Ἀγαπήσατε δικαιοσύνην οἱ κρίνοντες τὴν γῆν φρονήσατε περὶ τοῦ κυρίου ἐν ἀγαθότητι καὶ ἐν ἁπλότητι καρδίας ζητήσατε αὐτόν
Love righteousness, you who judge the earth; think about the Lord in goodness, and with simplicity of heart seek him.
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Wisdom of Solomon 1
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For he is found by those who do not test him, and he appears to those who do not disbelieve him.
For crooked reasonings separate from God, and when his power is tested it exposes the foolish.
For wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, nor will it dwell in a body subject to sins.
ἅγιον γὰρ πνεῦμα παιδείας φεύξεται δόλον καὶ ἀπαναστήσεται ἀπὸ λογισμῶν ἀσυνέτων καὶ ἐλεγχθήσεται ἐπελθούσης ἀδικίας
For holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit and will remove itself from senseless thoughts, and it will be reproved when unrighteousness comes upon it
φιλάνθρωπον γὰρ πνεῦμα σοφία καὶ οὐκ ἀθῳώσει βλάσφημον ἀπὸ χειλέων αὐτοῦ ὅτι τῶν νεφρῶν αὐτοῦ μάρτυς ὁ θεὸς καὶ τῆς καρδίας αὐτοῦ ἐπίσκοπος ἀληθὴς καὶ τῆς γλώσσης ἀκουστής
For wisdom is a loving spirit, and it will not acquit a blasphemer from his lips, because God is witness of his kidneys and true overseer of his heart and listener of his tongue.
For the Spirit of the Lord has filled the inhabited world, and that which holds all things together has knowledge of voice.
Therefore, when he speaks unjust things, no one will by any means escape, nor will justice, while reproving, pass by him.
ἐν γὰρ διαβουλίοις ἀσεβοῦς ἐξέτασις ἔσται λόγων δὲ αὐτοῦ ἀκοὴ πρὸς κύριον ἥξει εἰς ἔλεγχον ἀνομημάτων αὐτοῦ
For in the counsels of the ungodly there will be an examination, and the hearing of his words will come to the Lord for reproof of his lawless deeds
For a jealous ear hears all things, and the sound of murmurings is not hidden.
φυλάξασθε τοίνυν γογγυσμὸν ἀνωφελῆ καὶ ἀπὸ καταλαλιᾶς φείσασθε γλώσσης ὅτι φθέγμα λαθραῖον κενὸν οὐ πορεύσεται στόμα δὲ καταψευδόμενον ἀναιρεῖ ψυχήν
Guard yourselves therefore from unprofitable murmuring, and spare the tongue from slander, because a secret utterance will not go on, but a lying mouth destroys a soul.
Do not envy death in the error of your life, nor draw destruction on yourselves by the works of your hands.
For God did not make death, nor does he delight in the destruction of the living.
ἔκτισεν γὰρ εἰς τὸ εἶναι τὰ πάντα καὶ σωτήριοι αἱ γενέσεις τοῦ κόσμου καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐταῖς φάρμακον ὀλέθρου οὔτε ᾅδου βασίλειον ἐπὶ γῆς
For he created all things for being, and the generations of the world are saving, and in them there is no remedy of destruction, nor kingdom of Hades on earth
For righteousness is immortal.
ἀσεβεῖς δὲ ταῖς χερσὶν καὶ τοῖς λόγοις προσεκαλέσαντο αὐτόν φίλον ἡγησάμενοι αὐτὸν ἐτάκησαν καὶ συνθήκην ἔθεντο πρὸς αὐτόν ὅτι ἄξιοί εἰσιν τῆς ἐκείνου μερίδος εἶναι
But the ungodly invited him with their hands and words, considering him a friend, they melted away, and they made a covenant with him, because they are worthy to be of that portion of his.