Ecclesiastes · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Ecclesiastes 4 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 So I returned, And saw all the oppressions That were done under the sun: And behold the tear of the oppressed, And they had no comforter; And on the side of them that oppressed them was power; But they had no comforter:
1 Y TORNÉME yo, y vi todas las violencias que se hacen debajo del sol: y he aquí las lágrimas de los oprimidos, y sin tener quien los consuele; y la fuerza estaba en la mano de sus opresores, y para ellos no había consolador.
2 And I praised all the dead that had already died More than the living, As many as are alive until now.
2 Y alabé yo los finados que ya murieron, más que los vivientes que hasta ahora están vivos.
3 Better also than both these Is he who has not yet been, Who has not seen all the evil work That is done under the sun.
3 Y [tuve] por mejor que unos y otros al que no ha sido aún, que no ha visto las malas obras que debajo del sol se hacen.
4 And I saw all labor, And all the diligent work, That this is a man’s envy from his neighbor. This is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.
4 Visto he asimismo que todo trabajo y toda excelencia de obras mueve la envidia del hombre contra su prójimo. También esto es vanidad y aflicción de espíritu.
5 The fool folds his hands together, And eats his own flesh.
5 El necio dobla sus manos y come su carne.
6 Better is a handful of rest Than two handfuls of trouble And waywardness of spirit.
6 Mas vale el un puño lleno con descanso, que ambos puños llenos con trabajo y aflicción de espíritu.
7 So I returned, and saw vanity under the sun.
7 Yo me torné otra vez, y vi vanidad debajo del sol.
8 There is one [alone], and there is not a second; Yea, he has neither son nor brother: Yet there is no end to all his labor; Neither is his eye satisfied with wealth; And for whom do I labor, And deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, And an evil trouble.
8 Está un hombre solo y sin sucesor; que ni tiene hijo ni hermano; mas nunca cesa de trabajar, ni sus ojos se hartan de sus riquezas, [ni se pregunta]: ¿Para quién trabajo yo, y defraudo mi alma del bien? También esto es vanidad, y duro trabajo.
9 Two [are] better than one, [Seeing] they have a good reward for their labor.
9 Mejores son dos que uno; porque tienen mejor paga de su trabajo.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: But woe to him that is alone when he falls, And there is not a second to lift him up.
10 Porque si cayeren, el uno levantará á su compañero: mas ¡ay del solo! que cuando cayere, no habrá segundo que lo levante.
11 Also if two should lie together, they also get heat: But how shall one be warmed [alone]?
11 También si dos durmieren juntos, se calentarán; mas ¿cómo se calentará uno [solo]?
12 And if one should prevail against [him], The two shall withstand him; And a threefold cord shall not be quickly broken.
12 Y si alguno prevaleciere contra el uno, dos estarán contra él; y cordón de tres dobleces no presto se rompe.
13 Better is a poor and wise child Than an old and foolish king, Who knows not how to take heed any longer.
13 Mejor es el muchacho pobre y sabio, que el rey viejo y fatuo que no sabe ser aconsejado.
14 For he shall come forth out of the house of the prisoners to reign, Because [he] also that was in his kingdom has become poor.
14 Porque de la cárcel salió para reinar; mientras el nacido en su reino se hizo pobre.
15 I beheld all the living Who were walking under the sun, With the second youth Who shall stand up in each one’s place.
15 Vi todos los vivientes debajo del sol caminando con el muchacho sucesor, que estará en lugar de aquél.
16 There is no end to all the people, To all who were before them: And the last shall not rejoice in him: For this also is vanity and waywardness of spirit.
16 No tiene fin todo el pueblo que fué antes de ellos: tampoco los que vendrán después estarán con él contentos. Y esto es también vanidad y aflicción de espíritu.
17 Keep thy foot, whensoever thou goest to the house of God; And [when thou art] near to hear, Let thy sacrifice [be] better than the gift of fools: For they know not that they are doing evil.
17 Not in this translation
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Isaiah 5:7; 2 Timothy 4:16–17; Isaiah 51:23
- 2 Job 3:11–26; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 9:4–6
- 3 Luke 23:29; Matthew 24:19; Ecclesiastes 6:3–5; Job 10:18–19; Jeremiah 9:2–3
- 4 1 John 3:12; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:21; Ecclesiastes 2:26; 1 Samuel 18:29–30
- 5 Isaiah 9:20; Proverbs 6:10–11; Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 20:4; Job 13:14
- 6 Proverbs 16:8; Proverbs 15:16–17; Psalm 37:16; Proverbs 17:1
- 7 Ecclesiastes 4:1; Psalm 78:33; Zechariah 1:6
- 8 1 John 2:16; Proverbs 27:20; Luke 12:20; Ecclesiastes 1:8; Matthew 11:28
- 9 Proverbs 27:17; Genesis 2:18; 1 Corinthians 12:18–21; Numbers 11:14; Mark 6:7
- 10 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; Galatians 6:1; Isaiah 35:3–4; Job 4:3–4
- 11 1 Kings 1:1–4
- 12 Ephesians 4:3; Daniel 3:16–17
- 13 Proverbs 19:1; 2 Chronicles 25:16; 2 Chronicles 16:9–10; Proverbs 28:15–16; 1 Kings 22:8
- 14 Psalm 113:7–8; Genesis 41:14; Job 5:11; Lamentations 4:20; Genesis 41:33–44
- 15 2 Samuel 15:6
- 16 Ecclesiastes 1:14; 1 Kings 1:40; Ecclesiastes 2:17; 2 Samuel 15:12–13; 1 Kings 1:5–7
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