Ecclesiastes · Literal Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 5 Literal Standard Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 Keep your feet when you go to a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.
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 Do not cause your mouth to hurry, and do not let your heart hurry to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and you on the earth, therefore let your words be few.
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 For the dream has come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
3 Porque de la mucha ocupación viene el sueño, y de la multitud de las palabras la voz del necio.
4 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which you vow—complete.
4 Cuando á Dios hicieres promesa, no tardes en pagarla; porque no se agrada de los insensatos. Paga lo que prometieres.
5 Better that you do not vow, than that you vow and do not complete.
5 Mejor es que no prometas, que no que prometas y no pagues.
6 Do not permit your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger that it [is] ignorance. Why is God angry because of your voice and has destroyed the work of your hands?
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 For in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear God.
7 Donde los sueños [son] en multitud, también [lo son] las vanidades y muchas las palabras; mas tú teme á Dios.
8 If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness you see in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones [are] over them.
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 And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.
9 Además el provecho de la tierra es para todos: el rey [mismo] está sujeto á los campos.
10 Whoever is loving silver is not satisfied [with] silver, nor he who is in love with stores [with] increase. Even this [is] vanity.
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 In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit [is] to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
11 Cuando los bienes se aumentan, también se aumentan sus comedores. ¿Qué bien, pues, tendrá su dueño, sino ver[los] con sus ojos?
12 Sweet [is] the sleep of the laborer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not permitting him to sleep.
12 Dulce es el sueño del trabajador, ora coma mucho ó poco; mas al rico no le deja dormir la hartura.
13 There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
13 Hay una trabajosa enfermedad que he visto debajo del sol: las riquezas guardadas de sus dueños para su mal;
14 And that wealth has been lost in an evil business, and he has begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!
14 Las cuales se pierden en malas ocupaciones, y á los hijos que engendraron nada les queda en la mano.
15 As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turns back to go as he came, and he does not take away anything of his labor, that goes in his hand.
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 And this also [is] a painful evil, just as he came, so he goes, and what advantage [is] to him who labors for wind?
16 Este también es un gran mal, que como vino, así haya de volver. ¿Y de qué le aprovechó trabajar al viento?
17 He also consumes all his days in darkness, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.
17 Demás de esto, todos los días de su vida comerá en tinieblas, con mucho enojo y dolor y miseria.
18 Behold, that which I have seen: [It is] good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one’s labor that he labors at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God has given to him, for it [is] his portion.
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 Every man also to whom God has given wealth and riches, and has given him power to eat of it, and to accept his portion, and to rejoice in his labor, this is a gift of God.
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 For he does not much remember the days of his life, for God is answering through the joy of his heart.
20 Porque no se acordará mucho de los días de su vida; pues Dios le responderá con alegría de su corazón.
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 James 1:19; Hebrews 12:28–29; Proverbs 15:8; 1 Peter 2:1–2; Isaiah 1:12–20
- 2 Matthew 6:7; Proverbs 10:19; Isaiah 55:9; Matthew 6:9; Numbers 30:2–5
- 3 Proverbs 15:2; Ecclesiastes 10:12–14; Proverbs 10:19; Job 11:2
- 4 Numbers 30:2; Matthew 5:33; Deuteronomy 23:21–23; Psalm 76:11; Psalm 66:13–14
- 5 Acts 5:4; Deuteronomy 23:22; Proverbs 20:25
- 6 James 1:26; 2 John 8; James 3:2; Ecclesiastes 5:1–2; Malachi 2:7
- 7 Matthew 12:36; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Ecclesiastes 8:12; Ecclesiastes 5:3; Isaiah 50:10–11
- 8 Psalm 12:5; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 3:16; 1 Kings 21:19–20; Psalm 58:10–11
- 9 Psalm 115:16; 1 Kings 4:7–23; Genesis 1:29–30; Psalm 104:14–15; 1 Chronicles 27:26–31
- 10 1 Timothy 6:10; Matthew 6:24; Luke 12:15; Matthew 6:19; Ecclesiastes 4:8
- 11 1 John 2:16; Habakkuk 2:13; Psalm 119:36–37; Proverbs 23:5; Ecclesiastes 6:9
- 12 Proverbs 3:24; Psalm 4:8; Jeremiah 31:26; Psalm 127:2
- 13 Ecclesiastes 6:1–2; Luke 18:22–23; Luke 16:22–23; Genesis 19:14; James 5:1–4
- 14 Ecclesiastes 2:26; Haggai 2:16–17; Haggai 1:9; Job 20:15–29; Proverbs 23:5
- 15 Psalm 49:17; Job 1:21; 1 Timothy 6:7; Luke 12:20
- 16 Proverbs 11:29; Ecclesiastes 1:3; Mark 8:36; Ecclesiastes 5:13; John 6:27
- 17 Psalm 127:2; 2 Chronicles 24:24–25; Proverbs 1:27–29; Job 21:25; 1 Corinthians 11:30–32
- 18 Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:22; Ecclesiastes 3:12–13; Ecclesiastes 9:7; 1 Timothy 6:17
- 19 Deuteronomy 8:18; Ecclesiastes 3:13; Ecclesiastes 6:2; 2 Chronicles 1:12; Ecclesiastes 2:24–26
- 20 Isaiah 65:21–24; Psalm 37:16; Isaiah 65:13–14; Psalm 4:6–7; Romans 5:1
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