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Ecclesiastes 1 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
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1 Estas son las palabras del Predicador, hijo de David, rey de Jerusalén.
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 Según mi entender, nada vale la pena; todo es vano.
2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
3 Pues, ¿qué obtiene la gente de todo su trabajo? Generaciones vienen y generaciones van y todo sigue igual. Sale el sol y se pone, y en rápido giro vuelve a surgir. Sopla el viento del sur y del norte, aquí y allá, yendo y volviendo, sin ir a ninguna parte. Los ríos desembocan en el mar y este nunca se llena, y el agua vuelve a los ríos y nuevamente fluye hacia el mar.
3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
4 Not in this translation
4 One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
5 Not in this translation
5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
6 Not in this translation
6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
7 Not in this translation
7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
8 Todo es indecible fastidio y fatiga. Por más que vemos, jamás nos satisfacemos; por más que oímos, no estamos contentos. La historia es simple repetición. Nada hay realmente nuevo; todo ha sido hecho o dicho antes. ¿Puedes tú indicar algo que sea nuevo? ¿Cómo sabes que no existió ya en remotas edades? No recordamos lo ocurrido en aquellos tiempos antiguos, y en las futuras generaciones nadie recordará lo que hayamos hecho ahora.
8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 Not in this translation
9 That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Not in this translation
10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold, this is new”? It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
11 Not in this translation
11 There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
12 Yo, el Predicador, fui rey de Israel y viví en Jerusalén. Y en busca de conocimientos me dediqué a investigarlo todo en el universo. Descubrí que la suerte del ser humano, que Dios le ha señalado, no es un camino feliz. Todo es insensatez; todo es perseguir el viento. Lo torcido no puede enderezarse: es agua pasada; y de nada vale soñar con lo que pudiera haber sido.
12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 Not in this translation
13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
14 Not in this translation
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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15 That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
16 Yo me dije: «Fíjate, soy más instruido que cualquiera de los reyes que me precedieron en Jerusalén. Tengo más sabiduría y conocimientos». Así es que me esforcé por ser sabio en vez de necio, pero hoy reconozco que aun eso fue perseguir el viento. Pues cuanto mayor era mi sabiduría, tanto más grande era mi pena; aumentar el conocimiento es sólo aumentar el dolor.
16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
17 Not in this translation
17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
18 Not in this translation
18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Cross references (6)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ecclesiastes 12:8–10; Ecclesiastes 1:12; Ecclesiastes 7:27; 1 Kings 11:42–43; 2 Peter 2:5
- 2 Psalm 144:4; Romans 8:20; Ecclesiastes 5:10; Psalm 39:5–6; Ecclesiastes 12:8
- 3 Ecclesiastes 3:9; Ecclesiastes 5:16; Ecclesiastes 2:22; Mark 8:36–37; Ecclesiastes 2:11
- 8 Proverbs 27:20; Matthew 11:28; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 5:10–11; Psalm 63:5
- 12 Ecclesiastes 1:1; 1 Kings 4:1–19
- 16 Ecclesiastes 2:9; 1 Kings 4:30; 1 Kings 10:7; 1 Kings 3:12–13; Hebrews 5:14
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
"Do I not weep much the more?" For, "He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." The more I long for what is not here, do I not so much the more groan for it until it comes?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
But thou canst not; for, "vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Let us go to the tombs; show me thy father; show me thy wife.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)