en_RV1895 - Sir 23 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ [1]O Lord, Father and Master of my life, Abandon me not to their counsel: Suffer me not to fall by them.

² Who will set scourges over my thought, And a discipline of wisdom over mine heart? That they spare me not for [2]mine ignorances, And my heart pass not by their sins:

³ That [3]mine ignorances be not multiplied, And my sins abound not; And I shall fall before mine adversaries, And [4]mine enemy rejoice over me.[5]

⁴ [6]O Lord, Father and God of my life, Give me not [7]a [8]proud look,[9]

⁵ And turn away concupiscence from me.[10]

⁶ [11]Let not [12]greediness and chambering overtake me; And give me not over to a shameless mind.

⁷ Hear ye, my children, the discipline of the mouth; And he that keepeth it shall not be taken.

⁸ [13]The sinner shall be [14]overtaken in his lips; And the reviler and the proud man shall stumble therein.

⁹ [15]Accustom not thy mouth to an oath; And be not accustomed to [16]the naming of the Holy One.

¹⁰ For as a servant that is continually scourged [17]shall not lack a bruise, [18]So he also that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be cleansed from sin.

¹¹ A man of many oaths shall be filled with iniquity; And the scourge [19]shall not depart from his house: [20]If he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him; And [21]if he disregard it, he hath sinned doubly; And if he hath sworn in vain, [22]he shall not be justified; For his house shall be filled with calamities.

¹² [23]There is a manner of speech that is clothed about with death: Let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob; For all these things shall be far from the godly, And they shall not [24]wallow in sins.

¹³ Accustom not thy mouth to gross rudeness, For therein is the word of sin.

¹⁴ [25]Remember thy father and thy mother, For thou sittest in the midst of great men; That thou be not forgetful before them, And become a fool by thy custom; So shalt thou wish [26]that thou hadst not been born, And curse the day of thy nativity.

¹⁵ A man that is accustomed to words of reproach Will not be corrected all the days of his life.

¹⁶ [27]TWO sorts of men multiply sins, And [28]the third will bring wrath: A hot mind, as a burning fire, will not be quenched till it be consumed: A fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he hath [29]burned out the fire.

¹⁷ All [30]bread is sweet to a fornicator: He will not leave off till he die.

¹⁸ A man that goeth astray from his own bed, Saying in his heart, [31]Who seeth me? [32]Darkness is round about me, and the walls hide me, And no man seeth me; of whom am I afraid? The Most High will not remember my sins;

¹⁹ —And the eyes of men are his terror, And he knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, [33]Beholding all the ways of men, And looking into secret places.

²⁰ All things were known unto him or ever they were created; And [34]in like manner also after they were perfected.

²¹ [35]This man shall be punished in the streets of the city; And where he suspected not he shall be taken.

²² So also a wife that leaveth her husband, And bringeth in an heir by a stranger.

²³ For first, [36]she was disobedient in the law of the Most High; And secondly, she trespassed against her own husband; And thirdly, she played the adulteress in whoredom, And brought in children by a stranger.

²⁴ [37]She shall be brought out into the congregation; And upon her children shall there [38]be visitation.

²⁵ [39]Her children shall not spread into roots, And her branches shall bear no fruit.

²⁶ She shall leave her memory for a curse; And her reproach shall not be blotted out.

²⁷ And they that are left behind shall know that [40]there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, And [41]nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.[42]