HaSefarim™ — The Human Interface™

Sefer ben Sirah — Chapter 23

Work ID: 6a9d542a04372fa6bcad8167 · Chapter ID: 6a9d542a2f7435dcf684e8f8 · Canonical title: Sefer ben Sirah

1

Yahuah, Father and Master of my life, do not abandon me to their counsel; do not let me fall through them.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e8a · English · translation

2

Who shall appoint lashes over my thought and the instruction of Wisdom over my heart, that they may not spare my errors and my sins may not pass uncorrected?

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e8b · English · translation

3

Lest my errors multiply and my sins increase, and I fall before my adversaries and my enemy rejoice over me.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e8c · English · translation

4

Yahuah, Father and Elohim of my life, do not give me haughty eyes.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e8d · English · translation

5

Turn desire away from me.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e8e · English · translation

6

Do not let the appetite of the belly or sexual joining seize me; do not deliver me to a shameless being.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e8f · English · translation

7

Hear instruction concerning the mouth, children; one who guards it shall not be captured.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e90 · English · translation

8

A sinner is captured by his own lips; the abusive and the proud stumble through them.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e91 · English · translation

9

Do not train your mouth in swearing, and do not become accustomed to naming the Set-Apart One.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e92 · English · translation

10

For as a servant continually examined does not lack bruises, so one continually swearing and naming shall not be cleansed from sin.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e93 · English · translation

11

An ish of many oaths is filled with lawlessness, and the lash does not depart from his house. If he transgresses, his sin is upon him; if he disregards it, he sins twice. If he swears without cause, he shall not be declared right, for his house shall be filled with visitations.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e94 · English · translation

12

There is a manner of speech clothed with death; let it not be found in the inheritance of Yaaqov. For all such things remain far from the reverent, and they do not wallow in sins.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e95 · English · translation

13

Do not accustom your mouth to coarse lack of instruction, for within it is a word of sin.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e96 · English · translation

14

Remember your father and your mother when you sit among great ones, lest you forget yourself before them and become foolish through your habit, wishing you had not been born and cursing the day of your birth.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e97 · English · translation

15

An Adam accustomed to words of reproach shall not be instructed all the days of his life.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e98 · English · translation

16

Two kinds multiply sins, and a third brings wrath.

Passage ID 6a9d5440d3cd0027a3b51e99 · English · translation

17

A heated being is like burning fire; it is not extinguished until it consumes. A sexually corrupt Adam within his fleshly body does not cease until he has kindled a fire. To a sexually corrupt Adam every bread is sweet; he does not rest until he reaches completion.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb660d · English · translation

18

An Adam who transgresses from his own bed says within his being, “Who sees me? Darkness surrounds me, the walls cover me, and no one sees me. What have I to fear? El Elyon shall not remember my sins.”

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb660e · English · translation

19

His fear is only the eyes of Adam; he does not know that the eyes of Yahuah are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the Ways of Adam and examining hidden places.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb660f · English · translation

20

Before all things were created, they were known to Him; so also after their completion.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb6610 · English · translation

21

This one shall be punished in the streets of the city, and where he did not suppose it, he shall be seized.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb6611 · English · translation

22

So also an ishah who leaves her husband and presents him an heir from a stranger.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb6612 · English · translation

23

First, she disobeyed the Torah of El Elyon; second, she transgressed against her husband; and third, she committed adultery through sexual corruption and presented children by a foreign ish.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb6613 · English · translation

24

She shall be brought out into the assembly, and visitation shall come upon her children.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb6614 · English · translation

25

Her children shall not spread into a root, and her branches shall not bear fruit.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb6615 · English · translation

26

She shall leave her remembrance as a curse, and her reproach shall not be wiped away.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb6616 · English · translation

27

Those who remain shall know that nothing is better than reverence of Yahuah, and nothing sweeter than attending to the Commands of Yahuah.

Passage ID 6a9d5442106c5a411bbb6617 · English · translation

Open in the HaSefarim™ Reader