné sobre todo esto y comprendí que los justos, los sabios y sus obras están en la mano de Dios. Los seres humanos no saben si les espera amor u odio; todo está por delante de ellos.
1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
2 Todos tienen el mismo destino: el justo y el malvado, el puro y el impuro, el que presenta una ofrenda y el que no la presenta. Al bueno le sucede lo mismo que al pecador, y al que hace un juramento, lo mismo que al que teme hacerlo.
2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
3 Hay una desgracia en todo lo que se hace bajo el sol: todos tienen el mismo destino. El corazón de los seres humanos está lleno de maldad y necedad mientras viven, y después van a reunirse con los muertos.
3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
4 Para el que sigue entre los vivos hay esperanza. Más vale un perro vivo que un león muerto.
4 For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 Los vivos saben que morirán, pero los muertos no saben nada. Ya no tienen recompensa, porque nadie los recuerda.
5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
6 Su amor, su odio y su envidia han terminado. Nunca más tendrán parte en nada de lo que se hace bajo el sol.
6 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
7 Ven, come tu pan con alegría y bebe tu vino con el corazón contento. Dios se ha complacido en tus obras.
7 Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
8 Lleva siempre ropa blanca, y que no falte aceite en tu cabeza.
8 Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.
9 Disfruta de la vida con la mujer que amas durante todos los días de tu vida fugaz, que Dios te da bajo el sol. Esa es la parte que te toca en la vida y en el trabajo que haces bajo el sol.
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
10 Todo lo que puedas hacer, hazlo con todas tus fuerzas, porque en el lugar de los muertos, adonde vas, no hay trabajo, pensamiento, conocimiento ni sabiduría.
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
11 También vi bajo el sol que los rápidos no reciben la recompensa, ni los fuertes los frutos de la guerra; tampoco los sabios tienen pan, ni los instruidos riquezas, ni los entendidos respeto. A todos les afectan el tiempo y los sucesos inesperados.
11 I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
12 Nadie sabe cuándo le llegará su hora. Como peces atrapados en una red peligrosa o aves atrapadas con engaño, así quedan atrapados los seres humanos cuando la desgracia les llega de repente.
12 For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
13 También vi bajo el sol este ejemplo de sabiduría, que me pareció admirable:
13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
14 Había una ciudad pequeña con pocos hombres. Un gran rey vino contra ella, la atacó y construyó obras de guerra a su alrededor.
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
15 En esa ciudad había un hombre pobre y sabio que la puso a salvo con su sabiduría. Sin embargo, nadie recordó a ese hombre pobre.
15 Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
16 Entonces dije: «La sabiduría es mejor que la fuerza, pero nadie respeta la sabiduría del pobre ni escucha sus palabras».
16 Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17 Se presta más atención a las palabras tranquilas de los sabios que a los gritos de un gobernante entre necios.
17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
18 La sabiduría es mejor que las armas de guerra, pero un solo pecador destruye mucho bien.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 33:3; John 10:27–30; Job 12:10; Ecclesiastes 8:14; 1 Peter 1:5
- 2 Malachi 3:18; Ecclesiastes 2:14–16; Job 9:22; Psalm 73:3; Malachi 3:5
- 3 Jeremiah 17:9; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Ecclesiastes 1:17; Job 15:16; Titus 3:3
- 4 Job 14:7–12; Isaiah 38:18; Luke 16:26–29; Lamentations 3:21–22; Job 27:8
- 5 Isaiah 26:14; Ecclesiastes 1:11; Psalm 6:5; Psalm 88:10–12; Hebrews 9:27
- 6 Psalm 146:3–4; Matthew 2:20; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Job 3:17–18; Ecclesiastes 2:18–23
- 7 Ecclesiastes 3:12–13; Deuteronomy 12:7; Ecclesiastes 10:19; Ecclesiastes 8:15; Ecclesiastes 2:24–26
- 8 Revelation 19:14; Revelation 3:4–5; Revelation 19:8; Revelation 7:13–14; Revelation 16:15
- 9 Proverbs 5:18–19; Ecclesiastes 2:10; Malachi 2:15; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 3:13
- 10 Colossians 3:23; Ephesians 5:16; Romans 12:11; Psalm 6:5; Ecclesiastes 11:6
- 11 Jeremiah 9:23; Proverbs 21:30–31; Lamentations 3:37–38; Job 5:11–14; Ecclesiastes 3:17
- 12 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Luke 21:34–36; Proverbs 6:15; Luke 12:20; Proverbs 29:6
- 13 Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 9:11
- 14 2 Samuel 20:15–22; 2 Kings 6:24–7:20
- 15 Ecclesiastes 4:13; Genesis 40:23; Esther 6:2–3; 2 Samuel 20:22; Ecclesiastes 2:16
- 16 Ecclesiastes 7:19; Proverbs 24:5; Proverbs 21:22; Mark 6:2–3; James 2:2–6
- 17 James 3:17–18; Proverbs 28:23; James 1:20; Isaiah 42:2; Genesis 41:33–40
- 18 Joshua 7:1; Joshua 7:11–12; Joshua 7:5; 2 Timothy 2:16–18; Ecclesiastes 9:16
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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… thy wine with a merry heart (that is, the spiritual wine); and let oil be poured out upon thy head (thou seest he alludes even to the mystic Chrism); and let thy garments be always white, for the Lord is well pleased with thy works; for before thou camest to Baptism, thy works were vanity of vanities.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
So, since no human voice is strong enough to be heard in such a disturbance, I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for if there is any truth in the words of the Preacher, "The words of wise men are heard in quiet," in the present condition of things any discussion of them must be anything but becoming.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)