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Proverbs 8 Catholic Public Domain Version
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 Does not wisdom call out, and prudence bestow her voice?
1 ¿NO clama la sabiduría, y da su voz la inteligencia?
2 At the summits and the tops of exalted places, standing above the ways, in the midst of the paths,
2 En los altos cabezos, junto al camino, á las encrucijadas de las veredas se para;
3 beside the gates of the city, at the very doors, she speaks, saying:
3 En el lugar de las puertas, á la entrada de la ciudad, á la entrada de las puertas da voces:
4 “O men, to you I call out, and my voice is to the sons of men.
4 Oh hombres, á vosotros clamo; y mi voz es á los hijos de los hombres.
5 O little ones, understand discernment. And you who are unwise, turn your souls.
5 Entended, simples, discreción; y vosotros, locos, entrad en cordura.
6 Listen, for I will speak about great things, and my lips will be opened, so as to foretell what is right.
6 Oid, porque hablaré cosas excelentes; y abriré mis labios para cosas rectas.
7 My throat shall practice truth, and my lips shall detest the impious.
7 Porque mi boca hablará verdad, y la impiedad abominan mis labios.
8 All my words are just. There is no depravity in them, and no perversity.
8 En justicia son todas las razones de mi boca; no hay en ellas cosa perversa ni torcida.
9 They are upright to those who understand, and equitable to those who discover knowledge.
9 Todas ellas son rectas al que entiende, y razonables á los que han hallado sabiduría.
10 Accept my discipline, and not money. Choose the doctrine that is greater than gold.
10 Recibid mi enseñanza, y no plata; y ciencia antes que el oro escogido.
11 For wisdom is better than all that is most precious, and everything that is desirable cannot compare to her.
11 Porque mejor es la sabiduría que las piedras preciosas; y todas las cosas que se pueden desear, no son de comparar con ella.
12 I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and I am inside learned thoughts.
12 Yo, la sabiduría, habito con la discreción, y hallo la ciencia de los consejos.
13 The fear of the Lord hates evil. I detest arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.
13 El temor de Jehová es aborrecer el mal; la soberbia y la arrogancia, y el mal camino y la boca perversa, aborrezco.
14 Counsel is mine, and equity. Prudence is mine. Strength is mine.
14 Conmigo está el consejo y el ser; yo soy la inteligencia; mía es la fortaleza.
15 Through me, kings reign and legislators decree just conditions.
15 Por mí reinan los reyes, y los príncipes determinan justicia.
16 Through me, princes rule and the powerful decree justice.
16 Por mí dominan los príncipes, y todos los gobernadores juzgan la tierra.
17 I love those who love me. And those who stand watch for me until morning shall discover me.
17 Yo amo á los que me aman; y me hallan los que madrugando me buscan.
18 With me, are wealth and glory, superb riches and justice.
18 Las riquezas y la honra están conmigo; sólidas riquezas, y justicia.
19 For my fruit is better than gold and precious stones, and my progeny better than choice silver.
19 Mejor es mi fruto que el oro, y que el oro refinado; y mi rédito [mejor] que la plata escogida.
20 I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
20 Por vereda de justicia guiaré, por en medio de sendas de juicio;
21 so that I may enrich those who love me, and thus complete their treasures.
21 Para hacer heredar á mis amigos el ser, y que yo hincha sus tesoros.
22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything, from the beginning.
22 Jehová me poseía en el principio de su camino, ya de antiguo, antes de sus obras.
23 I was ordained from eternity, and out of antiquity, before the earth was formed.
23 Eternalmente tuve el principado, desde el principio, antes de la tierra.
24 The abyss did not yet exist, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters yet erupted.
24 Antes de los abismos fuí engendrada; antes que fuesen las fuentes de las muchas aguas.
25 The mountains, with their great mass, had not yet been established. Before the hills, I was brought forth.
25 Antes que los montes fuesen fundados, antes de los collados, era yo engendrada:
26 Still he had not made the earth, and the rivers, and the poles of the globe of the earth.
26 No había aún hecho la tierra, ni las campiñas, ni el principio del polvo del mundo.
27 I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;
27 Cuando formaba los cielos, allí estaba yo; cuando señalaba por compás la sobrefaz del abismo;
28 when he made firm the sky above, and set free the fountains of waters;
28 Cuando afirmaba los cielos arriba, cuando afirmaba las fuentes del abismo;
29 when he encompassed the sea within its limits, and laid down a law for the waters, lest they transgress their limits; when he weighed the foundations of the earth.
29 Cuando ponía á la mar su estatuto, y á las aguas, que no pasasen su mandamiento; cuando establecía los fundamentos de la tierra;
30 I was with him in composing all things. And I was delighted, throughout every day, by playing in his sight at all times,
30 Con él estaba yo ordenándolo todo; y fuí [su] delicia todos los días, teniendo solaz delante de él en todo tiempo.
31 playing in globe of the earth. And my delight was to be with the sons of men.
