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My son, attend unto my wisdom; to my understanding incline thou thy ear:
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,
That thou mayest observe discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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 as of fine honey drop the lips of an adulterous woman, and smoother than oil is her palate;
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 her end is bitter as wormwood, it is sharp as a twoedged 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 go down to death, her steps take firm hold on the nether world:
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.
So that she cannot balance the path of life; her tracks are unsteady, and she knoweth it not.
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.
And now, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the sayings 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.
Remove far from her thy way, and come not nigh to the door 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,
That thou mayest not give up unto others thy vigor, and thy years unto 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;
That strangers may not satisfy themselves with thy strength, and with thy exertions, in the house of an alien:
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.
While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end,
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,
And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof;
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.
While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear;
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!
But little more was wanting, and I had been in all kinds of unhappiness in the midst of the congregation and 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 out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy 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.
So will thy springs overflow abroad; and in the open streets will be thy rivulets of water;
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?
They will be thy own only, and not those of strangers with thee.
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.
Thy fountain will be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy 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.
The lovely gazelle and the graceful chamois: let her bosom satisfy thee abundantly at all times; with her love be thou ravished continually.
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.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of an alien woman?
¿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?
For before the eyes of the Lord are the ways of man, and all his tracks doth he weigh in the balance.
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 will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly.
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 will indeed die for want of correction; and through the abundance of his folly will he sink into error.
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.