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Ecclesiastes 4 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
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1 Luego observé opresión y tristeza por toda la tierra: lloraban los oprimidos y nadie les ayudaba, mientras sus opresores contaban con poderosos aliados.
1 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2 Entonces comprendí que mejor están los muertos que los vivos.
2 Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
3 Y más dichosos aún son los que jamás nacieron, y no vieron jamás la maldad y el crimen que imperan en la tierra.
3 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 Vi entonces que el móvil principal del éxito es el impulso de la envidia y los celos. Pero también esto es necedad, es perseguir el viento.
4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
5 El necio rehúsa trabajar y casi muere de hambre, pero cree que mejor es ser perezoso y vivir a medias que trabajar mucho, si al fin de cuentas todo es tan vano.
5 The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
6 Not in this translation
6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
7 También observé en la tierra otra locura:
7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
8 el caso del hombre solitario, sin hijos ni hermanos, y que trabaja arduamente para seguir acumulando riquezas. No se pregunta a quién le quedará todo. ¿Y por qué renuncia a tanto ahora? ¡Todo esto es tan sin sentido y deprimente!
8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
9 Más vale dos que uno, porque el resultado puede ser mucho mejor.
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
10 Si uno cae, el otro lo levanta; pero si el hombre solitario cae, su problema es grave.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
11 Además, en noche fría, dos bajo una frazada mutuamente se dan calor; pero, ¿cómo se calentará el solitario?
11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
12 Y uno solo puede ser atacado y vencido, pero dos, espalda contra espalda, pueden resistir y triunfar; y tres son aún mejores, pues una cuerda de tres hilos no es fácil de romper.
12 If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13 Mejor es el joven pobre y sabio que el rey viejo y necio que rechaza todo consejo.
13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
14 Dicho joven podría salir de la cárcel y triunfar. Hasta podría llegar a rey aunque haya nacido pobre.
14 For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
15 A un joven así todos están ansiosos de ayudarlo, hasta para que usurpe el trono.
15 I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
16 Puede convertirse en caudillo de millones de personas, y ser muy popular. Pero viene luego la joven generación que lo rodea, y lo rechaza. Y de nuevo todo es necedad, es perseguir el viento.
16 There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Isaiah 5:7; 2 Timothy 4:16–17; Isaiah 51:23
- 2 Job 3:11–26; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 9:4–6
- 3 Luke 23:29; Matthew 24:19; Ecclesiastes 6:3–5; Job 10:18–19; Jeremiah 9:2–3
- 4 1 John 3:12; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:21; Ecclesiastes 2:26; 1 Samuel 18:29–30
- 5 Isaiah 9:20; Proverbs 6:10–11; Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 20:4; Job 13:14
- 7 Ecclesiastes 4:1; Psalm 78:33; Zechariah 1:6
- 8 1 John 2:16; Proverbs 27:20; Luke 12:20; Ecclesiastes 1:8; Matthew 11:28
- 9 Proverbs 27:17; Genesis 2:18; 1 Corinthians 12:18–21; Numbers 11:14; Mark 6:7
- 10 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; Galatians 6:1; Isaiah 35:3–4; Job 4:3–4
- 11 1 Kings 1:1–4
- 12 Ephesians 4:3; Daniel 3:16–17
- 13 Proverbs 19:1; 2 Chronicles 25:16; 2 Chronicles 16:9–10; Proverbs 28:15–16; 1 Kings 22:8
- 14 Psalm 113:7–8; Genesis 41:14; Job 5:11; Lamentations 4:20; Genesis 41:33–44
- 15 2 Samuel 15:6
- 16 Ecclesiastes 1:14; 1 Kings 1:40; Ecclesiastes 2:17; 2 Samuel 15:12–13; 1 Kings 1:5–7
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