Proverbs 8
1 It is as if wisdom, with great understanding [of many things], is calling [PRS] out [to people].
¿NO clama la sabiduría, y da su voz la inteligencia?
2 Wisdom stands on hilltops and at crossroads.
En los altos cabezos, junto al camino, á las encrucijadas de las veredas se para;
3 [Wisdom also stands] at the city gates and shouts loudly,
En el lugar de las puertas, á la entrada de la ciudad, á la entrada de las puertas da voces:
4 “I am calling to everyone! I am shouting loudly to all people!
Oh hombres, á vosotros clamo; y mi voz es á los hijos de los hombres.
5 You people who do not know how to do things that are smart to do, get sound judgment; you foolish people, get good understanding!
Entended, simples, discreción; y vosotros, locos, entrad en cordura.
6 Listen to me, because I have some excellent/important things to say. What I say is what is fair/right.
Oid, porque hablaré cosas excelentes; y abriré mis labios para cosas rectas.
7 I speak what is true; I detest speaking [MTY] what is false/deceptive.
Porque mi boca hablará verdad, y la impiedad abominan mis labios.
8 Everything that I say is honest; there is nothing that I say that deceives [people].
En justicia son todas las razones de mi boca; no hay en ellas cosa perversa ni torcida.
9 My words are clear to those who have good sense; those who are wise know that what I say is right.
Todas ellas son rectas al que entiende, y razonables á los que han hallado sabiduría.
10 [If someone offers you the kind of teaching I give] or offers you silver, choose my teaching. [If he offers to show you how to be wise] or offers you gold, choose to know how to be wise,
Recibid mi enseñanza, y no plata; y ciencia antes que el oro escogido.
11 because wisdom is more valuable than jewels. Nothing that you desire [is as valuable] as being wise.
Porque mejor es la sabiduría que las piedras preciosas; y todas las cosas que se pueden desear, no son de comparar con ella.
12 I, wisdom, and understanding of what is smart to do, cannot be separated. We are like two people who live in the same house. I know how to be wise and how to make smart decisions.
Yo, la sabiduría, habito con la discreción, y hallo la ciencia de los consejos.
13 [All the people] who revere Yahweh hate evil. I, wisdom, hate [people who are] proud and [people] who think they are more important [than others]. I hate [people who] behave in an evil way and those who say things to deceive [others].
El temor de Jehová es aborrecer el mal; la soberbia y la arrogancia, y el mal camino y la boca perversa, aborrezco.
14 I give [people] good advice and I enable them to do things that are wise. I understand how things really are, and I am strong.
Conmigo está el consejo y el ser; yo soy la inteligencia; mía es la fortaleza.
15 When kings are wise, they rule [well]; and when rulers are wise, they make laws that are just/fair.
Por mí reinan los reyes, y los príncipes determinan justicia.
16 Rulers govern their people with the help of me, wisdom, and those who have authority decide things fairly/just with my help.
Por mí dominan los príncipes, y todos los gobernadores juzgan la tierra.
17 I, [wisdom], love [all] those who love me, and [all] those who truly seek me [will] find me.
Yo amo á los que me aman; y me hallan los que madrugando me buscan.
18 I enable [people] to become rich and to be honored; [I enable them to have] wealth that will last and to be successful.
Las riquezas y la honra están conmigo; sólidas riquezas, y justicia.
19 What I can give people is more valuable than fine/pure gold and the best silver.
Mejor es mi fruto que el oro, y que el oro refinado; y mi rédito [mejor] que la plata escogida.
20 I always do what is righteous and just/fair.
Por vereda de justicia guiaré, por en medio de sendas de juicio;
21 I give wealth to those who love me; I fill their houses with valuable things.
Para hacer heredar á mis amigos el ser, y que yo hincha sus tesoros.
22 Yahweh created me, [wisdom], when he began [to create the world]; he created me [to do my work] before he created anything else.
Jehová me poseía en el principio de su camino, ya de antiguo, antes de sus obras.
23 He appointed me long ago, before he created the earth.
Eternalmente tuve el principado, desde el principio, antes de la tierra.
24 I was born before the oceans were [created], when there were no springs from which water flowed.
Antes de los abismos fuí engendrada; antes que fuesen las fuentes de las muchas aguas.
25 I was born before the hills and mountains were formed;
Antes que los montes fuesen fundados, antes de los collados, era yo engendrada:
26 [I, wisdom], was born before Yahweh made the earth, before he made the fields and the soil on the earth.
No había aún hecho la tierra, ni las campiñas, ni el principio del polvo del mundo.
27 I was there when Yahweh put the sky in place, when he marked the place [in the distance] where the sky and the oceans [seem to] come together.
Cuando formaba los cielos, allí estaba yo; cuando señalaba por compás la sobrefaz del abismo;
28 I was there when Yahweh put the clouds above [the earth] and when he caused the water that is inside the earth to be secure.
Cuando afirmaba los cielos arriba, cuando afirmaba las fuentes del abismo;
29 I was there when he fixed a boundary for the seas, so that the water in the seas would not go past those boundaries, and when he put down the foundations which support the earth.
Cuando ponía á la mar su estatuto, y á las aguas, que no pasasen su mandamiento; cuando establecía los fundamentos de la tierra;
30 I was at the side of Yahweh, the master worker (OR, as though I was his child). I caused him to be happy every day, and I was always rejoicing when I was with him.
Con él estaba yo ordenándolo todo; y fuí [su] delicia todos los días, teniendo solaz delante de él en todo tiempo.
31 I was delighted with the world that he created; I was happy with the people whom he created, too.
Huélgome en la parte habitable de su tierra; y mis delicias son con los hijos de los hombres.
32 So, [you people who are like] my sons, listen to me. [I am] pleased with [all] those who obey my teachings.
Ahora pues, hijos, oidme; y bienaventurados los que guardaren mis caminos.
33 Listen [carefully] to what I teach you and become wise. Do not reject my teaching!
Atended el consejo, y sed sabios, y no lo menospreciéis.
34 [I am] pleased with those who listen to me, those who are outside my house every day, waiting [for me to come out].
Bienaventurado el hombre que me oye, velando á mis puertas cada día, guardando los umbrales de mis entradas.
35 Those who find me will have [a long] life, and Yahweh [will] be pleased with them.
Porque el que me hallare, hallará la vida, y alcanzará el favor de Jehová.
36 But those who stray away from me [just] harm themselves. All those who hate me, [it is as though] [IRO] they are loving death.”
Mas el que peca contra mí, defrauda su alma: todos los que me aborrecen, aman la muerte.
