1 Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? 2 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands. 3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud: 4 “I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind. 5 You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart! 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things. 7 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. 9 They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge. 10 Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold. 11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it. 12 “I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion. 13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth. 14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power. 15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. 16 By me princes rule, nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth. 17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me. 18 With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity. 19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver. 20 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice, 21 that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries. 22 “Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed. 24 When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born; 26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. 27 When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep, 28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, 29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 30 then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him, 31 rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men. 32 “Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it. 34 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts. 35 For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh. 36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
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- 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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Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
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