Comparison
Ecclesiastes 2
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity. | Dixi ego in corde meo: Vadam, et affluam deliciis, et fruar bonis; et vidi quod hoc quoque esset vanitas. |
| 2 | Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived? | Risum reputavi errorem, et gaudio dixi: Quid frustra deciperis? |
| 3 | I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life. | Cogitavi in corde meo abstrahere a vino carnem meam, ut animam meam transferrem ad sapientiam, devitaremque stultitiam, donec viderem quid esset utile filiis hominum, quo facto opus est sub sole numero dierum vitae suae. |
| 4 | I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards, | Magnificavi opera mea, aedificavi mihi domos, et plantavi vineas; |
| 5 | I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds, | feci hortos et pomaria, et consevi ea cuncti generis arboribus; |
| 6 | And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees, | et exstruxi mihi piscinas aquarum, ut irrigarem silvam lignorum germinantium. |
| 7 | I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem: | Possedi servos et ancillas, multamque familiam habui: armenta quoque, et magnos ovium greges, ultra omnes qui fuerunt ante me in Ierusalem; |
| 8 | I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine: | coacervavi mihi argentum et aurum, et substantias regum ac provinciarum; feci mihi cantores et cantatrices, et delicias filiorum hominum, scyphos, et urceos in ministerio ad vina fundenda; |
| 9 | And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me. | et supergressus sum opibus omnes qui ante me fuerunt in Ierusalem: sapientia quoque perseveravit mecum. |
| 10 | And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour. | Et omnia quae desideraverunt oculi mei non negavi eis, nec prohibui cor meum quin omni voluptate frueretur, et oblectaret se in his quae praeparaveram; et hanc ratus sum partem meam si uterer labore meo. |
| 11 | And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun. | Cumque me convertissem ad universa opera quae fecerant manus meae, et ad labores in quibus frustra sudaveram, vidi in omnibus vanitatem et afflictionem animi, et nihil permanere sub sole. |
| 12 | I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?) | Transivi ad contemplandam sapientiam, erroresque, et stultitiam. (Quid est, inquam, homo, ut sequi possit regem, factorem suum?) |
| 13 | And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness. | Et vidi quod tantum praecederet sapientia stultitiam, quantum differt lux a tenebris. |
| 14 | The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike. | Sapientis oculi in capite eius; stultus in tenebris ambulat: et didici quod unus utriusque esset interitus. |
| 15 | And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity. | Et dixi in corde meo: Si unus et stulti et meus occasus erit, quid mihi prodest quod maiorem sapientiae dedi operam? Locutusque cum mente mea, animadverti quod hoc quoque esset vanitas. |
| 16 | For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned. | Non enim erit memoria sapientis similiter ut stulti in perpetuum, et futura tempora oblivione cuncta pariter operient: moritur doctus similiter ut indoctus. |
| 17 | And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit. | Et idcirco taeduit me vitae meae, videntem mala universa esse sub sole, et cuncta vanitatem et afflictionem spiritus. |
| 18 | Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, | Rursus detestatus sum omnem industriam meam, qua sub sole studiosissime laboravi, habiturus haeredem post me, |
| 19 | Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain? | quem ignoro utrum sapiens an stultus futurus sit, et dominabitur in laboribus meis, quibus desudavi et sollicitus fui: et est quidquam tam vanum? |
| 20 | Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun. | Unde cessavi, renuntiavitque cor meum ultra laborare sub sole. |
| 21 | For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil. | Nam cum alius laboret in sapientia, et doctrina, et sollicitudine, homini otioso quaesita dimittit; et hoc ergo vanitas et magnum malum. |
| 22 | For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun? | Quid enim proderit homini de universo labore suo, et afflictione spiritus, qua sub sole cruciatus est? |
| 23 | All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity? | Cuncti dies eius doloribus et aerumnis pleni sunt, nec per noctem mente requiescit. Et hoc nonne vanitas est? |
| 24 | Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God. | Nonne melius est comedere et bibere, et ostendere animae suae bona de laboribus suis? et hoc de manu Dei est. |
| 25 | Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I? | Quis ita devorabit et deliciis affluet ut ego? |
| 26 | God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind. | Homini bono in conspectu suo dedit Deus sapientiam, et scientiam, et laetitiam; peccatori autem dedit afflictionem et curam superfluam, ut addat, et congreget, et tradat ei qui placuit Deo; sed et hoc vanitas est, et cassa sollicitudo mentis. |
