Iesu Filii Sirach 16
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1[Ne jucunderis in filiis impiis, si multiplicentur: nec oblecteris super ipsos, si non est timor Dei in illis.
1Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them.
2Non credas vitæ illorum, et ne respexeris in labores eorum.
2Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours.
3Melior est enim unus timens Deum, quam mille filii impii:
3For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.
4et utile est mori sine filiis, quam relinquere filios impios.
4And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.
5Ab uno sensato inhabitabitur patria: tribus impiorum deseretur.
5By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate.
6Multa talia vidit oculis meus, et fortiora horum audivit auris mea.
6Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard.
7In synagoga peccantium exardebit ignis, et in gente incredibili exardescet ira.
7In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath shall dame out.
8Non exoraverunt pro peccatis suis antiqui gigantes, qui destructi sunt confidentes suæ virtuti.
8The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sins, who were destroyed trusting to their own strength:
9Et non pepercit peregrinationi Lot, et execratus est eos præ superbia verbi illorum.
9And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the pride of their word.
10Non misertus est illis, gentem totam perdens, et extollentem se in peccatis suis.
10He had not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that extolled themselves in their sins.
11Et sicut sexcenta millia peditum, qui congregati sunt in duritia cordis sui: et si unus fuisset cervicatus, mirum si fuisset immunis.
11So did he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been stiffnecked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished:
12Misericordia enim et ira est cum illo: potens exoratio, et effundens iram.
12For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation:
13Secundum misericordiam suam, sic correptio illius homines secundum opera sua judicat.
13According as his mercy is, so his correction judgeth a man according to his works.
14Non effugiet in rapina peccator, et non retardabit sufferentia misericordiam facientis.
14The sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of him that sheweth mercy shall not be put off.
15Omnis misericordia faciet locum unicuique, secundum meritum operum suorum, et secundum intellectum peregrinationis ipsius.]
15All mercy shall make a place for every man according to the merit of his works, and according to the wisdom of his sojournment.
16[Non dicas: A Deo abscondar: et ex summo, quis mei memorabitur?
16Say not: I shall be hidden from God. and who shall remember me from on high?
17in populo magno non agnoscar: quæ est enim anima mea in tam immensa creatura?
17In such a multitude I shall not be known: for what is my soul in such an immense creation?
18Ecce cælum et cæli cælorum, abyssus, et universa terra, et quæ in eis sunt, in conspectu illius commovebuntur.
18Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight,
19Montes simul, et colles, et fundamenta terræ, cum conspexerit illa Deus, tremore concutientur.
19The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling.
20Et in omnibus his insensatum est cor, et omne cor intelligitur ab illo.
20And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him:
21Et vias illius quis intelligit, et procellam quam nec oculus videbit hominis?
21And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man see?
22Nam plurima illius opera sunt in absconsis: sed opera justitiæ ejus quis enuntiabit, aut quis sustinebit? longe enim est testamentum a quibusdam, et interrogatio omnium in consummatione est.
22For many of his works are hidden: hut the works of his justice who shall declare? or who shall endure? for the testament is far from some, and the examination of all is in the end.
23Qui minoratur corde cogitat inania, et vir imprudens et errans cogitat stulta.]
23He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things: and the foolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things.
24[Audi me, fili, et disce disciplinam sensus, et in verbis meis attende in corde tuo:
24Hearken to me, my son, and learn the discipline of understanding, and attend to my words in thy heart.
25et dicam in æquitate disciplinam, et scrutabor enarrare sapientiam: et in verbis meis attende in corde tuo, et dico in æquitate spiritus virtutes quas posuit Deus in opera sua ab initio, et in veritate enuntio scientiam ejus.
25And I will shew forth good doctrine in equity, and will seek to declare wisdom: and attend to my words in thy heart, whilst with equity of spirit I tell thee the virtues that God hath put upon his works from the beginning, and I shew forth in truth his knowledge.
26In judicio Dei opera ejus ab initio, et ab institutione ipsorum distinxit partes illorum, et initia eorum in gentibus suis.
26The works of God are done in judgment from the beginning, and from the making of them he distinguished their parts, and their beginnings in their generations.
27Ornavit in æternum opera illorum: nec esurierunt, nec laboraverunt, et non destiterunt ab operibus suis.
27He beautified their works for ever, they have neither hungered, nor laboured, and they have not ceased from their works.
28Unusquisque proximum sibi non angustiabit in æternum:
28Nor shall any of them straiten his neighbour at any time.
29non sis incredibilis verbo illius.
29Be not thou incredulous to his word.
30Post hæc Deus in terram respexit, et implevit illam bonis suis:
30After this God looked upon the earth, and filled it with his goods.
31anima omnis vitalis denuntiavit ante faciem ipsius, et in ipsam iterum reversio illorum.]
31The soul of every living thing hath shewn forth before the face thereof, and into it they return again.
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