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My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence,
HIJO mío, está atento á mi sabiduría, y á mi inteligencia inclina tu oído;
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
so that you may guard your thinking, and so that your lips may preserve discipline. Do not pay attention to the deceit of a woman.
Para que guardes consejo, y tus labios conserven la ciencia.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.
Porque los labios de la extraña destilan miel, y su paladar es más blando que el aceite:
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
Mas su fin es amargo como el ajenjo, agudo como cuchillo de dos filos.
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.
Sus pies descienden á la muerte; sus pasos sustentan el sepulcro:
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.
Sus caminos son instables; no los conocerás, si no considerares el camino de vida.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.
Ahora pues, hijos, oidme, y no os apartéis de las razones de mi boca.
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.
Aleja de ella tu camino, y no te acerques á la puerta de su casa;
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.
Porque no des á los extraños tu honor, y tus años á cruel;
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;
Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,
Porque no se harten los extraños de tu fuerza, y tus trabajos estén en casa del extraño;
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:
Y gimas en tus postrimerías, cuando se consumiere tu carne y tu cuerpo,
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
“Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?
Y digas: ¡Cómo aborrecí el consejo, y mi corazón menospreció la reprensión;
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?
Y no oí la voz de los que me adoctrinaban, y á los que me enseñaban no incliné mi oído!
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”
Casi en todo mal he estado, en medio de la sociedad y de la congregación.
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.
Bebe el agua de tu cisterna, y los raudales de tu pozo.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.
Derrámense por de fuera tus fuentes, en las plazas los ríos de aguas.
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.
Sean para ti solo, y no para los extraños contigo.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
Sea bendito tu manantial; y alégrate con la mujer de tu mocedad.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.
Como cierva amada y graciosa corza, sus pechos te satisfagan en todo tiempo; y en su amor recréate siempre.
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
¿Y por qué, hijo mío, andarás ciego con la ajena, y abrazarás el seno de la extraña?
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.
Pues que los caminos del hombre están ante los ojos de Jehová, y él considera todas sus veredas.
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
Prenderán al impío sus propias iniquidades, y detenido será con las cuerdas de su pecado.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.
El morirá por falta de corrección; y errará por la grandeza de su locura.
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.