Knjiga Mudrosti 14

Biblija Hrvatski	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Drugi se opet spremi da zaplovi, nakan da prebrodi bijesne valove, i prizivlje u pomoć drvo koje je slabije od drvene lađe što ga nosi.	1 Again, another, thinking to sail, and beginning to make his voyage through the raging waves, calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the wood that carries him.
2 Jer je nju izmislila težnja za dobitkom i sagradila je mudrost graditeljska.	2 For this is what desire has contrived to be acquired, and the craftsman has formed its understanding.
3 Ali njome upravlja tvoja providnost, Oče, koji si dao i na moru put i u valovima stazu pouzdanu:	3 But your providence, O Father, governs, because you have provided for both a way in the sea and a very reliable path among the waves,
4 pokazuješ tako da možeš iz svake pogibelji izbaviti, da bi se nevješt smio ukrcati.	4 revealing that you are able to save out of all things, even if someone were to go to sea without skill.
5 Jer ti nećeš da neplodna budu djela tvoje mudrosti, zato ljudi povjeravaju svoj život i drvlju najneznatnijem te prelaze splavom burne valove i dolaze u luku spasa.	5 But, so that the works of your wisdom might not be empty, therefore, men trust their souls even to a little piece of wood, and, crossing over the sea by raft, they are set free.
6 Pa i nekoć, kad su izgibali oholi divovi, sklonila se nada ovog svijeta u splav kojom je upravljala ruka tvoja i svijetu ostavila sjeme za nova pokoljenja.	6 But, from the beginning, when the proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world, fleeing by boat, gave back to future ages a seed of birth, which was governed by your hand.
7 Blagoslovljeno je drvo po kojem pravda dolazi,	7 For blessed is the wood through which justice is made.
8 a prokleta krivobožačka rukotvorina i onaj koji je načini; on jer je napravi, a ona jer se, iako prolazna, bogom nazva.	8 But, through the hand that makes the idol, both it, and he who made it, is accursed: he, indeed, because it has been served by him, and it, because, though it is fragile, it is called ‘god.’
9 Tako Bogu su mrski i bezbožnik i bezbožnost njegova,	9 But the impious and his impiety are similarly offensive to God.
10 izrađevina i izrađivač bit će jednako kažnjeni.	10 For that which is made, together with him who made it, will suffer torments.
11 Zato će osuda pasti na kumire neznabožačke, jer su postali gnusoba među stvorenjima Božjim i sablazan ljudskim dušama i zamka bezumničkim nogama.	11 Because of this, and according to the idolatries of the nations, there will be no refuge, for the things created by God have been made into hatred, and into a temptation to the souls of men, and into a snare for the feet of the foolish.
12 Pronalazak kumirâ bio je početak bluda i njihovo je otkriće izopačilo život.	12 For the beginning of fornication is the search for idols, and from their invention comes corruption of life.
13 Nije ih bilo u početku niti će ih biti dovijeka.	13 For they neither existed from the beginning, nor will they exist forever.
14 Jer su došli na svijet po ispraznosti čovječjoj i zato im je određen konac brz.	14 For by the great emptiness of men they came into the world, and therefore their end is soon discovered.
15 Neki otac, satrt prijevremenom žalošću, načini lik svojeg djeteta koje je tako brzo ugrabljeno: i dojučerašnjeg mrtvaca sad već kao boga štuje i odredi svojim podanicima tajne obrede i žrtve.	15 For a father, embittered with the suffering of grief, made an image of his son, who had been suddenly taken away from him, and then, he who had died as a man, now begins to be worshiped as if a god, and so rites and sacrifices are established among his servants.
16 U tijeku vremena ukorijeni se taj bezbožni običaj i počeše ga kao zakon čuvati,	16 Then, in the course of time, iniquity gains strength within this erroneous custom, so that this error has been observed as if it were a law, and this figment has been worshiped at the command of tyrants.
