Ecclesiastes 3
1 There is a right/correct time for everything, a time for everything that we do in this world.
Para todas las cosas hay sazón; y todo lo que quisiereis debajo del cielo, tiene su tiempo determinado.
2 There is a time to be born, and there is a time to die. There is a time to plant [seeds], and there is a time to harvest crops.
Tiempo de nacer, y tiempo de morir: tiempo de plantar, y tiempo de arrancar lo plantado:
3 There is a time to kill [people], and there is a time to heal [people]. There is a time to tear things down, and there is a time to build things.
Tiempo de matar, y tiempo de curar: tiempo de destruir, y tiempo de edificar:
4 There is a time to cry, and there is a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn, and there is a time to dance [joyfully].
Tiempo de llorar, y tiempo de reír: tiempo de endechar, y tiempo de bailar:
5 There is a time to throw away stones [from a field], and there is a time to gather stones [to build walls/houses]. There is a time to embrace [people], and there is a time to not embrace [people].
Tiempo de esparcir las piedras, y tiempo de allegar las piedras: tiempo de abrazar, y tiempo de alejarse del abrazar:
6 There is a time to search for things, and there is a time to stop searching for things. There is a time to keep/save things, and there is a time to throw things away.
Tiempo de buscar, y tiempo de perder: tiempo de guardar, y tiempo de echar:
7 There is a time to tear [our old clothes], and there is a time to mend [clothes]. There is a time to say nothing, and there is a time when we should speak.
Tiempo de romper, y tiempo de coser: tiempo de callar, y tiempo de hablar:
8 There is a time when we should love [things that people do], and there is a time when we should hate [things that people do]. There is a time for war, and there is a time for peace.
Tiempo de amar, y tiempo de aborrecer: tiempo de guerra, y tiempo de paz.
9 (What do people gain from all the work that they do?/It seems that people gain very little from all the work that they do [RHQ]).
¿Qué tiene más el que trabaja en lo que trabaja?
10 I have seen the work that God has given people to do.
Yo he visto la ocupación que Dios dio a los hijos de los hombres, para que en ella se ocupasen.
11 God has appointed a time that is right/correct for everything to happen. He has [also] caused people to realize that there are things that will endure forever. But in spite of that, no one can completely understand everything that God has done, from the time that he starts doing things until he finishes them.
Todo lo hizo hermoso en su tiempo, y aun el mundo dio a su corazón, de tal manera que no alcance el hombre esta obra de Dios desde el principio hasta el cabo.
12 I know that the best [LIT] thing for us people to do is to rejoice and to do good things [all] during the time that we are alive.
Yo he conocido que no hay mejor para ellos, que alegrarse, y hacer bien en su vida.
13 And I also know that everyone should eat and drink, and enjoy the work that they do. Those are things that God gives to us.
Y también que es don de Dios, que todo hombre coma y beba, y goce de todo su trabajo.
14 I [also] know that what God does endures forever. No one can add to what God does, and no one can take away from the things that God does. God does those things in order that people would revere him.
He entendido, que todo lo que Dios hace eso será perpetuo: sobre aquello no se añadirá, ni de ello se disminuirá; porque Dios hace, para que teman los hombres delante de él.
15 Things that exist now have already existed previously, and things that will happen in the future have already happened previously; God causes the same things to happen many times.
Aquello que fue, ya es; y lo que ha de ser ya fue; y Dios restaura lo que pasó.
16 Furthermore, I saw that on this earth [MTY], even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done, they did many wicked [DOU] things.
Ví más debajo del sol: en lugar del juicio, allí la impiedad; y en lugar de la justicia, allí la iniquidad.
17 [So] I said to myself [SYN], “God will judge [both] righteous [people] and wicked [people]; there is a time [for him to do that], because there is a time for him to do everything.”
Y yo dije en mi corazón: Al justo y al impío juzgará Dios, porque allí hay tiempo determinado a todo lo que quisiereis, y sobre todo lo que se hace.
18 And regarding humans, I [also] said to myself, “God is testing us, to show us that [in one way] people are no different than animals,
Dije en mi corazón acerca de la condición de los hijos de los hombres, que Dios los hizo escogidos; y es para ver, que ellos sean bestias los unos a los otros.
19 because what happens to people happens to animals. Animals die, and people die. We all must breathe [to remain alive]. [With regard to that], people have no advantage over animals, so I have a difficult time understanding that.
Porque el suceso de los hijos de los hombres, y el suceso del animal, el mismo suceso es; como mueren los unos, así mueren los otros; y una misma respiración tienen todos; ni tiene más el hombre que la bestia; porque todo es vanidad.
20 [People and animals] all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and [when we die], our corpses become soil again.
Todo va a un lugar; todo es hecho del polvo; y todo se tornará en el mismo polvo.
21 No one knows [RHQ] for sure that when we die, our souls/spirits go up to heaven and the souls/spirits of animals go down to the place where the dead are.”
¿Quién sabe si el espíritu de los hijos de los hombres suba arriba, y el espíritu del animal descienda debajo de la tierra?
22 So I concluded that the best thing for [us] people to do is to be happy about the work that we do, because that is what God has given to us. I say that because no one of us [RHQ] knows what happens to us after we die.
Así que he visto que no hay bien, mas que alegrarse el hombre con lo que hiciere; porque esta es su parte: porque ¿quién le llevará para que vea lo que ha de ser después de él?
