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¹ The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, ² To know wisdom, and instruction: ³ To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity: ⁴ To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding. ⁵ A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments. ⁶ He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings. ⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. ⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ⁹ That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck. ¹⁰ My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them. ¹¹ If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause: ¹² Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. ¹³ We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils. ¹⁴ Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse. ¹⁵ My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths. ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings. ¹⁸ And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls. ¹⁹ So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors. ²⁰ Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets: ²¹ At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying: ²² O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? ²³ Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words. ²⁴ Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded. ²⁵ You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions. ²⁶ I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared. ²⁷ When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you: ²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me: ²⁹ Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord, ³⁰ Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof. ³¹ Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices. ³² The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. ³³ But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.

³ And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

⁷ And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me. ⁸ But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house: ⁹ Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God? ¹⁰ With such words as these day by day, both the woman was importunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery. ¹¹ Now it happened on a certain day, that Joseph went into the house, and was doing some business, without any man with him: ¹² And she catching the skirt of his garment, said: Lie with me. But he leaving the garment in her hand, fled, and went out. ¹³ And when the woman saw the garment in her hands, and herself disregarded,

⁴² And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck.

³ Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.

²⁸ And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

³ Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

⁸ For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses?

²⁷ How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.

³⁰ But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. ³¹ And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet: ³² And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance. ³³ And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.

¹⁰ And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,

⁵ You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess: ⁶ And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.

⁸ Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: ¹⁹ They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment, ²⁰ And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings: ²¹ The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.

¹⁵ The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour. ¹⁶ They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. ¹⁷ They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not. ¹⁸ Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee. ¹⁹ The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him. ²⁰ And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children. ²¹ They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation. ²² A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains. ²³ I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them. ²⁴ They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents. ²⁵ Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years. ²⁶ I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men. ²⁷ But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things. ²⁸ They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom. ²⁹ O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end. ³⁰ How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? ³¹ For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges. ³² Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter. ³³ Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable. ³⁴ Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures? ³⁵ Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come. ³⁶ The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed. ³⁷ And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted? ³⁸ Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress. ³⁹ See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. ⁴⁰ I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever. ⁴¹ If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me. ⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies. ⁴³ Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people. ⁴⁴ So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.

¹⁴ Go, and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.

¹⁶ And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even unto death. ¹⁷ Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men. ¹⁸ Then seeing that he had discovered to her all his mind, she sent to the princes of the Philistines, saying: Come up this once more, for now he hath opened his heart to me. And they went up, taking with them the money which they had promised. ¹⁹ But she made him sleep upon her knees, and lay his head in her bosom. And she called a barber and shaved his seven locks, and began to drive him away, and thrust him from her: for immediately his strength departed from him. ²⁰ And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking from sleep, he said in his mind: I will go out as I did before, and shake myself, not knowing that the Lord was departed from him. ²¹ Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out his eyes, and led him bound in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in prison made him grind.

²⁵ If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

¹⁸ And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

³² And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech: ³³ And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.

²⁴ And David comforted Bethsabee his wife, and went in unto her, and slept with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loved him. ²⁵ And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him.

¹¹ And Joab said to the man that told him: If thou sawest him, why didst thou not stab him to the ground, and I would have given thee ten sicles of silver, and a belt? ¹² And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have paid down in my hands a thousand pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands upon the king's son for in our hearing the king charged thee, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom. ¹³ Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this could not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by me?

¹² And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was strengthened exceedingly.

⁹ Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to judge this people, thy people, which is so numerous? ¹⁰ And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked such a thing. ¹¹ And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of thy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern jndgment; ¹² Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have given thee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath been no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee.

²⁸ And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

³¹ And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan, the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda, the sons of Mahol, and he was renowned in all nations round about. ³² Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a thousand and five.