17 i po zapovijedi vladarâ uvelo se štovanje likova. A onih koje ljudi nisu mogli u osobi njihovoj štovati, jer su predaleko od njih prebivali, približavahu sebi njihovo daleko obličje, načinivši od čašćenog kralja vidljiv lik da mu nenazočnu revno laskaju kao da je nazočan.	17 And those, whom men could not openly honor because they were far off, a likeness of them was carried from far off, and from it they made a similar image of the king that they wanted to honor, so that, by their solicitude, they might worship he who was absent, just as if he were present.
18 A i častoljublje umjetnika navodilo je na sve jače štovanje i one koji kralja nisu poznali.	18 Yet, it passes into their care, and those whom they did not know, they love because of the excellence of the artist.
19 Jer umjetnik, koji se možda htio dodvoriti vladaru, trudio se svim svojim umijećem da obličje bude što ljepše,	19 For he, wishing to please the one who hired him, embellished his art, so as to fashion a better likeness.
20 te je svjetina, ponesena ljepotom djela, počela pridavati božanske počasti onomu koga je nedavno slavila kao čovjeka.	20 But the multitude of men, brought together by the beauty of the work, now considered him to be a god, whom they had formerly honored as a man.
21 I to postade zamka životu: robujući nesreći ili nasilju vladarskom, ljudi su neizrecivo ime Božje prenijeli na kamenje i na drvlje.	21 And this was the deception of human life: that men, serving either their own inclination or their kings, assigned the unutterable name to stones and wood.
22 I ne bijaše im dosta što su zastranili u spoznaji Boga, nego su, živeći u velikoj borbi zbog neznanja, tako veliko zlo još mirom nazivali.	22 And it was not enough for them to go astray concerning the knowledge of God, but also, while living in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and such great evils ‘peace.’
23 Jer, ili djecu žrtvuju ili vrše tajne obrede ili priređuju bijesne gozbe s čudnim običajima.	23 For either they sacrifice their own sons, or they make dark sacrifices, or they hold vigils full of madness,
24 Ne čuvaju više čistoće ni tijela ni ženidbe, jedan drugoga ili iz zasjede ubijaju ili jedan drugomu preljubom jade zadaju.	24 so that now they neither protect life, nor preserve a clean marriage, but one kills another through envy, or grieves him by adultery.
25 Svuda zbrka: krv, ubojstvo, krađa, prijevara, pokvarenost, nevjernost, buna, kriva prisega,	25 And all things are mixed together: blood, murder, theft and fraud, corruption and infidelity, disturbances and perjury, disorder within good things,
26 uznemirivanje čestitih, zaboravljanje dobročinstva, oskvrnjenje duša, zločini protiv naravi, nered u braku, preljub, nećudorednost.	26 forgetfulness of God, pollution of souls, alteration of procreation, inconstancy of marriage, unnatural adultery and homosexuality.
27 Jer je krivoboštvo početak, uzrok i kraj svakog zla.	27 For the worship of unspeakable idols is the cause, and the beginning and the end, of all evil.
28 Ili bjesne na svojim zabavama, ili izriču lažna proroštva, ili žive nepravedno, ili bez oklijevanja krivo prisežu.	28 For they either act with madness while happy, or they insistently speak wild lies, or they live unjustly, or they are quick to commit perjury.
29 Jer se uzdaju u mrtve idole, ne boje se da će okajavati lažne prisege.	29 For, while they trust in idols, which are without a soul, vowing evil, they hope not to be harmed themselves.
30 Ali će ih za oboje stići kazna: što su služeći idolima iskrivili pojam o Bogu i što se krivo i podlo zaklinjahu prezirući sve što je sveto.	30 Therefore, from both sides it will fittingly happen, because they have thought evil of God, paying attention to idols, and because they have sworn unjustly, in guile despising justice.
31 Jer se prijestupima bezbožničkim uvijek osvećuje – ne moć prizivanih idola, nego pravda koja stiže grešnike.	31 For swearing is not virtue, but sinning always comes around to a punishment according to the transgression of the unjust.