1 Better [is] a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth. 2 Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth [it] unto his heart. 3 Better [is] sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better. 4 The heart of the wise [is] in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth. 5 Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than [for] a man to hear a song of fools, 6 For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So [is] the laughter of a fool, even this [is] vanity. 7 Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart. 8 Better [is] the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better [is] the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit. 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth. 10 Say not thou, 'What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this. 11 Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance, And an advantage [it is] to those beholding the sun. 12 For wisdom [is] a defense, money [is] a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom [is], She reviveth her possessors. 13 See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked? 14 In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him. 15 The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging [himself] in his wrong. 16 Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate? 17 Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time? 18 [It is] good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all. 19 The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city. 20 Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not. 21 Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee. 22 For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others. 23 All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, 'I am wise,' and it [is] far from me. 24 Far off [is] that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it? 25 I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness. 26 And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart [is] nets and snares, her hands [are] bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her. 27 See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason 28 (that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found. 29 See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they — they have sought out many devices.
Eclesiastés · Traducción literal de Young
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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 Apocalipsis 14:13; Proverbios 22:1; Eclesiastés 4:2; 2 Corintios 5:8; Filipenses 1:21–23
- 2 Salmo 90:12; Hebreos 9:27; Deuteronomio 32:29; Deuteronomio 32:46; Filipenses 3:19
- 3 2 Corintios 7:9–11; Romanos 5:3–4; Santiago 4:8–10; Juan 16:20–22; Hebreos 12:10–11
- 4 Mateo 8:14–16; Lucas 7:12–13; 1 Samuel 25:36; Nehemías 2:2–5; Jeremías 51:39
- 5 Proverbios 15:31–32; Salmo 141:5; Apocalipsis 3:19; Proverbios 13:18; Proverbios 17:10
- 6 Salmo 58:9; Salmo 118:12; Eclesiastés 2:2; Lucas 6:25; Judas 12–13
- 7 Deuteronomio 16:19; Éxodo 23:8; Proverbios 17:23; Eclesiastés 4:1; Isaías 1:23
- 8 Hebreos 10:36; Salmo 126:5–6; Proverbios 14:29; 1 Pedro 1:13; Santiago 5:11
- 9 Santiago 1:19; Proverbios 14:17; Proverbios 16:32; Efesios 4:26–27; Proverbios 26:23–26
- 10 Salmo 14:2–3; Génesis 6:11–12; Romanos 1:22–32; Isaías 50:1; Jueces 6:13
- 11 Eclesiastés 11:7; 1 Timoteo 6:17–19; Proverbios 8:10–11; Eclesiastés 2:13; Eclesiastés 9:15–18
- 12 Proverbios 8:35; Proverbios 2:7; Proverbios 3:18; Proverbios 11:4; Jueces 9:15
- 13 Eclesiastés 1:15; Job 12:14; Salmo 107:43; Isaías 14:27; Eclesiastés 3:11
- 14 Eclesiastés 3:4; Eclesiastés 3:22; Deuteronomio 8:3; Eclesiastés 12:13; Santiago 5:13
- 15 Eclesiastés 8:12–14; Eclesiastés 6:12; Salmo 73:3–13; Mateo 23:34–35; Eclesiastés 9:1–2
- 16 Romanos 12:3; Proverbios 25:16; Colosenses 2:18; Santiago 3:13–17; Mateo 6:1–7
- 17 Proverbios 10:27; Job 22:16; Salmo 55:23; Hechos 12:23; Hechos 5:10
- 18 Eclesiastés 12:13; Eclesiastés 11:6; Malaquías 4:2; Eclesiastés 8:12; Lucas 1:50
- 19 Proverbios 21:22; Colosenses 1:9–11; Eclesiastés 9:13–18; Proverbios 24:5; 2 Samuel 20:16–22
- 20 Romanos 3:23; Isaías 53:6; 1 Juan 1:8–10; Santiago 3:2; Proverbios 20:9
- 21 Proverbios 30:10; Isaías 29:21; 2 Samuel 16:10; 2 Samuel 19:19; 1 Corintios 13:5–7
- 22 Santiago 3:9; Mateo 15:19; Mateo 18:32–35; 1 Reyes 2:44; Juan 8:7–9
- 23 Romanos 1:22; 1 Corintios 1:20; Génesis 3:5; 1 Reyes 11:1–8; 1 Reyes 3:11–12
- 24 Romanos 11:33; Isaías 55:8–9; 1 Timoteo 6:16; Salmo 139:6; Job 28:28
- 25 Eclesiastés 10:13; Josué 7:13; Eclesiastés 2:15; Proverbios 17:12; Eclesiastés 3:16–17
- 26 Proverbios 22:14; Proverbios 5:3–5; Proverbios 2:16; Proverbios 2:18–19; Eclesiastés 2:26
- 27 Eclesiastés 12:8–10; Eclesiastés 1:1–2
- 28 Job 33:23; Salmo 12:1; 1 Reyes 11:1–3; Isaías 26:9; Eclesiastés 7:23–24
- 29 Jeremías 4:22; Génesis 6:11–12; Marcos 7:8–9; Tito 3:3; Génesis 5:1
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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).
… about eating and drinking, which he often repeats, and very much commends, does not savor the dainties of carnal pleasures, is made plain enough when he says, "It is better to go into the house of mourning than to go into the house of feasting." And a little after He says, "The heart of the wise is in the house …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For God, according to the Preacher, made man upright, and they have themselves sought out many inventions.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… is better to go into the house of mourning than to go into the house of feasting." And a little after He says, "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, and the heart of the simple in the house of feasting." But I think that more worthy of quotation from this book which relates to both …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)