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Sirach 13

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1 ὁ ἁπτόμενος πίσσης μολυνθήσεται καὶ ὁ κοινωνῶν ὑπερηφάνῳ ὁμοιωθήσεται αὐτῷ 2 βάρος ὑπὲρ σὲ μὴ ἄρῃς καὶ ἰσχυροτέρῳ σου καὶ πλουσιωτέρῳ μὴ κοινώνει 3 τί κοινωνήσει χύτρα πρὸς λέβητα αὕτη προσκρούσει καὶ αὕτη συντριβήσεται 4 πλούσιος ἠδίκησεν καὶ αὐτὸς προσενεβριμήσατο πτωχὸς ἠδίκηται καὶ αὐτὸς προσδεηθήσεται 5 ἐὰν χρησιμεύσῃς ἐργᾶται ἐν σοί καὶ ἐὰν ὑστερήσῃς καταλείψει σε 6 ἐὰν ἔχῃς συμβιώσεταί σοι καὶ ἀποκενώσει σε καὶ αὐτὸς οὐ πονέσει 7 χρείαν ἔσχηκέν σου καὶ ἀποπλανήσει σε καὶ προσγελάσεταί σοι καὶ δώσει σοι ἐλπίδα λαλήσει σοι καλὰ καὶ ἐρεῖ τίς ἡ χρεία σου 8 καὶ αἰσχυνεῖ σε ἐν τοῖς βρώμασιν αὐτοῦ ἕως οὗ ἀποκενώσῃ σε δὶς ἢ τρίς καὶ ἐπ' ἐσχάτων καταμωκήσεταί σου μετὰ ταῦτα ὄψεταί σε καὶ καταλείψει σε καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ κινήσει ἐπὶ σοί 9 10 πρόσεχε μὴ ἀποπλανηθῇς καὶ μὴ ταπεινωθῇς ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ σου 11 12 προσκαλεσαμένου σε δυνάστου ὑποχωρῶν γίνου καὶ τόσῳ μᾶλλόν σε προσκαλέσεται 13 μὴ ἔμπιπτε μὴ ἀπωσθῇς καὶ μὴ μακρὰν ἀφίστω ἵνα μὴ ἐπιλησθῇς 14 μὴ ἔπεχε ἰσηγορεῖσθαι μετ' αὐτοῦ καὶ μὴ πίστευε τοῖς πλείοσιν λόγοις αὐτοῦ ἐκ πολλῆς γὰρ λαλιᾶς πειράσει σε καὶ ὡς προσγελῶν ἐξετάσει σε 15 ἀνελεήμων ὁ μὴ συντηρῶν λόγους καὶ οὐ μὴ φείσηται περὶ κακώσεως καὶ δεσμῶν 16 συντήρησον καὶ πρόσεχε σφοδρῶς ὅτι μετὰ τῆς πτώσεώς σου περιπατεῖς 17 18 19 πᾶν ζῷον ἀγαπᾷ τὸ ὅμοιον αὐτῷ καὶ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ 20 πᾶσα σὰρξ κατὰ γένος συνάγεται καὶ τῷ ὁμοίῳ αὐτοῦ προσκολληθήσεται ἀνήρ 21 τί κοινωνήσει λύκος ἀμνῷ οὕτως ἁμαρτωλὸς πρὸς εὐσεβῆ 22 τίς εἰρήνη ὑαίνῃ πρὸς κύνα καὶ τίς εἰρήνη πλουσίῳ πρὸς πένητα 23 κυνήγια λεόντων ὄναγροι ἐν ἐρήμῳ οὕτως νομαὶ πλουσίων πτωχοί 24 βδέλυγμα ὑπερηφάνῳ ταπεινότης οὕτως βδέλυγμα πλουσίῳ πτωχός 25 πλούσιος σαλευόμενος στηρίζεται ὑπὸ φίλων ταπεινὸς δὲ πεσὼν προσαπωθεῖται ὑπὸ φίλων 26 πλουσίου σφαλέντος πολλοὶ ἀντιλήμπτορες ἐλάλησεν ἀπόρρητα καὶ ἐδικαίωσαν αὐτόν 27 ταπεινὸς ἔσφαλεν καὶ προσεπετίμησαν αὐτῷ ἐφθέγξατο σύνεσιν καὶ οὐκ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ τόπος 28 πλούσιος ἐλάλησεν καὶ πάντες ἐσίγησαν καὶ τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ ἀνύψωσαν ἕως τῶν νεφελῶν 29 πτωχὸς ἐλάλησεν καὶ εἶπαν τίς οὗτος κἂν προσκόψῃ προσανατρέψουσιν αὐτόν

