Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And the sons of Manasse were not able to destroy these cities; and the Chananite began to dwell in that land.

When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

The Lord God will give a word to them that preach it in a great company.

My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.

And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman is like an ass in the desert.

For he has delivered the poor from the oppressor; and the needy who had no helper.

With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.

These are the borders of the children of Juda round about according to their families.

And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.

He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do thou plead before him, if thou canst praise him, as it is possible even now.

And now I ask of thee this mountain, as the Lord said in that day; for thou heardest this word on that day; and now the Enakim are there, cities great and strong: if then the Lord should be with me, I will utterly destroy them, as the Lord said to me.

And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.

Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth.

Wherefore teach me, what shall we say to him? and let us cease from saying much.

that thou hast vented thy rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from thy mouth?

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.

All the kingdom of Og in the region of Basan, who reigned in Astaroth and in Edrain: he was left of the giants; and Moses smote him, and destroyed him.

When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.

the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes.

I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister.

the king of Aelam, the king of Gazer;

Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways.

But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.

And he sent and fetched him: and he was ruddy, with beauty of eyes, and very goodly to behold. And the Lord said to Samuel, Arise, and anoint David, for he is good.

My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless thee, O Lord.

These are the loaveswe took them hot for our journey on the day on which we came out to come to you; and now they are dried and become mouldy.

And David son of an Ephrathite said, this Eplarathite was of Bethleem Juda, and his name was Jessae, and he had eight sons. And the man passed for an old man among men in the days of Saul.

Who is the man that fears the Lord? he shall instruct him in the way which he has chosen.

And Samuel rose early and went to meet Israel in the morning, and it was told Saul, saying, Samuel has come to Carmel, and he has raised up help for himself: and he turned his chariot, and came down to Galgala to Saul; and, behold, he was offering up a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord, the chief of the spoils which he brought out of Amalec.

And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.

Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself.

Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper.

So Melchol lets David down by the window, and he departed, and fled, and escaped.

Thou hast turned my mourning into joy for me: thou hast rent off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

And the men of Messab answered Jonathan and his armour-bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing: and Jonathan said to his armour-bearer, Come up after me, for the Lord has delivered them into the hands of Israel.

And Jonathan said to David, the Lord God of Israel knows that I will sound my father as I have an opportunity, three several times, and, behold, if good should be determined concerning David, and I do not send to thee to the field,

For they intended evils against thee; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform.

And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly; for thou hast not kept my command, which the Lord commanded thee, as now the Lord would have confirmed thy kingdom over Israel for ever.

And the land shall lament in separate families, the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;

Repay to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord.

It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.

But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me.

Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes:

For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven.

I will give thee thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify thy name for ever.

Shall any one declare thy mercy in the tomb? and thy truth in destruction?

The heavens are thine, and the earth is thine: thou hast founded the world, and the fullness of it.

and who knows how to number his days because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

They shall bear thee up on their hands, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

And mine eye has seen mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me.

Blessed is the man whomsoever thou shalt chasten, O Lord, and shalt teach him out of thy law;

The plains shall rejoice, and all things in them: then shall all the trees of the wood exult before the presence of the Lord:

Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness.

and let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, and remove the memorial of him from the earth:

to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives.

and thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!

A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.

For at one time she wanders without, and at another time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.

I wisdom have dwelt with counsel and knowledge, and I have called upon understanding.

Son, if thou be wise for thyself, thou shalt also be wise for thy neighbours; and if thou shouldest prove wicked, thou alone wilt bear the evil. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.

Hatred stirs up strife; but affection covers all that do not love strife.

A man void of understanding sneers at his fellow citizens: but a sensible man is quiet.

The desires of the ungodly are evil; but the roots of the godly are firmly set.

Better is he that begins to help heartily, than he that promises and leads another to hope: for a good desire is a tree of life.

There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it reach to the depths of hell.

An uninstructed person will not love those that reprove him; neither will he associate with the wise.

The brood of wisdom is more to be chosen than gold, and the brood of prudence more to be chosen than silver.

Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not be removed from his house.

Before ruin a man's heart is exalted, and before honour it is humble.

Fathers divide house and substance to their children: but a wife is suited to a man by the Lord.

The ear hears, and the eye sees: even both of them are the Lord's work.

He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear him.

The sluggard makes excuses, and says, There is a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.

Apply thine heart to instruction, and prepare thine ears for words of discretion.

But if thou shouldest say, I know not this man; know that the Lord knows the hearts of all; and he that formed breath for all, he knows all things, who renders to every man according to his works.

In an ear-ring of gold a precious sardius is also set; so is a wise word to an obedient ear.

I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.

A wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself; but fools pass on, and will be punished.

By reason of the help of righteous men great glory arises: but in the places of the ungodly men are caught.

When a king hearkens to unjust language, all his subjects are transgressors.

A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

For she employs all her living for her husband's good.

I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.

Then I looked on to see wisdom, and madness, and folly: for who is the man who will follow after counsel, in all things where in he employs it?

I know that there is no good in them, except for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

And if one should prevail against him, the two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord shall not be quickly broken.

There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, namely, wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and there is an advantage by it to them that see the sun.

He that has sinned has done evil from that time, and long from beforehand: nevertheless I know, that it is well with them that fear God, that they may fear before him:

For surely man also knows not his time: as fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as birds that are caught in a snare; even thus the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.