1 No te precipites a hablar, ni tu corazón se apresure a pronunciar una palabra ante Dios. Pues Dios está en el cielo, pero tú en la tierra: sean por tanto pocas tus palabras.
| 1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil. |
2 Porque, los sueños vienen de las muchas tareas. la voz necia, de las muchas palabras.
| 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few. |
3 Si haces voto a Dios, no tardes en cumplirlo; pues no le agradan los necios. El voto que has hecho, cúmplelo.
| 3 For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words. |
4 Es mejor no hacer votos que hacerlos y no cumplirlos.
| 4 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. |
5 No permitas que tu boca haga de ti un pecador, y luego digas ante el Mensajero que fue inadvertencia. ¿Por qué deberá Dios irritarse por tu palabra y destruir la obra de tus manos?
| 5 It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. |
6 Cuantos los sueños, tantas las vanidades y las muchas palabras. Pero tú teme a Dios.
| 6 Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake; why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? |
7 Si en la región ves la opresión del pobre y la violación del derecho y de la justicia, no te asombres por eso. Se te dirá que una dignidad vigila sobre otra dignidad, y otra más dignas sobre ambas.
| 7 For when dreams increase, empty words grow many: but do you fear God. |
8 Se invocará el interés común y el servicio del rey.
| 8 If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them. |
9 Quien ama el dinero, no se harta de él, y para quien ama riquezas, no bastas ganancias. También esto es vanidad.
| 9 But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields. |
10 A muchos bienes, muchos que los devoren; y ¿de qué más sirven a su dueño que de espectáculo para sus ojos?
| 10 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity. |
11 Dulce el sueño del obrero, coma poco o coma mucho; pero al rico la hartura no le deja dormir.
| 11 When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes? |
12 Hay un grave mal que yo he visto bajo el sol: riqueza guardada para su dueño, y que solo sirve para su mal,
| 12 Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep. |
13 pues las riquezas perecen en un mal negocio, y cuando engendra un hijo, nada queda ya en su mano.
| 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, |
14 Como salió del vientre de su madre, desnudo volverá, como ha venido; y nada podrá sacar de sus fatigas que pueda llevar en la mano.
| 14 and those riches were lost in a bad venture; and he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand. |
15 También esto es grave mal: que tal como vino, se vaya; y ¿de qué le vale el fatigarse para el viento?
| 15 As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand. |
16 Todos los días pasa en oscuridad, pena, fastidio, enfermedad y rabia.
| 16 This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he that he toiled for the wind, |
17 Esto he experimentado: lo mejor para el hombre es comer, beber y disfrutar en todos sus fatigosos afanes bajo el sol, en los contados días de la vida que Dios le da; porque esta es su paga.
| 17 and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness and resentment? |
18 Y además: cuando a cualquier hombre Dios da riquezas y tesoros, le deja disfrutar de ellos, tomar su paga y holgarse en medio de sus fatigas, esto es un don de Dios.
| 18 Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life which God has given him, for this is his lot. |
19 Porque así no recuerda mucho los días de su vida, mientras Dios le llena de alegría el corazón.
| 19 Every man also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and find enjoyment in his toil--this is the gift of God. |
| 20 For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart. |
