Ecclesiastes · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Ecclesiastes 1 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 He aquí las palabras del Maestro, el rey de Jerusalén, hijo de David.
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 “¡Todo pasa, todo es tan temporal! Todo es tan difícil de entender”, dice el Maestro.
2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
3 ¿Qué provecho obtienes de trabajar como un esclavo en esta vida?
3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
4 La gente viene y va, pero la tierra es eterna.
4 One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
5 El sol sale, y el sol se pone, y luego vuelve corriendo a su lugar para salir de nuevo.
5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
6 El viento sopla hacia el sur y luego gira hacia el norte. Gira y gira, y finalmente da una vuelta completa.
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 Todos los arroyos desembocan en el mar, pero el mar nunca se llena. Los arroyos vuelven al lugar de donde vinieron.
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 sigue su curso. No puedes decir todo lo que hay por decir. No puedes ver todo lo que hay para ver. No se puede oír todo lo que hay para oír.
8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 Todo lo que fue seguirá siendo; todo lo que se ha hecho se volverá a hacer. Aquí nunca ocurre nada nuevo.
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 No hay nada que pueda señalar y decir: “¡Mira! Aquí hay algo nuevo”. De hecho, existe desde hace mucho tiempo, mucho antes de nuestra época.
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 El problema es que no recordamos a la gente del pasado, y la gente en el futuro no recordará a los que vinieron antes.
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 soy el Maestro, y fui rey sobre Israel, reinando desde Jerusalén.
12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 Decidí enfocar mi mente en explorar, empleando la sabiduría, todo lo que sucede aquí en la tierra. ¡Esta es una tarea difícil que Dios le ha dado a la gente para mantenerla ocupada!
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 Examiné todo lo que la gente hace aquí en la tierra, y descubrí que todo es tan temporal; ¡tratar de entenderlo es como tratar de sujetar el viento!
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
15 No se puede enderezar lo que está torcido, y no se puede contar lo que no existe.
15 That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
16 Pensé para mí: “Me he vuelto muy sabio, más sabio que todos los reyes de Jerusalén que me precedieron. Mi mente ha adquirido mucha sabiduría y conocimiento”.
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 Así que decidí usar mi mente para aprender todo sobre la sabiduría, y también sobre la locura y la necedad. Pero descubrí que esto es tan difícil como tratar de agarrar el viento.
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 Porque una gran sabiduría conlleva una gran frustración. Cuanto mayor es el conocimiento, más grande es la aflicción.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Cross references (18)
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
- 4 Psalm 104:5; Zechariah 1:5; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Matthew 24:35; Psalm 119:90–91
- 5 Psalm 42:1; Habakkuk 3:11; Psalm 19:4–6; Psalm 104:19–23; Joshua 10:13–14
- 6 John 3:8; Ecclesiastes 11:5; Job 37:9; Psalm 107:29; Job 37:17
- 7 Job 38:10–11
- 8 Proverbs 27:20; Matthew 11:28; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 5:10–11; Psalm 63:5
- 9 Ecclesiastes 3:15; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Revelation 21:1; Ecclesiastes 2:12; Ecclesiastes 7:10
- 10 Acts 7:51; Matthew 23:30–32; Luke 17:26–30; Matthew 5:12; 2 Timothy 3:8
- 11 Ecclesiastes 2:16; Psalm 9:6; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 41:22–26
- 12 Ecclesiastes 1:1; 1 Kings 4:1–19
- 13 Ecclesiastes 3:10; Genesis 3:19; 1 Timothy 4:15; Ecclesiastes 8:16–17; Ecclesiastes 1:17
- 14 Ecclesiastes 2:11; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Ecclesiastes 6:9; Ecclesiastes 1:17–18
- 15 Ecclesiastes 7:12–13; Matthew 6:27; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Isaiah 40:4; Lamentations 3:37
- 16 Ecclesiastes 2:9; 1 Kings 4:30; 1 Kings 10:7; 1 Kings 3:12–13; Hebrews 5:14
- 17 Ecclesiastes 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:21; Ecclesiastes 7:23–25; Ecclesiastes 2:10–12; Ecclesiastes 1:13–14
- 18 Job 28:28; Ecclesiastes 12:12–13; 1 Corinthians 3:18–20; Ecclesiastes 7:16; James 3:13–17
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).
"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)