Ecclesiastes · Free Bible Version
Ecclesiastes 6 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 I have observed another evil here on earth, and it has a great impact on humanity.
1 HAY un mal que he visto debajo del cielo, y muy común entre los hombres:
1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:
2 God gives wealth, possessions, and honor to someone. They have everything they want. But God doesn't let them enjoy what they have. Instead somebody else does! This is hard to fathom, and is truly evil.
2 Hombre á quien Dios dió riquezas, y hacienda, y honra, y nada le falta de todo lo que su alma desea; mas Dios no le dió facultad de comer de ello, sino que los extraños se lo comen. Esto vanidad es, y enfermedad trabajosa.
2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3 A man could have one hundred children, and grow old, but it wouldn't matter how long his life was if he couldn't enjoy it and at the end receive a decent burial. I would say that a stillborn child would be better off than him.
3 Si el hombre engendrare ciento, y viviere muchos años, y los días de su edad fueren numerosos; si su alma no se hartó del bien, y también careció de sepultura, yo digo que el abortivo es mejor que él.
3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;
4 The way a stillborn child comes into the world and then leaves is painfully hard to understand—arriving and departing in darkness—and who he would have been is never known.
4 Porque en vano vino, y á tinieblas va, y con tinieblas será cubierto su nombre.
4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
5 He never saw the light of day or knew what it was like to live. Yet the child finds rest, and not this man.
5 Aunque no haya visto el sol, ni conocido [nada], más reposo tiene éste que aquél.
5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
6 Even if this man were to live a thousand years twice over he still wouldn't be happy. Don't we all end up in the same place—the grave?
6 Porque si viviere [aquél] mil años dos veces, si no ha gozado del bien, cierto todos van á un lugar.
6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?
7 Everyone works so they can live, but they're never satisfied.
7 Todo el trabajo del hombre es para su boca, y con todo eso su alma no se harta.
7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8 So then, what real advantage do wise people have over those who are fools? And do poor people really gain anything in knowing how to behave in front of others?
8 Porque ¿qué más tiene el sabio que el necio? ¿qué [más] tiene el pobre que supo caminar entre los vivos?
8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
9 Be happy with what you have instead of running after what you don't! But this is also hard to do, like running after the wind.
9 Más vale vista de ojos que deseo que pasa. Y también esto es vanidad y aflicción de espíritu.
9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
10 Everything that exists has already been described. Everyone knows what people are like, and that you can't win an argument with a superior.
10 El que es, ya su nombre ha sido nombrado; y se sabe que es hombre, y que no podrá contender con el que es más fuerte que él.
10 Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
11 For the more words you use, the harder it is to make sense. So what's the point?
11 Ciertamente las muchas palabras multiplican la vanidad. ¿Qué más tiene el hombre?
11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
12 Who knows what's best for us and our lives? During our short lives that pass like shadows we have many unanswered questions. And who can tell us what will happen when we're gone?
12 Porque ¿quién sabe cuál es el bien del hombre en la vida, todos los días de la vida de su vanidad, los cuales él pasa como sombra? Porque ¿quién enseñará al hombre qué será después de él debajo del sol?
12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Cross references (12)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ecclesiastes 5:13
- 2 Ecclesiastes 5:19; Psalm 17:14; Psalm 73:7; Lamentations 5:2; 1 Kings 3:13
- 3 Job 3:16; Ecclesiastes 4:3; 2 Kings 9:35; Jeremiah 22:19; Genesis 47:9
- 4 Psalm 109:13
- 5 Psalm 90:7–9; Job 14:1; Psalm 58:8; Job 3:10–13
- 6 Ecclesiastes 3:20; Hebrews 9:27; Job 30:23; Job 1:21; Job 7:7
- 7 John 6:27; Proverbs 16:26; 1 Timothy 6:6–8; Matthew 6:25; Ecclesiastes 5:10
- 8 Proverbs 19:1; Ecclesiastes 2:14–16; Psalm 116:9; Psalm 101:2; Ecclesiastes 5:11
- 9 Ecclesiastes 1:14; Job 31:7; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ecclesiastes 4:4; Ecclesiastes 2:11
- 10 Job 9:32; Isaiah 45:9–10; Job 40:2; Romans 9:19–20; Genesis 3:17–19
- 11 Ecclesiastes 4:16; Ecclesiastes 5:7; Hosea 12:1; Ecclesiastes 2:3–11; Ecclesiastes 4:1–4
- 12 James 4:14; Job 14:2; Ecclesiastes 3:22; Psalm 144:4; Lamentations 3:24–27
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