Proverbs 4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Parental Advice
4 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain[a] insight;
2 for I give you good precepts:
do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
tender, and my mother’s favourite,
4 he taught me, and said to me,
‘Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget, nor turn away
from the words of my mouth.
6 Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
love her, and she will guard you.
7 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,
and whatever else you get, get insight.
8 Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
she will honour you if you embrace her.
9 She will place on your head a fair garland;
she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.’
Admonition to Keep to the Right Path
10 Hear, my child, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many.
11 I have taught you the way of wisdom;
I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
12 When you walk, your step will not be hampered;
and if you run, you will not stumble.
13 Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
guard her, for she is your life.
14 Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of evildoers.
15 Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.
16 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they do not know what they stumble over.
20 My child, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
21 Do not let them escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart.
22 For they are life to those who find them,
and healing to all their flesh.
23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
24 Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you.
25 Let your eyes look directly forwards,
and your gaze be straight before you.
26 Keep straight the path of your feet,
and all your ways will be sure.
27 Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
turn your foot away from evil.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:1 Heb know
Proverbios 4
Nueva Versión Internacional (Castilian)
La sabiduría es lo máximo
4 Escuchad, hijos, la corrección de un padre;
disponeos a adquirir inteligencia.
2 Yo os brindo buenas enseñanzas,
así que no abandonéis mi instrucción.
3 Cuando yo era pequeño y vivía con mi padre,
cuando era el niño consentido de mi madre,
4 mi padre me instruyó de esta manera:
«Aférrate de corazón a mis palabras;
obedece mis mandamientos, y vivirás.
5 Adquiere sabiduría, adquiere inteligencia;
no olvides mis palabras ni te apartes de ellas.
6 No abandones nunca a la sabiduría,
y ella te protegerá;
ámala, y ella te cuidará.
7 La sabiduría es lo primero. ¡Adquiere sabiduría!
Por encima de todas las cosas, adquiere discernimiento.
8 Estima a la sabiduría, y ella te exaltará;
abrázala, y ella te honrará;
9 te pondrá en la cabeza una hermosa diadema;
te obsequiará con una bella corona».
10 Escucha, hijo mío, acoge mis palabras,
y los años de tu vida aumentarán.
11 Yo te guío por el camino de la sabiduría,
te dirijo por sendas de rectitud.
12 Cuando camines, no encontrarás obstáculos;
cuando corras, no tropezarás.
13 Aférrate a la instrucción, no la dejes escapar;
cuídala bien, porque ella es tu vida.
14 No sigas la senda de los perversos
ni vayas por el camino de los malvados.
15 ¡Evita ese camino! ¡No pases por él!
¡Aléjate de allí, y sigue adelante!
16 Los malvados no duermen si no hacen lo malo;
pierden el sueño si no hacen que alguien caiga.
17 Su pan es la maldad;
su vino, la violencia.
18 La senda de los justos se asemeja
a los primeros albores de la aurora:
su esplendor va en aumento
hasta que el día alcanza su plenitud.
19 Pero el camino de los malvados
es como la más densa oscuridad;
¡ni siquiera saben con qué tropiezan!
20 Hijo mío, atiende a mis consejos;
escucha atentamente lo que digo.
21 No pierdas de vista mis palabras;
guárdalas muy dentro de tu corazón.
22 Ellas dan vida a quienes las hallan;
son la salud del cuerpo.
23 Por encima de todas las cosas cuida tu corazón,
porque de él mana la vida.
24 Aleja de tu boca la perversidad;
aparta de tus labios las palabras corruptas.
25 Pon la mirada en lo que tienes delante;
fija la vista en lo que está frente a ti.
26 Endereza las sendas por donde andas;
allana todos tus caminos.
27 No te desvíes ni a diestra ni a siniestra;
apártate de la maldad.
Proverbs 4
King James Version
4 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
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