Süleyman’ın Bilgeliği 10

¹Bilgelik, dünyanın ilk şekillendirilmiş babasını, tek başına yaratılmışken özenle korudu ve onu kendi hatasından çekip çıkardı.

²Ve ona her şey üzerinde hakimiyet kurma gücü verdi.

³Ama doğru olmayan adam, Bilgelik'ten uzaklaşarak kendi öfkesi içinde, kardeş katili öfkelerle birlikte mahvoldu.

⁴Onun yüzünden sular altında kalan yeryüzünü, Bilgelik değersiz bir tahta parçası aracılığıyla doğru adama dümen tutarak yeniden kurtardı.

⁵Uluslar kötülük ortaklığı içinde şaşkına döndüğünde bile Bilgelik doğru adamı tanıdı, onu Tanrı önünde kusursuz olarak korudu ve oğluna duyduğu şefkat karşısında onu sarsılmaz kıldı.

⁶Tanrısızlar yok olurken, Bilgelik Pentapolis'in üzerine gökten inen ateşten kaçan doğru adamı kurtardı.

⁷Ki o kentlerin kötülüğünün bir kanıtı olarak, o topraklar bugün bile tütmekte ve çorak durmaktadır; oradaki bitkiler olgunlaşmamış mevsimlerde meyve verir ve güvenmeyen bir ruhun anıtı olarak dikili duran tuz sütunu orada yükselir.

⁸Çünkü Bilgelik'i göz ardı edenler, sadece iyi olan şeyleri bilmemekle kendilerine zarar vermekle kalmadılar, aynı zamanda yaşama kendi akılsızlıklarının bir hatırasını bıraktılar; öyle ki, tökezledikleri konularda gizli kalmayı bile başaramasınlar.

⁹Bilgelik ise kendisine hizmet edenleri sıkıntılardan kurtardı.

¹⁰Doğru adam kardeşinin öfkesinden kaçtığında, Bilgelik ona düz yollarda rehberlik etti; ona Tanrı'nın egemenliğini gösterdi ve ona kutsal şeylerin bilgisini verdi; zahmetli işlerinde onu refaha kavuşturdu ve emeklerinin meyvelerini çoğalttı.

¹¹Kendisini açgözlülükle ezenlerin karşısında onun yanında durdu ve onu zengin etti.

¹²Onu düşmanlarından özenle korudu, pusu kuranlara karşı güvenceye aldı ve Tanrı saygısının her şeyden daha güçlü olduğunu anlaması için ona çetin bir mücadelede hakemlik edip zafer kazandırdı.

¹³Doğru adam satıldığında Bilgelik onu terk etmedi, aksine onu günahtan kurtardı; onunla birlikte zindana indi.

¹⁴Ve ona krallık asalarını ve kendisine tiranlık edenler üzerinde yetkiyi getirene kadar onu zincirlerinde bırakmadı; onu suçlayanların yalancı olduğunu gösterdi ve ona sonsuz yücelik verdi.

¹⁵Bilgelik, kutsal halkı ve kusursuz soyu, kendilerini ezen ulusun elinden kurtardı.

¹⁶RAB'bin hizmetkarının ruhuna girdi ve korkunç krallara karşı belirtiler ve mucizelerle karşı durdu.

¹⁷Kutsal kişilere emeklerinin karşılığını ödedi, onlara harika bir yolda rehberlik etti; gündüzün onlara bir sığınak ve geceleyin yıldızların alevi oldu.

¹⁸Onu Kızıldeniz'den karşıya geçirdi ve onları büyük suların içinden geçirip ulaştırdı.

¹⁹Düşmanlarını ise sulara gömdü ve onları dipsiz derinliğin dibinden yukarı fışkırttı.

²⁰Bu yüzden doğrular tanrısızları yağmaladılar ve senin kutsal adını ilahilerle övdüler, ey RAB; senin ön safta savaşan elini tek bir yürekle yücelttiler.

²¹Çünkü Bilgelik dilsizlerin ağzını açtı ve bebeklerin dillerini anlaşılır kıldı.

¹ΑΥΤΗ πρωτόπλαστον πατέρα κόσμου μόνον κτισθέντα διεφύλαξε καὶ ἐξείλατο αὐτὸν ἐκ παραπτώματος ἰδίου

²ἔδωκέ τε αὐτῷ ἰσχὺν κρατῆσαι ἁπάντων.

³ἀποστάς δὲ ἀπ᾿ αὐτῆς ἄδικος ἐν ὀργῇ αὐτοῦ, ἀδελφοκτόνοις συναπώλετο θυμοῖς·

⁴δι᾿ ὃν κατακλυζομένην γῆν πάλιν διέσωσε σοφία, δι᾿ εὐτελοῦς ξύλου τὸν δίκαιον κυβερνήσασα.

⁵αὕτη καὶ ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ πονηρίας ἐθνῶν συγχυθέντων ἔγνω τὸν δίκαιον καὶ ἐτήρησεν αὐτὸν ἄμεμπτον Θεῷ καὶ ἐπὶ τέκνου σπλάγχνοις ἰσχυρὸν ἐφύλαξεν.

