Eclesiástico (Sirácida) · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
Eclesiástico (Sirácida) 23 Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
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1 O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer 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 Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear:
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 Lest my ignorance increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me?
3 Otherwise my errors might be multiplied, and my sins abound, I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me.
4 O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices.
4 O Lord, Father and God of my life, don’t give me a haughty eyes,
5 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting.
5 and turn away evil desire from me.
6 Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind.
6 Let neither gluttony nor lust overtake me. Don’t give me over to a shameless mind.
7 Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: and he that will keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most wicked works.
7 Listen, my children, to the discipline of the mouth. He who keeps it will not be caught.
8 A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby.
8 The sinner will be overpowered through his lips. By them, the insulter and the arrogant will stumble.
9 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are many falls.
9 Don’t accustom your mouth to an oath, and don’t be accustomed to naming the Holy One,
10 And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle not with the names of saints, for thou shalt not escape free from 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 For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a blue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure 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 that sweareth much, shall be filled with iniquity, and a scourge shall 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 make it void, his sin shall be upon him: and if he dissemble it, he offendeth double:
13 Don’t accustom your mouth to gross rudeness, for it involves sinful speech.
14 And if he swear in vain, he shall not be justified: for his house shall be filled with his punishment.
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 also another speech opposite to 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 from the merciful all these things shall be taken away, and they shall not wallow in sins.
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 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein is the word of sin.
17 All bread is sweet to a fornicator. He will not cease until he dies.
18 Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest is the midst of great men:
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 Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom, be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy 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 that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be corrected 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 sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction.
21 This man will be punished in the streets of the city. He will be seized where he least expects it.
22 A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched, till it devour some thing.
22 So also is a wife who leaves her husband, and produces an heir by another man.
23 And a man that is wicked in the mouth of his flesh, will not leave off till he hath 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 that is a fornicator all bread is sweet, he will not be weary of sinning unto the end.
24 She shall be brought out into the congregation. Her punishment will extend to her children.
25 Every man that passeth beyond his own bed, despising his own soul, and saying: Who seeth me?
25 Her children will not take root. Her branches will bear no fruit.
26 Darkness compasseth me about, and the walls cover me, and no man seeth me: whom do I fear? the most High will not remember my sins.
26 She will leave her memory for a curse. Her reproach won’t be blotted out.
27 And he understandeth not that his eye seeth all things, for such a man’s fear driveth from him the fear of God, and the eyes of men fearing him:
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 knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are far brighter than the sun, beholding round about all the ways of men, and the bottom of the deep, and looking into the hearts of men, into the most hidden parts.
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29 For all things were known to the Lord God, before they were created: so also after they were perfected he beholdeth all things.
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30 This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and he shall be chased as a colt: and where he suspected not, he shall be taken.
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31 And he shall be in disgrace with all men, because he understood not the fear of the Lord.
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32 So every woman also that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another:
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33 For first she hath been unfaithful to the law of the most High: and secondly, she hath offended against her husband: thirdly, she hath fornicated in adultery, and hath gotten her children of another man.
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34 This woman shall be brought into the assembly, and inquisition shall be made of her children.
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35 Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit.
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36 She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her infamy shall not be blotted out.
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37 And they that remain shall know. that there is nothing better than the fear of God: and that there is nothing sweeter than to have regard to the commandments of the Lord.
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38 It is great glory to follow the Lord for length of days shall 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)