Saturday, May 8, 2010
Proverbs 8 "Wisdom's Call"
Friday, May 7, 2010
Proverbs 7 "Warning Against the Adulteress"
Proverbs 7
"Warning Against the Adulteress"
and store up my commands within you.
2 Keep my commands and you will live;
guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,"
and call understanding your kinsman;
5 they will keep you from the adulteress,
from the wayward wife with her seductive words.
6 At the window of my house
I looked out through the lattice.
7 I saw among the simple,
I noticed among the young men,
a youth who lacked judgment.
8 He was going down the street near her corner,
walking along in the direction of her house
9 at twilight, as the day was fading,
as the dark of night set in.
10 Then out came a woman to meet him,
dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.
11 (She is loud and defiant,
her feet never stay at home;
12 now in the street, now in the squares,
at every corner she lurks.)
13 She took hold of him and kissed him
and with a brazen face she said:
14 "I have fellowship offerings at home;
today I fulfilled my vows.
15 So I came out to meet you;
I looked for you and have found you!
16 I have covered my bed
with colored linens from Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
18 Come, let's drink deep of love till morning;
let's enjoy ourselves with love!
19 My husband is not at home;
he has gone on a long journey.
20 He took his purse filled with money
and will not be home till full moon."
21 With persuasive words she led him astray;
she seduced him with her smooth talk.
22 All at once he followed her
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer stepping into a noose
23 till an arrow pierces his liver,
like a bird darting into a snare,
little knowing it will cost him his life.
24 Now then, my sons, listen to me;
pay attention to what I say.
25 Do not let your heart turn to her ways
or stray into her paths.
26 Many are the victims she has brought down;
her slain are a mighty throng.
27 Her house is a highway to the grave,
leading down to the chambers of death.
Proverbios 7 "Advertencia contra la mujer adúltera"
Proverbios 7
Advertencia contra la mujer adúltera
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Proverbios 6 "Amonestación contra la pereza y la falsedad"
Proverbios 6 (Reina-Valera 1960)
Proverbios 6
Amonestación contra la pereza y la falsedad
1 Hijo mío, si salieres fiador por tu amigo,Si has empeñado tu palabra a un extraño,
2 Te has enlazado con las palabras de tu boca,
Y has quedado preso en los dichos de tus labios.
3 Haz esto ahora, hijo mío, y líbrate,
Ya que has caído en la mano de tu prójimo;
Ve, humíllate, y asegúrate de tu amigo.
4 No des sueño a tus ojos,
Ni a tus párpados adormecimiento;
5 Escápate como gacela de la mano del cazador,
Y como ave de la mano del que arma lazos.
6 Ve a la hormiga, oh perezoso,
Mira sus caminos, y sé sabio;
7 La cual no teniendo capitán,
Ni gobernador, ni señor,
8 Prepara en el verano su comida,
Y recoge en el tiempo de la siega su mantenimiento.
9 Perezoso, ¿hasta cuándo has de dormir?
¿Cuándo te levantarás de tu sueño?
10 Un poco de sueño, un poco de dormitar,
Y cruzar por un poco las manos para reposo;
11 Así vendrá tu necesidad como caminante,
Y tu pobreza como hombre armado.
12 El hombre malo, el hombre depravado,
Es el que anda en perversidad de boca;
13 Que guiña los ojos, que habla con los pies,
Que hace señas con los dedos.
14 Perversidades hay en su corazón; anda pensando el mal en todo tiempo;
Siembra las discordias.
15 Por tanto, su calamidad vendrá de repente;
Súbitamente será quebrantado, y no habrá remedio.
16 Seis cosas aborrece Jehová,
Y aun siete abomina su alma:
17 Los ojos altivos, la lengua mentirosa,
Las manos derramadoras de sangre inocente,
18 El corazón que maquina pensamientos inicuos,
Los pies presurosos para correr al mal,
19 El testigo falso que habla mentiras,
Y el que siembra discordia entre hermanos.
Amonestación contra el adulterio
20 Guarda, hijo mío, el mandamiento de tu padre,Y no dejes la enseñanza de tu madre;
21 Atalos siempre en tu corazón,
Enlázalos a tu cuello.
22 Te guiarán cuando andes; cuando duermas te guardarán;
Hablarán contigo cuando despiertes.
23 Porque el mandamiento es lámpara, y la enseñanza es luz,
Y camino de vida las reprensiones que te instruyen,
24 Para que te guarden de la mala mujer,
De la blandura de la lengua de la mujer extraña.
25 No codicies su hermosura en tu corazón,
Ni ella te prenda con sus ojos;
26 Porque a causa de la mujer ramera el hombre es reducido a un bocado de pan;
Y la mujer caza la preciosa alma del varón.
27 ¿Tomará el hombre fuego en su seno
Sin que sus vestidos ardan?
28 ¿Andará el hombre sobre brasas
Sin que sus pies se quemen?
29 Así es el que se llega a la mujer de su prójimo;
No quedará impune ninguno que la tocare.
30 No tienen en poco al ladrón si hurta
Para saciar su apetito cuando tiene hambre;
31 Pero si es sorprendido, pagará siete veces;
Entregará todo el haber de su casa.
32 Mas el que comete adulterio es falto de entendimiento;
Corrompe su alma el que tal hace.
33 Heridas y verg:uenza hallará,
Y su afrenta nunca será borrada.
34 Porque los celos son el furor del hombre,
Y no perdonará en el día de la venganza.
35 No aceptará ningún rescate,
Ni querrá perdonar, aunque multipliques los dones.
Proverbs 6 "Warnings Against Folly"
Proverbs 6 (New International Version)
Proverbs 6
Warnings Against Folly
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,if you have struck hands in pledge for another,
2 if you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared by the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, to free yourself,
since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands:
Go and humble yourself;
press your plea with your neighbor!
4 Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest-
11 and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.
12 A scoundrel and villain,
who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13 who winks with his eye,
signals with his feet
and motions with his fingers,
14 who plots evil with deceit in his heart—
he always stirs up dissension.
15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;
he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.
16 There are six things the LORD hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies
and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
Warning Against Adultery
20 My son, keep your father's commandsand do not forsake your mother's teaching.
21 Bind them upon your heart forever;
fasten them around your neck.
22 When you walk, they will guide you;
when you sleep, they will watch over you;
when you awake, they will speak to you.
23 For these commands are a lamp,
this teaching is a light,
and the corrections of discipline
are the way to life,
24 keeping you from the immoral woman,
from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyes,
26 for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,
and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap
without his clothes being burned?
28 Can a man walk on hot coals
without his feet being scorched?
29 So is he who sleeps with another man's wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
32 But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment;
whoever does so destroys himself.
33 Blows and disgrace are his lot,
and his shame will never be wiped away;
34 for jealousy arouses a husband's fury,
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
35 He will not accept any compensation;
he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Proverbs # 5 "Warning Against Adultery"
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19 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.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.