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Ecclesiastes 5 Geneva Bible (1599)

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1 Be not rash with thy mouth, nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God: for God is in the heauens, and thou art on the earth: therefore let thy wordes be fewe.
1 CUANDO fueres á la casa de Dios, guarda tu pie; y acércate más para oir que para dar el sacrificio de los necios: porque no saben que hacen mal.
2 For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.
2 No te des priesa con tu boca, ni tu corazón se apresure á proferir palabra delante de Dios; porque Dios está en el cielo, y tú sobre la tierra: por tanto, sean pocas tus palabras.
3 When thou hast vowed a vowe to God, deferre not to pay it: for he deliteth not in fooles: pay therefore that thou hast vowed.
3 Porque de la mucha ocupación viene el sueño, y de la multitud de las palabras la voz del necio.
4 It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it.
4 Cuando á Dios hicieres promesa, no tardes en pagarla; porque no se agrada de los insensatos. Paga lo que prometieres.
5 Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?
5 Mejor es que no prometas, que no que prometas y no pagues.
6 For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God.
6 No sueltes tu boca para hacer pecar á tu carne; ni digas delante del ángel, que fué ignorancia. ¿Por qué [harás que] Dios se aire á causa de tu voz, y que destruya la obra de tus manos?
7 If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
7 Donde los sueños [son] en multitud, también [lo son] las vanidades y muchas las palabras; mas tú teme á Dios.
8 And the abundance of the earth is ouer all: the King also consisteth by the fielde that is tilled.
8 Si violencias de pobres, y extorsión de derecho y de justicia vieres en la provincia, no te maravilles de esta licencia; porque alto está mirando sobre alto, y [uno] más alto [está] sobre ellos.
9 He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.
9 Además el provecho de la tierra es para todos: el rey [mismo] está sujeto á los campos.
10 When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?
10 El que ama el dinero, no se hartará de dinero; y el que ama el mucho [tener], no [sacará] fruto. También esto es vanidad.
11 The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe.
11 Cuando los bienes se aumentan, también se aumentan sus comedores. ¿Qué bien, pues, tendrá su dueño, sino ver[los] con sus ojos?
12 There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.
12 Dulce es el sueño del trabajador, ora coma mucho ó poco; mas al rico no le deja dormir la hartura.
13 And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
13 Hay una trabajosa enfermedad que he visto debajo del sol: las riquezas guardadas de sus dueños para su mal;
14 As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shall beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand.
14 Las cuales se pierden en malas ocupaciones, y á los hijos que engendraron nada les queda en la mano.
15 And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?
15 Como salió del vientre de su madre, desnudo, así se vuelve, tornando como vino; y nada tuvo de su trabajo para llevar en su mano.
16 Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.
16 Este también es un gran mal, que como vino, así haya de volver. ¿Y de qué le aprovechó trabajar al viento?
17 Beholde then, what I haue seene good, that it is comely to eate, and to drinke, and to take pleasure in all his labour, wherein he traueileth vnder the sunne, the whole nomber of the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for this is his portion.
17 Demás de esto, todos los días de su vida comerá en tinieblas, con mucho enojo y dolor y miseria.
18 Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.
18 He aquí pues el bien que yo he visto: Que lo bueno es comer y beber, y gozar uno del bien de todo su trabajo con que se fatiga debajo del sol, todos los días de su vida que Dios le ha dado; porque esta es su parte.
19 Surely hee will not much remember the dayes of his life, because God answereth to the ioy of his heart.
19 Asimismo, á todo hombre á quien Dios dió riquezas y hacienda, y le dió también facultad para que coma de ellas, y tome su parte, y goce su trabajo; esto es don de Dios.
20 Not in this translation
20 Porque no se acordará mucho de los días de su vida; pues Dios le responderá con alegría de su corazón.
Cross references (19)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 James 1:19; Hebrews 12:28–29; Proverbs 15:8; 1 Peter 2:1–2; Isaiah 1:12–20
  2. 2 Matthew 6:7; Proverbs 10:19; Isaiah 55:9; Matthew 6:9; Numbers 30:2–5
  3. 3 Proverbs 15:2; Ecclesiastes 10:12–14; Proverbs 10:19; Job 11:2
  4. 4 Numbers 30:2; Matthew 5:33; Deuteronomy 23:21–23; Psalm 76:11; Psalm 66:13–14
  5. 5 Acts 5:4; Deuteronomy 23:22; Proverbs 20:25
  6. 6 James 1:26; 2 John 8; James 3:2; Ecclesiastes 5:1–2; Malachi 2:7
  7. 7 Matthew 12:36; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Ecclesiastes 8:12; Ecclesiastes 5:3; Isaiah 50:10–11
  8. 8 Psalm 12:5; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 3:16; 1 Kings 21:19–20; Psalm 58:10–11
  9. 9 Psalm 115:16; 1 Kings 4:7–23; Genesis 1:29–30; Psalm 104:14–15; 1 Chronicles 27:26–31
  10. 10 1 Timothy 6:10; Matthew 6:24; Luke 12:15; Matthew 6:19; Ecclesiastes 4:8
  11. 11 1 John 2:16; Habakkuk 2:13; Psalm 119:36–37; Proverbs 23:5; Ecclesiastes 6:9
  12. 12 Proverbs 3:24; Psalm 4:8; Jeremiah 31:26; Psalm 127:2
  13. 13 Ecclesiastes 6:1–2; Luke 18:22–23; Luke 16:22–23; Genesis 19:14; James 5:1–4
  14. 14 Ecclesiastes 2:26; Haggai 2:16–17; Haggai 1:9; Job 20:15–29; Proverbs 23:5
  15. 15 Psalm 49:17; Job 1:21; 1 Timothy 6:7; Luke 12:20
  16. 16 Proverbs 11:29; Ecclesiastes 1:3; Mark 8:36; Ecclesiastes 5:13; John 6:27
  17. 17 Psalm 127:2; 2 Chronicles 24:24–25; Proverbs 1:27–29; Job 21:25; 1 Corinthians 11:30–32
  18. 18 Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:22; Ecclesiastes 3:12–13; Ecclesiastes 9:7; 1 Timothy 6:17
  19. 19 Deuteronomy 8:18; Ecclesiastes 3:13; Ecclesiastes 6:2; 2 Chronicles 1:12; Ecclesiastes 2:24–26

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