3:13Your words have been unsufferable to me, says the Lord.

14And you have said: What have we said against you? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his laws, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

15Therefore now we call the proud people happy, for those who work evil are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

16Then those who feared the Lord spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.

17And they shall be my special possession, says the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.

18And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the righteous and the evil: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

1:1Blessed is the man who has not walked in the guidance of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence.

2But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

3And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whoever he shall do shall prosper.

4Not so the evil, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

6For the Lord knows the way of the righteous: and the way of the evil shall perish.

11:5And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three bread,

6Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me, and I have not what to set before him.

7And he from within should answer, and say: Trouble me not, the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give you.

8Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth.

9And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

10For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

11And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?

13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?