1 Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice? 2 Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths. 3 Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: 4 O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. 5 O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice. 6 Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things. 7 My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness. 8 All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them. 9 They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge. 10 Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold. 11 For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it. 12 I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts. 13 The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue. 14 Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine. 15 By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things, 16 By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice. 17 I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me. 18 With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice. 19 For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver. 20 I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment, 21 That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures. 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. 23 I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made. 24 The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out: 25 The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth: 26 He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths: 28 When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: 29 When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth; 30 I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; 31 Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. 32 Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. 35 He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord: 36 But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
Proverbios · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
Proverbios 8 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 Proverbios 1:20–21; Mateo 3:3; Juan 7:37; Proverbios 9:1–3; Hechos 1:8
- 2 Proverbios 9:14; Proverbios 9:3
- 3 Job 29:7; Lucas 14:21–23; Mateo 22:9; Hechos 5:20; Juan 18:20
- 4 Mateo 11:15; Salmo 50:1; Juan 3:16; Salmo 49:1–3; Apocalipsis 22:17
- 5 Proverbios 1:22; Hechos 26:18; Proverbios 9:4; Apocalipsis 3:17–18; 1 Corintios 6:9–11
- 6 Colosenses 1:26; Mateo 7:28–29; Mateo 13:35; Proverbios 4:2; Proverbios 23:16
- 7 Salmo 37:30; Juan 8:14; Juan 17:17; Proverbios 12:22; Job 36:4
- 8 Juan 7:46; Proverbios 8:13; Salmo 12:6; Deuteronomio 32:5; Isaías 45:23
- 9 Proverbios 14:6; Santiago 1:5; Juan 7:17; Salmo 25:12–14; Juan 6:45
- 10 Proverbios 2:4–5; Salmo 119:127; Salmo 119:72; Proverbios 23:23; Proverbios 3:13–15
- 11 Proverbios 3:14–15; Proverbios 4:5–7; Proverbios 16:16; Salmo 119:127; Salmo 19:10
- 12 Isaías 28:26; Éxodo 35:30–36:4; Éxodo 31:3–6; Romanos 11:33; Proverbios 1:4
- 13 Salmo 97:10; Proverbios 16:6; 1 Samuel 2:3; Proverbios 4:24; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:22
- 14 Eclesiastés 7:19; Isaías 9:6; Romanos 11:33–34; Isaías 40:14; Eclesiastés 9:16–18
- 15 Romanos 13:1; Daniel 2:21; Mateo 28:18; Apocalipsis 19:16; Daniel 7:13–14
- 17 Juan 14:23; Juan 14:21; Salmo 91:14; Isaías 55:6; 1 Juan 4:19
- 18 Proverbios 3:16; Mateo 6:33; Lucas 16:11–12; Filipenses 4:19; Efesios 3:8
- 19 Proverbios 3:14; Proverbios 10:20; Eclesiastés 7:12; Proverbios 8:10
- 20 Juan 10:27–28; Salmo 32:8; Deuteronomio 5:32; Proverbios 4:11–12; Proverbios 6:22
- 21 1 Pedro 1:4; Proverbios 24:4; Génesis 15:14; Mateo 25:46; Hebreos 10:34
- 22 Colosenses 1:17; Juan 1:1–2; Proverbios 3:19; Salmo 104:24; Job 28:26–28
- 23 Juan 17:24; Juan 17:5; Génesis 1:26; Miqueas 5:2; Salmo 2:6
- 24 Proverbios 3:20; 1 Juan 4:9; Génesis 1:2; Hebreos 1:5; Juan 5:20
- 25 Salmo 90:2; Job 15:7–8; Job 38:4–11; Salmo 102:25–28; Hebreos 1:10
- 26 Génesis 1:1–31
- 27 Isaías 40:22; Job 26:10; Proverbios 3:19; Salmo 136:5; Colosenses 1:16
- 29 Salmo 104:9; Jeremías 5:22; Génesis 1:9–10; Salmo 33:7; Salmo 104:5
- 30 Juan 1:1–3; Juan 1:18; Mateo 3:17; Juan 16:28; Isaías 42:1
- 31 Salmo 16:3; Juan 13:1; Salmo 40:6–8; 2 Corintios 8:9; Juan 4:34
- 32 Lucas 11:28; Salmo 119:1–2; Salmo 128:1; Salmo 1:1–4; Proverbios 5:7
- 33 Proverbios 4:1; Salmo 81:11–12; Proverbios 1:8; Proverbios 5:1; Proverbios 1:2–3
- 34 Mateo 7:24; Lucas 11:28; Proverbios 3:13; Salmo 27:4; Hechos 2:42
- 35 Juan 3:36; 1 Juan 5:11–12; Proverbios 12:2; Filipenses 3:8; Juan 17:3
- 36 Proverbios 15:32; Proverbios 1:31; Juan 15:23–24; 1 Corintios 16:22; Proverbios 12:1
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… 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 strong, and before all the hills, He brought me forth." And again: "When He prepared the heaven, I was with Him, and when He established …
"Who shall deliver him from the body of this death," but Thy grace only, "through Jesus Christ our Lord,'" whom Thou hast begotten co-eternal, and createdst in the beginning of Thy ways, in whom the Prince of this world found nothing worthy of death, yet killed he Him, and the handwriting which was contrary to us was blotted out?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
In their eyes the following is only too ready to hand "The Lord created me at the beginning of His ways with a view to His works." How shall we meet this?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
But others, though future, are put in the past tense, as, for instance, This is our God: Therefore He was seen upon the earth and dwelt among men, and The Lord created me in the beginning of His ways for His works, and Wherefore God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows, and such …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
I was He in whom He rejoiced, and throughout all time I was daily glad before His face, when He rejoiced at the completion of the world, and was delighted in the sons of men."