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10 Cohélet procuró encontrar palabras adecuadas para escribir con acierto sentencias veraces.

11 Las palabras de los sabios son como aguijones
y, reunidas en colecciones,
son como estacas bien clavadas,
regalos de un mismo pastor.

12 Aparte de esto, hijo mío, ten cuidado: escribir muchos libros es tarea sin fin y excesivo estudio perjudica la salud.

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10 The Teacher(A) searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.(B)

11 The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails(C)—given by one shepherd.[a] 12 Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:11 Or Shepherd