Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
cumberers of the ground
Spanish translation:
estorbos sobre la tierra
Added to glossary by
Caro Friszman
Jul 5, 2005 17:05
19 yrs ago
English term
no better than mere cumberers of the ground
English to Spanish
Art/Literary
Religion
19th century text
Nothing is more useful to those who profess to be Christians than to see a real live Christian, a thoroughly zealous man of God. They may rail at him-they may carp at him,-they may pick holes in his conduct,-they may look shy upon him,-they may not understand him any more than men understand a new comet when a new comet appears; but insensibly a zealous man does them good. He opens their eyes. He makes them feel their own sleepiness. He makes their own great darkness visible. He obliges them to see their own barrenness. He compels them to think, whether they like it or not-"What are we doing? Are we not no better than mere cumberers of the ground?"
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Caro Friszman
Argentina
Argentina
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Specializes in field
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A passion for communication
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
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somos acaso tan solo estorbos de la tierra?
No es más que una sugerencia (uy, se me pegó el estilo arcaico :)... espero que sirva.
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Note added at 8 mins (2005-07-05 17:13:38 GMT)
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Y sería bueno también abrir ese signo de interrogación, ya que lo cerramos... No es mi día.
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Note added at 8 mins (2005-07-05 17:13:38 GMT)
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Y sería bueno también abrir ese signo de interrogación, ya que lo cerramos... No es mi día.
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Comment: "Gracias otra vez, Caro."
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Daniel Coria
Argentina
Argentina
Native in Spanish
Argentina
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Native in: Spanish (Variants: US, Latin American) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
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English term (edited):
Are we not no better than mere cumberers of the ground?
¿Es que no servimos más que para ocupar espacio sobre la tierra?
Hope it helps!
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¿Acaso somos simplemente habitantes de la tierra?
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Note added at 17 mins (2005-07-05 17:22:23 GMT)
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Puedes usar el término habitantes o pobladodres
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No somos más que polvo
Bíblicamente se habla de que el hombre no es más que polvo y ceniza.
Siempre he escuchado esa metáfora para referirse a la condición efímera, limitada, precaria de la existencia del hombre:
"Te ganarás el pan con el sudor de tu frente,
hasta que vuelvas a la misma tierra de la cual fuiste sacado
Porque polvo eres,y al polvo volverás" Génesis 3:19
"Abraham le dijo (al Señor): Reconozco que he sido muy atrevido al dirigirme a mi Señor, yo, que apenas soy polvo y ceniza" Génesis 18:27
Siempre he escuchado esa metáfora para referirse a la condición efímera, limitada, precaria de la existencia del hombre:
"Te ganarás el pan con el sudor de tu frente,
hasta que vuelvas a la misma tierra de la cual fuiste sacado
Porque polvo eres,y al polvo volverás" Génesis 3:19
"Abraham le dijo (al Señor): Reconozco que he sido muy atrevido al dirigirme a mi Señor, yo, que apenas soy polvo y ceniza" Génesis 18:27
2 days 23 hrs
agtranslat
Netherlands
Netherlands
Native in Spanish
Netherlands
Castilian native, no nonsense
Native in: Spanish
Works in: Dutch to Spanish, English to Spanish, French to Spanish
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English term (edited):
cumberers of the ground
parásitos de la tierra
Caracol Noticias - Impresión Noticia - [ Translate this page ]
... "Me da pena decirles que están enfermos y que se han vuelto parásitos de la Tierra: chupan su sangre, el petróleo, y sus humos se mezclan con las nubes y ...
caracolnoticias.com/html/ formato_de_impresion.asp?idnoticia=53209 - 7k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages
La Rebelión de los Otros - [ Translate this page ]
... Parásitos de la tierra, nos aferramos a sus ubres que, generosas, siguen dándonos los néctares que nos embriagan, obnubilan, y hacemos de sus fuentes ...
www.jose.diez.com/La_Revelion_de_los_Otros.html - 14k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages
CAPÍTULO III - [ Translate this page ]
Por eso es un grave error y además una injusticia de funestas consecuencias, suponer que el obrero vive como un parásito de la tierra o del capital ajeno, ...
www.eumed.net/cursecon/textos/colmeiro/3-3.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages
La Haine (Proyecto de Desobediencia Informativa ... - [ Translate this page ]
... en esto no tengo mucha esperanza, porque todos pensareis que tendríamos que reventar por esa concepción maniquea de ser un parásito de la Tierra-. ...
www.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=4105&more=1&c=1 - 428k - Cached - Similar pages
CHAPTER 22
Having cleared the way by the removal of the old institutions, which, in David’s
opinion, were but cumberers of the ground, the King addressed himself to ...
www.reformation.org/vol3ch22.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages
Wicked Men Useful in Their Destruction Only
Men who bring forth no fruit to God are cumberers of the ground. ... What mere
cumberers of the ground will you be! Agreeably to Luke 13:7. ...
www.jonathanedwards.com/ sermons/Warnings/Destruction.htm - 49k - Cached - Similar pages
Luke chapter 13
But if they are destitute of the fruits of the Spirit, they are reckoned useless
cumberers of the ground. Except they repent, they will be cut down. ...