²⁰ But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of him. ²¹ And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him running after him, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is all well? ²² And he said: Well: my master hath sent me to thee, saying: Just now there are come to me from mount Ephraim, two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them a talent of silver, and two changes of garments. ²³ And Naaman said: It is better that thou take two talents. And he forced him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they carried them before him. ²⁴ And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the men away, and they departed. ²⁵ But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus said: Whence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no whither. ²⁶ But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man turned back, from his chariot, to meet thee? So now thou hast received money, and received garments, to buy oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants. ²⁷ But the leprosy of Naaman, shall also stick to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he went out from him a leper, as white as snow.

⁹ The son, that shall be born to thee, shall be a most quiet man: for I will make him rest from all his enemies round about: and therefore he shall be called Peaceable: and I will give peace and quietness to Israel all his days.

⁵ And among my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) he hath chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

²⁸ And he died in a good age, full of days, and riches, and glory. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁶ And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

¹⁰ So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

⁸ On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

¹⁴ Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. ¹⁵ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

²² Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

² Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them. ³ They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.

⁹ Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

²⁸ And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

³⁹ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:

⁷ What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

¹⁰ Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty.

¹⁶ If then thou hast understanding, hear what is said, and hearken to the voice of my words.

³⁴ Let men of understanding speak to me, and let a wise man hearken to me.

¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air. ¹² There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.

¹ Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

⁴ He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.

^{9 (5:10)} For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

^{14 (7:15)} Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity. ^{15 (7:16)} He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made. ^{16 (7:17)} His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.

^{16 (9:17)} The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.

⁸ He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, that he may kill the innocent. ⁹ His eyes are upon the poor man: he lieth in wait, in secret, like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush, that he may catch the poor man: so catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him. ¹⁰ In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor.

¹² They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

^{41 (18:42)} They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.

^{7 (19:8)} The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

¹² Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen. ¹³ His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

⁴ I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things. ⁵ I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.

¹ A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

^{20 (31:21)} Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle form the contradiction of tongues.

^{11 (34:12)} Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

⁷ For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.

²⁵ Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.

¹³ But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come.

^{4 (49:5)} I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

¹⁶ But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? ¹⁷ Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee. ¹⁸ If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.

^{23 (55:24)} But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

¹ Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance form the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. ^(56:2) Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me. ^{2 (56:3)} My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.

^{6 (56:7)} They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

^{3 (57:4)} He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,

^{9 (58:10)} Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

^{5 (64:6)} They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them? ^{6 (64:7)} They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

^{22 (69:23)} Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

^{22 (69:23)} Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock. ^{23 (69:24)} Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always. ^{24 (69:25)} Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. ^{25 (69:26)} Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles. ^{26 (69:27)} Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. ^{27 (69:28)} Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice. ^{28 (69:29)} Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.

² I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

³⁴ When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer. ³⁶ And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:

^{11 (81:12)} But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

^{13 (81:14)} If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

^{6 (92:7)} The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things. ^{7 (92:8)} When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

⁸ Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.

¹¹ Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.

⁷ The just shall be in everlasting remembrance: he shall not fear the evil hearing. His heart is ready to hope in the Lord: ⁸ His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies.

⁹ By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words.

⁹⁸ Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments. ¹⁰¹ I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words.

¹¹¹ I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are the joy of my heart.

¹³⁰ The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth understanding to little ones.

¹⁷³ Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

³ Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

⁷ Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

¹ Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.

⁴ To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

¹⁵ My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths. ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

¹⁸ And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls. ¹⁹ So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

²² O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?

²² O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? ²³ Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

²⁵ You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

²⁹ Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

²⁹ Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord, ³⁰ Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

³⁰ Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee, ² That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. ³ For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: ⁴ If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure: ⁵ Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God: ⁶ Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. ⁷ He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity, ⁸ Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. ⁹ Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path. ¹⁰ If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul: ¹¹ Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

¹ My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.

