Eclesiastés 12:9-14

9 Ten en cuenta lo siguiente: el Maestro fue considerado sabio y le enseñó a la gente todo lo que sabía. Escuchó con atención muchos proverbios, los estudió y los clasificó.

10 El Maestro se esmeró por encontrar las palabras correctas para expresar las verdades con claridad.

11 Las palabras de los sabios son como el aguijón para el ganado: dolorosas pero necesarias. El conjunto de sus dichos es como la vara con clavos que usa el pastor
para guiar a sus ovejas.

12 Pero ahora, hijo mío, déjame darte un consejo más: ten cuidado, porque escribir libros es algo que nunca termina y estudiar mucho te agota.

13 Aquí culmina el relato. Mi conclusión final es la siguiente: teme a Dios y obedece sus mandatos, porque ese es el deber que tenemos todos.

14 Dios nos juzgará por cada cosa que hagamos, incluso lo que hayamos hecho en secreto, sea bueno o sea malo.

Eclesiastés 12:9-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES 12

This chapter begins with advice to young men, which is continued from the preceding; and particularly to remember their Creator in the days of their youth; enforced from the consideration of the troubles and inconveniences of old age, Ec 12:1; which, in an allegorical way, is beautifully described, Ec 12:2-6; and from the certainty of death, when it would be too late, Ec 12:7. And then the wise man returns to his first proposition, and which he kept in view all along, that all is vanity in youth or old age, Ec 12:8; and recommends the reading of this book, from the diligence, pains and labour, he used in composing it; from the sententious matter in it; from the agreeable, acceptable, and well chosen words, in which he had expressed it; and from the wisdom, uprightness, truth, efficacy, and authority of the doctrines of it, Ec 12:9-11; and from its preference to other books, which were wearisome both to author and reader, Ec 12:12. And it is concluded with the scope and design, the sum and substance of the whole of it, reducible to these two heads; the fear of God, and obedience to him, Ec 12:13; and which are urged from the consideration of a future judgment, into which all things shall be brought, Ec 12:14.