Ecclesiasticus sive Siracides (Sapientia Jesu filii Sirach)
Septuaginta
Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 2: I Chronicles-Tobit. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.
- Τέκνον, εἰ προσέρχῃ δουλεύειν Κυρίῳ θεῷ,
- ἑτοίμασον τὴν ψυχήν σου εἰς πειρασμόν·
- εὔθυνον τὴν καρδίαν σου καὶ καρτέρησον,
- καὶ μὴ σπεύσῃς ἐν καιρῷ ἐπαγωγῆς·
- κολλήθητι αὐτῷ καὶ μὴ ἀποστῇς,
- ἵνα αὐξηθῇς ἐπʼ ἐσχάτων σου.
- πᾶν ὃ ἐὰν ἐπαχθῇ σοι δέξαι,
- καὶ ἐν ἀλλάγμασιν ταπεινώσεως σου μακροθύμησον·
- ὅτι ἐν πυρὶ δοκιμάζεται χρυσός,
- καὶ ἄνθρωποι δεκτοὶ ἐν καμίνῳ ταπεινώσεαως.
- πίστευσον αὐτῷ καὶ ἀντιλήμψεταί σου·
- εὔθυνον τὰς ὁδούς σου καὶ ἔλπισον ἐπʼ αὐτόν.