Sirach Chapter 31: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

¹ Wakefulness that comes from riches consumes the flesh, and anxiety about it takes away sleep. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² Wakeful anxiety will crave slumber. In a severe disease, sleep will be broken. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ A rich man toils in gathering money together. When he rests, he is filled with his good things. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ A poor man toils in lack of substance. When he rests, he becomes needy. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ He who loves gold won’t be justified. He who follows destruction will himself have his fill of it. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ Many have been given over to ruin for the sake of gold. Their destruction meets them face to face. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ It is a stumbling block to those who sacrifice to it. Every fool will be taken by it. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ Blessed is the rich person who is found blameless, and who doesn’t go after gold. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ Who is he, that we may call him blessed? For he has done wonderful things among his people. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ Who has been tried by it, and found perfect? Then let him boast. Who has had the power to transgress, and has not transgressed? And to do evil, and has not done it? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ His prosperity will be made sure. The congregation will proclaim his alms. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² Do you sit at a great table? Don’t be greedy there. Don’t say, “There is a lot of food on it!” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ Remember that a greedy eye is a wicked thing. What has been created more greedy than an eye? Therefore it sheds tears from every face. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ Don’t stretch your hand wherever it looks. Don’t thrust yourself with it into the dish. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ Consider your neighbor’s feelings by your own. Be discreet in every point. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ Eat like a human being those things which are set before you. Don’t eat greedily, lest you be hated. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ Be first to stop for manners’ sake. Don’t be insatiable, lest you offend. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ And if you sit among many, Don’t reach out your hand before them. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ How sufficient to a well-mannered man is a very little. He doesn’t breathe heavily in his bed. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ Healthy sleep comes from moderate eating. He rises early, and his wits are with him. The pain of wakefulness, colic, and griping are with an insatiable man. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ And if you have been forced to eat, rise up in the middle of it, and you shall have rest. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² Hear me, my son, and don’t despise me, and in the end you will appreciate my words. In all your works be skillful, and no disease will come to you. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ People bless him who is liberal with his food. The testimony of his excellence will be believed. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ The city will murmur at him who is a stingy with his food. The testimony of his stinginess will be accurate. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ Don’t show yourself valiant in wine, for wine has destroyed many. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁶ The furnace tests the temper of steel by dipping; so does wine test hearts in the quarreling of the proud. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁷ Wine is as good as life to men, if you drink it in moderation. What life is there to a man who is without wine? It has been created to make men glad. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁸ Wine drunk in season and in moderation is joy of heart and gladness of soul: (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁹ Wine drunk excessively is bitterness of soul, with provocation and conflict. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁰ Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt. It diminishes strength and adds wounds. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³¹ Don’t rebuke your neighbor at a banquet of wine. Don’t despise him in his mirth. Don’t speak a word of reproach to him. Don’t distress him by making demands of him. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)