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1 Hijo mío, pon atención a mi sabiduría; escucha atentamente mi sabio consejo.
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
2 Así aprenderás a ser discreto y te llenarás de conocimiento.
2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 Los labios de la mujer infiel son como miel, y sus palabras más suaves que el aceite.
3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
4 Pero al final resulta ser más amarga que la hiel y más cortante que una espada de dos filos.
4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Quien cae en sus redes, va derecho a la tumba; su estilo de vida es un pase directo a la muerte.
5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
6 A ella nada le importa lo que piense la gente de su conducta. Vive la vida sin control alguno, y ni siquiera se da cuenta de eso.
6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
7 Pues bien, hijo mío, escucha atentamente y no te apartes de mis enseñanzas.
7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Huye de la mujer infiel; no te acerques ni siquiera a la puerta de su casa,
8 Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
9 para que no entregues tus mejores años ni tu fortaleza a quienes sólo quieren hacerte mal;
9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;
10 para que los malvados no se queden con tu salario ni con los bienes que posees.
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
11 Si lo haces así, acabarás quejándote de angustia porque todo tu cuerpo se irá consumiendo.
11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 Y dirás: «¡Cómo pude despreciar la corrección! ¡Cómo pudo mi corazón rechazar los consejos!
12 and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
13 No obedecí las enseñanzas de mis maestros, ni presté atención a mis instructores.
13 I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
14 Estoy al borde de una ruina total y en vergüenza ante toda mi comunidad».
14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
15 Disfruta del amor, pero sólo con tu esposa.
15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
16 Tu amor y fidelidad le corresponden sólo a ella; ¡jamás se los entregues a otra!
16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
17 Recuerda que el goce del matrimonio solo le pertenece a los dos, y nadie debe inmiscuirse en él.
17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
18 ¡Bendita sea tu esposa, la mujer de tu juventud!
18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 Ella es una gacela amorosa y agradable. ¡Que sus pechos te dejen siempre satisfecho! ¡Que su amor siempre te cautive!
19 A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
20 Hijo mío, ¡no te enredes con la mujer infiel! ¡Aléjate de sus caricias!
20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
21 Recuerda que el Señor mira todo lo que hacemos, no pierde de vista ninguno de nuestros actos.
21 For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
22 Al malvado lo tienen atrapado sus propios pecados, son cuerdas que lo atan y retienen.
22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
23 Morirá por no querer disciplinarse; se perderá por su gran necedad.
23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
Cross references (22)

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

  1. 1 Proverbs 22:17; Proverbs 4:20; Revelation 2:11; Proverbs 2:1; Revelation 3:13
  2. 2 Proverbs 16:23; Malachi 2:6–7; Proverbs 15:7; Song of Songs 4:11; Proverbs 10:21
  3. 3 Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 7:21; Psalm 55:21; Proverbs 7:5
  4. 4 Ecclesiastes 7:26; Psalm 57:4; Psalm 55:21; Hebrews 4:12; Proverbs 9:18
  5. 5 Proverbs 7:27; Proverbs 2:18–19
  6. 6 Proverbs 4:26; Psalm 16:11; Proverbs 5:21; Proverbs 30:20; Psalm 119:59
  7. 7 Proverbs 4:1; Proverbs 22:17–21; Proverbs 7:24; Proverbs 4:21; Hebrews 12:25
  8. 8 Proverbs 7:25; Ephesians 5:11; Matthew 6:13; Proverbs 4:15; Proverbs 6:27–28
  9. 9 Nehemiah 13:26; Hosea 4:13–14; Judges 16:19–21; Genesis 38:23–26
  10. 10 Hosea 7:9; Proverbs 6:35; Proverbs 31:3; Luke 15:30
  11. 11 Romans 6:21; Revelation 22:15; Hebrews 13:4; Numbers 5:27; 1 Corinthians 5:4–5
  12. 12 Proverbs 12:1; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 15:5; Proverbs 1:25; Proverbs 1:22
  13. 13 1 Thessalonians 4:8; Hebrews 13:7; Luke 15:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13
  14. 14 Proverbs 13:20; 2 Peter 2:10–18; 1 Corinthians 10:6–8; Hosea 4:11–14; Numbers 25:1–6
  15. 15 1 Corinthians 7:2–5; Hebrews 13:4; Proverbs 5:18–19
  16. 16 Psalm 128:3; Psalm 127:3; Deuteronomy 33:28; Genesis 24:60; Isaiah 48:21
  17. 18 Ecclesiastes 9:9; Malachi 2:14–15; Song of Songs 4:15; Song of Songs 4:12
  18. 19 Song of Songs 7:3; Song of Songs 4:5; Song of Songs 8:14; Song of Songs 2:9; Proverbs 5:15
  19. 20 Proverbs 7:5; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 23:27–28; 1 Kings 11:1; Proverbs 23:33
  20. 21 Hebrews 4:13; Proverbs 15:3; Job 34:21; Jeremiah 32:19; Jeremiah 16:17
  21. 22 Proverbs 1:31–32; Proverbs 11:5; Hosea 4:11–14; Ephesians 5:5–6; Proverbs 1:18
  22. 23 Job 36:12; Job 4:21; 2 Peter 2:15–22; Proverbs 14:32; Proverbs 10:21

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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).

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. Quotes verse 5:22 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter VII)

    … in man." For He called all men that mourn; and granting forgiveness to those who had been led into captivity by their sins, He loosed them from their chains, of whom Solomon says, "Every one shall be holden with the cords of his own sins." Therefore did the Spirit of God descend upon Him, [the Spirit] of Him who had …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 5:16 Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the First Epistle of John (Homily VII)

    For it is even this Holy Spirit, whom the bad cannot receive, even He is that Fountain of which the Scripture saith, "Let the fountain of thy water be thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee." For all who love not God, are strangers, are antichrists.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 5:2–4 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXXIII)

    … "Give not heed to a bad woman: for honey droppeth from the lips of a woman that is an harlot, which, for a season, is luscious unto thy throat; but afterwards thou shalt find it more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword." Unto these last then let us listen, not unto those.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 5:15 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XVI)

    Let then thus much suffice concerning those outcasts; and now let us return to the divine Scriptures, and let us drink waters out of our own cisterns [that is, the holy Fathers ], and out of our own springing wells.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  5. Quotes verse 5:22 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XXXV)

    "The wicked shall be holden with the cords of his own sins." Thereby are they deceived, whereby they would deceive.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)