Wisdom Chapter 7: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

¹ I myself am also mortal, like everyone else, and am a descendant of one formed first and born of the earth. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² I molded into flesh in the time of ten months in my mother’s womb, being compacted in blood from the seed of man and pleasure of marriage. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ I also, when I was born, drew in the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth, uttering, like all, for my first voice, the same cry. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ I was nursed with care in swaddling clothes. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ For no king had a different beginning, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ but all men have one entrance into life, and a common departure. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ For this cause I prayed, and understanding was given to me. I asked, and a spirit of wisdom came to me. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ I preferred her before sceptres and thrones. I considered riches nothing in comparison to her. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold in her presence is a little sand, and silver will be considered as clay before her. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ I loved her more than health and beauty, and I chose to have her rather than light, because her bright shining is never laid to sleep. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ All good things came to me with her, and innumerable riches are in her hands. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² And I rejoiced over them all because wisdom leads them; although I didn’t know that she was their mother. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ As I learned without guile, I impart without grudging. I don’t hide her riches. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ For she is a treasure for men that doesn’t fail, and those who use it obtain friendship with God, commended by the gifts which they present through discipline. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ But may God grant that I may speak his judgment, and to conceive thoughts worthy of what has been given me; because he is one who guides even wisdom and who corrects the wise. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ For both we and our words are in his hand, with all understanding and skill in various crafts. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ For he himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, to know the structure of the universe and the operation of the elements; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ the beginning, end, and middle of times; the alternations of the solstices and the changes of seasons; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ the circuits of years and the positions of stars; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ the natures of living creatures and the raging of wild beasts; the violence of winds and the thoughts of men; the diversities of plants and the virtues of roots. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ All things that are either secret or manifest I learned, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² for wisdom, that is the architect of all things, taught me. For there is in her a spirit that is quick to understand, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, freely moving, clear in utterance, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving what is good, keen, unhindered, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ beneficent, loving toward man, steadfast, sure, free from care, all-powerful, all-surveying, and penetrating through all spirits that are quick to understand, pure, most subtle. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ For wisdom is more mobile than any motion. Yes, she pervades and penetrates all things by reason of her purity. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ For she is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty. Therefore nothing defiled can find entrance into her. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁶ For she is a reflection of everlasting light, an unspotted mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁷ Although she is one, she has power to do all things. Remaining in herself, she renews all things. From generation to generation passing into holy souls, she makes friends of God and prophets. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁸ For God loves nothing as much as one who dwells with wisdom. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁹ For she is fairer than the sun, and above all the constellations of the stars. She is better than light. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁰ For daylight yields to night, but evil does not prevail against wisdom. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)