Sabiduría 10

1Ella guardó al que fue por Dios formado primer padre del mundo, habiendo sido creado él solo;

2y ella le sacó de su pecado, y le dio potestad para gobernar todas las cosas.

3Luego que apostató de esta el impío, arrebatado de la ira, se halló perdido por la furia del homicidio fraterno.

4Y cuando por causa de él las aguas anegaron la tierra, la Sabiduría puso nuevamente remedio, conduciendo al justo en un leño despreciable.

5Ella, igualmente, cuando las gentes conspiraron a una para obrar mal, distinguió al justo, le conservó irreprensible para Dios, y le mantuvo fuerte contra su ternura por el hijo.

6La (sabiduría) libró al justo, que huía de los impíos, que perecieron cuando cayó el fuego sobre la Pentápolis;

7cuya tierra, en testimonio de las maldades de ella, persevera desierta y humeando, y los árboles dan frutos sin sazón; y queda fija la estatua de sal, como monumento de un alma incrédula.

8Así aquellos que dieron de mano a la sabiduría, no solamente vinieron a desconocer la virtud, sino que dejaron a los hombres memoria de su necedad, por manera que no pudieron encubrir los pecados que cometieron.

9Al contrario, la sabiduría libró de los dolores a los que la respetaban.

10Ella condujo por caminos seguros al justo, cuando huía de la ira de su hermano; le mostró el reino de Dios, y le dio la ciencia de los santos; le enriqueció en medio de las fatigas, y recompensó sus trabajos.

11Cuando querían sorprenderle con sus fraudes, ella le asistió y le hizo rico.

12Le guardó de los enemigos y le defendió de los seductores, e le hizo salir vencedor en la gran lucha, a fin de que conociese que de todas las cosas la más poderosa es la sabiduría.

13Esta misma no desamparó al justo vendido; antes le libró de los pecadores, y descendió con él a la mazmorra;

14ni le desamparó en las prisiones, sino que le dio el bastón del reino, y el poder contra aquellos que le oprimían; convenció de mentirosos a los que le habían infamado, y le procuró una gloria eterna.

15Esta libró al pueblo justo, y al linaje irreprensible, de las naciones que la oprimían;

16entrándose en el alma del siervo de Dios, el cual contrastó a reyes formidables, a fuerza de portentos y milagros.

17Esta les dio a los justos el galardón de sus trabajos, y los condujo por sendas maravillosas; les sirvió de toldo durante el día, y de luz de estrellas por la noche.

18Los pasó por el Mar Rojo a la otra orilla, y los fue guiando entre montañas de aguas.

19A sus enemigos los sumergió en el mar, pero a ellos los retiró del profundo abismo. Así los justos se llevaron los despojos de los impíos;

20y celebraron con cánticos, oh Señor, tu santo nombre,

21alabando todos a una tu diestra vencedora. Porque la sabiduría abrió la boca de los mudos, e hizo elocuentes las lenguas de los niños.

1[Hæc illum qui primus formatus est a Deo patre orbis terrarum, cum solus esset creatus, custodivit,

2et eduxit illum a delicto suo, et dedit illi virtutem continendi omnia.

3Ab hac ut recessit injustus in ira sua, per iram homicidii fraterni deperiit.

4Propter quem cum aqua deleret terram, sanavit iterum sapientia, per contemptibile lignum justum gubernans.

5Hæc et in consensu nequitiæ, cum se nationes contulissent, scivit justum, et conservavit sine querela Deo, et in filii misericordia fortem custodivit.

6Hæc justum a pereuntibus impiis liberavit fugientem, descendente igne in Pentapolim:

7quibus in testimonium nequitiæ fumigabunda constat deserta terra, et incerto tempore fructus habentes arbores: et incredibilis animæ memoria stans figmentum salis.

8Sapientiam enim prætereuntes, non tantum in hoc lapsi sunt ut ignorarent bona, sed et insipientiæ suæ reliquerunt hominibus memoriam, ut in his quæ peccaverunt nec latere potuissent.

9Sapientia autem hos qui se observant a doloribus liberavit.

10Hæc profugum iræ fratris justum deduxit per vias rectas, et ostendit illi regnum Dei, et dedit illi scientiam sanctorum; honestavit illum in laboribus, et complevit labores illius.

11In fraude circumvenientium illum affuit illi, et honestum fecit illum.

12Custodivit illum ab inimicis, et a seductoribus tutavit illum: et certamen forte dedit illi ut vinceret, et sciret quoniam omnium potentior est sapientia.

13Hæc venditum justum non dereliquit, sed a peccatoribus liberavit eum; descenditque cum illo in foveam,

14et in vinculis non dereliquit illum, donec afferret illi sceptrum regni, et potentiam adversus eos qui eum deprimebant: et mendaces ostendit qui maculaverunt illum, et dedit illi claritatem æternam.]

15[Hæc populum justum et semen sine querela liberavit a nationibus quæ illum deprimebant.

16Intravit in animam servi Dei, et stetit contra reges horrendos in portentis et signis.

17Et reddidit justis mercedem laborum suorum, et deduxit illos in via mirabili: et fuit illis in velamento diei, et in luce stellarum per noctem;

18transtulit illos per mare Rubrum, et transvexit illos per aquam nimiam.

19Inimicos autem illorum demersit in mare, et ab altitudine inferorum eduxit illos. Ideo justi tulerunt spolia impiorum,

20et decantaverunt, Domine, nomen sanctum tuum, et victricem manum tuam laudaverunt pariter:

21quoniam sapientia aperuit os mutorum, et linguas infantium fecit disertas.]

1She preserved him, that was first formed by God the father of the world, when he was created alone,

2And she brought him out of his sin, and gave him power to govern all things.

3But when the unjust went away from her in his anger, he perished by the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.

4For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood.

5Moreover when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son.

6She delivered the just man who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis:

7Whose land for a testimony of their wickedness is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul.

8For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things, but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid.

9But wisdom hath delivered from sorrow them that attend upon her.

10She conducted the just, when he fled from his brother’s wrath, through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours.

11In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him, and made him honourable.

12She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all.

13She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit.

14And in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed them to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory.

15She delivered the just people, and blameless seed from the nations that oppressed them.

16She entered into the soul of the servant of God, and stood against dreadful kings in wonders and signs.

17And she rendered to the just the wages of their labours, and conducted them in a wonderful way: and she was to them for a covert by day, and for the light of stars by night:

18And she brought them through the Red Sea, and carried them over through a great water.

19But their enemies she drowned in the sea, and from the depth of hell she brought them out. Therefore the just took the spoils of the wicked.

20And they sung to thy holy name, O Lord, and they praised with one accord thy victorious hand.

21For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of infants eloquent.