e that touches pitch, shall be defiled with it: and he that has fellowship with the proud, shall put on pride. 2 He shall take a burden upon him that has fellowship with one more honourable than himself. And have no fellowship with one that is richer than yourself. 3 What agreement shall the earthen pot have with the kettle? For if they knock one against the other, it shall be broken. 4 The rich man has done wrong, and yet he will fume: but the poor is wronged and must hold his peace. 5 If you give, he will make use of you: and if you have nothing, he will forsake you. 6 If you have anything, he will live with you, and will make you bare, and he will not be sorry for you. 7 If he have need of you he will deceive you, and smiling upon you will put you in hope; he will speak you fair, and will say: What do you want? 8 And he will shame you by his meats, till he have drawn you dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at you: and afterward when he sees you, he will forsake you, and shake his head at you. 9 Humble yourself to God, and wait for his hands. 10 Beware that you be not deceived into folly, and be humbled. 11 Be not lowly in your wisdom, lest being humbled you be deceived into folly. 12 If you be invited by one that is mightier, withdraw yourself: for so he will invite you the more. 13 Be not troublesome to him, lest you be put back: and keep not far from him, lest you be forgotten. 14 Affect not to speak with him as an equal, and believe not his many words: for by much talk he will sift you, and smiling will examine you concerning your secrets. 15 His cruel mind will lay up your words: and he will not spare to do you hurt, and to cast you into prison. 16 Take heed to yourself, and attend diligently to what you hear: for you walk in danger of your ruin. 17 When you hear those things, see as it were in sleep, and you shall awake. 18 Love God all your life, and call upon him for your salvation. 19 Every beast loves its like: so also every man him that is nearest to himself. 20 All flesh shall consort with the like to itself, and every man shall associate himself to his like. 21 If the wolf shall at any time have fellowship with the lamb, so the sinner with the just. 22 What fellowship has a holy man with a dog, or what part has the rich with the poor? 23 The wild ass is the lion's prey in the desert: so also the poor are devoured by the rich. 24 And as humility is an abomination to the proud: so also the rich man abhors the poor. 25 When a rich man is shaken, he is kept up by his friends: but when a poor man is fallen down, he is thrust away even by his acquaintance. 26 When a rich man has been deceived, he has many helpers: he has spoken proud things, and they have justified him. 27 The poor man was deceived, and he is rebuked also: he has spoken wisely, and could have no place. 28 The rich man spoke, and all held their peace, and what he said they extol even to the clouds. 29 The poor man spoke, and they say: Who is this? And if he stumble, they will overthrow him.

1 Qui tetigerit picem inquinabitur ab ea : et qui communicaverit superbo induet superbiam. 2 Pondus super se tollat qui honestiori se communicat, et ditiori te ne socius fueris. 3 Quid communicabit cacabus ad ollam? quando enim se colliserint, confringetur. 4 Dives injuste egit, et fremet : pauper autem læsus tacebit. 5 Si largitus fueris, assumet te : et si non habueris, derelinquet te. 6 Si habes, convivet tecum, et evacuabit te : et ipse non dolebit super te. 7 Si necessarius illi fueris, supplantabit te, et subridens spem dabit, narrans tibi bona, et dicet : Quid opus est tibi? 8 Et confundet te in cibis suis, donec te exinaniat bis et ter : et in novissimo deridebit te, et postea videns derelinquet te, et caput suum movebit ad te. 9 Humiliare Deo, et exspecta manus ejus. 10 Attende ne seductus in stultitiam humilieris. 11 Noli esse humilis in sapientia tua, ne humiliatus in stultitiam seducaris. 12 Advocatus a potentiore, discede : ex hoc enim magis te advocabit. 13 Ne improbus sis, ne impingaris : et ne longe sis ab eo, ne eas in oblivionem. 14 Ne retineas ex æquo loqui cum illo, nec credas multis verbis illius : ex multa enim loquela tentabit te, et subridens interrogabit te de absconditis tuis. 15 Immitis animus illius conservabit verba tua : et non parcet de malitia, et de vinculis. 16 Cave tibi, et attende diligenter auditui tuo, quoniam cum subversione tua ambulas : 17 audiens vero illa, quasi in somnis vide, et vigilabis. 18 Omni vita tua dilige Deum, et invoca illum in salute tua. 19 Omne animal diligit simile sibi, sic et omnis homo proximum sibi. 20 Omnis caro ad similem sibi conjungetur, et omnis homo simili sui sociabitur. 21 Si communicabit lupus agno aliquando, sic peccator justo. 22 Quæ communicatio sancto homini ad canem? aut quæ pars diviti ad pauperem? 23 Venatio leonis onager in eremo : sic et pascua divitum sunt pauperes. 24 Et sicut abominatio est superbo humilitas, sic et execratio divitis pauper. 25 Dives commotus confirmatur ab amicis suis : humilis autem cum ceciderit, expelletur et a notis. 26 Diviti decepto multi recuperatores : locutus est superbia, et justificaverunt illum. 27 Humilis deceptus est, insuper et arguitur : locutus est sensate, et non est datus ei locus. 28 Dives locutus est, et omnes tacuerunt, et verbum illius usque ad nubes perducent. 29 Pauper locutus est, et dicunt : Quis est hic? et si offenderit, subvertent illum.

30 ἀγαθὸς ὁ πλοῦτος ᾧ μή ἐστιν ἁμαρτία καὶ πονηρὰ ἡ πτωχεία ἐν στόματι ἀσεβοῦς 31 καρδία ἀνθρώπου ἀλλοιοῖ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐάν τε εἰς ἀγαθὰ ἐάν τε εἰς κακά 32 ἴχνος καρδίας ἐν ἀγαθοῖς πρόσωπον ἱλαρόν καὶ εὕρεσις παραβολῶν διαλογισμοὶ μετὰ κόπων

30 Riches are good to him that has no sin in his conscience: and poverty is very wicked in the mouth of the ungodly. 31 The heart of a man changes his countenance, either for good, or for evil. 32 The token of a good heart, and a good countenance you shall hardly find, and with labour.

30 Bona est substantia cui non est peccatum in conscientia : et nequissima paupertas in ore impii. 31 Cor hominis immutat faciem illius, sive in bona, sive in mala. 32 Vestigium cordis boni et faciem bonam difficile invenies, et cum labore.