Wisdom of Solomon · Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Wisdom of Solomon 1 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 Любите справедливость, судьи земли, право мыслите о Господе, и в простоте сердца ищите Его,
1 Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth. Think of the Lord with a good mind. Seek him in singleness of heart,
2 ибо Он обретается неискушающими Его и является не неверующим Ему.
2 because he is found by those who don’t put him to the test, and is manifested to those who trust him.
3 Ибо неправые умствования отдаляют от Бога, и испытание силы Его обличит безумных.
3 for crooked thoughts separate from God. His Power convicts when it is tested, and exposes the foolish;
4 В лукавую душу не войдет премудрость и не будет обитать в теле, порабощенном греху,
4 because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin.
5 ибо святый Дух премудрости удалится от лукавства и уклонится от неразумных умствований, и устыдится приближающейся неправды.
5 For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding, and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in.
6 Человеколюбивый дух - премудрость, но не оставит безнаказанным богохульствующего устами, потому что Бог есть свидетель внутренних чувств его и истинный зритель сердца его, и слышатель языка его.
6 For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips, because God is witness of his inmost self, and is a true overseer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
7 Дух Господа наполняет вселенную и, как все объемлющий, знает всякое слово.
7 Because the spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and that which holds all things together knows what is said.
8 Посему никто, говорящий неправду, не утаится, и не минет его обличающий суд.
8 Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen; neither will Justice, when it convicts, pass him by.
9 Ибо будет испытание помыслов нечестивого, и слова его взойдут к Господу в обличение беззаконий его;
9 For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out, and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction;
10 потому что ухо ревности слышит все, и ропот не скроется.
10 because a jealous ear listens to all things, and the noise of murmurings is not hidden.
11 Итак, хранитесь от бесполезного ропота и берегитесь от злоречия языка, ибо и тайное слово не пройдет даром, а клевещущие уста убивают душу.
11 Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul.
12 Не ускоряйте смерти заблуждениями вашей жизни и не привлекайте к себе погибели делами рук ваших.
12 Don’t court death in the error of your life. Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands;
13 Бог не сотворил смерти и не радуется погибели живущих,
13 because God didn’t make death, neither does he delight when the living perish.
14 ибо Он создал все для бытия, и все в мире спасительно, и нет пагубного яда, нет и царства ада на земле.
14 For he created all things that they might have being. The generative powers of the world are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth;
15 Праведность бессмертна, а неправда причиняет смерть:
15 for righteousness is immortal,
16 нечестивые привлекли ее и руками и словами, сочли ее другом и исчахли, и заключили союз с нею, ибо они достойны быть ее жребием
16 but ungodly men by their hands and their words summon death; deeming him a friend they pined away. They made a covenant with him, because they are worthy to belong with him.
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).
… to beware of offending Him, suppose that he can serve two masters; and let him disentangle the upright intention of his heart from all doubleness: for thus he will think of the Lord with a good heart, and in simplicity of heart will seek Him. Chapter XV
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
saith the Lord," and "The Spirit of the Lord filleth the world," if God partly contains and partly is contained?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
But the Spirit is believed to have been operating at the same time in Habakkuk and in Daniel at Babylon, and to have been at the prison with Jeremiah, and with Ezekiel at the Chebar. For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world, and "whither shall I go from thy spirit?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
For God did not create death, neither does He take delight in the destruction of living things.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
… now detest and abhor such impiety, if ye keep clean for the Creator His own temple, if ye would that He should come and make His abode with you, "Think of the Lord with a good heart, and in simplicity of heart seek for Him." Mark well who it is to whom ye say, if so be ye do say …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)