²¹ My son, let not these things depart from thy eyes: keep the law and counsel:

²¹ My son, let not these things depart from thy eyes: keep the law and counsel: ²² And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.

²² And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth. ²³ Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble: ²⁴ If thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be sweet. ²⁵ Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the power of the wicked falling upon thee. ²⁶ For the Lord will be at thy side, and will keep thy foot that thou be not taken.

³⁴ He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.

¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know prudence. ² I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law. ³ For I also was my father's son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother: ⁴ And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. ⁵ Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee. ⁷ The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

⁹ She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.

¹⁴ Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee. ¹⁵ Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it. ¹⁶ For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.

²⁷ Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.

¹ My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence, ² That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.

¹² Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,

¹² Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof, ¹³ And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

²² His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins. ²³ He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

¹⁵ To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.

¹⁸ A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

²⁰ My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

²⁰ My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. ²¹ Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.

²³ Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

¹ My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,

⁴ Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,

⁷ And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,

⁷ And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man, ⁸ Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house, ⁹ In the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night. ¹⁰ And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire, prepared to deceive souls: talkative and wandering, ¹¹ Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home, ¹² Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners. ¹³ And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying: ¹⁴ I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows. ¹⁵ Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt. ¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear. ¹⁹ For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey. ²⁰ He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of the full moon. ²¹ She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.

²¹ She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips. ²² Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,

²² Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds, ²³ Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.

²³ Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.

²³ Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger. ²⁴ Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

¹ Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice? ² Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths, ³ Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: ⁴ O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. ⁵ O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.

⁵ O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.

¹⁰ Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold. ¹¹ For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it. ¹² I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.

¹⁷ I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.

³² Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways.

³² Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways. ³³ Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. ³⁴ Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. ³⁵ He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord. ³⁶ But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.

³ She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city: ⁴ Whosoever is a little one, let him come to me. And to the unwise she said: ⁵ Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you. ⁶ Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.

⁶ Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.

⁹ Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he shall make haste to receive it. ¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence. ¹¹ For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.

¹⁶ He that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she said: ¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant. ¹⁸ And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

¹ A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

¹⁷ The way of life, to him that observeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproofs, goeth astray.

²⁴ That which the wicked feareth, shall come upon him: to the just their desire shall be given.

²⁴ That which the wicked feareth, shall come upon him: to the just their desire shall be given. ²⁵ As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation.

¹ He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof, is foolish.

⁶ The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.

²⁰ He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

⁶ A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

¹⁴ A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

²⁶ In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children.

⁵ A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that regardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is the greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted out.

¹² A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.

²⁷ He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth bribes shall live. By mercy and faith sins are purged away: and by the fear of the Lord every one declineth from evil.

³³ The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.

¹⁶ Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.

²⁹ An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him into a way that is not good.

¹⁶ What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.

² A fool receiveth not the words of prudence: unless thou say those things which are in his heart.

²⁹ Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

¹⁹ Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his lips.

¹¹ When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.

⁸ He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

³ Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit. ⁴ Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.

¹ These are also parables of Solomon, which the men of Ezechias, king of Juda, copied out.

¹⁷ A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

¹ The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.

¹⁴ A generation that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.

¹⁷ The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

¹ The words of king Lamuel. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him.

¹ The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.

^{13 (5:12)} There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.

⁹ Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.

⁹ And whereas Ecclesiastes was very wise, he taught the people, and declared the things that he had done: and seeking out, he set forth many parables.

¹¹ The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.

¹³ Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:

^{10 (1:9)} Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's, thy neck as jewels.

⁹ Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

¹⁵ And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

¹⁰ Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings. ¹¹ Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

¹⁹ And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,

¹³ For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high. ¹⁴ And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.

¹³ Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

³ The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

¹¹ Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

⁹ For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children that will not hear the law of God. ¹⁰ Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us. ¹¹ Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us. ¹² Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have leaned upon it:

¹⁵ Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.

⁸ And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.

⁸ Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.

¹⁸ O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

² Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.

