Sirach · Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Sirach 12 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 Если ты делаешь добро, знай, кому делаешь, и будет благодарность за твои благодеяния.
1 If you do good, know to whom you do it, and your good deeds will have thanks.
2 Делай добро благочестивому, и получишь воздаяние, и если не от него, то от Всевышнего.
2 Do good to a godly man, and you will find a reward— if not from him, then from the Most High.
3 Нет добра для того, кто постоянно занимается злом и кто не подает милостыни.
3 No good will come to him who continues to do evil, nor to him who gives no alms.
4 Давай благочестивому, и не помогай грешнику.
4 Give to the godly man, and don’t help the sinner.
5 Делай добро смиренному, и не давай нечестивому: запирай от него хлеб и не давай ему, чтобы он чрез то не превозмог тебя;
5 Do good to one who is lowly. Don’t give to an ungodly man. Keep back his bread, and don’t give it to him, lest he subdue you with it; for you would receive twice as much evil for all the good you would have done to him.
6 ибо ты получил бы сугубое зло за все добро, которое сделал бы ему; ибо и Всевышний ненавидит грешников и нечестивым воздает отмщением.
6 For the Most High also hates sinners, and will repay vengeance to the ungodly.
7 Давай доброму, и не помогай грешнику.
7 Give to the good man, and don’t help the sinner.
8 Друг не познается в счастье, и враг не скроется в несчастье.
8 A man’s friend won’t be fully tried in prosperity. His enemy won’t be hidden in adversity.
9 При счастье человека враги его в печали, а в несчастье его и друг разойдется с ним.
9 In a man’s prosperity, his enemies are grieved. In his adversity, even his friend leaves.
10 Не верь врагу твоему вовек, ибо, как ржавеет медь, так и злоба его:
10 Never trust your enemy, for his wickedness is like corrosion in copper.
11 хотя бы он смирился и ходил согнувшись, будь внимателен душею твоею и остерегайся его, и будешь пред ним, как чистое зеркало, и узнаешь, что он не до конца очистился от ржавчины;
11 Though he humbles himself and walks bowed down, still be careful and beware of him. You will be to him as one who has wiped a mirror, to be sure it doesn’t completely tarnish.
12 не ставь его подле себя, чтобы он, низринув тебя, не стал на твое место; не сажай его по правую сторону себя, чтобы он когда-нибудь не стал домогаться твоего седалища, и ты наконец поймешь слова мои и со скорбью вспомнишь о наставлениях моих.
12 Don’t set him next to you, lest he overthrow you and stand in your place. Don’t let him sit on your right hand, lest he seek to take your seat, and at the last you acknowledge my words, and be pricked with my sayings.
13 Кто пожалеет об ужаленном заклинателе змей и обо всех, приближающихся к диким зверям? Так и о сближающемся с грешником и преобщающемся грехам его:
13 Who will pity a charmer that is bitten by a snake, or any who come near wild beasts?
14 на время он останется с тобою, но, если ты поколеблешься, он не устоит.
14 Even so, who will pity him who goes to a sinner, and is associated with him in his sins?
15 Устами своими враг усладит тебя, но в сердце своем замышляет ввергнуть тебя в яму: глазами своими враг будет плакать, а когда найдет случай, не насытится кровью.
15 For a while he will stay with you, and if you falter, he will not stay.
16 Если встретится с тобою несчастье, ты найдешь его там прежде себя,
16 The enemy will speak sweetly with his lips, and in his heart plan to throw you into a pit. The enemy may weep with his eyes, but if he finds opportunity, he will want more blood.
17 и он, как будто желая помочь, подставит тебе ногу:
17 If adversity meets you, you will find him there before you. Pretending to help you, he will trip you.
18 будет кивать головою и хлопать руками, многое будет шептать, и изменит лицо свое.
18 He will shake his head, clap his hands, whisper much, and change his countenance.
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).
It is written: "Give to the godly man, and help not a sinner." The latter clause of this sentence seems to forbid benevolence; for it says, "help not a sinner." Understand, therefore, that "sinner" is put figuratively for sin, so that it is his sin you are not to help.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
"But who," it is said, "will pity a charmer that is bitten with a serpent?" For we ought, knowing its cruel tyranny, to flee that slavery, and destroy that grievous longing.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
"Help not a sinner:" and, "give not to the ungodly;" and yet, "give unto every man that asketh of thee." But it is a sinner who asketh of me.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)