Wisdom of Solomon · Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Wisdom of Solomon 2 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 Неправо умствующие говорили сами в себе: "коротка и прискорбна наша жизнь, и нет человеку спасения от смерти, и не знают, чтобы кто освободил из ада.
1 For they said within themselves, with unsound reasoning, “Our life is short and sorrowful. There is no healing when a man comes to his end, and no one was ever known who was released from Hades.
2 Случайно мы рождены и после будем как небывшие: дыхание в ноздрях наших - дым, и слово - искра в движении нашего сердца.
2 Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we will be as though we had never been, because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our heart,
3 Когда она угаснет, тело обратится в прах, и дух рассеется, как жидкий воздух;
3 which being extinguished, the body will be turned into ashes, and the spirit will be dispersed as thin air.
4 и имя наше забудется со временем, и никто не вспомнит о делах наших; и жизнь наша пройдет, как след облака, и рассеется, как туман, разогнанный лучами солнца и отягченный теплотою его.
4 Our name will be forgotten in time. No one will remember our works. Our life will pass away as the traces of a cloud, and will be scattered as is a mist, when it is chased by the rays of the sun, and overcome by its heat.
5 Ибо жизнь наша - прохождение тени, и нет нам возврата от смерти: ибо положена печать, и никто не возвращается.
5 For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and our end doesn’t retreat, because it is securely sealed, and no one turns it back.
6 Будем же наслаждаться настоящими благами и спешить пользоваться миром, как юностью;
6 “Come therefore and let’s enjoy the good things that exist. Let’s use the creation earnestly as in our youth.
7 преисполнимся дорогим вином и благовониями, и да не пройдет мимо нас весенний цвет жизни;
7 Let’s fill ourselves with costly wine and perfumes, and let no spring flower pass us by.
8 увенчаемся цветами роз прежде, нежели они увяли;
8 Let’s crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
9 никто из нас не лишай себя участия в нашем наслаждении; везде оставим следы веселья, ибо это наша доля и наш жребий.
9 Let none of us go without his share in our proud revelry. Let’s leave tokens of mirth everywhere, because this is our portion, and this is our lot.
10 Будем притеснять бедняка праведника, не пощадим вдовы и не постыдимся многолетних седин старца.
10 Let’s oppress the righteous poor. Let’s not spare the widow, nor regard the gray hair of the old man.
11 Сила наша да будет законом правды, ибо бессилие оказывается бесполезным.
11 But let our strength be a law of righteousness; for that which is weak is proven useless.
12 Устроим ковы праведнику, ибо он в тягость нам и противится делам нашим, укоряет нас в грехах против закона и поносит нас за грехи нашего воспитания;
12 But let’s lie in wait for the righteous man, because he annoys us, is contrary to our works, reproaches us with sins against the law, and charges us with sins against our training.
13 объявляет себя имеющим познание о Боге и называет себя сыном Господа;
13 He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord.
14 он пред нами - обличение помыслов наших.
14 He became to us a reproof of our thoughts.
15 Тяжело нам и смотреть на него, ибо жизнь его не похожа на жизнь других, и отличны пути его:
15 He is grievous to us even to look at, because his life is unlike other men’s, and his paths are strange.
16 он считает нас мерзостью и удаляется от путей наших, как от нечистот, ублажает кончину праведных и тщеславно называет отцом своим Бога.
16 We were regarded by him as something worthless, and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness. He calls the latter end of the righteous happy. He boasts that God is his father.
17 Увидим, истинны ли слова его, и испытаем, какой будет исход его;
17 Let’s see if his words are true. Let’s test what will happen at the end of his life.
18 ибо если этот праведник есть сын Божий, то Бог защитит его и избавит его от руки врагов.
18 For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him, and he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries.
19 Испытаем его оскорблением и мучением, дабы узнать смирение его и видеть незлобие его;
19 Let’s test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and test his patience.
20 осудим его на бесчестную смерть, ибо, по словам его, о нем попечение будет".
20 Let’s condemn him to a shameful death, for he will be protected, according to his words.”
21 Так они умствовали, и ошиблись; ибо злоба их ослепила их,
21 Thus they reasoned, and they were led astray; for their wickedness blinded them,
22 и они не познали тайн Божиих, не ожидали воздаяния за святость и не считали достойными награды душ непорочных.
22 and they didn’t know the mysteries of God, neither did they hope for wages of holiness, nor did they discern that there is a prize for blameless souls.
23 Бог создал человека для нетления и соделал его образом вечного бытия Своего;
23 Because God created man for incorruption, and made him an image of his own everlastingness;
24 но завистью диавола вошла в мир смерть, и испытывают ее принадлежащие к уделу его.
24 but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil, and those who belong to him experience it.
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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