Eclesiástico (Sirácida) · Versión Católica de Dominio Público
Eclesiástico (Sirácida) 23 Versión Católica de Dominio Público
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1 Lord, Father and Ruler of my life: may you not abandon me to their counsel, nor permit me to fall by them.
1 O Lord, Father and Master of my life, don’t abandon me to their counsel. Don’t let me fall because of them.
2 They would impose scourges over my thoughts and over the discipline of wisdom in my heart. And they would not spare me from their ignorances, nor would they allow their own offenses to become apparent.
2 Who will set scourges over my thought, and a discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not for my errors, and not overlook their sins?
3 And they intend that my ignorances would increase, and my offenses be multiplied, and my sins abound. And so I would fall in the sight of my adversaries, and be rejoiced over by my enemy.
3 Otherwise my errors might be multiplied, and my sins abound, I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me.
4 Lord, Father and God of my life: may you not abandon me to their plans.
4 O Lord, Father and God of my life, don’t give me a haughty eyes,
5 Do not leave me with the haughtiness of my eyes. And avert all desire from me.
5 and turn away evil desire from me.
6 Take the desire of the body from me, and do not allow sexual desire to take hold of me, and do not permit an irreverent and senseless mind within me.
6 Let neither gluttony nor lust overtake me. Don’t give me over to a shameless mind.
7 O sons: listen to the doctrine of my mouth. For those who observe it will not perish by the lips, nor be scandalized into wicked works.
7 Listen, my children, to the discipline of the mouth. He who keeps it will not be caught.
8 A sinner is held by his own emptiness. And the arrogant and those who speak evil will be scandalized by these things.
8 The sinner will be overpowered through his lips. By them, the insulter and the arrogant will stumble.
9 Do not allow your mouth to become accustomed to swearing oaths. For in this, there are many pitfalls.
9 Don’t accustom your mouth to an oath, and don’t be accustomed to naming the Holy One,
10 Truly, do not allow the naming of God to be continually in your mouth, and do not treat as if common the names of the holy ones. For you will not escape punishment by them.
10 for as a servant who is continually scourged will not lack bruises, so he also who swears and continually utters the Name will not be cleansed from sin.
11 Just as a servant, continually interrogated, will not be without a bruise, so everyone who swears oaths and takes God’s name will not be entirely free from sin.
11 A man of many oaths will be filled with iniquity. The scourge will not depart from his house. If he offends, his sin will be upon him. If he disregards it, he has sinned doubly. If he has sworn falsely, he will not be justified, for his house will be filled with calamities.
12 A man who swears many oaths will be filled with iniquity, and scourges will not depart from his house.
12 There is a manner of speech that is clothed with death. Let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob, for all these things will be far from the godly, and they will not wallow in sins.
13 And if he fails to fulfill it, his offense will be over him, and if he pretends he fulfilled it, he offends doubly.
13 Don’t accustom your mouth to gross rudeness, for it involves sinful speech.
14 And if he swears an oath insincerely, he will not be justified. For his house will be filled with retribution for him.
14 Remember your father and your mother, for you sit in the midst of great men, that you be not forgetful before them, and become a fool by your bad habit; so you may wish that you had not been born, and curse the day of your birth.
15 There is yet another kind of talk which faces death; let it not be found in the inheritance of Jacob.
15 A man who is accustomed to abusive language won’t be corrected all the days of his life.
16 For all these things will be taken away from the merciful, and they shall not wallow in offenses.
16 Two sorts of people multiply sins, and the third will bring wrath: a hot passion, like a burning fire, will not be quenched until it is consumed; a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease until he has burned out the fire.
17 Do not allow your mouth to become accustomed to undisciplined speech. For in this, there is the sin of words.
17 All bread is sweet to a fornicator. He will not cease until he dies.
18 When you sit in the midst of great men, remember your father and mother.
18 A man who goes astray from his own marriage bed says in his heart, “Who sees me? Darkness is around me, and the walls hide me. No one sees me. Of whom am I afraid? The Most High will not remember my sins.”
19 Otherwise, God may forget you, when you are in their sight, and then you would be repeatedly ridiculed and would suffer disgrace, and you might wish that you had never been born, and you might curse the day of your nativity.
19 The eyes of men are his terror. He doesn’t know that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, seeing all the ways of men, and looking into secret places.
20 The man who is accustomed to disgraceful words will not accept instruction, all the days of his life.
20 All things were known to him before they were created, and also after they were completed.
21 Two kinds of persons abound in sins, and a third adds wrath and perdition.
21 This man will be punished in the streets of the city. He will be seized where he least expects it.
22 A desirous soul is like a burning fire, it will not be quenched, until it devours something.
22 So also is a wife who leaves her husband, and produces an heir by another man.
23 And a man who is wicked in the desires of his flesh will not desist until he has kindled a fire.
23 For first, she was disobedient in the law of the Most High. Second, she trespassed against her own husband. Third, she played the adulteress in fornication, and had children by another man.
24 To a man of fornication, all bread is sweet; he will not tire of transgression, to the very end.
24 She shall be brought out into the congregation. Her punishment will extend to her children.
25 Every man who transgresses his own bed has contempt for his own soul. And so he says: “Who can see me?
25 Her children will not take root. Her branches will bear no fruit.
26 Darkness surrounds me, and the walls enclose me, and no one catches sight of me. Whom should I fear? The Most High will not remember my offenses.”
26 She will leave her memory for a curse. Her reproach won’t be blotted out.
27 And he does not understand that God’s eye sees all things. For fear within a man such as this drives away from him both the fear of God and the eyes of those men who fear God.
27 And those who are left behind will know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, and nothing sweeter than to heed the commandments of the Lord.
28 And he does not acknowledge that the eyes of the Lord are much brighter than the sun, keeping watch over all the ways of men, even to the depths of the abyss, and gazing into the hearts of men, even to the most hidden parts.
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29 For all things, before they were created, were known to the Lord God. And even after their completion, he beholds all things.
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30 This man will be punished in the streets of the city, and he will be chased like a young horse. And in a place that he does not suspect, he will be captured.
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31 And because he did not understand the fear of the Lord, he will be in disgrace before all men,
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32 as will be every woman, too, who abandons her husband and establishes an inheritance by marriage to another man.
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33 For first, she was unbelieving of the law of the Most High. Second, she offended against her husband. Third, she fornicated by adultery, and so established her children by another man.
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34 This woman will be led into the assembly, and she will be stared at by her children.
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35 Her children will not take root, and her branches will not produce fruit.
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36 She will leave behind her memory as a curse, and her infamy will not be wiped away.
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37 And those who are left behind will acknowledge that there is nothing better than the fear of God, and that there is nothing sweeter than to have respect for the commandments of the Lord.
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38 It is a great glory to follow the Lord. For length of days will be received from him.
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Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
Another have I heard entreating that he might receive,--"Take from me," saith he, "the greediness of the belly;" by which it appeareth, O my holy God, that Thou givest when what Thou commandest to be done is done.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)