Sirach Chapter 4: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

¹ My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living. Don’t make the needy eyes wait long. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² Don’t make a hungry soul sorrowful, or provoke a man in his distress. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ Don’t add more trouble to a heart that is provoked. Don’t put off giving to him who is in need. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ Don’t reject a suppliant in his affliction. Don’t turn your face away from a poor man. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ Don’t turn your eye away from one who asks. Give no occasion to a man to curse you. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ For if he curses you in the bitterness of his soul, he who made him will hear his supplication. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ Endear yourself to the assembly. Bow your head to a great man. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ Incline your ear to a poor man. Answer him with peaceful words in humility. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ Deliver him who is wronged from the hand of him who wrongs him; Don’t be hesitant in giving judgment. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ Be as a father to the fatherless, and like a husband to their mother. So you will be as a son of the Most High, and he will love you more than your mother does. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ Wisdom exalts her sons, and takes hold of those who seek her. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² He who loves her loves life. Those who seek her early will be filled with gladness. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ He who holds her fast will inherit glory. Where he enters, the Lord will bless. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ Those who serve her minister to the Holy One. The Lord loves those who love her. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ He who listens to her will judge the nations. He who heeds her will dwell securely. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ If he trusts her, he will inherit her, and his generations will possess her. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ For at the first she will walk with him in crooked ways, and will bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her judgments. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ Then she will return him again to the straight way, and will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ If he goes astray, she will forsake him, and hand him over to his fall. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ Watch for the opportunity, and beware of evil. Don’t be ashamed of your soul. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ For there is a shame that brings sin, and there is a shame that is glory and grace. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² Don’t show partiality, discrediting your soul. Don’t revere any man to your falling. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ Don’t refrain from speaking when it is for safety. Don’t hide your wisdom for the sake of seeming fair. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ For wisdom will be known by speech, and instruction by the word of the tongue. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ Don’t speak against the truth and be shamed for your ignorance. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁶ Don’t be ashamed to confess your sins. Don’t fight the river’s current. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁷ Don’t lay yourself down for a fool to tread upon. Don’t be partial to one who is mighty. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁸ Strive for the truth to death, and the Lord God will fight for you. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁹ Don’t be hasty with your tongue, or slack and negligent in your deeds. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁰ Don’t be like a lion in your house, or suspicious of your servants. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³¹ Don’t let your hand be stretched out to receive, and closed when you should repay. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)