Sirach 2 Clementine Vulgate
Sirach is not in RV1909.
1 [Fili, accedens ad servitutem Dei sta in justitia et timore, et præpara animam tuam ad tentationem.
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1 My son, if you come to serve the Lord, prepare your soul for temptation.
2 Deprime cor tuum, et sustine: inclina aurem tuam, et suscipe verba intellectus: et ne festines in tempore obductionis.
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2 Set your heart aright, constantly endure, and don’t make haste in time of calamity.
3 Sustine sustentationes Dei: conjungere Deo, et sustine, ut crescat in novissimo vita tua.
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3 Cling to him, and don’t depart, that you may be increased at your latter end.
4 Omne quod tibi applicitum fuerit accipe: et in dolore sustine, et in humilitate tua patientiam habe:
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4 Accept whatever is brought upon you, and be patient when you suffer humiliation.
5 quoniam in igne probatur aurum et argentum, homines vero receptibiles in camino humiliationis.
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5 For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.
6 Crede Deo, et recuperabit te: et dirige viam tuam, et spera in illum: serva timorem illius, et in illo veterasce.]
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6 Put your trust in him, and he will help you. Make your ways straight, and set your hope on him.
7 [Metuentes Dominum, sustinete misericordiam ejus: et non deflectatis ab illo, ne cadatis.
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7 All you who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy. Don’t turn aside, lest you fall.
8 Qui timetis Dominum, credite illi, et non evacuabitur merces vestra.
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8 All you who fear the Lord, put your trust in him, and your reward will not fail.
9 Qui timetis Dominum, sperate in illum, et in oblectationem veniet vobis misericordia.
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9 All you who fear the Lord, hope for good things, and for eternal gladness and mercy.
10 Qui timetis Dominum, diligite illum, et illuminabuntur corda vestra.
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10 Look at the generations of old, and see: Who ever put his trust in the Lord, and was ashamed? Or who remained in his fear, and was forsaken? Or who called upon him, and he neglected him?
11 Respicite, filii, nationes hominum: et scitote quia nullus speravit in Domino et confusus est.
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11 For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. He forgives sins and saves in time of affliction.
12 Quis enim permansit in mandatis ejus, et derelictus est? aut quis invocavit eum, et despexit illum?
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12 Woe to fearful hearts, to faint hands, and to the sinner who goes two ways!
13 Quoniam pius et misericors est Deus, et remittet in die tribulationis peccata, et protector est omnibus exquirentibus se in veritate.]
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13 Woe to the faint heart! For it doesn’t believe. Therefore it won’t be defended.
14 [Væ duplici corde, et labiis scelestis, et manibus malefacientibus, et peccatori terram ingredienti duabus viis !
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14 Woe to you who have lost your patience! And what will you all do when the Lord visits you?
15 Væ dissolutis corde, qui non credunt Deo, et ideo non protegentur ab eo !
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15 Those who fear the Lord will not disobey his words. Those who love him will keep his ways.
16 Væ his qui perdiderunt sustinentiam, et qui dereliquerunt vias rectas, et diverterunt in vias pravas !
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16 Those who fear the Lord will seek his good pleasure. Those who love him will be filled with the law.
17 Et quid facient cum inspicere cœperit Dominus?
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17 Those who fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and will humble their souls in his sight.
18 Qui timent Dominum non erunt incredibiles verbo illius: et qui diligunt illum conservabunt viam illius.
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18 We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men; for as his majesty is, so also is his mercy.
19 Qui timent Dominum inquirent quæ beneplacita sunt ei, et qui diligunt eum replebuntur lege ipsius.
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19 Not in this translation
20 Qui timent Dominum præparabunt corda sua, et in conspectu illius sanctificabunt animas suas.
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20 Not in this translation
21 Qui timent Dominum custodiunt mandata illius, et patientiam habebunt usque ad inspectionem illius,
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21 Not in this translation
22 dicentes: Si pœnitentiam non egerimus, incidemus in manus Domini, et non in manus hominum.
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22 Not in this translation
23 Secundum enim magnitudinem ipsius, sic et misericordia illius cum ipso est.]
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23 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).
… rise again but what falls, whence they conclude that resurrection pertains to bodies only, and not to souls, because bodies fall, why do they make nothing of the words, "Ye that fear the Lord, wait for His mercy; and go not aside lest ye fall;" and "To his own Master he stands or falls;" and "He that thinketh he standeth, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Where then is that, "Who hath called upon God, and hath been forsaken by Him?" where again is that, "Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord, shall be delivered." Immediately reaching forth the help of His right hand, He lifted him up as he was sinking, and rebuked his distrust; "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
In such manner evidently Thou wilt be angry, because it hath been written, "My son, drawing near unto the service of God, stand thou in righteousness and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation." Think not that now the wrath of God hath passed away, because thou hast been converted.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)