en_wbms - Sir 18 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ He that liveth without beginning and end, made of nought all things together;

² God alone shall be justified,

³ and he dwelleth a King unover-come without end. [and dwelleth unvanquished king without end.]

⁴ Who shall suffice to tell out his works? for why who shall seek the great [worthy] things of him?

⁵ But who shall tell out the virtue of his greatness? either who shall lay to for to tell out his mercy?

⁶ It is not to make less, neither to lay to; neither it is to find the great things of God. [There is not to lessen, nor to add to; nor there is to find the great worthy things of God.]

⁷ When a man hath ended, then he shall begin [or then he beginneth]; and when he hath rested, he shall work.

⁸ What is a man, and what is the glory of him? and what is good, either what is the wicked thing of him?

⁹ The number of the days of men, that be commonly [or as much as] an hundred years,

¹⁰ be areckoned as the drops of the water of the sea; and as the stone of gravel, so a few years in the day of everlastingness [or of the spiritual world].

¹¹ For this thing God is patient in them, and sheddeth out [or shall pour out] on them his mercy.

¹² He saw the presumption, [or pride], of their heart, for it was evil; and he knew the destroying of them, for it was wicked, [or shrewd]. There-fore he filled his mercy in them, and showed to them the way of equity.

¹³ The merciful doing of man is about his neighbour; but the mercy of the Lord is over each [or upon all] flesh. He that hath mercy, and teacheth, and chastiseth as a shepherd his flock,

¹⁴ do he mercy, taking the teaching of merciful doing; and he that hasteth in the dooms thereof.

¹⁵ Son, in goods [or good things] give thou not complaint, and in each gift give thou not heaviness of an evil word.

¹⁶ Whether dew shall not cool heat? so and a word is better than [a] gift.

¹⁷ Lo! whether a word is not above a good gift? but ever either is with a man justified [or but either with a justified man].

¹⁸ A fool shall upbraid sharply [or The fool sharply shall give reproof]; and the gift of an untaught man maketh eyes to fail.

¹⁹ Before the doom make thou ready rightfulness [or rightwiseness] to thee; and learn thou, before that thou speak. Before sickness give thou [or take] medicine;

²⁰ and before the doom ask thyself, and thou shalt find mercy in the sight of God.

²¹ Before sickness make thee meek, and in the time of sickness show thy living [or thy conversation].

²² Be thou not hindered to pray ever[more], and dread thou not to be justified till to death; for why the meed of God dwelleth without end.

²³ Before prayer make ready [or prepare] thy soul; and do not thou be as a man that tempteth God, that is, that a man betake himself to peril, and believe that that he may do reasonably, and abide to be delivered of God.

²⁴ Have thou mind of ire [or wrath] in the day of ending; and make thou in living the time of yielding.

²⁵ Have thou mind of poverty in the day of abundance [or plenty]; and the need of poverty in the time of riches.

²⁶ From the morrowtide unto the eventide the time shall be changed; and all these things be swift in the eyes of God.

²⁷ A wise man shall dread in all things; and in the days of trespasses he shall flee from unknowing, either sloth.

²⁸ Each fell [or witting] man, that is, attentive to eschew evils, by God’s dread, knoweth wisdom; and to him that findeth it, he shall give acknowl-edging to it.

²⁹ Witting men in words also they did wisely, and understood truth, and rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; and besought proverbs and dooms.

³⁰ Go thou not after thy covetous-nesses [or lusts]; and be thou turned away from thy will.

³¹ If thou givest to thy soul the covetousnesses [or lusts] thereof, it shall make thee into joy to thine enemies.

³² Delight thou not in companies, neither in little companies [or small things]; for why the sinning [or trespassing] of them is continual.

³³ Be thou not mean in the striving of love, and something is [not] to thee in the bag, [or Not be thou mean in striving for money, and there is not to thee nothing in the world]; for why thou shalt be envious to thy soul.