My LORD’s BibleProverbs 1
The Douay-Rheims Bible in Bishop Challoner's revision (1749-52), the standard English Bible of the Catholic Church for two centuries, translated from the Latin Vulgate, with the Clementine Vulgate Latin beside each verse. The English is that of Project Gutenberg's electronic text, with Challoner's notes left out; the Latin is the Clementine Vulgate of 1598, with the medieval Glossa Ordinaria commentary of the edition left out. Book names and chapter and verse numbers follow the Vulgate, so the Psalms are numbered as in the Vulgate (Psalm 22 here is Psalm 23 in the King James Version).
2To know wisdom, and instruction:
ad sciendam sapientiam et disciplinam;
3To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
ad intelligenda verba prudentiæ, et suscipiendam eruditionem doctrinæ, justitiam, et judicium, et æquitatem:
4To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
ut detur parvulis astutia, adolescenti scientia et intellectus.
5A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.
Audiens sapiens, sapientior erit, et intelligens gubernacula possidebit.
6He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
Animadvertet parabolam et interpretationem, verba sapientum et ænigmata eorum.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Timor Domini principium sapientiæ; sapientiam atque doctrinam stulti despiciunt.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Audi, fili mi, disciplinam patris tui, et ne dimittas legem matris tuæ:
10My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
Fili mi, si te lactaverint peccatores, ne acquiescas eis.
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
omnem pretiosam substantiam reperiemus; implebimus domos nostras spoliis:
14Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
sortem mitte nobiscum, marsupium unum sit omnium nostrum:
15My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
fili mi, ne ambules cum eis; prohibe pedem tuum a semitis eorum:
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
pedes enim illorum ad malum currunt, et festinant ut effundant sanguinem.
17But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
Frustra autem jacitur rete ante oculos pennatorum.
18And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
Ipsi quoque contra sanguinem suum insidiantur, et moliuntur fraudes contra animas suas.
19So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
Sic semitæ omnis avari: animas possidentium rapiunt.
20Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Sapientia foris prædicat; in plateis dat vocem suam:
21At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
in capite turbarum clamitat; in foribus portarum urbis profert verba sua, dicens:
22O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
Usquequo, parvuli, diligitis infantiam, et stulti ea quæ sibi sunt noxia cupient, et imprudentes odibunt scientiam?
23Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
convertimini ad correptionem meam. En proferam vobis spiritum meum, et ostendam vobis verba mea.
24Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
Quia vocavi, et renuistis; extendi manum meam, et non fuit qui aspiceret:
25You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
despexistis omne consilium meum, et increpationes meas neglexistis.
26I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
Ego quoque in interitu vestro ridebo, et subsannabo cum vobis id quod timebatis advenerit.
27When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
Cum irruerit repentina calamitas, et interitus quasi tempestas ingruerit; quando venerit super vos tribulatio et angustia:
28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:
tunc invocabunt me, et non exaudiam; mane consurgent, et non invenient me:
29Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,
eo quod exosam habuerint disciplinam, et timorem Domini non susceperint,
30Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
nec acquieverint consilio meo, et detraxerint universæ correptioni meæ.
31Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
Comedent igitur fructus viæ suæ, suisque consiliis saturabuntur.
32The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Aversio parvulorum interficiet eos, et prosperitas stultorum perdet illos.
33But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.
Qui autem me audierit, absque terrore requiescet, et abundantia perfruetur, timore malorum sublato.