Blessed is the man that has been found without a mark

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Translation © by Kendree Chen

Beatus vir qui inventus est

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG

8 Beatus vir qui inventus est sine macula
  et qui post aurum non abiit, 
  nec speravit in pecuniae thesauris.
9 Quis est hic, et laudabimus eum?
  Fecit enim mirabilia in vita sua.

Text Authorship:

by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Liber Jesu filii Sirach 31:8-9 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Beatus vir qui inventus est", published 1582 [ SATTB chorus a cappella ], from Sacrae cantiones quinque vocum, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Kendree Chen) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2015-03-25
Line count: 5
Word count: 32

Blessed is the man that has been found...

Language: English after the Latin

Blessed is the man that has been found without a mark
And who does not lust after gold,
Nor hope for money and treasures.
Who is this, and will we praise him?
For he performed miracles during his life.

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a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Liber Jesu filii Sirach 31:8-9
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This text was added to the website: 2023-08-09
Line count: 5
Word count: 39