Source and licence
share: attributiongreekSource: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Sirach 39; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
Attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
The text
35 lines · a line number is a link to itself| ref | L0 witness |
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| 39:1 | σοφίαν πάντων ἀρχαίων ἐκζητήσει, καὶ ἐν προφητείαις ἀσχοληθήσεται· |
| 39:2 | διηγήσεις ἀνδρῶν ὀνομαστῶν συντηρήσει, καὶ ἐυ στροφαῖς παραβολῶν συνεισελεύσεται· |
| 39:3 | ἀπόκρυφα παροιμιῶν ἐκζητήσει, καὶ ἐν αἰνίγμασι παραβολῶν ἀναστραφήσεται. |
| 39:4 | ἀνὰ μέσον μεγιστάνων ὑπηρετήσει, καὶ ἔναντι ἡγουμένου ὀφθήσεται· (5)ἐν γῇ ἀλλοτρίων ἐθνῶν δωλεύσεται, ἀγαθὰ γὰρ καὶ κακὰ ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἐπείρασεν. |
| 39:5 | τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ ἐπιδώσει ὀρθρίσαι πρὸς Κύριον τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτόν, καὶ ἔναντι Ὑψίστου δεηθήσεται· (7) καὶ ἀνοίξει στόμα αὐτοῦ ἐν σροσευχῆ, καὶ περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτοῦ δεηθήσεται. |
| 39:6 | ἐὰν Κύριος ὁ μέγας θελήσῃ, πνεύματι συνέσεως ἐμπλησθήσεται· (9) ἀνομβρήσει ῥήματα σοφίας αὐτός, καὶ ἐν σροσευχῇ ἐξομολογήσεται Κυρίῳ· |
| 39:7 | ⁷ρὐτὸς κατευθυνεῖ βουλὴυ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπιστήμην, καὶ ἐυ τοῖς ἀποκρύφοις αὐτοῦ διαοοηθήσεται· |
| 39:8 | αὐτὸς ἐκφαίνει παιδείαο διδασααλίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐυ νόμῳ διαθήκης Κυρίου καυχήσεται. |
| 39:9 | αἰνέσουσιν τὴυ σύνεσιν αὐτοῦ πολλοί, ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος οὐκ ἐξαλειφθήσεται· (13)οὐκ ἀποστήσεται τὸ μνημοσύνου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὄυομα αὐτοῦ ζήσεται εἰς γενεὰς γενεῶν· |
| 39:10 | τὴν σοφίαυ αὐτοῦ διηγήσονται ἔθνη, καὶ τὸυ ἔπαινου αὐτοῦ ἐξαγγελεῖ ἐκκλησία· |
| 39:11 | ἐὰν ἐμμείνῃ, ὄνομα καταλείψει ἡ χίλιοι, καὶ ἐὰν ἀναπαύσηται, ἐμποιεῖ αὐτῷ. |
| 39:12 | Ἔτι διανοηθεὶς ἐκδιηγήσομαι, καὶ ὡς διχομηνία ἐπληρώθην. |
| 39:13 | εἰσακούσατέ μου, υἱὰρὶ ὅσιοι, καὶ βλαστήσατε ὡς ῥόδον φυόμενον ἐπὶ όεύματος ἀγροῦ, |
| 39:14 | καὶ ὡς λίβανος εὐωδιάσατε ὀσμήν, (19)καὶ ἀνθήσατε ἄνθος ὡς κρίνον, διάδοτε ὀσμὴν καὶ αἰνέσατε ἄσμα. εὐλογήσατε Κύριρν ἐπὶ πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔργοις, |
| 39:15 | δότε τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ μεγαλωσύνην, καὶ ἐξομολογήσασθε ἐν αἰνέσει αὐτοῦ, ἐν ᾠδαῖς χειλέων καὶ ἐν κινύραις. καὶ οὕτως ἐρεῖτε ἐν ἐξομολογήσει |
| 39:16 | Τὰ ἔργα Κυρίου πάντα ὅτι καλὰ σφόδρα, καὶ πᾶν πρόσταγμα ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ ἔσται· |
| 39:17 | οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν Τί τοῦτο; εἰς τί τοῦτο; πάντα γὰρ ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ ζητηθήσεται. (22)ἐν λόγῳ αὐτοῦ ἔστη ὡς θιμωνιὰ ὕδωρ, καὶ ἐν ῥήματι στόματος αὐτοῦ ἀποδοχεῖα ὑδάτων. |
