Sirach — Chapter 2 — Hebrew–Greek comparison
Faithfulness under Trial
| Hebrew–English · Literal-Smooth | Greek–English · Literal-Smooth | Classification & Notes |
|---|---|---|
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Child, if you come to serve the Lord, prepare your soul for testing. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. Inherited Greek note2:1 Testing renders πειρασμός in the context of affliction and perseverance. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Set your heart straight and endure; do not rush in a time of calamity. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Cling to Him and do not withdraw, so that you may increase at your last days. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Accept whatever is brought upon you, and be patient amid the changes of your humiliation. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. Inherited Greek note2:4 Changes preserves ἀλλάγμασιν; humiliation or low estate is not suppressed. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | For gold is tested in fire, and acceptable people in the furnace of humiliation. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Trust Him, and He will support you. Set your ways straight and hope in Him. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | You who fear the Lord, wait for His mercy, and do not turn aside, lest you fall. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | You who fear the Lord, trust Him, and your reward will certainly not fail. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | You who fear the Lord, hope for good things, for eternal gladness and mercy. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Look at the generations of old and see: Who trusted in the Lord and was put to shame? Who remained in His fear and was abandoned? Who called upon Him and was disregarded by Him? | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. Inherited Greek note2:10 All three questions are retained; the Lord is subject of disregarded in the last clause. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; He forgives sins and saves in a time of affliction. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Woe to cowardly hearts and slack hands, and to the sinner who walks on two paths! | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. Inherited Greek note2:12 The two-path image remains explicit. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Woe to the slack heart, because it does not trust; therefore it will not be sheltered. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Woe to you who have lost endurance! What will you do when the Lord visits? | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. Inherited Greek note2:14 Visits retains ἐπισκέπτηται, here in a context of reckoning. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Those who fear the Lord will not disobey His words, and those who love Him will keep His ways. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Those who fear the Lord will seek His good pleasure, and those who love Him will be filled with the law. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Those who fear the Lord will prepare their hearts and humble their souls before Him. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. |
No Hebrew text is available in the selected manuscript coverage for this unit. This is a source gap, not a classified omission. | Let us fall into the hands of the Lord and not into human hands, for as His greatness is, so also is His mercy. | Not classified. No paired Hebrew reading is supplied. Inherited Greek note2:18 The source shifts to first-person plural; it is not changed to a third-person description. |
Source and numbering
Hebrew English is newly translated from the manuscript-specific transcriptions in The Book of Ben Sira portal. Each translated unit identifies its selected witness and folio. This is a selected-witness working edition, not an exhaustive collation of every manuscript or a reconstruction of lost Hebrew. Brackets and fragmentary status identify uncertainty; no Greek text has been back-translated to fill Hebrew gaps.
The Greek-source English and its notes are inherited from the existing Sirach edition. The comparison categories are provisional editorial assessments against that English; this update is not a fresh verification of every Greek reading or its apparatus.
Working translation preserved from the recovered manuscript of 8 September 2026. Declared source: Septuaginta, Rahlfs–Hanhart, 2006, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, publisher’s Greek main text. Independent linguistic and critical-apparatus review remains outstanding. Source-access and reception claims in the inherited notes have not been freshly revalidated. Chapter and section headings are editorial.
The translator’s prologue is separate from the 51 chapters. Its eight source units map to publisher labels 1, 1a–1g; main-text 1:1 maps to 1h. Source 5:15 includes material often numbered 6:1, so chapter 6 begins at 6:2. Source label gaps are preserved; no text is invented.