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Beneficios que ofrece la sabiduría

Haz tuyas mis palabras, hijo mío;
guarda en tu mente mis mandamientos.
Presta oído a la sabiduría;
entrega tu mente a la inteligencia.
Pide con todas tus fuerzas
inteligencia y buen juicio;
entrégate por completo a buscarlos,
cual si buscaras plata o un tesoro escondido.
Entonces sabrás lo que es honrar al Señor;
¡descubrirás lo que es conocer a Dios!
Pues el Señor es quien da la sabiduría;
la ciencia y el conocimiento brotan de sus labios.
El Señor da su ayuda y protección
a los que viven rectamente y sin tacha;
cuida de los que se conducen con justicia,
y protege a los que le son fieles.
Sabrás también lo que es recto y justo,
y estarás atento a todo lo bueno,
10 pues tu mente obtendrá sabiduría
y probarás la dulzura del saber.
11 La discreción y la inteligencia
serán tus constantes protectoras;
12 ellas te librarán del mal camino
y de los hombres perversos,
13 de los que dejan el buen camino
y se van por senderos oscuros,
14 que se divierten haciendo daño
y festejan sus malas acciones,
15 que andan por caminos torcidos
y se han desviado del recto sendero.
16 Te librarán también de la mujer ajena,
de la extraña de palabras seductoras
17 que abandona al compañero de su juventud
y olvida su compromiso con Dios.
18 Tomar el camino que lleva a la casa de ella
es tomar el camino que lleva a la muerte;
19 los que entran en su casa ya no vuelven,
jamás vuelven a recorrer el sendero de la vida.
20 Anda, pues, por el buen camino,
y practica la conducta de los justos.
21 Porque los que viven rectamente y sin tacha
vivirán para siempre en la tierra;
22 pero los malvados y traidores
serán arrancados y expulsados de ella.

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

The Value of Wisdom

(A)My son, (B)if you receive my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for insight
    and raise your voice (C)for understanding,
if you seek it like (D)silver
    and search for it as for (E)hidden treasures,
then (F)you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.
For (G)the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
    he is (H)a shield to those who (I)walk in integrity,
guarding the paths of justice
    and (J)watching over the way of his (K)saints.
(L)Then you will understand (M)righteousness and justice
    and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 (N)discretion will (O)watch over you,
    understanding will guard you,
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
    from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
    to (P)walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who (Q)rejoice in doing evil
    and (R)delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose (S)paths are crooked,
    (T)and who are (U)devious in their ways.

16 So (V)you will be delivered from the forbidden[a] woman,
    from (W)the adulteress[b] with (X)her smooth words,
17 who forsakes (Y)the companion of her youth
    and forgets (Z)the covenant of her God;
18 (AA)for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;[c]
19 none who go to her come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

20 So you will walk in the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright (AB)will inhabit the land,
    and those with integrity will remain in it,
22 but the wicked will be (AC)cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be (AD)rooted out of it.

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange
  2. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman
  3. Proverbs 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim