1 My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace. 3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favour, and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. 7 Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 8 It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones. 9 Honour the LORD with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase; 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. 11 My son, don’t despise the LORD’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction; 12 for whom the LORD loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights. 13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. 14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honour. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her. 19 By wisdom the LORD founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew. 21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion, 22 so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck. 23 Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble. 24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet. 25 Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes; 26 for the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken. 27 Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. 28 Don’t say to your neighbour, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you. 29 Don’t devise evil against your neighbour, since he dwells securely by you. 30 Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm. 31 Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. 32 For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright. 33 The LORD’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. 34 Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble. 35 The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.
Proverbios · World English Bible, edición británica (con deuterocanónicos)
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- 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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"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)