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WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Cuando entres en la casa de Dios, ten abiertos los oídos y cerrada la boca. No seas como el necio que ni siquiera reconoce que es pecado hacerle a Dios promesas temerarias,
1 Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
2 pues él está en el cielo y tú aquí abajo en la tierra; sean, pues, pocas tus palabras.
2 Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
3 Así como el exceso de ocupaciones produce pesadillas, la necedad te convierte en un necio que dice tonterías.
3 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
4 Así, cuando le hables a Dios y le prometas hacer algo, no tardes en cumplirlo. Pues a Dios no le agradan los necios. Cúmplele lo prometido.
4 When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
5 Es mejor no decir que se va a hacer algo, que decirlo y no hacerlo.
5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
6 En este caso, la boca te hace pecar. No procures excusarte diciéndole al mensajero de Dios que fue por error (el hacer la promesa). Eso enojaría mucho a Dios; y él podría truncar tu prosperidad. Soñar y no realizar es necedad, y el torrente de palabras vacías es ruidoso; en vez de eso, teme a Dios.
6 Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
7 Not in this translation
7 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
8 Si en cualquier parte del país ves que un rico oprime al pobre haciendo abortar la justicia, no te sorprendas. Pues cada subalterno recibe órdenes de más arriba, y los más altos oficiales tienen la mirada puesta en sus jefes. Así es que la cuestión se hace una maraña de papeleo y burocracia. Y por sobre todos está el rey.
8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
9 ¡Ay, que hubiera un rey dedicado a su nación! Sólo él podría producir orden entre este caos.
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
10 El que ama el dinero jamás se saciará. ¡Qué locura pensar que el dinero produce felicidad!
10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
11 Cuanto más se tiene, más se gasta, hasta el límite de los ingresos. Entonces, ¿qué ventaja da la riqueza; como no sea verla escaparse por entre los dedos?
11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
12 El que trabaja arduamente duerme tranquilo, coma poco o mucho; pero el rico padece de preocupaciones e insomnio.
12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
13 Otro grave problema he observado por doquier: se invierten los ahorros en negocios arriesgados que fracasan, y pronto no queda nada para dejar a los hijos.
13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
14 Not in this translation
14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15 El que especula, pronto se halla en donde empezó: con las manos vacías.
15 As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
16 Esto, ya lo dijimos, es un grave problema, pues trabajó mucho para nada. Todo se lo lleva el viento.
16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
17 Pasa el resto de su vida ensombrecido, triste, desalentado, frustrado y enojado.
17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
18 Es esto lo que he visto de bueno: corresponde al ser humano comer bien, beber su buen vaso de vino, aceptar su puesto en la vida y disfrutar de su trabajo sea cual sea su empleo, por el tiempo de vida que el Señor le conceda.
18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
19 Y, naturalmente, está muy bien. Si Dios le ha dado al ser humano riqueza y salud es para que lo disfrute. Gustar de nuestro trabajo y aceptar la suerte que la vida nos deparó, es en verdad un don de Dios. Quien tal haga no tendrá que mirar triste hacia el pasado, pues Dios llenará de gozo su corazón.
19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
20 Not in this translation
20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life, because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
Cross references (17)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 James 1:19; Hebrews 12:28–29; Proverbs 15:8; 1 Peter 2:1–2; Isaiah 1:12–20
  2. 2 Matthew 6:7; Proverbs 10:19; Isaiah 55:9; Matthew 6:9; Numbers 30:2–5
  3. 3 Proverbs 15:2; Ecclesiastes 10:12–14; Proverbs 10:19; Job 11:2
  4. 4 Numbers 30:2; Matthew 5:33; Deuteronomy 23:21–23; Psalm 76:11; Psalm 66:13–14
  5. 5 Acts 5:4; Deuteronomy 23:22; Proverbs 20:25
  6. 6 James 1:26; 2 John 8; James 3:2; Ecclesiastes 5:1–2; Malachi 2:7
  7. 8 Psalm 12:5; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 3:16; 1 Kings 21:19–20; Psalm 58:10–11
  8. 9 Psalm 115:16; 1 Kings 4:7–23; Genesis 1:29–30; Psalm 104:14–15; 1 Chronicles 27:26–31
  9. 10 1 Timothy 6:10; Matthew 6:24; Luke 12:15; Matthew 6:19; Ecclesiastes 4:8
  10. 11 1 John 2:16; Habakkuk 2:13; Psalm 119:36–37; Proverbs 23:5; Ecclesiastes 6:9
  11. 12 Proverbs 3:24; Psalm 4:8; Jeremiah 31:26; Psalm 127:2
  12. 13 Ecclesiastes 6:1–2; Luke 18:22–23; Luke 16:22–23; Genesis 19:14; James 5:1–4
  13. 15 Psalm 49:17; Job 1:21; 1 Timothy 6:7; Luke 12:20
  14. 16 Proverbs 11:29; Ecclesiastes 1:3; Mark 8:36; Ecclesiastes 5:13; John 6:27
  15. 17 Psalm 127:2; 2 Chronicles 24:24–25; Proverbs 1:27–29; Job 21:25; 1 Corinthians 11:30–32
  16. 18 Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:22; Ecclesiastes 3:12–13; Ecclesiastes 9:7; 1 Timothy 6:17
  17. 19 Deuteronomy 8:18; Ecclesiastes 3:13; Ecclesiastes 6:2; 2 Chronicles 1:12; Ecclesiastes 2:24–26

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