en_wbms - Sir 14 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Blessed is the man, that stood not by the words of his mouth, and was not pricked in the sorrow of trespass.

² He is blessed, that hath not sorrow of his soul, and falleth not down [or away] from his hope.

³ Chattel, that is, riches, is without reason to a covetous man, and hard niggard; and whereto is gold to an envious man?

⁴ He that gathereth of his will unjustly, gathereth to other men; and another man shall make waste [or do lechery] in his goods.

⁵ To what other man shall he be good, which is wicked to himself? [or Who to himself is shrewd, to what other shall he be good?] and he shall not be merry in his goods.

⁶ Nothing is worse, than he that hath envy [or that envieth] to himself; and this is the yielding of his malice.

⁷ And if he doeth good, he doeth unwittingly, and not willfully; and at the last he showeth his malice.

⁸ The eye of an envious man is wicked, and turning away the face, and despising his soul.

⁹ The eye of the covetous man is never filled [or unfillable]; he shall not be filled into the part of wicked-ness, till he perform unrightfulness [or unrightwiseness], and make dry his soul.

¹⁰ An evil eye to evils, and the needy man shall not be filled of [or with] bread; and he shall be in sorrow on his table.

¹¹ Son, if thou hast, do well with thyself, and offer thou worthy offer-ings to God.

¹² Be thou mindful that death shall not tarry, and the testament of hells [or of hell], that is, the ordinance of God, of the death of each man, which is showed to thee; for why the testament of this world shall die by death.

¹³ Before death do thou good [or well] to thy friend, and by thy mights [or strengths] stretch thou forth, and give to a poor man.

¹⁴ Be thou not deceived [or be-guiled] of a good day, and a little part of a good day pass not thee.

¹⁵ Whether thou shalt not leave to other men thy sorrows, and travails?

¹⁶ In the parting of lot give thou, and take, and justify thy soul.

¹⁷ Before thy death work thou right-fulness [or rightwiseness]; for at hells [or hell], it is not to find meat.

¹⁸ Each man shall wax eld [or old] as hay, and as a leaf bringing fruit in a green tree. Others be engendered, and others be cast [or fall] down; so the generation of flesh and blood, another is ended, and another is born.

¹⁹ Each corruptible work shall fail in the end; and he that worketh it, shall go with it. And all [or each] chosen work shall be justified; and he that worketh it, shall be honoured in it.

²⁰ Blessed is the man, that shall dwell in wisdom, and that shall bethink in rightfulness [or rightwise-ness], and shall think in wit the beholding [or the looking about] of God.

²¹ Which [or Who] thinketh out, either findeth out, the ways of him in his heart, and shall be understanding in the hid things of him;

²² going as a searcher after it, and standing in the ways of it.

²³ Which [or Who] beholdeth by the windows thereof, and heareth in the gates thereof;

²⁴ which [or who] resteth nigh the house thereof, and setteth a stake [or a pale] in the walls thereof.

²⁵ He shall set his little house at the hands of him, and goods shall rest in his little house, by enduring of the world;

²⁶ he shall set his sons under the covering thereof, and he shall dwell under the boughs [or branches] thereof;

²⁷ he shall be covered under the covering thereof from heat, and he shall rest in the glory thereof.