en_wbms - Sir 19 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ A drunken workman shall not be made rich; and he that chargeth not little sins [or who despiseth little things], falleth down into grievouser sins, little and little.

² Wine and women make to be apostates, yea, wise men [or Wine and women make also wise men to go backward]; and they reprove witting men. And he that joineth himself to whores, shall be wicked;

³ rot and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be set on high into more ensample, and his soul shall be taken away from [the] number of chosen men.

⁴ He that believeth soon, is un-stable [or light] in heart, and shall be made less; and he that trespasseth against his soul, shall be had fur-thermore.

⁵ He that joyeth in wickedness, shall be cursed; and he that hateth blaming, shall be made less in life; [Who joyeth in wickedness, shall be reproved; and who hateth correction, shall be lessened in life;]

⁶ and he that hateth jangling [or much speech], quencheth malice. He that sinneth against his soul, shall [not] repent; and that is merry in malice, shall be cursed [or reproved].

⁷ Rehearse thou not an hard word, and wicked [or shrewd]; and thou shalt not be made less.

⁸ Do not thou tell thy wit to friend and to enemy; and if trespass is to thee, do not thou make it naked.

⁹ For he shall hear thee, and shall keep thee, and he as defending the sin shall hate thee; and so he shall be ever with thee.

¹⁰ Thou hast heard a word against thy neighbour; die it altogether in thee, and trust thou that it shall not break thee.

¹¹ A fool travaileth greatly of the face of a word, as the sorrow of bearing of a young child [or as the wailing of the birth of a child].

¹² An arrow fastened in the hip of a dog, so a word in the heart of a fool.

¹³ Reprove thou [or Chastise] a friend, lest peradventure he under-stand not, and say, I did not; either if he hath done, lest he add to do again.

¹⁴ Reprove thou [or Chastise] a neighbour, lest peradventure he say it not; and if he saith it, lest perad-venture he rehearse it.

¹⁵ Reprove thou [or Chastise] a friend, for why trespassing is done often; and believe thou not to each word.

¹⁶ There is a man that falleth [or slideth] by his tongue, but not of will, that is, wittingly and of purpose. For why who is he, that trespasseth not in his tongue?

¹⁷ Reprove thou [or Chastise] a neighbour, betwixt thee and him, before that thou menace [or threaten] him; and give thou place to the dread of the Highest.

¹⁸ (This verse is omitted in the original text.)

¹⁹ (This verse is omitted in the original text.)

²⁰ For why all wisdom is the dread of God, and in that wisdom for to dread God; and the ordinance of law is in all wisdom [or in all wisdom the disposing of the law].

²¹ (This verse is omitted in the original text.)

²² And the teaching of wickedness is not wisdom; and the prudence of sins is not good thought [or good thinking is not the prudence of sins].

²³ There is wickedness of prudence, and cursedness is therein; and there is an unwise man, which is made little in wisdom.

²⁴ Better is a man that hath little wisdom, and failing in wit, in the dread of God, than he that hath plenty of wit, and breaketh [or over-passeth] the law of the Highest.

²⁵ There is certain subtlety [or sly-ness], and it is wicked. And there is a man, that sendeth out a certain word, telling out [the] truth.

²⁶ There is a man that meeketh himself wickedly to deceive men the more; and his inner things be full of guile [or treachery].

²⁷ And there is a just [or rightwise] man, that maketh low greatly [or under-putteth] himself of much meek-ness; and there is a just [or rightwise] man, that boweth the face, and feigneth him to see not [or not to see] that, that is unknown.

²⁸ Though he is forbidden of feeble-ness of strengths to do sin [or if of infirmity of strengths he is forbidden to sin]; if he findeth time to do evil, he shall do evil.

²⁹ A man is known by sight; and a witting man is known by meeting of face.

³⁰ The clothing of body, and the laughing of teeth, and the entering [or going in] of a man, tell out of him.