Ecclesiastes 5
1 Keep your foot, whenever you go to the house of God; and [when you are] near to hear, let your sacrifice [be] better than the gift of fools: for they know not that they are doing evil.
Cuando fueres a la casa de Dios, guarda tu pie; y acércate más para oír que para dar el sacrificio de los locos; porque no saben hacer lo que Dios quiere.
2 Be not hasty with your mouth, and let not your heart be swift to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven above, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.
No te des prisa con tu boca, ni tu corazón se apresure a proferir palabra delante de Dios; porque Dios está en el cielo, y tú sobre la tierra; por tanto, sean pocas tus palabras.
3 For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool's voice is with a multitude of words.
Porque de la mucha ocupación viene el sueño, y de la multitud de las palabras la voz del loco.
4 Whenever you shall vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he has] no pleasure in fools: pay you therefore whatever you shall have vowed.
Cuando a Dios hicieres promesa, no tardes en pagarla; porque no se agrada de los locos. Paga lo que prometieres.
5 [It is] better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
Mejor es que no prometas, que no que prometas y no pagues.
6 Suffer not your mouth to lead your flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, It was an error: lest God be angry at your voice, and destroy the works of your hands.
No sueltes tu boca para hacer pecar a tu carne; ni digas delante del ángel, que fue ignorancia. ¿Por qué harás que Dios se aíre a causa de tu voz, y que destruya la obra de tus manos?
7 For [there is evil] in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear you God.
Porque los sueños abundan, y las vanidades y las palabras son muchas; mas tú teme a Dios.
8 If you should see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter: for [there is] a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.
Si violencias de pobres, y extorsión de derecho y de justicia vieres en la provincia, no te maravilles de esta licencia; porque alto está mirando sobre alto, y uno más alto está sobre ellos.
9 Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king [is dependent on] the tilled field.
Y mayor altura hay en todas las cosas de la tierra; mas el que sirve al campo es rey.
10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also vanity.
El que ama el dinero, no se saciará de dinero; y el que ama el mucho tener, no sacará fruto. También esto es vanidad.
11 In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: and what virtue has the owner, but the right of beholding [it] with his eyes?
Cuando los bienes se aumentan, también se aumentan los que los comen. ¿Qué bien, pues, tendrá su dueño, sino verlos con sus ojos?
12 The sleep of a servant is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but to one who is satiated with wealth, there is none that suffers him to sleep.
Dulce es el sueño del trabajador, coma mucho o coma poco; mas al rico no lo deja dormir la abundancia.
13 There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, [namely], wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.
Hay otra enfermedad maligna que he visto debajo del sol: las riquezas guardadas por sus dueños para su mal;
14 And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: and [the man] begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
las cuales se pierden en malas ocupaciones, y a los hijos que engendraron nada les queda en la mano.
15 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, he shall return back as he came, and he shall receive nothing for his labor, that it should go [with him] in his hand.
Como salió del vientre de su madre, desnudo, así vuelve, yéndose tal como vino; y nada tiene de su trabajo para llevar en su mano.
16 And this is also an evil infirmity: for as he came, so also shall he return: and what is his gain, for which he vainly labors?
Este también es un gran mal, que como vino, así haya de volver. ¿Y de qué le aprovechó trabajar al viento?
17 Yes, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, and much sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath.
Además de esto, todos los días de su vida comerá en tinieblas, con mucho enojo y dolor e ira.
18 Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor in which he may labor under the sun, [all] the number of the days of his life which God has given to him: for it is his portion.
He aquí pues el bien que yo he visto: Que lo bueno es comer y beber, y gozar uno del bien de todo su trabajo con que se fatiga debajo del sol, todos los días de su vida que Dios le ha dado; porque esta es su parte.
19 Yes, and [as for] every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.
Asimismo, a todo hombre a quien Dios dio riquezas y hacienda, también le dio facultad para que coma de ellas, y tome su parte, y goce su trabajo; esto es don de Dios.
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God troubles him in the mirth of his heart.
Al tal, Dios le quitará las congojas comunes a otros; pues Dios le responderá con alegría de su corazón.
