Biblia Platense (Straubinger) · Catholic Public Domain Version
Proverbios 5
1Hijo mío, presta atención a mi sabiduría, inclina tu oído a mi enseñanza, My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence,2para que guardes los consejos y tus labios conserven la instrucción. 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.3Pues los labios de la mujer extraña destilan miel, y su paladar es más suave que el aceite; For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.4pero su fin es amargo como el ajenjo, cortante como espada de dos filos. But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.5Sus pies se encaminan hacia la muerte, sus pasos llevan al scheol. Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.6No anda por la senda de la vida, va errando por caminos sin saber adónde. They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.7Pues bien, escuchadme, hijos, y no os apartéis de las palabras de mi boca; Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.8desvía de ella tu camino, y no te acerques a la puerta de su casa. Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.9No sacrifiques tu honor a gente extraña ni tus años a un tirano, Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.10no sea que extraños se harten de tus bienes, y tus fatigas beneficien a casas ajenas, Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,11y al fin tengas que gemir, después de consumir tu carne, and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:12y hayas de exclamar: “¡Cómo he podido aborrecer la instrucción, y rehusar en mi corazón la corrección! “Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?13Desoí la voz de los que me adoctrinaban y no quise oír a mis maestros. And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?14Casi he llegado al colmo de los males, en medio del pueblo y de la asamblea.” I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”15Bebe el agua de tu aljibe y los raudales que manan de tu pozo. Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.16¿Por qué derramar fuera tus fuentes, por las plazas las corrientes de tu agua? Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.17¡Sean para ti solo, y no para los extraños a tu lado! Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.18¡Sea tu fuente bendita, y alégrate con la esposa de tu mocedad! Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:19¡Sea ella la gacela de tu amor, una cierva graciosa, embriáguenle sus pechos perpetuamente, y su amor te encante en todo tiempo! a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.20¿Por qué, hijo mío, dejarte embaucar por la mujer extraña y abrazar el seno de la ajena? Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?21Pues ante Yahvé están los caminos del hombre. Él mira todos sus pasos. The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.22El hombre malo será presa de sus propias iniquidades, y quedará enredado en los lazos de su pecado. His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.23Perecerá por falta de disciplina, y andará perdido a causa de su gran necedad. He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.