Sabiduría 12

BIBLIA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 pues tu espíritu incorruptible está en todas ellas.	1 O how good and gracious, Lord, is your spirit in all things!
2 Por eso mismo gradualmente castigas a los que caen; les amonestas recordándoles en qué pecan para que, apartándose del mal, crean en ti, Señor.	2 Therefore, those who wander afield, you correct, and, as to those who sin, you counsel them and admonish them, so that, having abandoned malice, they may believe in you, O Lord.
3 A los antiguos habitantes de tu tierra santa	3 For those ancient inhabitants of your holy land, who you abhorred,
4 los odiabas, porque cometían las más nefastas acciones, prácticas de hechicería, iniciaciones impías.	4 because they were doing works hateful to you, through unjust medicines and sacrifices,
5 A estos despiadados asesinos de sus hijos, devoradores de entrañas en banquetes de carne humana y de sangre, a estos iniciados en bacanales,	5 and the merciless murderers of their own sons, and the eaters of human entrails, and the devourers of blood apart from your community sacrament,
6 padres asesinos de seres indefensos, habías querido destruirlos a manos de nuestros padres,	6 and the sellers performing the ceremonies of helpless souls, you willed to destroy by the hands of our parents,
7 para que la tierra que te era la más apreciada de todas, recibiera una digna colonia de hijos de Dios.	7 so that they might worthily secure the sojourn of the children of God, in the land which is most beloved by you.
8 Pero aun con éstos, por ser hombres, te mostraste indulgente, y les enviaste avispas, como precursoras de tu ejército, que les fuesen poco a poco destruyendo.	8 Yet, so that you were lenient even to these men, you sent wasps, forerunners of your army, so that you might destroy them little by little,
9 No porque no pudieses en batalla campal entregar a los impíos en manos de los justos, o aniquilarlos de una vez con feroces fieras o con una palabra inexorable,	9 not because you were unable to subdue the impious under the just by war or by cruel beasts, or with a harsh word to exterminate them at once,
10 sino que les concedías, con un castigo gradual, una ocasión de arrepentirse; aun sabiendo que era su natural perverso, su malicia innata, y que jamás cambiaría su manera de pensar	10 but, in judging by degrees, you were giving them a place of repentance, not unaware that their nation is wicked, and their malice is inherent, and that their thinking could never be changed.
11 por ser desde el comienzo una raza maldita. Tampoco por temor a nadie concedías la impunidad a sus pecados.	11 For this offspring was accursed from the beginning. Neither did you, fearing anyone, give favor to their sins.
12 Pues ¿quién podría decirte: «¿Qué has hecho?» ¿Quién se opondría a tu sentencia? ¿Quién te citaría a juicio por destruir naciones por ti creadas? ¿Quién se alzaría contra ti como vengador de hombres inicuos?	12 For who will say to you, “What have you done?” Or who will stand against your judgment? Or who will come before you as a defender of unfair men? Or who will accuse you, if the nations perish, which you have made?
13 Pues fuera de ti no hay un Dios que de todas las cosas cuide, a quien tengas que dar cuenta de la justicia de tus juicios;	13 For neither is there any other God but you, who has care of all, to whom you would show that you did not give judgment unjustly.
14 ni hay rey ni soberano que se te enfrente en favor de los que has castigado.	14 Neither will king or tyrant inquire before you about those whom you destroyed.
15 Sino que, como eres justo, con justicia administras el universo, y miras como extraño a tu poder condenar a quien no merece ser castigado.	15 Therefore, since you are just, you order all things justly, considering it foreign to your virtue to condemn him who does not deserve to be punished.
16 Tu fuerza es el principio de tu justicia y tu señorío sobre todos los seres te hace indulgente con todos ellos	16 For your power is the beginning of justice, and, because you are Lord of all, you make yourself to be lenient to all.
17 Ostentas tu fuerza a los que no creen en la plenitud de tu poder, y confundes la audacia de los que la conocen.	17 For you reveal power to those who do not believe you to be perfect in power, and you expose the arrogance of those who do not know you.
18 Dueño de tu fuerza, juzgas con moderación y nos gobiernas con mucha indulgencia porque, con sólo quererlo, lo puedes todo.	18 Yet, you are the master of power, since you judge with tranquility, and since you administer us with great reverence; for it is close to you to be used whenever you will.
19 Obrando así enseñaste a tu pueblo que el justo debe ser amigo del hombre, y diste a tus hijos la buena esperanza de que, en el pecado, das lugar al arrepentimiento.	19 But you have taught your people, through such works, that they must be just and humane, and you have made your sons to be of good hope, because in judging you provide a place for repentance from sins.
20 Pues si a los enemigos de tus hijos, merecedores de la muerte, con tanto miramiento e indulgencia los castigaste dándoles tiempo y lugar para apartarse de la maldad,	20 For even if the enemies of your servants were deserving of death, you afflicted them with great attentiveness, providing a time and a place whereby they would be able to be changed from malice;
21 ¿con qué consideración no juzgaste a los hijos tuyos, a cuyos padres con juramentos y pactos tan buenas promesas hiciste?	21 with what diligence, then, have you judged your sons, whose parents you have given oaths and covenants in good faith!
22 Así pues, para aleccionarnos, a nuestros enemigos los flagelas con moderación, para que, al juzgar, tengamos en cuenta tu bondad y, al ser juzgados, esperemos tu misericordia.	22 Therefore, while you give us discipline, you give our enemies a multiplicity of scourges, so that in judging we may think on your goodness, and when we are judged, we may hope for mercy.
23 Por tanto, también a los que inicuamente habían vivido una vida insensata les atormentaste con sus mismas abominaciones.	23 Therefore, also to these, who have lived their lived their life irrationally and unjustly, through these things that they worshiped, you gave the greatest torments.
24 Demasiado, en verdad, se habían desviado por los caminos del error, teniendo por dioses a los más viles y despreciables, animales, dejándose engañar como pequeñuelos inconscientes.	24 And, indeed, they wandered for a long time in the way of error, valuing those things as gods, which are worthless even among animals, living in foolish irrational behavior.
25 Por eso, como a niños sin seso, les enviaste una irrisión de castigo.	25 Because of this, you have given a judgment in derision, as if from foolish children.
26 Pero los que con una reprimenda irrisoria no se enmendaron, iban a experimentar un castigo digno de Dios.	26 But those who have not been corrected by mockery and chiding, have experienced a judgment worthy of God.
27 A la vista de los seres que les atormentaban y les indignaban, de aquellos seres que tenían por dioses y eran ahora su castigo, abrieron los ojos y reconocieron por el Dios verdadero a aquel que antes se negaban a conocer. Por lo cual el supremo castigo descargó sobre ellos.	27 For among those who were indignant at their sufferings, which came through those things that they reputed to be gods, when they saw that they would be destroyed by these same things, those who formerly refused knowledge of him, now acknowledged the true God, and, because of this, the end of their condemnation came upon them.