Sabiduría · Septuaginta de Brenton actualizada
Sabiduría 17 Septuaginta de Brenton actualizada
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
Sabiduría no está en RV1909.
1 For great are thy judgments, and cannot be expressed: Therefore unnurtured souls have erred.
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2 For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; They being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and fettered with the bonds of a long night, Lay [there] exiled from the eternal providence.
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3 For while they supposed to lie hidden in their secret sins, They were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, Being horribly astonished, And troubled with [strange] apparitions.
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4 For neither might the corner that held them keep them from fear: But noises [as of waters] falling down sounded about them, And sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances.
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5 No power of the fire might give them light: Neither could the bright flames of the stars Endure to lighten that horrible night.
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6 Only there appeared unto them A fire kindled of itself, very dreadful: For being much terrified, they thought the things which they saw To be worse than the sight they saw not.
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7 As for the illusions of art magic, they were put down, And their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace.
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8 For they, that promised to drive away terrors and troubles from a sick soul, Were sick themselves of fear, worthy to be laughed at.
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9 For though no terrible thing did fear them; Yet being scared with beasts that passed by, and hissing of serpents,
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10 They died for fear, Denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.
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11 For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, And being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth grievous things.
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12 For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succors which reason offereth.
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13 And the expectation from within, being less, Counteth the ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.
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14 But they sleeping the same sleep that night, Which was indeed intolerable, And which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell,
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15 Were partly vexed with monstrous apparitions, And partly fainted, their heart failing them: For a sudden fear, and not looked for, came upon them.
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16 So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, Shut up in a prison without iron bars.
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17 For whether he were husbandman, or shepherd, Or a laborer in the field, He was overtaken, and endured that necessity, which could not be avoided: For they were all bound with one chain of darkness.
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18 Whether it were a whistling wind, Or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches, Or a pleasing fall of water running violently,
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19 Or a terrible sound of stones cast down, Or a running that could not be seen of skipping beasts, Or a roaring voice of most savage wild beasts, Or a rebounding echo from the hollow mountains: These things made them to swoon for fear.
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20 For the whole world shined with clear light, And none were hindered in their labor:
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21 Over them only was spread a heavy night, An image of that darkness which should afterward receive them: But yet were they unto themselves more grievous than the darkness.
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