⁶αὕτη δίκαιον ἐξαπολλυμένων ἀσεβῶν ἐρρύσατο φυγόντα πῦρ καταβάσιον Πενταπόλεως·

⁷ἧς ἔτι μαρτύριον τῆς πονηρίας καπνιζομένη καθέστηκε χέρσος, καὶ ἀτελέσιν ὥραις καρποφοροῦντα φυτά, ἀπιστούσης ψυχῆς μνημεῖον ἑστηκυῖα στήλη ἁλός.

⁸σοφίαν γὰρ παροδεύσαντες οὐ μόνον ἐβλάβησαν τοῦ μὴ γνῶναι τὰ καλά, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἀφροσύνης ἀπέλιπον τῷ βίῳ μνημόσυνον, ἵνα ἐν οἶς ἐσφάλησαν μηδὲ λαθεῖν δυνηθῶσι.

⁹σοφία δὲ τοὺς θεραπεύσαντας αὐτὴν ἐκ πόνων ἐρρύσατο.

¹⁰αὕτη φυγάδα ὀργῆς ἀδελφοῦ δίκαιον ὡδήγησεν ἐν τρίβοις εὐθείαις· ἔδειξεν αὐτῷ βασιλείαν Θεοῦ καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ γνῶσιν ἁγίων· εὐπόρησεν αὐτὸν ἐν μόχθοις καί ἐπλήθυνε τοὺς πόνους αὐτοῦ·

¹¹ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ κατισχυόντων αὐτὸν παρέστη καὶ ἐπλούτισεν αὐτόν·

¹²διεφύλαξεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν, καὶ ἀπὸ ἐνεδρευόντων ἠσφαλίσατο καὶ ἀγῶνα ἰσχυρὸν ἐβράβευσεν αὐτῷ, ἵνα γνῷ, ὅτι παντὸς δυνατωτέρα ἐστὶν εὐσέβεια.

¹³αὕτη πραθέντα δίκαιον οὐκ ἐγκατέλιπεν, ἀλλὰ ἐξ ἁμαρτίας ἐρρύσατο αὐτόν·

¹⁴συγκατέβη αὐτῷ εἰς λάκκον καὶ ἐν δεσμοῖς οὐκ ἀφῆκεν αὐτόν, ἕως ἤνεγκεν αὐτῷ σκῆπτρα βασιλείας καὶ ἐξουσίαν τυραννούντων αὐτοῦ· ψευδεῖς τε ἔδειξε τοὺς μωμησαμένους αὐτὸν καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ δόξαν αἰώνιον.

¹⁵αὕτη λαὸν ὅσιον καὶ σπέρμα ἄμεμπτον ἐρρύσατο ἐξ ἔθνους θλιβόντων·

¹⁶εἰσῆλθεν εἰς ψυχὴν θεράποντος Κυρίου καὶ ἀντέστη βασιλεῦσι φοβεροῖς ἐν τέρασι καὶ σημείοις.

¹⁷ἀπέδωκεν ὁσίοις μισθὸν κόπων αὐτῶν, ὡδήγησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν ὁδῷ θαυμαστῇ καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῖς εἰς σκέπην ἡμέρας καὶ εἰς φλόγα ἄστρων τὴν νύκτα.

¹⁸διεβίβασεν αὐτοὺς θάλασσαν ἐρυθρὰν καὶ διήγαγεν αὐτοὺς δι᾿ ὕδατος πολλοῦ·

¹⁹τοὺς δὲ ἐχθροὺς αὐτῶν κατέκλυσε καὶ ἐκ βάθους ἀβύσσου ἀνέβρασεν αὐτούς.

²⁰διὰ τοῦτο δίκαιοι ἐσκύλευσαν ἀσεβεῖς καὶ ὕμνησαν, Κύριε, τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἅγιόν σου, τήν τε ὑπέρμαχόν σου χεῖρα ᾔνεσαν ὁμοθυμαδόν·

²¹ὅτι ἡ σοφία ἤνοιξε στόμα κωφῶν καὶ γλώσσας νηπίων ἔθηκε τρανάς.

¹She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,

²And gave him power to rule all things.

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

⁴For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value.

⁵Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him blameless unto God, and kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his son.

⁶When the ungodly perished, she delivered the righteous man, who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities.

⁷Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.

⁸For regarding not wisdom, they gat not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid.

⁹Rut wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.

¹⁰When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath she guided him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours.

¹¹In the covetousness of such as oppressed him she stood by him, and made him rich.

¹²She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict she gave him the victory; that he might know that goodness is stronger than all.

¹³When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit,

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

¹⁵She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them.

¹⁶She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, and withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs;

¹⁷Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season;

¹⁸Brought them through the Red sea, and led them through much water:

¹⁹But she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the bottom of the deep.

²⁰Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised thy holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand, that fought for them.

²¹For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.