¹ All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price. ² Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness. ³ Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

³ Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

⁷ Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.

¹² I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that displease me.

⁴ Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will bring upon them the things they feared: because I called, and there was none that would answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and they have done evil in my eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me.

¹⁹ Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

¹⁴ Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am your I husband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and will bring you into Sion.

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

¹⁹ Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.

¹³ And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord: and I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered:

⁷ The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and the swallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.

⁹ The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.

¹¹ Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.

¹⁹ And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

¹⁰ Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move their feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will now remember their iniquities, and visit their sins.

¹² When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence.

¹⁸ And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words. ¹⁹ Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries. ²⁰ Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord? ¹⁷ But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil works.

¹⁷ But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil works. ¹⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas, my brother, and, Alas, sister: they shall not lament for him, Alas, my lord, or, Alas, the noble one. ¹⁹ He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

¹¹ Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested upon his lees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed. ¹² Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another.

³⁴ Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out.

⁵ He. The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down Israel headlong, he hath overthrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath multiplied in the danghter of Juda the afflicted, both men and women.

¹⁶ Phe. All thy enemies have opened their month against thee: they have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow her up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.

¹⁸ Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

¹¹ I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck.

²⁷ And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save his soul alive. ²⁸ Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die. ²⁹ And the children of Israel say: The way of the Lord is not right. Are not my ways right, O house of Israel, and are not rather your ways perverse? ³⁰ Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin.

¹¹ Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

⁷ And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my kingdom.

¹⁶ But I have heard of thee, that thou canst interpret obscure things, and resolve difficult things: now if thou art able to read the writing, and to shew me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and shalt have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third prince in my kingdom.

²⁹ Then by the king's command, Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that he had power as the third man in the kingdom.

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

^{1 (14:2)} Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

¹ Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God. ² And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. ³ Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.

² You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones? ³ Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot. ⁴ Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly in their devices.

¹⁰ You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹ Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us. ¹² Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests.

² The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

³ The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

¹² The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine.

⁹ Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil.

^{9 (2:10)} Great shall be the glory of this last house more than of the first, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹¹ But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear. ¹² And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from Lord of hosts. ¹³ And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹⁰ And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.

²² Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? ²³ And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

² And behold they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee.

¹³ Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

²² But Jesus turning and seeing her, said: Be of good heart, daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

²⁷ That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.

²⁹ Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.

² And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore.

¹⁰ And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? ¹¹ Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given. ¹² For he that hath, to him shall be given, and he shall abound: but he that hath not, from him shall be taken away that also which he hath. ¹³ Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. ¹⁴ And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith: By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive. ¹⁵ For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. ¹⁷ For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them.

³⁴ All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them. ³⁵ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

⁵¹ Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes. ⁵² He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

⁵⁴ And coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this wisdom and miracles?

⁵ And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him.

^{17 (17:16)} Then Jesus answered and said: O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him hither to me.

⁵ But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise. ⁶ And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.

³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not? ³⁸ Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate.

¹⁰ Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut. ¹¹ But at last came also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹² But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not.

³ Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: ⁴ And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death.

⁴ Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it. ⁵ And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and went and hanged himself with an halter.

¹¹ And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done in parables:

³⁴ And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

⁴² But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.

¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?

⁴⁹ For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles: and some of them they will kill and persecute.

¹⁵ And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth. ¹⁶ And he spoke a similitude to them, saying: The land of a certain rich man brought forth plenty of fruits. ¹⁷ And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. ²⁰ But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? ²¹ So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God.

²⁵ But when the master of the house shall be gone in and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without; and knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. ²⁶ Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy presence: and thou hast taught in our streets. ²⁷ And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. ²⁸ There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God: and you yourselves thrust out.

¹⁸ And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm and I must needs go out and see it. I pray thee, hold me excused. ¹⁹ And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to try them. I pray thee, hold me excused. ²⁰ And another said: I have married a wife; and therefore I cannot come.

