OET-RV SIR Chapter 2

2 My son, if you come to serve the master,

prepare your soul for temptation.

2 Set your heart aright, constantly endure,

and don’t hurry in time of calamity.

3 Cling to him, and don’t depart,

that you may be increased at your latter end.

4 Accept whatever is brought on you,

and be patient when you suffer humiliation.

5 Because gold is tried in the fire,

and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.

6 Put your trust in him, and he’ll help you.

Make your ways straight, and set your hope on him.

7 All you who fear the master, wait for his mercy.

Don’t turn aside, or you might fall.

8 All you who fear the master, put your trust in him,

and your reward won’t fail.

9 All you who fear the master, hope for good things,

and for eternal gladness and mercy.

10 Look at the generations of old, and see:

Who ever put his trust in the master, and was ashamed?

Or who remained in his fear, and was forsaken?

Or who called on him, and he neglected him?

11 Because the master is full of compassion and mercy.

He forgives sins and saves in time of affliction.

12 Woe to fearful hearts, to faint hands,

and to the sinner who goes two ways!

13 Woe to the faint heart! Because it doesn’t believe.

Therefore it won’t be defended.

14 Woe to you who’ve lost your patience!

And what’ll you all do when the master visits you?

15 Those who fear the master won’t disobey his words.

Those who love him will keep his ways.

16 Those who fear the master will seek his good pleasure.

Those who love him will be filled with the law.

17 Those who fear the master will prepare their hearts,

and will humble their souls in his sight.

18 We’ll fall into the master’s hands,

and not into men’s hands;

for as his majesty is,

so also is his mercy.