Eclesiastés 12:9-14

Epílogo

9 Además de ser sabio, el Maestro impartió conocimientos a la gente. Ponderó, investigó y ordenó muchísimos proverbios.

10 Procuró también hallar las palabras más adecuadas y escribirlas con honradez y veracidad.

11 Las palabras de los sabios son como aguijones. Como clavos bien puestos son sus colecciones de dichos, dados por un solo pastor.

12 Además de ellas, hijo mío, ten presente que el hacer muchos libros es algo interminable y que el mucho leer causa fatiga.

13 El fin de este asunto es que ya se ha escuchado todo. Teme, pues, a Dios y cumple sus mandamientos, porque esto es todo para el hombre.

14 Pues Dios juzgará toda obra, buena o mala, aun la realizada en secreto.

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.