Proverbs · Geneva Bible (1599)
Proverbs 8 Geneva Bible (1599)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Doth not wisedome crie? and vnderstanding vtter her voyce?
1 ¿NO clama la sabiduría, y da su voz la inteligencia?
2 She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.
2 En los altos cabezos, junto al camino, á las encrucijadas de las veredas se para;
3 She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,
3 En el lugar de las puertas, á la entrada de la ciudad, á la entrada de las puertas da voces:
4 O men, I call vnto you, and vtter my voyce to the children of men.
4 Oh hombres, á vosotros clamo; y mi voz es á los hijos de los hombres.
5 O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.
5 Entended, simples, discreción; y vosotros, locos, entrad en cordura.
6 Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.
6 Oid, porque hablaré cosas excelentes; y abriré mis labios para cosas rectas.
7 For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.
7 Porque mi boca hablará verdad, y la impiedad abominan mis labios.
8 All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.
8 En justicia son todas las razones de mi boca; no hay en ellas cosa perversa ni torcida.
9 They are all plaine to him that will vnderstande, and streight to them that woulde finde knowledge.
9 Todas ellas son rectas al que entiende, y razonables á los que han hallado sabiduría.
10 Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.
10 Recibid mi enseñanza, y no plata; y ciencia antes que el oro escogido.
11 For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto 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 wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.
12 Yo, la sabiduría, habito con la discreción, y hallo la ciencia de los consejos.
13 The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.
13 El temor de Jehová es aborrecer el mal; la soberbia y la arrogancia, y el mal camino y la boca perversa, aborrezco.
14 I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.
14 Conmigo está el consejo y el ser; yo soy la inteligencia; mía es la fortaleza.
15 By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.
15 Por mí reinan los reyes, y los príncipes determinan justicia.
16 By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.
16 Por mí dominan los príncipes, y todos los gobernadores juzgan la tierra.
17 I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.
17 Yo amo á los que me aman; y me hallan los que madrugando me buscan.
18 Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.
18 Las riquezas y la honra están conmigo; sólidas riquezas, y justicia.
19 My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.
19 Mejor es mi fruto que el oro, y que el oro refinado; y mi rédito [mejor] que la plata escogida.
20 I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,
20 Por vereda de justicia guiaré, por en medio de sendas de juicio;
21 That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.
21 Para hacer heredar á mis amigos el ser, y que yo hincha sus tesoros.
22 The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.
22 Jehová me poseía en el principio de su camino, ya de antiguo, antes de sus obras.
23 I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.
23 Eternalmente tuve el principado, desde el principio, antes de la tierra.
24 When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.
24 Antes de los abismos fuí engendrada; antes que fuesen las fuentes de las muchas aguas.
25 Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.
25 Antes que los montes fuesen fundados, antes de los collados, era yo engendrada:
26 He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.
26 No había aún hecho la tierra, ni las campiñas, ni el principio del polvo del mundo.
27 When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.
27 Cuando formaba los cielos, allí estaba yo; cuando señalaba por compás la sobrefaz del abismo;
28 When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,
28 Cuando afirmaba los cielos arriba, cuando afirmaba las fuentes del abismo;
29 When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commandement: when he appointed 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 Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was dayly his delight reioycing alway before him,
30 Con él estaba yo ordenándolo todo; y fuí [su] delicia todos los días, teniendo solaz delante de él en todo tiempo.
31 And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.
31 Huélgome en la parte habitable de su tierra; y mis delicias son con los hijos de los hombres.
32 Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
32 Ahora pues, hijos, oidme; y bienaventurados los que guardaren mis caminos.
33 Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not: blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, and giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.
33 Atended el consejo, y sed sabios, y no lo menospreciéis.
34 For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shall obteine fauour of the Lord.
34 Bienaventurado el hombre que me oye, velando á mis puertas cada día, guardando los umbrales de mis entradas.
35 But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and all that hate me, loue death.
35 Porque el que me hallare, hallará la vida, y alcanzará el favor de Jehová.
36 Not in this translation
36 Mas el que peca contra mí, defrauda su alma: todos los que me aborrecen, aman la muerte.
Cross references (33)
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
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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. 7 (1894)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
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