Eclesiástico (Sirácida) · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
Eclesiástico (Sirácida) 10 Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
DRB Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
WEB World English Bible (clásica, con deuterocanónicos)
1 A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady.
1 A wise judge will instruct his people. The government of a man of understanding will be well ordered.
2 As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell therein.
2 As is the judge of his people, so are his officials. As the city’s ruler is, so are all those who dwell in it.
3 An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers.
3 An undisciplined king will destroy his people. A city will be established through the understanding of the powerful.
4 The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he will raise up a profitable ruler over it.
4 The government of the earth is in the Lord’s hand. In due time, he will raise up over it the right person at the right time.
5 The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay his honour.
5 A man’s prosperity is in the Lord’s hand. He will lay his honor upon the person of the scribe.
6 Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of injury.
6 Don’t be angry with your neighbor for every wrong. Do nothing by works of violence.
7 Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable.
7 Pride is hateful before the Lord and men. Arrogance is abhorrent in the judgment of both.
8 A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits.
8 Sovereignty is transferred from nation to nation because of injustice, violence, and greed for money.
9 But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth and ashes proud?
9 Why are dirt and ashes proud? Because in life, my body decays.
10 There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels.
10 A long disease mocks the physician. The king of today will die tomorrow.
11 All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.
11 For when a man is dead, he will inherit maggots, vermin, and worms.
12 The physician cutteth off it short sickness: so also a king is today, and tomorrow he shall die.
12 It is the beginning of pride when a man departs from the Lord. His heart has departed from him who made him.
13 For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.
13 For the beginning of pride is sin. He who keeps it will pour out abomination. For this cause the Lord brought upon them strange calamities and utterly overthrew them.
14 The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:
14 The Lord cast down the thrones of rulers and set the lowly in their place.
15 Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: be that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.
15 The Lord plucked up the roots of nations and planted the lowly in their place.
16 Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.
16 The Lord overthrew the lands of nations and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.
17 God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.
17 He took some of them away and destroyed them, and made their memory to cease from the earth.
18 God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations.
18 Pride has not been created for men, nor wrathful anger for the offspring of women.
19 The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation.
19 Whose offspring has honor? Human offspring who fear the Lord. Whose offspring has no honor? Human offspring who break the commandments.
20 He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth.
20 In the midst of kindred he who rules them has honor. Those who fear the Lord have honor in his eyes.
21 God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind.
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22 Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women.
22 The rich man, the honorable, and the poor all glory in the fear of the Lord.
23 That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord.
23 It is not right to dishonor a poor man who has understanding. It is not fitting to glorify a man who is a sinner.
24 In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes.
24 The prince, the judge, and the mighty man will be honored. There is not one of them greater than he who fears the Lord.
25 The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor:
25 Free men will minister to a wise servant. A man who has knowledge will not complain.
26 Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.
26 Don’t flaunt your wisdom in doing your work. Don’t boast in the time of your distress.
27 The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God.
27 Better is he who labors and abounds in all things, than he who boasts and lacks bread.
28 They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.
28 My son, glorify your soul in humility, and ascribe to yourself honor according to your worthiness.
29 Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress:
29 Who will justify him who sins against his own soul? Who will honor him who dishonors his own life?
30 Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread.
30 A poor man is honored for his knowledge. A rich man is honored for his riches.
31 My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert.
31 But he who is honored in poverty, how much more in riches? He who is dishonored in riches, how much more in poverty?
32 Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul?
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33 The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear: and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth.
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34 But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty.
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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).
Nor ought blessedness to begin at any other point whatever, if indeed it is to attain unto the highest wisdom; "but the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;" for, on the other hand also, "pride" is entitled "the beginning of all sin." Let the proud, therefore, seek after and love the kingdoms of the earth; but "blessed …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
Let him hear it said to him, "Why is earth and ashes proud?" Even if the devil is proud, he is not "earth and ashes." Therefore was it said, "But ye shall die like men, and shall fall as one of the princes." Ye do not consider that ye are mortals, and ye are proud as the devil.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
That his earth has reference to the inner man, and that man is cast forth thence by pride, may be particularly seen in that which is written, "Why is earth and ashes proud? Because, in his life, he cast forth his bowels." For, whence he hath been cast forth, he is not unreasonably said to have cast forth himself.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)