| 12 παρατηρήσεται ὁ ἁμαρτωλὸς τὸν δίκαιον καὶ βρύξει ἐ{P'} αὐτὸν τοὺς ὀδόντας αὐτοῦ 13 ὁ δὲ κύριος ἐκγελάσεται αὐτόν ὅτι προβλέπει ὅτι ἥξει ἡ ἡμέρα αὐτοῦ 14 ῥομφαίαν ἐσπάσαντο οἱ ἁμαρτωλοί ἐνέτειναν τόξον αὐτῶν τοῦ καταβαλεῖν πτωχὸν καὶ πένητα τοῦ σφάξαι τοὺς εὐθεῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ 15 ἡ ῥομφαία αὐτῶν εἰσέλθοι εἰς τὴν καρδίαν αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ τόξα αὐτῶν συντριβείησαν 16 κρεῖσσον ὀλίγον τῷ δικαίῳ ὑπὲρ πλοῦτον ἁμαρτωλῶν πολύν 17 ὅτι βραχίονες ἁμαρτωλῶν συντριβήσονται ὑποστηρίζει δὲ τοὺς δικαίους κύριος 18 γινώσκει κύριος τὰς ὁδοὺς τῶν ἀμώμων καὶ ἡ κληρονομία αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἔσται 19 οὐ καταισχυνθήσονται ἐν καιρῷ πονηρῷ καὶ ἐν ἡμέραις λιμοῦ χορτασθήσονται 20 ὅτι οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἀπολοῦνται οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ τοῦ κυρίου ἅμα τῷ δοξασθῆναι αὐτοὺς καὶ ὑψωθῆναι ἐκλιπόντες ὡσεὶ καπνὸς ἐξέλιπον 21 δανείζεται ὁ ἁμαρτωλὸς καὶ οὐκ ἀποτείσει ὁ δὲ δίκαιος οἰκτίρει καὶ διδοῖ 22 ὅτι οἱ εὐλογοῦντες αὐτὸν κληρονομήσουσι γῆν οἱ δὲ καταρώμενοι αὐτὸν ἐξολεθρευθήσονται 23 παρὰ κυρίου τὰ διαβήματα ἀνθρώπου κατευθύνεται καὶ τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ θελήσει 24 ὅταν πέσῃ οὐ καταραχθήσεται ὅτι κύριος ἀντιστηρίζει χεῖρα αὐτοῦ 25 νεώτερος ἐγενόμην καὶ γὰρ ἐγήρασα καὶ οὐκ εἶδον δίκαιον ἐγκαταλελειμμένον οὐδὲ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ ζητοῦν ἄρτους 26 ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἐλεᾷ καὶ δανείζει καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ εἰς εὐλογίαν ἔσται 27 ἔκκλινον ἀπὸ κακοῦ καὶ ποίησον ἀγαθὸν καὶ κατασκήνου εἰς αἰῶνα αἰῶνος 28 ὅτι κύριος ἀγαπᾷ κρίσιν καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψει τοὺς ὁσίους αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα φυλαχθήσονται ἄνομοι δὲ ἐκδιωχθήσονται καὶ σπέρμα ἀσεβῶν ἐξολεθρευθήσεται 29 δίκαιοι δὲ κληρονομήσουσι γῆν καὶ κατασκηνώσουσιν εἰς αἰῶνα αἰῶνος ἐ{P'} αὐτῆς |
12 Gnashing his teeth with envy, the wrong-doer plots against the innocent, 13 and cannot see his own turn coming; but the Lord sees it, and laughs at his malice. 14 How they draw the sword, how they bend the bow, these sinners, to bring ruin on helpless poverty, to murder the upright; 15 swords that will pierce their own hearts, bows that will break in pieces! 16 Innocence, ill endowed, has the better of the wicked in their abundance; 17 soon fails the strength of their arms, and still the Lord has the just in his keeping. 18 Jealously the Lord watches over the lives of the guiltless, they will hold their lands for ever, 19 undismayed by adversity, in time of famine well content. 20 Knavery will yet come to an end; like the spring’s finery they will die, the Lord’s enemies, vanish away like smoke. 21 Let the sinner borrow, and never repay, still the good man will be a generous giver;[1] 22 win the Lord’s blessing, and the land is thine, his ban is death. 23 Man’s feet stand firm, if the Lord is with him to prosper his journey; 24 he may stumble but never fall, with the Lord’s hand in his. 25 Now youth is past, and I have grown old; yet never did I see the good man forsaken, or his children begging their bread; 26 still he lends without stint, and men call down blessings on his posterity. 27 Offend no more, rather do good, and be at rest continually; 28 the Lord is ever just, and will not abandon his faithful servants. Perish the sinner, forgotten be the name of the evil-doer, 29 but these will hold their land, and live on it always at rest. |
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Observabit peccator justum,
et stridebit super eum dentibus suis. 13
Dominus autem irridebit eum,
quoniam prospicit quod veniet dies ejus. 14
Gladium evaginaverunt peccatores;
intenderunt arcum suum:
ut dejiciant pauperem et inopem,
ut trucident rectos corde. 15
Gladius eorum intret in corda ipsorum,
et arcus eorum confringatur. 16
Melius est modicum justo,
super divitias peccatorum multas: 17
quoniam brachia peccatorum conterentur:
confirmat autem justos Dominus. 18
Novit Dominus dies immaculatorum,
et hæreditas eorum in æternum erit. 19
Non confundentur in tempore malo,
et in diebus famis saturabuntur: 20
quia peccatores peribunt.
Inimici vero Domini mox ut honorificati fuerint et exaltati,
deficientes quemadmodum fumus deficient. 21
Mutuabitur peccator, et non solvet;
justus autem miseretur et tribuet: 22
quia benedicentes ei hæreditabunt terram;
maledicentes autem ei disperibunt. 23
Apud Dominum gressus hominis dirigentur,
et viam ejus volet. 24
Cum ceciderit, non collidetur,
quia Dominus supponit manum suam. 25
Junior fui, etenim senui;
et non vidi justum derelictum,
nec semen ejus quærens panem. 26
Tota die miseretur et commodat;
et semen illius in benedictione erit. 27
Declina a malo, et fac bonum,
et inhabita in sæculum sæculi: 28
quia Dominus amat judicium,
et non derelinquet sanctos suos:
in æternum conservabuntur.
Injusti punientur,
et semen impiorum peribit. 29
Justi autem hæreditabunt terram,
et inhabitabunt in sæculum sæculi super eam. |