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Biblical traditions
The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 5
Chapter 770 of 1,075
Canonical reference Sirach 5
English
World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)
1. Don’t set your heart upon your goods. Don’t say, “They are sufficient for me.”
2. Don’t follow your own mind and your strength to walk in the desires of your heart.
3. Don’t say, “Who will have dominion over me?” for the Lord will surely take vengeance on you.
4. Don’t say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?” for the Lord is patient.
5. Don’t be so confident of atonement that you add sin upon sins.
6. Don’t say, “His compassion is great. He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins,” for mercy and wrath are with him, and his indignation will rest on sinners.
7. Don’t wait to turn to the Lord. Don’t put off from day to day; for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will come on you, and you will perish in the time of vengeance.
8. Don’t set your heart upon unrighteous gains, for you will profit nothing in the day of calamity.
9. Don’t winnow with every wind. Don’t walk in every path. This is what the sinner who has a double tongue does.
10. Be steadfast in your understanding. Let your speech be consistent.
11. Be swift to hear and answer with patience.
12. If you have understanding, answer your neighbor; but if not, put your hand over your mouth.
13. Glory and dishonor is in talk. A man’s tongue may be his downfall.
14. Don’t be called a whisperer. Don’t lie in wait with your tongue; for shame is on the thief, and an evil condemnation is on him who has a double tongue.
15. Don’t be ignorant in a great or small matter.
French
Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)
1. Ne t’appuie pas sur tes richesses, et ne dis pas : « J’ai assez de bien ! »
2. Ne suis pas ta convoitise et ta force, pour satisfaire les désirs de ton cœur ;
3. et ne dis pas : « Qui sera mon maître ? » Car certainement le Seigneur te punira.
4. Ne dis point : « J’ai péché, et que m’est-il arrivé ? » Car le Seigneur est patient.
5. Ne sois pas sans crainte au sujet de l’expiation, pour ajouter péché à péché.
6. Ne dis point : « La miséricorde de Dieu est grande, il pardonnera la multitude de mes péchés. » Car en lui se trouvent la pitié et la colère, et son courroux tombe sur les pécheurs.
7. Ne tarde pas à te convertir au Seigneur, et ne diffère pas de jour en jour ; car la colère du Seigneur éclatera tout à coup, et, au jour de la vengeance, tu périras.
8. Ne t’appuie pas sur des richesses injustes, car elles ne te serviront de rien au jour du malheur.
9. Ne vanne pas à tout vent, et ne marche pas dans toute voie ; ainsi fait le pécheur à la langue double.
10. Sois ferme dans ton sentiment, et que ton langage soit un.
11. Sois prompt à écouter, et lent à donner une réponse.
12. Si tu as de l’intelligence, réponds à ton prochain ; sinon, mets ta main sur ta bouche.
13. La gloire et la honte sont dans la parole, et la langue de l’homme cause sa perte.
14. Ne t’attire pas le nom de médisant, et ne tends pas des pièges avec ta langue ; car la confusion tombe sur le voleur, et une condamnation sévère atteint la langue double.
15. Ne sois en faute ni beaucoup ni peu,
Latin
Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)
1. [Noli attendere ad possessiones iniquas, et ne dixeris: Est mihi sufficiens vita: nihil enim proderit in tempore vindictæ et obductionis.
2. Ne sequaris in fortitudine tua concupiscentiam cordis tui,
3. et ne dixeris: Quomodo potui? aut, Quis me subjiciet propter facta mea? Deus enim vindicans vindicabit.
4. Ne dixeris: Peccavi: et quid mihi accidit triste? Altissimus enim est patiens redditor.
5. De propitiatio peccato noli esse sine metu, neque adjicias peccatum super peccatum.
6. Et ne dicas: Miseratio Domini magna est, multitudinis peccatorum meorum miserebitur:
7. misericordia enim et ira ab illo cito proximant, et in peccatores respicit ira illius.
8. Non tardes converti ad Dominum, et ne differas de die in diem:
9. subito enim veniet ira illius, et in tempore vindictæ disperdet te.
10. Noli anxius esse in divitiis injustis: non enim proderunt tibi in die obductionis et vindictæ.]
11. [Non ventiles te in omnem ventum, et non eas in omnem viam: sic enim omnis peccator probatur in duplici lingua.
12. Esto firmus in via Domini, et in veritate sensus tui et scientia: et prosequatur te verbum pacis et justitiæ.
13. Esto mansuetus ad audiendum verbum, ut intelligas, et cum sapientia proferas responsum verum.
14. Si est tibi intellectus, responde proximo: sin autem, sit manus tua super os tuum, ne capiaris in verbo indisciplinato, et confundaris.
15. Honor et gloria in sermone sensati: lingua vero imprudentis subversio est ipsius.
16. Non appelleris susurro, et lingua tua ne capiaris et confundaris:
17. super furem enim est confusio et pœnitentia, et denotatio pessima super bilinguem: susurratori autem odium, et inimicitia, et contumelia.
18. Justifica pusillum et magnum similiter.]
Concepts in this passage
Anger
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Care of the soul
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Compassion
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Compassion as moral basis
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Desire
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Family
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Fear
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Forgiveness
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God
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Justice
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Law
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Mercy
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Messiah
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Mindfulness
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Neighbor
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Steadfast patience
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Poverty and wealth
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Reason
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Ressentiment
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Roles and relationships
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Service
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Sin
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Suffering
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Verses in this chapter
- Verse 1Don’t set your heart upon your goods. Don’t say, “They are sufficient for me.”
- Verse 2Don’t follow your own mind and your strength to walk in the desires of your heart.
- Verse 3Don’t say, “Who will have dominion over me?” for the Lord will surely take vengeance on you.
- Verse 4Don’t say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?” for the Lord is patient.
- Verse 5Don’t be so confident of atonement that you add sin upon sins.
- Verse 6Don’t say, “His compassion is great. He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins,” for mercy and wrath are with him, and his…
- Verse 7Don’t wait to turn to the Lord. Don’t put off from day to day; for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will come on you, and you will …
- Verse 8Don’t set your heart upon unrighteous gains, for you will profit nothing in the day of calamity.
- Verse 9Don’t winnow with every wind. Don’t walk in every path. This is what the sinner who has a double tongue does.
- Verse 10Be steadfast in your understanding. Let your speech be consistent.
- Verse 11Be swift to hear and answer with patience.
- Verse 12If you have understanding, answer your neighbor; but if not, put your hand over your mouth.
- Verse 13Glory and dishonor is in talk. A man’s tongue may be his downfall.
- Verse 14Don’t be called a whisperer. Don’t lie in wait with your tongue; for shame is on the thief, and an evil condemnation is on him wh…
- Verse 15Don’t be ignorant in a great or small matter.