Proverbs · King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Proverbs 1 King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
1 LOS proverbios de Salomón, hijo de David, rey de Israel:
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
2 Para entender sabiduría y doctrina; para conocer las razones prudentes;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
3 Para recibir el consejo de prudencia, justicia, y juicio y equidad;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
4 Para dar sagacidad á los simples, y á los jóvenes inteligencia y cordura.
5 A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
5 Oirá el sabio, y aumentará el saber; y el entendido adquirirá consejo;
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
6 Para entender parábola y declaración; palabras de sabios, y sus dichos oscuros.
7 ¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
7 El principio de la sabiduría es el temor de Jehová: los insensatos desprecian la sabiduría y la enseñanza.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
8 Oye, hijo mío, la doctrina de tu padre, y no desprecies la dirección de tu madre:
9 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
9 Porque adorno de gracia serán á tu cabeza, y collares á tu cuello.
10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
10 Hijo mío, si los pecadores te quisieren engañar, no consientas.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
11 Si dijeren: Ven con nosotros, pongamos asechanzas á la sangre, acechemos sin motivo al inocente;
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
12 Los tragaremos vivos como el sepulcro, y enteros, como los que caen en sima;
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
13 Hallaremos riquezas de todas suertes, henchiremos nuestras casas de despojos;
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
14 Echa tu suerte entre nosotros; tengamos todos una bolsa:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
15 Hijo mío, no andes en camino con ellos; aparta tu pie de sus veredas:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
16 Porque sus pies correrán al mal, é irán presurosos á derramar sangre.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
17 Porque en vano se tenderá la red ante los ojos de toda ave;
18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
18 Mas ellos á su propia sangre ponen asechanzas, y á sus almas tienden lazo.
19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
19 Tales son las sendas de todo el que es dado á la codicia, [la cual] prenderá el alma de sus poseedores.
20 ¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
20 La sabiduría clama de fuera, da su voz en las plazas:
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
21 Clama en los principales lugares de concurso; en las entradas de las puertas de la ciudad dice sus razones:
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
22 ¿Hasta cuándo, oh simples, amaréis la simpleza, y los burladores desearán el burlar, y los insensatos aborrecerán la ciencia?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
23 Volveos á mi reprensión: he aquí yo os derramaré mi espíritu, y os haré saber mis palabras.
24 ¶ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
24 Por cuanto llamé, y no quisisteis; extendí mi mano, y no hubo quien escuchase;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
25 Antes desechasteis todo consejo mío, y mi reprensión no quisisteis:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
26 También yo me reiré en vuestra calamidad, y me burlaré cuando [os] viniere lo que teméis;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
27 Cuando viniere como una destrucción lo que teméis, y vuestra calamidad llegare como un torbellino; cuando sobre vosotros viniere tribulación y angustia.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
28 Entonces me llamarán, y no responderé; buscarme han de mañana, y no me hallarán:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
29 Por cuanto aborrecieron la sabiduría, y no escogieron el temor de Jehová,
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
30 Ni quisieron mi consejo, y menospreciaron toda reprensión mía:
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
31 Comerán pues del fruto de su camino, y se hartarán de sus consejos.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
32 Porque el reposo de los ignorantes los matará, y la prosperidad de los necios los echará á perder.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