www.gracegems.org/Ryle/l13.htm - 48k - Cached - Similar pages
JONATHAN EDWARDS 1101
Men who bring forth no fruit to God are cumberers of the ground. ... Hell,
therefore, if you remain unfruitful and cumberers of the ground, ...
www.ondoctrine.com/2edw1101.htm - 55k - Cached - Similar pages
Chapter 12: Baptist Churches Conservers and Propagators of the Truth
They are cumberers of the ground and ought to die and get out of the way of
churches that will be real bases of supplies for the truth. ...
www.pbministries.org/Theology/ H.%20Boyce%20Taylor/why_12.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages
Pufendorf: On the Common Duties of Humanity
9 So also those who, like swine, cheer no one except by their death; and other
such cumberers of the ground. 3. But to those who endeavor to be benefactors ...
www.lonang.com/exlibris/pufendorf/puf-108.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages
Forgiveness
Have you not been cumberers of the ground; taking the nourishment of the earth
where some better tree might have grown, and bearing no fruit to the great ...
www.biblebb.com/files/spurgeon/0024.HTM - 33k - Cached - Similar pages
In a Barren Land
... period in which the Indians might prove helpful to a settlement's survival,
the newcomers deemed them not necessary, mere "cumberers of the ground. ...
www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/marks-barren.html - 56k - Cached - Similar pages
Chapters 61-71
Your lawyers, doctors, scribes are useless cumberers of the ground; they are but
tumours on the body of the state; 26. They toil not neither do they spin, ...
www.spiritlight.com/The Aquarian Gospel/ The%20Aquarian%20Gospel-61.71.htm - 39k - Cached - Similar pages
... "Me da pena decirles que están enfermos y que se han vuelto parásitos de la Tierra: chupan su sangre, el petróleo, y sus humos se mezclan con las nubes y ...
caracolnoticias.com/html/ formato_de_impresion.asp?idnoticia=53209 - 7k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages
La Rebelión de los Otros - [ Translate this page ]
... Parásitos de la tierra, nos aferramos a sus ubres que, generosas, siguen dándonos los néctares que nos embriagan, obnubilan, y hacemos de sus fuentes ...
www.jose.diez.com/La_Revelion_de_los_Otros.html - 14k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages
CAPÍTULO III - [ Translate this page ]
Por eso es un grave error y además una injusticia de funestas consecuencias, suponer que el obrero vive como un parásito de la tierra o del capital ajeno, ...
www.eumed.net/cursecon/textos/colmeiro/3-3.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages
La Haine (Proyecto de Desobediencia Informativa ... - [ Translate this page ]
... en esto no tengo mucha esperanza, porque todos pensareis que tendríamos que reventar por esa concepción maniquea de ser un parásito de la Tierra-. ...
www.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=4105&more=1&c=1 - 428k - Cached - Similar pages
CHAPTER 22
Having cleared the way by the removal of the old institutions, which, in David’s
opinion, were but cumberers of the ground, the King addressed himself to ...
www.reformation.org/vol3ch22.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages
Wicked Men Useful in Their Destruction Only
Men who bring forth no fruit to God are cumberers of the ground. ... What mere
cumberers of the ground will you be! Agreeably to Luke 13:7. ...
www.jonathanedwards.com/ sermons/Warnings/Destruction.htm - 49k - Cached - Similar pages
Luke chapter 13
But if they are destitute of the fruits of the Spirit, they are reckoned useless
cumberers of the ground. Except they repent, they will be cut down. ...
www.gracegems.org/Ryle/l13.htm - 48k - Cached - Similar pages
JONATHAN EDWARDS 1101
Men who bring forth no fruit to God are cumberers of the ground. ... Hell,
therefore, if you remain unfruitful and cumberers of the ground, ...
www.ondoctrine.com/2edw1101.htm - 55k - Cached - Similar pages
Chapter 12: Baptist Churches Conservers and Propagators of the Truth
They are cumberers of the ground and ought to die and get out of the way of
churches that will be real bases of supplies for the truth. ...
www.pbministries.org/Theology/ H.%20Boyce%20Taylor/why_12.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages
Pufendorf: On the Common Duties of Humanity
9 So also those who, like swine, cheer no one except by their death; and other
such cumberers of the ground. 3. But to those who endeavor to be benefactors ...
www.lonang.com/exlibris/pufendorf/puf-108.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages
Forgiveness
Have you not been cumberers of the ground; taking the nourishment of the earth
where some better tree might have grown, and bearing no fruit to the great ...
www.biblebb.com/files/spurgeon/0024.HTM - 33k - Cached - Similar pages
In a Barren Land
... period in which the Indians might prove helpful to a settlement's survival,
the newcomers deemed them not necessary, mere "cumberers of the ground. ...
www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/marks-barren.html - 56k - Cached - Similar pages
Chapters 61-71
Your lawyers, doctors, scribes are useless cumberers of the ground; they are but
tumours on the body of the state; 26. They toil not neither do they spin, ...
www.spiritlight.com/The Aquarian Gospel/ The%20Aquarian%20Gospel-61.71.htm - 39k - Cached - Similar pages
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