Sirach · Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Sirach 10 Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Notes on this text (1)
- Includes the books not found in the Hebrew Bible (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, 1–3 Maccabees, 2 and 3 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh), as in the Synodal editions.
1 Мудрый правитель научит народ свой, и правление разумного будет благоустроено.
1 A wise judge will instruct his people. The government of a man of understanding will be well ordered.
2 Каков правитель народа, таковы и служащие при нем; и каков начальствующий над городом, таковы и все живущие в нем.
2 As is the judge of his people, so are his officials. As the city’s ruler is, so are all those who dwell in it.
3 Царь ненаученный погубит народ свой, а при благоразумии сильных устроится город.
3 An undisciplined king will destroy his people. A city will be established through the understanding of the powerful.
4 В руке Господа власть над землею, и человека потребного Он вовремя воздвигнет на ней.
4 The government of the earth is in the Lord’s hand. In due time, he will raise up over it the right person at the right time.
5 В руке Господа благоуспешность человека, и на лице книжника Он отпечатлеет славу Свою.
5 A man’s prosperity is in the Lord’s hand. He will lay his honor upon the person of the scribe.
6 Не гневайся за всякое оскорбление на ближнего, и никого не оскорбляй делом.
6 Don’t be angry with your neighbor for every wrong. Do nothing by works of violence.
7 Гордость ненавистна и Господу и людям и преступна против обоих.
7 Pride is hateful before the Lord and men. Arrogance is abhorrent in the judgment of both.
8 Владычество переходит от народа к народу по причине несправедливости, обид и любостяжания.
8 Sovereignty is transferred from nation to nation because of injustice, violence, and greed for money.
9 Что гордится земля и пепел?
9 Why are dirt and ashes proud? Because in life, my body decays.
10 И при жизни извергаются внутренности его.
10 A long disease mocks the physician. The king of today will die tomorrow.
11 Продолжительною болезнью врач пренебрегает:
11 For when a man is dead, he will inherit maggots, vermin, and worms.
12 и вот, ныне царь, а завтра умирает.
12 It is the beginning of pride when a man departs from the Lord. His heart has departed from him who made him.
13 Когда же человек умрет, то наследием его становятся пресмыкающиеся, звери и черви.
13 For the beginning of pride is sin. He who keeps it will pour out abomination. For this cause the Lord brought upon them strange calamities and utterly overthrew them.
14 Начало гордости - удаление человека от Господа и отступление сердца его от Творца его;
14 The Lord cast down the thrones of rulers and set the lowly in their place.
15 ибо начало греха - гордость, и обладаемый ею изрыгает мерзость;
15 The Lord plucked up the roots of nations and planted the lowly in their place.
16 и за это Господь посылает на него страшные наказания и вконец низлагает его.
16 The Lord overthrew the lands of nations and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.
17 Господь низвергает престолы властителей и посаждает кротких на место их.
17 He took some of them away and destroyed them, and made their memory to cease from the earth.
18 Господь вырывает с корнем народы и насаждает, вместо них, смиренных.
18 Pride has not been created for men, nor wrathful anger for the offspring of women.
19 Господь опустошает страны народов и разрушает их до оснований земли.
19 Whose offspring has honor? Human offspring who fear the Lord. Whose offspring has no honor? Human offspring who break the commandments.
20 Он иссушает их, и погубляет людей и истребляет от земли память их.
20 In the midst of kindred he who rules them has honor. Those who fear the Lord have honor in his eyes.
21 Гордость не сотворена для людей, ни ярость гнева - для рождающихся от жен.
21 Not in this translation
22 Семя почтенное какое? - Семя человеческое. Семя почтенное какое? - Боящиеся Господа.
22 The rich man, the honorable, and the poor all glory in the fear of the Lord.
23 Семя бесчестное какое? - Семя человеческое. Семя бесчестное какое? - Преступающие заповеди.
23 It is not right to dishonor a poor man who has understanding. It is not fitting to glorify a man who is a sinner.
24 Старший между братьями - в почтении у них, так и боящиеся Господа - в очах Его.
24 The prince, the judge, and the mighty man will be honored. There is not one of them greater than he who fears the Lord.
25 Богат ли кто и славен, или беден, похвала их - страх Господень.
25 Free men will minister to a wise servant. A man who has knowledge will not complain.
26 Несправедливо - бесчестить разумного бедного, и не должно прославлять мужа грешного.
26 Don’t flaunt your wisdom in doing your work. Don’t boast in the time of your distress.
27 Почтенны вельможа, судья и властелин, но нет из них больше боящегося Господа.
27 Better is he who labors and abounds in all things, than he who boasts and lacks bread.
28 Рабу мудрому будут служить свободные, и разумный человек, будучи наставляем им, не будет роптать.
28 My son, glorify your soul in humility, and ascribe to yourself honor according to your worthiness.
29 Не умничай много, чтобы делать дело твое, и не хвались во время нужды.
29 Who will justify him who sins against his own soul? Who will honor him who dishonors his own life?
30 Лучше тот, кто трудится и имеет во всем достаток, нежели кто праздно ходит и хвалится, но нуждается в хлебе.
30 A poor man is honored for his knowledge. A rich man is honored for his riches.
31 Сын мой! кротостью прославляй душу твою и воздавай ей честь по ее достоинству.
31 But he who is honored in poverty, how much more in riches? He who is dishonored in riches, how much more in poverty?
32 Кто будет оправдывать согрешающего против души своей? И кто будет хвалить позорящего жизнь свою?
32 Not in this translation
33 Бедного почитают за познания его, а богатого - за его богатство:
33 Not in this translation
34 уважаемый же в бедности насколько больше будет уважаем в богатстве? А бесславный в богатстве насколько будет бесславнее в бедности?
34 Not in this translation
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Nor ought blessedness to begin at any other point whatever, if indeed it is to attain unto the highest wisdom; "but the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;" for, on the other hand also, "pride" is entitled "the beginning of all sin." Let the proud, therefore, seek after and love the kingdoms of the earth; but "blessed …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
Let him hear it said to him, "Why is earth and ashes proud?" Even if the devil is proud, he is not "earth and ashes." Therefore was it said, "But ye shall die like men, and shall fall as one of the princes." Ye do not consider that ye are mortals, and ye are proud as the devil.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
That his earth has reference to the inner man, and that man is cast forth thence by pride, may be particularly seen in that which is written, "Why is earth and ashes proud? Because, in his life, he cast forth his bowels." For, whence he hath been cast forth, he is not unreasonably said to have cast forth himself.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)