33 Mas el que me oyere, habitará confiadamente, y vivirá reposado, sin temor de mal.
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Proverbs 10:1; 1 Chronicles 22:9; 1 Chronicles 28:5; Ecclesiastes 1:1; Proverbs 25:1
- 2 Proverbs 7:4; Deuteronomy 4:5–6; Proverbs 17:16; 2 Timothy 3:15–17; 1 Kings 3:9–12
- 3 Proverbs 2:1–9; Job 22:22; 1 Kings 3:28; Proverbs 8:10–11
- 4 Proverbs 8:5; Proverbs 8:17; Psalm 119:9; Psalm 119:130; Proverbs 8:32
- 5 Proverbs 12:1; Proverbs 9:9; 1 Corinthians 10:15; Job 34:10; Job 34:16
- 6 Psalm 78:2; Mark 4:11; Psalm 49:4; Hebrews 5:14; Acts 8:30–31
- 7 Job 28:28; Proverbs 9:10; Psalms 111:10–112:1; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Proverbs 15:33
- 8 Proverbs 6:20; Proverbs 30:17; Proverbs 5:1–2; Proverbs 31:1; 2 Timothy 1:5
- 9 Proverbs 4:9; Daniel 5:29; Genesis 41:42; Proverbs 6:20–21; Proverbs 3:22
- 10 Ephesians 5:11; Proverbs 16:29; Psalm 1:1; Proverbs 13:20; Deuteronomy 13:8
- 11 Proverbs 1:18; Jeremiah 5:26; Proverbs 12:6; Jeremiah 18:18–20; Acts 25:3
- 12 Psalm 124:3; Psalm 28:1; Romans 3:13; Micah 3:2–3; Psalm 5:9
- 13 1 Timothy 6:9–10; Luke 12:15; Job 24:2–3; Nahum 2:12; Isaiah 10:13–14
- 15 Psalm 119:101; Psalm 1:1; Proverbs 4:14–15; Proverbs 4:27; Psalm 26:4–5
- 16 Isaiah 59:7; Proverbs 6:18; Proverbs 4:16; Romans 3:5
- 17 Job 35:11; Jeremiah 8:7; Proverbs 7:23; Isaiah 1:3
- 18 Psalm 9:16; Esther 7:10; Proverbs 28:17; Proverbs 5:22–23; Psalm 7:14–16
- 19 Proverbs 15:27; 2 Peter 2:3; Proverbs 23:3–4; Jeremiah 22:17–19; Habakkuk 2:9
- 20 Proverbs 9:3; Colossians 2:3; Proverbs 8:1–5; Luke 11:49; 1 Corinthians 1:24
- 21 Acts 5:20; Matthew 10:27; Proverbs 9:3; Matthew 13:2; John 18:20
- 22 Proverbs 1:29; Proverbs 5:12; John 3:20; 2 Peter 3:3; Psalm 1:1
- 23 Acts 3:19; Ezekiel 33:11; Ezekiel 18:27–30; Acts 2:36–38; Joel 2:28
- 24 Romans 10:21; Isaiah 65:12; Jeremiah 7:13; Isaiah 66:4; Hebrews 12:25–26
- 25 Luke 7:30; Psalm 81:11; Proverbs 1:30; Proverbs 12:1; Psalm 107:11
- 26 Proverbs 10:24; Psalm 37:13; Psalm 2:4; Proverbs 6:15; Luke 14:24
- 27 Proverbs 3:25–26; Psalm 69:22–28; Psalm 58:9; Proverbs 10:24–25; Romans 2:9
- 28 Micah 3:4; Zechariah 7:13; James 4:3; Jeremiah 11:11; Isaiah 1:15
- 29 Proverbs 6:23; Proverbs 1:22; Job 21:14–15; Hebrews 11:25; Isaiah 27:11
- 30 Psalm 81:11; Proverbs 1:25; Luke 14:18–20; Jeremiah 8:9; Psalm 119:173
- 31 Proverbs 14:14; Jeremiah 6:19; Job 4:8; Proverbs 22:8; Galatians 6:7–8
- 32 Proverbs 8:36; John 3:36; Jeremiah 2:19; Luke 16:19–25; Hebrews 12:25
- 33 Psalm 25:12–13; Isaiah 26:3; Psalm 112:7–8; John 10:27–29; Proverbs 14:26
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… what we read in the Proverbs of impious men saying, "Let us unrighteously hide in the earth the righteous man; yea, let us swallow him up alive as hell, and let us take away his memory from the earth: let us seize his precious possession," is not so obscure that it may not be understood, without laborious exposition, of Christ …
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