| 39:18 | ἐν προστάγματι αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ εὐδοκία, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἐλαττώσει τὸ σωτήριον αὐτοῦ. |
| 39:19 | ἔργα πάσης σαρκὸς ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν κρυβῆοαι ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτοῦ· |
| 39:20 | ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐπέβλεψεν, καὶ οὐθέν ἐστιν θαυμάσιον ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ. |
| 39:21 | οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν Τί τοῦτος εἰς τί τοῦτο; πάντα γὰρ εἰς χρείας αὐτῶν ἔκτισται. |
| 39:22 | ἡ εὐλογία αὐτοῦ ὡς ποταμὸς ἐπεκάλυψεν, (28)καὶ ὡς κατακλυσμὸς ξηρὰν ἐμέθυσεν· |
| 39:23 | οὕτως ὀργὴν αὐτοῦ ἔθνη κληρονομήσει, (29)ὡς μετέστρεψεν ὕδατα εἰς ἅλμην. |
| 39:24 | ρἱ ὀδοὶ αὐτοῦ τοῖς ὁσίοις εὐθεῖαι, οὕτως τοῖς ἀνόμοις προσκόμματα· |
| 39:25 | ἀγαθὰ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς ἔκτισται ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς. οὕτως τοῖς ἁμαρτωλοῖς κακά. |
| 39:26 | ἁρχὴ πάσης χρείας εἰς ζωὴν ἀνθρώπου. ὕδωρ, πῦρ καὶ σίδηρος καὶ ἄλα καὶ σεμίδαλις, πυρὸς καὶ μέλι καὶ γάλα, αἵμα σταφυλῆς καὶ ἔλαιον καὶ ἱμάτιον· |
| 39:27 | ταῦτα πάντα τοῖς εὐσεβέσιν εἰς ἀγαθά, οὕτως τοῖς ἁμαρτωλοῖς τραπήσεται εἰς κακά. |
| 39:28 | ἔοτιν πνεύματα ἄ εἰς ἐκδίκησιν ἔκτισται, καὶ ἐν θυμῷ αὐτῶν ἐστερέωσαν μάστιγας αὐτῶν· (34)καὶ ἐν καιρῷ συντελείας ἰσχὺν ἐκχεοῦσιν, καὶ τὸν θυμὸν τοῦ ποιήσαντος αὐτοὺς κοπάσουσιν. |
| 39:29 | πῦρ καὶ χάλαζα καὶ λιμὸς καὶ θάνατος, πάντα ταῦτα εἰς ἐκδίκησιν ἔκτισται· |
| 39:30 | θηρίων ὀδόντες καὶ σκορπίοι καὶ ἔχεις καὶ ῥομφαία ἐκδικοῦσα εἰο ὄλεθρον ἀσεβεῖς, |
| 39:31 | ἐν τῇ ἐντολῇ αὐτοῦ εὐφρανθήσονται, καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς εἰς χρείας ἑτοιμασθήσονται, καὶ ἐν τοῖς καιροῖς αὐτῶν οὐ παραβήσονται λόγον. |
| 39:32 | διὰ τοῦτο ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐστηρίχθην καὶ διενοήθην καὶ ἐν γραφῇ ἀφῆκα. |
| 39:33 | τὰ ἔργα Κυρίου πάντα ἀγαθά, καὶ πᾶσαν χρείαν ἐν ὥρᾳ αὐτῆς χορηγήσει· |
| 39:34 | καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν Τοῦτο τούτου πονηρότερον, πάντα γὰρ ἐν καιρῷ εὐδοκιμηθήσεται. |
| 39:35 | καὶ νῦν ἐν πάσῃ καρδίᾳ καὶ στόματι ὑμνήσαμεν. καὶ εὐλογήσατε τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου. |
Provenance
- title
- Sirach 39 (Greek, Swete)
- dialect
- greek
- source
- Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Sirach 39; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
- licence
- CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
- share
- attribution
- attribution
- Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
- file
- Bible/Old Testament/Sirach/39.greek.swete.L0.txt
L0 witness
Cite as:
Sirach 39 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Sirach 39; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/sirach/39.greek.swete/. Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
What the layers are
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.