1 Rejoice not in
ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the
fear of God be not with them.
2 Trust
not to their life, and respect not their labours.
3 For
better is one that feareth God, than a thousand
ungodly children.
4 And it
is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.
5 By one
that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall
become desolate.
6 Many
such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath
heard.
7 In the
congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation
wrath shall dame out.
8 The
ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sine, who were destroyed
trusting to their own strength:
9 And he
spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the pride of
their word.
10 He had
not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that extolled them- selves in
their sine.
11 So did
he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the
hardness of their heart: and if one had been stiffnecked,
it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished:
12 For mercy
and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation:
13 According
as his mercy is, so his correction judgeth a man
according to his works.
14 The
sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of him that sheweth mercy shall not be put off.
15 All
mercy shall make a place for every man according to the merit of his works,
and according to the wisdom of his sojournment.
16 Say not:
I shall be hidden from God. and who shall remember
me from on high?
17 In such
a multitude I shall not be known: for what is my soul in such an immense
creation?
18 Behold
the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the
things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight,
19 The
mountains also, and the hills, end the foundations of the earth: when God
shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling.
20 And in
all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by
him:
21 And his
ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man see?
22 For many
of his works are hidden: hut the works of his justice who shall declare? or who shall endure? for the
testament is far from some, and the examination of all is in the end.
23 He that wanteth understanding thinketh
vain things: and the foolish, and erring man, thinketh
foolish things.
24 Hearken
to me, my son, and learn the discipline of understanding, and attend to my
words in thy heart.
25 And I
will shew forth good doctrine in equity, and will
seek to declare wisdom: and attend to my words in thy heart, whilst with
equity of spirit I tell thee the virtues that God hath put upon his works
from the beginning, and I shew forth in truth his
knowledge.
26 The
works of God are done in judgment from the beginning, and from the making of
them he distinguished their parts, and their beginnings in their generations.
27 He
beautified their works for ever, they have neither hungered, nor laboured, and they have not ceased from their works.
28 Nor
shall any of them straiten his neighbour at any
time.
29 Be not
thou incredulous to his word.
30 After
this God looked upon the earth, and filled it with his goods.
31 The soul
of every living thing hath shewn forth before the
face thereof, and into it they return again.
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1- لا تشته كثرة اولاد لا خير
فيهم و لا تفرح بالبنين المنافقين و لا تسر بكثرتهم اذا لم تكن فيهم مخافة الرب.
2- لا تثق بحياتهم و تلتفت الى
مكانهم.
3- ولد واحد يتقي الرب خير من
الف منافقين.
4- و الموت بلا ولد خير من الاولاد المنافقين.
5- لانه بعاقل واحد تعمر المدينة و قبيلة من
الاثماء تخرب.
6- كثير من امثال هذه رايته بعيني و اعظم منها
سمعت به اذني.
7- في مجمع الخطاة تتقد النار و في الامة
الكافرة يضطرم الغضب.
8- لم يعف عن الجبابرة الاولين الذين تمردوا
بقوتهم.
9- و لم يشفق على جيل لوط الذين مقتهم
لكبريائهم.
10- و لم يرحم امة الهلاك المتعظمين بخطاياهم.
11- و كذلك الست مئة الف من الرجالة الذين
تعصبوا بقساوة قلوبهم بل لو وجد واحد قاسي الرقبة لكان من العجب ان يصفح عنه.
12- لان الرحمة و الغضب من عنده هو رب العفو و
ساكب الغضب.
13- كما انه كثير الرحمة هكذا هو شديد العقاب
فيقضي على الرجل بحسب اعماله.
14- لا يفلت الخاطئ بغنائمه و لا يضيع الرب
صبر التقي.
15- لكل رحمة يجعل موضعا و كل واحد يلقى ما
تستحق اعماله.
16- لا تقل ساتوارى عن الرب العل احدا من
العلى يذكرني.
17- اني في شعب كثير لا اذكر فماذا تعتبر نفسي
في خلق لا يقدر.
18- ها ان السماء و سماء سماء الله و الغمر و
الارض تتزعزع عند افتقاده.
19- و الجبال و اسس الارض ترتعد رعبا عندما
ينظر اليها.
20- و في ذلك لا يتامل القلب.
21- و ليس من يفهم طرقه رب زوبعة لا يبصرها
الانسان.
22- فان اكثر اعمال الرب في الخفاء اعمال
العدل من يخبر بها او من يحتملها ان العهد بعيد و الفحص عن الجميع يكون عند
الانقضاء.
23- المتواضع القلب يتامل في ذلك اما الرجل
الجاهل الضال فيتامل في الحماقات.
24- اسمع لي يا بني و تعلم العلم و وجه قلبك
الى كلامي.
25- اني اعبر عن التاديب بوزن و ابدي العلم
بتدقيق.
26- جميع اعمال الرب من البدء قدرها بحكمة و
منذ انشائها ميز اجزاءها.
27- زين اعماله الى الدهر و مبادئها الى
احقابها فلم تجع و لم تتعب و لم تزل تعمل.
28- و لم يضايق بعضها بعضا.
29- و هي لا تعاصي كلمته مدى
الدهر.
30- و بعد ذلك نظر الرب الى
الارض و ملاها من خيراته.
31- و نفوس ذوي الحياة تغطي
وجهها و اليها تعود
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