Wisdom of Solomon · Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Wisdom of Solomon 11 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 Она благоустроила дела их рукою святого пророка:
1 Wisdom prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet.
2 они прошли по необитаемой пустыне, и на непроходных местах поставили шатры;
2 They traveled through a desert without inhabitant, and they pitched their tents in trackless regions.
3 противостали неприятелям и отмстили врагам;
3 They withstood enemies and repelled foes.
4 томились жаждою и воззвали к Тебе, и дана им была вода из утесистой скалы и утоление жажды - из твердого камня.
4 They thirsted, and they called upon you, and water was given to them out of the flinty rock, and healing of their thirst out of the hard stone.
5 Ибо, чем наказаны были враги их,
5 For by what things their foes were punished, by these they in their need were benefited.
6 тем они, находясь в затруднении, были облагодетельствованы:
6 When enemies were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain,
7 вместо источника постоянно текущей реки, смрадною кровью возмущенной,
7 to rebuke the decree for the slaying of babies, you gave them abundant water beyond all hope,
8 в обличение их детоубийственного повеления, Ты неожиданно дал им обильную воду,
8 having shown by the thirst which they had suffered how you punished the adversaries.
9 показав тогда чрез жажду, как Ты наказал их противников.
9 For when they were tried, although chastened in mercy, they learned how the ungodly were tormented, being judged with wrath.
10 Ибо, когда они были испытываемы, подвергаясь, впрочем, милостивому вразумлению, тогда познали, как мучились во гневе судимые нечестивые;
10 For you tested these as a father admonishing them; but you searched out those as a stern king condemning them.
11 потому что их Ты испытывал, как отец, поучая, а тех, как гневный царь, осуждая, истязал.
11 Yes and whether they were far off or near, they were equally distressed;
12 И отсутствовавшие и присутствовавшие одинаково пострадали:
12 for a double grief seized them, and a groaning at the memory of things past.
13 их постигла сугубая скорбь и стенание от воспоминания о прошедшем.
13 For when they heard that through their own punishments the others benefited, they recognized the Lord.
14 Они, когда услышали, что чрез их наказания те были облагодетельствованы, познали Господа.
14 For him who long before was thrown out and exposed they stopped mocking. In the end of what happened, they marveled, having thirsted in another manner than the righteous.
15 Кого они прежде, как отверженного, отреклись с ругательством, Тому в последствие событий удивлялись, потерпев неодинаковую с праведными жажду.
15 But in return for the senseless imaginings of their unrighteousness, wherein they were led astray to worship irrational reptiles and wretched vermin, you sent upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them,
16 А за неразумные помышления их неправды, по которым они в заблуждении служили бессловесным пресмыкающимся и презренным чудовищам, Ты в наказание наслал на них множество бессловесных животных,
16 that they might learn that by what things a man sins, by these he is punished.
17 чтобы они познали, что, чем кто согрешает, тем и наказывается.
17 For your all-powerful hand that created the world out of formless matter didn’t lack means to send upon them a multitude of bears, fierce lions,
18 Не невозможно было бы для всемогущей руки Твоей, создавшей мир из необразного вещества, наслать на них множество медведей или свирепых львов,
18 or newly-created and unknown wild beasts, full of rage, either breathing out a blast of fiery breath, or belching out smoke, or flashing dreadful sparks from their eyes;
19 или неизвестных новосозданных лютых зверей, или дышащих огненным дыханием, или извергающих клубы дыма, или бросающих из глаз ужасные искры,
19 which had power not only to consume them by their violence, but to destroy them even by the terror of their sight.
20 которые не только повреждением могли истребить их, но и ужасающим видом погубить.
20 Yes and without these they might have fallen by a single breath, being pursued by Justice, and scattered abroad by the breath of your power; but you arranged all things by measure, number, and weight.
21 Да и без этого они могли погибнуть от одного дуновения, преследуемые правосудием и рассеваемые духом силы Твоей; но Ты все расположил мерою, числом и весом.
21 For to be greatly strong is yours at all times. Who could withstand the might of your arm?
22 Ибо великая сила всегда присуща Тебе, и кто противостанет силе мышцы Твоей?
22 Because the whole world before you is as a grain in a balance, and as a drop of dew that comes down upon the earth in the morning.
23 Весь мир пред Тобою, как колебание чашки весов, или как капля утренней росы, сходящей на землю.
23 But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, and you overlook the sins of men to the end that they may repent.
24 Ты всех милуешь, потому что все можешь, и покрываешь грехи людей ради покаяния.
24 For you love all things that are, and abhor none of the things which you made; For you never would have formed anything if you hated it.
25 Ты любишь все существующее, и ничем не гнушаешься, что сотворил, ибо не создал бы, если бы что ненавидел.
25 How would anything have endured unless you had willed it? Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been preserved?
26 И как могло бы пребывать что-либо, если бы Ты не восхотел? Или как сохранилось бы то, что не было призвано Тобою?
26 But you spare all things, because they are yours, O Sovereign Lord, you who love the living.
27 Но Ты все щадишь, потому что все Твое, душелюбивый Господи.
27 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).
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