1 My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments. 2 For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life and peace. 3 Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart: 4 And thou shalt And grace and good understanding before God and men. 5 Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence. 6 In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps. 7 I Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil: 8 For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones. 9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits: 10 And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses shall run over with wine. 11 My son, reject not the correction of the Lord: and do not faint when thou art chastised by him: 12 For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself. 13 Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom and is rich in prudence: 14 The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chiefest and purest gold: 15 She is more precious than all riches: and all the things that are desired, are not to be compared with her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and glory. 17 Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed. 19 The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, hath established the heavens by prudence. 20 By his wisdom the depths have broken out, and the clouds grow thick with dew. 21 My son, let not these things depart from thy eyes: keep the law and counsel: 22 And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth. 23 Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble: 24 If thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be sweet. 25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the power of the wicked falling upon thee. 26 For the Lord will be at thy side, and will keep thy foot that thou be not taken. 27 Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also. 28 Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and tomorrow I will give to thee: when thou canst give at present. 29 Practise not evil against thy friend, when he hath confidence in thee. 30 Strive not against a man without cause, when he hath done thee no evil. 31 Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow his ways: 32 For every mocker is an abomination to the Lord, and his communication is with the simple. 33 Want is from the Lord in the house of the wicked: but the habitations of the just shall be blessed. 34 He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace. 35 The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace.
Proverbios · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
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Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Juan 14:21–24; Proverbios 4:5; Deuteronomio 6:6–9; Salmo 119:16; Proverbios 1:8
- 2 Efesios 6:1–3; Proverbios 4:10; Salmo 91:16; Salmo 128:6; Romanos 15:13
- 3 Proverbios 7:3; 2 Corintios 3:3; Hebreos 10:16; Deuteronomio 11:18–21; Malaquías 2:6
- 4 Lucas 2:52; 1 Samuel 2:26; Romanos 14:18; Salmo 111:10; Génesis 39:2–4
- 5 Salmo 37:5; Jeremías 17:7–8; Proverbios 28:26; Salmo 37:3; Salmo 62:8
- 6 Proverbios 16:3; Salmo 32:8; Filipenses 4:6; Proverbios 16:9; Jeremías 10:23
- 7 Job 28:28; Romanos 12:16; Proverbios 26:12; Proverbios 16:6; Job 1:1
- 8 Proverbios 4:22; Salmo 147:3; Proverbios 16:24; Job 21:24; Ezequiel 16:4–5
- 9 Deuteronomio 26:2–15; 1 Corintios 16:2; Proverbios 14:31; Éxodo 23:19; Filipenses 4:17–18
- 10 Proverbios 19:17; Deuteronomio 28:8; Proverbios 11:24–25; Joel 2:24; Proverbios 22:9
- 11 Job 5:17; Apocalipsis 3:19; Hebreos 12:5–12; Salmo 94:12; Isaías 40:30–31
- 12 Deuteronomio 8:5; Apocalipsis 3:19; Proverbios 29:17; Proverbios 13:24; Salmo 103:13
- 13 Proverbios 8:32–35; Proverbios 4:5–9; Eclesiastés 9:15–18; Proverbios 2:4; 1 Reyes 10:1–9
- 14 Proverbios 8:10–11; Proverbios 16:16; Proverbios 8:19; Job 28:13–19; Apocalipsis 3:18
- 15 Proverbios 8:11; Proverbios 31:10; Job 28:18; Romanos 8:18; Salmo 73:25–26
- 16 Proverbios 3:2; 2 Corintios 6:10; Proverbios 22:4; 1 Reyes 3:13; 1 Timoteo 4:8
- 17 Lucas 1:79; Isaías 26:3; Filipenses 4:8–9; Proverbios 2:10; Salmo 119:165
- 18 Proverbios 11:30; Proverbios 15:4; Apocalipsis 2:7; Génesis 2:9; Proverbios 13:12
- 19 Salmo 104:24; Jeremías 10:12; Juan 1:3; Jeremías 51:15; Salmo 136:5
- 20 Génesis 7:11; Salmo 65:9–12; Job 36:27–28; Génesis 1:9; Génesis 27:28
- 21 Josué 1:8; Deuteronomio 6:6–9; Deuteronomio 32:46–47; Proverbios 4:21; Hebreos 2:1–3
- 22 Proverbios 4:22; Proverbios 1:9; Isaías 38:16; Juan 12:49–50
- 23 Proverbios 4:12; Proverbios 10:9; Salmo 121:3; Salmo 91:11–12; Salmo 37:31
- 24 Salmo 4:8; Salmo 3:5; Proverbios 6:22; Job 11:19; Salmo 121:4–7
- 25 Isaías 41:10–14; Salmo 112:7; 1 Pedro 3:14; Salmo 91:5; Isaías 8:12–13
- 26 Salmo 91:3; Proverbios 14:26; 1 Samuel 2:9; Salmo 91:9–10; Habacuc 3:17–18
- 27 Gálatas 6:10; Santiago 2:15–16; Romanos 13:7; Santiago 5:4; Génesis 31:29
- 28 Levítico 19:13; Deuteronomio 24:12–15; 2 Corintios 8:11; Eclesiastés 9:10; Eclesiastés 11:6
- 29 Proverbios 6:14; Salmo 55:20; Miqueas 2:1–2; Proverbios 16:29–30; Salmo 59:3
- 30 2 Timoteo 2:24; Proverbios 29:22; Romanos 12:18–21; Proverbios 25:8–9; Proverbios 18:6
- 31 Proverbios 24:1; Salmo 37:1; Gálatas 5:21; Eclesiastés 5:8; Proverbios 23:17
- 32 Salmo 25:14; Proverbios 11:20; Juan 15:15; Proverbios 17:15; Proverbios 8:13
- 33 Salmo 37:22; Levítico 26:14–46; Salmo 91:10; Job 8:6–7; Malaquías 2:2
- 34 Santiago 4:6; 1 Pedro 5:5; Salmo 138:6; Proverbios 9:12; Isaías 57:15
- 35 Salmo 132:18; Isaías 65:13–15; 1 Samuel 2:30; Daniel 12:2–3; Salmo 73:24
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«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).
"For God," saith [the Scripture], "resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." Let us cleave, then, to those to whom grace has been given by God.
By His knowledge the depths burst forth, and the clouds dropped down the dew." And again: "The Lord created me the beginning of His ways in His work: He set me up from everlasting, in the beginning, before He made the earth, before He established the depths, and before the fountains of waters gushed forth; before the mountains were made …
For Thou hast said unto man, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;" and desire not to seem wise, because, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." But I had now found the goodly pearl, which, selling all that I had, I ought to have bought; and I hesitated.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For thus saith the holy Word: "The Lord hath severely chastened me, yet hath not given me over to death." "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." "The righteous," saith it, "shall chasten me in mercy, and reprove me; but let not the oil of sinners make fat my head." And again he …
So that the tree of life would seem to have been in the terrestrial Paradise what the wisdom of God is in the spiritual, of which it is written, "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her."
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)