1 O Lord, Father and Governor of all my whole life, leave me not to their counsels, and let me not fall by them.
2 Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:
3 Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my destruction, and I fall before mine adversaries, and mine enemy rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.
4 O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look, but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.
5 Turn away from me vain hopes and concupiscence, and thou shalt hold him up that is desirous always to serve thee.
6 Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh take hold of me; and give not over me thy servant into an impudent mind.
7 Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.
8 The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.
9 Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.
10 For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be faultless.
11 A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not be innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities.
12 There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.
13 Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin.
14 Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they day of thy nativity.
15 The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed all the days of his life.
16 Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never be quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he hath kindled a fire.
17 All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, he will not leave off till he die.
18 A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember my sins:
19 Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.
20 He knew all things ere ever they were created; so also after they were perfected he looked upon them all.
21 This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and where he suspecteth not he shall be taken.
22 Thus shall it go also with the wife that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another.
23 For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, and brought children by another man.
24 She shall be brought out into the congregation, and inquisition shall be made of her children.
25 Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit.
26 She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her reproach shall not be blotted out.
27 And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.
28 It is great glory to follow the Lord, and to be received of him is long life.
1 Domine pater et dominator vitae meae
non relinquas me
ne sinas me cadere in illis
2 quis superponet in me in cogitatu meo
flagella
et in corde meo doctrinam sapientiae
ut ignorationibus eorum non parcant mihi
et non pareant delicta illorum
3 et adincrescant ignorantiae meae
et multiplicentur delicta mea et peccata mea abundent
et incidam in conspectu adversariorum
et gaudeat inimicus meus
4 Domine pater et Deus vitae meae
ne derelinquas me in cogitatu illorum
5 extollentiam oculorum meorum ne dederis mihi
et omne desiderium averte a me
6 aufer a me ventris concupiscentias
et concubitus concupiscentiae ne adprehendant me
et animae inreverenti et infrunitae ne tradas me
7 doctrina oris
Doctrinam oris audite filii
et qui custodierit illam non periet in labiis suis
nec scandalizabitur in operibus nequissimis
8 in vanitate sua adprehendetur peccator et superbus
et maledicus scandalizabitur in illo
9 iurationi non adsuescat os tuum
multus enim casus in illa
10 nominatio vero Dei non sit adsidua in ore tuo
et nominibus sanctorum non admiscearis
quoniam non eris inmunis ab eis
11 sicut enim servus interrogatus adsidue
a livore non minuetur
sic omnis iurans et nominans in toto a peccato non purgabitur
12 vir multum iurans implebitur iniquitate
et non discedet a domo illius plaga
13 et si frustraverit delictum ipsius super ipsum
erit
et si dissimulaverit delinquet dupliciter
14 et si in vacuum iuraverit non iustificabitur
replebitur enim retributione domus illius
15 est et alia loquella contraria morti
non inveniatur in hereditate Iacob
16 etenim a misericordibus omnia haec auferentur
et in delictis non volutabunt
17 indisciplinose non adsuescat os tuum
est enim in illa verbum peccati
18 memento patris et matris tuae
in medio enim magnatorum consistis
19 ne forte obliviscatur te in conspectu illorum
et adsiduitate tua infatuatus inproperium patiaris
et maluisses non nasci
et diem nativitatis tuae maledicas
20 homo adsuetus in verbis inproperii
in omnibus diebus suis non erudietur
21 duo genera abundant in peccatis
et tertium adducit iram et perditionem
22 anima calida quasi ignis ardens
non extinguetur donec aliquid gluttiat
23 et homo nequam in ore carnis suae
non desinet donec incendat ignem
24 homini fornicario omnis panis dulcis
non cessabit transgrediens
a lecto suo
25 omnis homo qui transgreditur lectum suum
contemnens in animam suam et dicens quis me videt
26 tenebrae circumdant me
et parietes cooperiunt me
et nemo circumspicit me quem vereor
delictorum meorum non memorabitur Altissimus
27 et non intelleget
quoniam omnia videt oculus illius
quoniam expellit a se timorem Dei huiusmodi hominis timor
et oculi hominum timentes illum
28 et non cognovit
quoniam oculi Domini multo plus lucidiores super solem
circumspicientes omnes vias hominum
et profundum abyssi et hominum corda intuentes in absconsas
partes
29 Domino enim Deo antequam crearentur omnia sunt agnita
sic et post perfectum respicit omnia
30 hic in plateis civitatis vindicabitur
quasi pullus equinus fugabitur
et ubi non speravit adprehendetur
31 et erit dedecus omnibus
quod non intellexerit timorem Dei
32 sic et mulier omnis relinquens virum suum
et statuens hereditatem ex alieno matrimonio
33 primo enim in lege Altissimi incredibilis fuit
et secundo virum suum dereliquit
tertio in adulterio fornicata est et ex alio viro filios statuit sibi
34 haec in ecclesiam adducetur
et in filios eius respicietur
35 non tradent filii eius radices et rami eius non dabunt fructum
36 derelinquent in maledictum memoriam illius
et dedecus illius non delebitur
37 et agnoscent qui derelicti sunt
quoniam nihil melius quam timor Dei
et nihil dulcius quam respicere in mandatis Domini
38 et gloria magna est sequi Dominum
longitudo enim dierum adsumetur ab eo