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Hazle caso a la sabiduría

Hijo mío, acepta lo que te digo
    y ten siempre presente mis mandamientos.
Presta atención a la sabiduría
    y conságrate de todo corazón a la inteligencia.
Llama con todas tus fuerzas a la inteligencia
    y pide a gritos entendimiento.
Busca la sabiduría como si fuera plata,
    como si fuera un tesoro escondido.
Entonces aprenderás a respetar al SEÑOR,
    y sabrás lo que es conocer a Dios.
Porque el SEÑOR es el que da la sabiduría;
    el conocimiento y la ciencia brotan de sus labios.
Él da sabiduría a la gente que es justa con los demás,
    y protege a los que viven honestamente;
cuida el camino de los justos
    y protege la senda de los que le son fieles.
También comprenderás lo que es la justicia,
    la honestidad y la igualdad, y todo buen camino.
10 La sabiduría entrará en tu corazón,
    y te gustará el conocimiento.

11 La prudencia te protegerá,
    y el entendimiento te cuidará.
12 La prudencia te pondrá a salvo de la mala vida,
    de los que tergiversan todo con sus palabras;
13 de los que se apartan del buen camino
    para andar por caminos tenebrosos;
14 de los que se alegran de hacer el mal
    y festejan cuando el perverso todo lo echa a perder;
15 de los que andan por caminos torcidos
    y se desvían del camino recto.

16 La sabiduría te librará de la mujer ajena,
    de la extraña de palabras seductoras,
17 que se casó cuando era joven, pero abandonó a su marido,
    olvidándose de su compromiso con Dios.
18 Irse con ella a su casa es como ir a la muerte;
    si la sigues, te llevará a la tumba.
19 Los que se enredan con ella no regresarán,
    ni alcanzarán los caminos de la vida.

20 Así que sigue el camino de la gente buena
    y recorre el sendero de los justos,
21 pues la gente honesta habitará en la tierra
    y la gente intachable permanecerá en ella.
22 En cambio, los perversos serán exterminados de la tierra,
    y los traidores serán arrancados de ella.

The Value of Wisdom

My son, if you receive my words,
And (A)treasure my commands within you,
So that you incline your ear to wisdom,
And apply your heart to understanding;
Yes, if you cry out for discernment,
And lift up your voice for understanding,
(B)If you seek her as silver,
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
(C)Then you will understand the fear of the Lord,
And find the knowledge of God.
(D)For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
(E)He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
He guards the paths of justice,
And (F)preserves the way of His saints.
Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
Equity and every good path.

10 When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11 Discretion will preserve you;
(G)Understanding will keep you,
12 To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To (H)walk in the ways of darkness;
14 (I)Who rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;
15 (J)Whose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;
16 To deliver you from (K)the immoral woman,
(L)From the seductress who flatters with her words,
17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For (M)her house [a]leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;
19 None who go to her return,
Nor do they [b]regain the paths of life—
20 So you may walk in the way of goodness,
And keep to the paths of righteousness.
21 For the upright will dwell in the (N)land,
And the blameless will remain in it;
22 But the wicked will be [c]cut off from the [d]earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:18 sinks
  2. Proverbs 2:19 Lit. reach
  3. Proverbs 2:22 destroyed
  4. Proverbs 2:22 land

Benefits of wisdom

My son, accept my words
    and store up my commands.
Turn your ear toward wisdom,
    and stretch your mind toward understanding.
Call out for insight,
    and cry aloud for understanding.
Seek it like silver;
    search for it like hidden treasure.
Then you will understand the fear of the Lord,
    and discover the knowledge of God.
The Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He reserves ability for those with integrity.
    He is a shield for those who live a blameless life.
He protects the paths of justice
    and guards the way of those who are loyal to him.
Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
    as well as integrity, every good course.
10 Wisdom will enter your mind,
    and knowledge will fill you with delight.
11 Discretion will guard you;
    understanding will protect you.
12 Wisdom will rescue you from the evil path,
    from people who twist their words.
13 They forsake the way of integrity
    and go on obscure paths.
14 They enjoy doing evil,
    rejoicing in their twisted evil.
15 Their paths are confused;
    they get lost on their way.
16 Wisdom will rescue you from the mysterious woman,
    from the foreign woman with her slick words.
17 She leaves behind the partner of her youth;
    she even forgets her covenant with God.
18 Her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths go down to the shadowy dead.
19 All those who go to her will never return;
    they will never again reach the ways of the living.
20 So you should stay on the path of good people,
    guarding the road of the righteous.
21 Those who have integrity will dwell in the land;
    the innocent will remain in it.
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be ripped up.

¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words and hide my commandments within thee

so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to intelligence,

yea, if thou criest for understanding and givest thy voice unto intelligence,

if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures,

then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

For the LORD gives wisdom; out of his mouth comes knowledge and intelligence.

He keeps the person of the upright; he is a buckler to those that walk perfectly,

keeping the paths of judgment and the way of his merciful ones.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity, yea, every good path.

10 ¶ When wisdom enters into thine heart and knowledge is sweet unto thy soul,

11 discretion shall preserve thee, intelligence shall keep thee

12 to deliver thee from the evil way, from the man that speaks perversion,

13 who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

14 who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion,

15 whose ways are crooked, and they are crooked in their paths;

16 to deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,

17 who forsakes the prince of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

18 Therefore her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

19 None that go unto her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.

20 That thou may walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Moral Benefits of Wisdom

My son,(A) if you accept my words
    and store up my commands within you,
turning your ear to wisdom
    and applying your heart to understanding(B)
indeed, if you call out for insight(C)
    and cry aloud for understanding,
and if you look for it as for silver
    and search for it as for hidden treasure,(D)
then you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.(E)
For the Lord gives wisdom;(F)
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.(G)
He holds success in store for the upright,
    he is a shield(H) to those whose walk is blameless,(I)
for he guards the course of the just
    and protects the way of his faithful ones.(J)

Then you will understand(K) what is right and just
    and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,(L)
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you,
    and understanding will guard you.(M)

12 Wisdom will save(N) you from the ways of wicked men,
    from men whose words are perverse,
13 who have left the straight paths
    to walk in dark ways,(O)
14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(P)
15 whose paths are crooked(Q)
    and who are devious in their ways.(R)

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(S)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](T)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(U)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.(V)

20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land,(W)
    and the blameless will remain in it;
22 but the wicked(X) will be cut off from the land,(Y)
    and the unfaithful will be torn from it.(Z)

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God