²⁴ But I say unto you that none of those men that were invited shall taste of my supper.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. ²⁰ And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, ²¹ Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. ²² And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell. ²³ And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom: ²⁴ And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame. ²⁵ And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.

⁴² If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.

⁹ And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified. These things must first come to pass: but the end is not yet presently.

¹⁹ In your patience you shall possess your souls.

²³ But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. ²⁴ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captives into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles till the times of the nations be fulfilled. ²⁵ And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves: ²⁶ Men withering away for fear and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved.

³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly. ³⁵ For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole earth.

¹⁸ He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. ²⁰ For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

²⁰ For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved. ²¹ But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God.

³⁶ He that believeth in the Son hath life everlasting: but he that believeth not the Son shall not see life: but the wrath of God abideth on him.

³⁶ What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come? ³⁷ And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.

³⁷ And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.

²⁵ But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

²⁵ These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

²⁰ Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing.

³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know most certainly that God hath made both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus, whom you have crucified. ³⁷ Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in their heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: What shall we do, men and brethren? ³⁸ But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

¹⁹ Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

³⁰ By stretching forth thy hand to cures and signs and wonders, to be done by the name of thy holy Son, Jesus.

²⁰ Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

⁵¹ You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. ⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers. ⁵³ Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it. ⁵⁴ Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart: and they gnashed with their teeth at him.

¹⁹ Saying: Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I shall lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said to him: ²⁰ Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee: because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

³⁰ And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest? ³¹ Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

¹⁵ Now therefore do you with the council signify to the tribune, that he bring him forth to you, as if you meant to know something more certain touching him. And we, before he come near, are ready to kill him.

³ Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way.

²⁰ But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and unto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that they should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance.

²⁸ And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

⁹ Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

⁵ But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

³⁵ Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? ³⁶ (As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) ³⁷ But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us. ³⁸ For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might, ³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²¹ But to Israel he saith: All the day long have I spread my hands to a people that believeth not and contradicteth me.

¹⁸ For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

²⁴ But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

³⁰ But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

¹⁵ I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.

¹⁷ Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

⁷ Be not deceived: God is not mocked. ⁸ For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather reprove them.

³ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

³ For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

⁹ In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire: ¹⁰ But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

³ Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

⁹ For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

⁵ Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunice, and I am certain that in thee also.

²² But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹⁵ And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice: ¹⁷ That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.

⁶ Young men, in like manner, exhort that they be sober.

¹⁴ But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.

³⁸ But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. ³⁹ But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

²⁵ Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God than to have the pleasure of sin for a time:

⁸ But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.

²⁵ See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

²⁵ See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven. ²⁶ Whose voice then moved the earth; but now he promiseth, saying: Yet once more: and I will move, not only the earth, but heaven also.

³ You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

¹ Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. ⁴ Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

⁵ Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

³ Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: ⁴ But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

³ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not.

¹⁴ Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with covetousness: children of malediction. ¹⁵ Leaving the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which, speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet.

³ Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

¹⁶ As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

¹⁶ But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. ¹⁹ Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: ¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. ¹⁷ For the great day of their wrath is come. And who shall be able to stand?

⁹ And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning: ¹⁰ Standing afar off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, Babylon, that mighty city: for in one hour is thy judgment come. ¹¹ And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more. ¹² Merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones: and of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet: and all thyine wood: and all manner of vessels of ivory: and all manner of vessels of precious stone and of brass and of iron and of marble: ¹³ And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and chariots: and slaves and souls of men. ¹⁴ And the fruits of the desire of thy soul are departed from thee: and all fat and goodly things are perished from thee. And they shall find them no more at all. ¹⁵ The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand afar off from her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning, ¹⁶ And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet and was gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls.

¹⁷ And the spirit and the bride say: Come. And he that heareth, let him say: Come. And he that thirsteth, let him come. And he that will, let him take the water of life, freely.