31 Huélgome en la parte habitable de su tierra; y mis delicias son con los hijos de los hombres.
32 Therefore, sons, hear me now. Blessed are those who preserve my ways.
32 Ahora pues, hijos, oidme; y bienaventurados los que guardaren mis caminos.
33 Listen to discipline, and become wise, and do not be willing to cast it aside.
33 Atended el consejo, y sed sabios, y no lo menospreciéis.
34 Blessed is the man who listens to me, and who stands watch at my gates every day, and who observes at the posts of my doors.
34 Bienaventurado el hombre que me oye, velando á mis puertas cada día, guardando los umbrales de mis entradas.
35 He who finds me, finds life, and he will draw salvation from the Lord.
35 Porque el que me hallare, hallará la vida, y alcanzará el favor de Jehová.
36 But he who sins against me will wound his own soul. All who hate me love death.”
36 Mas el que peca contra mí, defrauda su alma: todos los que me aborrecen, aman la muerte.
Cross references (34)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Proverbs 1:20–21; Matthew 3:3; John 7:37; Proverbs 9:1–3; Acts 1:8
- 2 Proverbs 9:14; Proverbs 9:3
- 3 Job 29:7; Luke 14:21–23; Matthew 22:9; Acts 5:20; John 18:20
- 4 Matthew 11:15; Psalm 50:1; John 3:16; Psalm 49:1–3; Revelation 22:17
- 5 Proverbs 1:22; Acts 26:18; Proverbs 9:4; Revelation 3:17–18; 1 Corinthians 6:9–11
- 6 Colossians 1:26; Matthew 7:28–29; Matthew 13:35; Proverbs 4:2; Proverbs 23:16
- 7 Psalm 37:30; John 8:14; John 17:17; Proverbs 12:22; Job 36:4
- 8 John 7:46; Proverbs 8:13; Psalm 12:6; Deuteronomy 32:5; Isaiah 45:23
- 9 Proverbs 14:6; James 1:5; John 7:17; Psalm 25:12–14; John 6:45
- 10 Proverbs 2:4–5; Psalm 119:127; Psalm 119:72; Proverbs 23:23; Proverbs 3:13–15
- 11 Proverbs 3:14–15; Proverbs 4:5–7; Proverbs 16:16; Psalm 119:127; Psalm 19:10
- 12 Isaiah 28:26; Exodus 35:30–36:4; Exodus 31:3–6; Romans 11:33; Proverbs 1:4
- 13 Psalm 97:10; Proverbs 16:6; 1 Samuel 2:3; Proverbs 4:24; 1 Thessalonians 5:22
- 14 Ecclesiastes 7:19; Isaiah 9:6; Romans 11:33–34; Isaiah 40:14; Ecclesiastes 9:16–18
- 15 Romans 13:1; Daniel 2:21; Matthew 28:18; Revelation 19:16; Daniel 7:13–14
- 17 John 14:23; John 14:21; Psalm 91:14; Isaiah 55:6; 1 John 4:19
- 18 Proverbs 3:16; Matthew 6:33; Luke 16:11–12; Philippians 4:19; Ephesians 3:8
- 19 Proverbs 3:14; Proverbs 10:20; Ecclesiastes 7:12; Proverbs 8:10
- 20 John 10:27–28; Psalm 32:8; Deuteronomy 5:32; Proverbs 4:11–12; Proverbs 6:22
- 21 1 Peter 1:4; Proverbs 24:4; Genesis 15:14; Matthew 25:46; Hebrews 10:34
- 22 Colossians 1:17; John 1:1–2; Proverbs 3:19; Psalm 104:24; Job 28:26–28
- 23 John 17:24; John 17:5; Genesis 1:26; Micah 5:2; Psalm 2:6
- 24 Proverbs 3:20; 1 John 4:9; Genesis 1:2; Hebrews 1:5; John 5:20
- 25 Psalm 90:2; Job 15:7–8; Job 38:4–11; Psalm 102:25–28; Hebrews 1:10
- 26 Genesis 1:1–31
- 27 Isaiah 40:22; Job 26:10; Proverbs 3:19; Psalm 136:5; Colossians 1:16
- 29 Psalm 104:9; Jeremiah 5:22; Genesis 1:9–10; Psalm 33:7; Psalm 104:5
- 30 John 1:1–3; John 1:18; Matthew 3:17; John 16:28; Isaiah 42:1
- 31 Psalm 16:3; John 13:1; Psalm 40:6–8; 2 Corinthians 8:9; John 4:34
- 32 Luke 11:28; Psalm 119:1–2; Psalm 128:1; Psalm 1:1–4; Proverbs 5:7
- 33 Proverbs 4:1; Psalm 81:11–12; Proverbs 1:8; Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 1:2–3
- 34 Matthew 7:24; Luke 11:28; Proverbs 3:13; Psalm 27:4; Acts 2:42
- 35 John 3:36; 1 John 5:11–12; Proverbs 12:2; Philippians 3:8; John 17:3
- 36 Proverbs 15:32; Proverbs 1:31; John 15:23–24; 1 Corinthians 16:22; Proverbs 12:1
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
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