Proverbios · Biblia en inglés básico
Proverbios 4 Biblia en inglés básico
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RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
WEB World English Bible (clásica, con deuterocanónicos)
1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:
1 OID, hijos, la doctrina de un padre, y estad atentos para que conozcáis cordura.
1 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.
2 Porque os doy buena enseñanza; no desamparéis mi ley.
2 for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.
3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.
3 Porque yo fuí hijo de mi padre, delicado y único delante de mi madre.
3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
4 Y él me enseñaba, y me decía: Mantenga tu corazón mis razones, guarda mis mandamientos, y vivirás:
4 He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.
5 Adquiere sabiduría, adquiere inteligencia; no te olvides ni te apartes de las razones de mi boca;
5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.
6 No la dejes, y ella te guardará; ámala, y te conservará.
6 Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
7 The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.
7 Sabiduría ante todo: adquiere sabiduría: y ante toda tu posesión adquiere inteligencia.
7 Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
8 Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.
8 Engrandécela, y ella te engrandecerá: ella te honrará, cuando tú la hubieres abrazado.
8 Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.
9 She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.
9 Adorno de gracia dará á tu cabeza: corona de hermosura te entregará.
9 She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
10 Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.
10 Oye, hijo mío, y recibe mis razones; y se te multiplicarán años de vida.
10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.
11 Por el camino de la sabiduría te he encaminado, y por veredas derechas te he hecho andar.
11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.
12 When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.
12 Cuando anduvieres no se estrecharán tus pasos; y si corrieres, no tropezarás.
12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
13 Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.
13 Ten el consejo, no lo dejes; guárdalo, porque eso es tu vida.
13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
14 Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.
14 No entres por la vereda de los impíos, ni vayas por el camino de los malos.
14 Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.
15 Desampárala, no pases por ella; apártate de ella, pasa.
15 Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
16 Porque no duermen ellos, si no hicieren mal; y pierden su sueño, si no han hecho caer.
16 For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
17 Porque comen pan de maldad, y beben vino de robos.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
18 Mas la senda de los justos es como la luz de la aurora, que va en aumento hasta que el día es perfecto.
18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
19 El camino de los impíos es como la oscuridad: no saben en qué tropiezan.
19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
20 My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.
20 Hijo mío, está atento á mis palabras; inclina tu oído á mis razones.
20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.
21 No se aparten de tus ojos; guárdalas en medio de tu corazón.
21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
22 For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
22 Porque son vida á los que las hallan, y medicina á toda su carne.
22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
23 Sobre toda cosa guardada guarda tu corazón; porque de él mana la vida.
23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.
24 Aparta de ti la perversidad de la boca, y aleja de ti la iniquidad de labios.
24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.
25 Tus ojos miren lo recto, y tus párpados en derechura delante de ti.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.
26 Examina la senda de tus pies, y todos tus caminos sean ordenados.
26 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.
27 No te apartes á diestra, ni á siniestra: aparta tu pie del mal.
27 Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
Referencias cruzadas (27)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Hebreos 2:1; Salmo 34:11; Proverbios 1:8; Proverbios 2:1–5; 1 Tesalonicenses 2:11–12
- 2 1 Timoteo 4:6; Tito 1:9; Salmo 89:30–32; Proverbios 8:6–9; Deuteronomio 32:2
- 3 1 Crónicas 22:5; Romanos 12:16; 1 Crónicas 29:1; Zacarías 12:10; 1 Crónicas 3:5
- 4 Proverbios 3:1; Efesios 6:4; Juan 12:50; Proverbios 7:2; 1 Crónicas 28:9
- 5 Santiago 1:5; Proverbios 3:13–18; Proverbios 1:22–23; 2 Crónicas 34:2; Salmo 44:18
- 6 2 Tesalonicenses 2:10; Proverbios 4:21–22; Efesios 3:17; Proverbios 2:10–12
- 7 Eclesiastés 7:12; Eclesiastés 9:16–18; Proverbios 23:23; Proverbios 16:16; Filipenses 3:8
- 8 Daniel 12:3; 1 Samuel 2:30; Proverbios 3:35; 1 Reyes 3:5–13; Proverbios 22:4
- 9 Proverbios 1:9; 1 Pedro 5:4; Hebreos 2:7–9; Proverbios 16:31; Isaías 28:5
- 10 1 Tesalonicenses 2:13; Proverbios 3:2; Deuteronomio 6:2; Jeremías 9:20; Proverbios 3:16
- 11 Salmo 25:4–5; Eclesiastés 12:9; Proverbios 8:9; Proverbios 8:6; 1 Samuel 12:23–24
- 12 Proverbios 3:23; Salmo 18:36; 2 Samuel 22:37; 1 Pedro 2:8; Juan 11:9–10
- 13 Proverbios 3:18; Hebreos 2:1; Proverbios 23:23; Deuteronomio 32:47; Hechos 2:42
- 14 Salmo 1:1; 1 Corintios 15:33; Proverbios 1:15; Proverbios 1:10; Proverbios 13:20
- 15 Efesios 5:11; Job 22:23; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:22; Éxodo 23:7; Job 11:14
- 16 Salmo 36:4; Miqueas 2:1; Isaías 57:20; 2 Pedro 2:14; Proverbios 1:16
- 17 Miqueas 6:12; Proverbios 9:17; Proverbios 20:17; Salmo 14:4; Santiago 5:4–5
- 18 Juan 8:12; Job 11:17; Daniel 12:3; Filipenses 2:15; 2 Corintios 3:18
- 19 Juan 12:35; Isaías 59:9–10; Jeremías 23:12; Job 18:5–6; 1 Samuel 2:9
- 20 Proverbios 5:1; Isaías 55:3; Proverbios 6:20–21; Proverbios 7:1; Salmo 78:1
- 21 Proverbios 3:21; Proverbios 3:3; Proverbios 7:1–2; Salmo 40:8; Proverbios 2:1
- 22 Jeremías 33:6; Proverbios 12:18; Proverbios 4:10; Proverbios 3:8; Proverbios 4:4
- 23 Lucas 6:45; Mateo 12:34–35; Marcos 7:21–23; Salmo 139:23–24; Proverbios 13:3
- 24 Proverbios 8:8; Santiago 1:26; Proverbios 8:13; Efesios 4:25–31; 1 Pedro 2:1
- 25 Salmo 119:37; Mateo 6:22; Job 31:1; Proverbios 23:33; Proverbios 23:5
- 26 Hebreos 12:13; Salmo 37:23; Salmo 119:5; 2 Tesalonicenses 3:3; Hageo 1:5
- 27 Deuteronomio 5:32; Josué 1:7; Deuteronomio 28:14; Proverbios 16:17; Deuteronomio 12:32
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
It is not an enemy, O man, that assails thee from without, but an evil shoot growing up out of thyself. Look right on with thine eyes, and there is no lust.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)