Comparison
Ecclesiastes 7
Douay-Rheims, Vulgata Clementina and Septuagint (Sixtine edition, 1587), verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | Septuagint (Sixtine edition, 1587) | |
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| 1 | What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun? | Quid necesse est homini maiora se quaerere, cum ignoret quid conducat sibi in vita sua, numero dierum peregrinationis suae, et tempore quod velut umbra praeterit? aut quis ei poterit indicare quod post eum futurum sub sole sit? | Ἀγαθὸν ὄνομα ὑπὲρ ἔλαιον ἀγαθὸν, καὶ ἡμέρα τοῦ θανάτου ὑπὲρ ἡμέραν γεννήσεως. |
| 2 | A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. | Melius est nomen bonum quam unguenta pretiosa, et dies mortis die nativitatis. | Ἀγαθὸν πορευθῆναι εἰς οἶκον πένθους ἢ ὅτι πορευθῆναι εἰς οἶκον πότου· καθότι τοῦτο τέλος παντὸς ἀνθρώπου, καὶ ὁ ζῶν δώσει ἀγαθὸν εἰς καρδίαν αὐτοῦ. |
| 3 | It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come. | Melius est ire ad domum luctus quam ad domum convivii; in illa enim finis cunctorum admonetur hominum, et vivens cogitat quid futurum sit. | Ἀγαθὸν θυμὸς ὑπὲρ γέλωτα, ὅτι ἐν κακίᾳ προσώπου ἀγαθυνθήσεται καρδία. |
| 4 | Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected. | Melior est ira risu, quia per tristitiam vultus corrigitur animus delinquentis. | Καρδία σοφῶν ἐν οἴκῳ πένθους, καὶ καρδία ἀφρόνων ἐν οἴκῳ εὐφροσύνης. |
| 5 | The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth. | Cor sapientium ubi tristitia est, et cor stultorum ubi laetitia. | Ἀγαθὸν τὸ ἀκοῦσαι ἐπιτίμησιν σοφοῦ ὑπὲρ ἄνδρα ἁκούοντα ᾆσμα ἀφρόνων. |
| 6 | It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools. | Melius est a sapiente corripi, quam stultorum adulatione decipi; | Ὡς φωνὴ ἀκανθῶν ὑπὸ τὸν λέβητα, οὕτως γέλως τῶν ἀφρόνων· καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότης. |
| 7 | For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity. | quia sicut sonitus spinarum ardentium sub olla, sic risus stulti. Sed et hoc vanitas. | Ὅτι ἡ συκοφαντία περιφέρει σοφὸν, καὶ ἀπόλλυσι τὴν καρδίαν εὐγενείας αὐτοῦ. |
| 8 | Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart. | Calumnia conturbat sapientem, et perdet robur cordis illius. | Ἀγαθὴ ἐσχάτη λόγων ὑπὲρ ἀρχὴν αὐτοῦ, ἀγαθὸν μακρόθυμος ὑπὲρ ὑψηλὸν πνεύματι. |
| 9 | Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous. | Melior est finis orationis quam principium. Melior est patiens arrogante. | Μὴ σπεύσῃς ἐν πνεύματί σου τοῦ θυμοῦσθαι, ὅτι θυμὸς ἐν κόλπῳ ἀφρόνων ἀναπαύσεται. |
| 10 | Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool. | Ne sis velox ad irascendum, quia ira in sinu stulti requiescit. | Μὴ εἴπῃς, τί ἐγένετο, ὅτι αἱ ἡμέραι αἱ πρότεραι ἦσαν ἀγαθαὶ ὑπὲρ ταύτας; ὅτι οὐκ ἐν σοφίᾳ ἐπηρώτησας περὶ τούτου. |
| 11 | Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish. | Ne dicas: Quid putas causae est quod priora tempora meliora fuere quam nunc sunt? stulta enim est huiuscemodi interrogatio. | Ἀγαθὴ σοφία μετὰ κληρονομίας, καὶ περίσσεια τοῖς θεωροῦσι τὸν ἥλιον. |
| 12 | Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun. | Utilior est sapientia cum divitiis, et magis prodest videntibus solem. | Ὅτι ἐν σκιᾷ αὐτῆς ἡ σοφία ὡς σκιὰ ἀργυρίου, καὶ περίσσεια γνώσεως τῆς σοφίας ζωοποιήσει τὸν παρʼ αὐτῆς. |
| 13 | For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them. | Sicut enim protegit sapientia, sic protegit pecunia; hoc autem plus habet eruditio et sapientia, quod vitam tribuunt possessori suo. | Ἴδε τὰ ποιήματα τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὅτι τίς δυνήσεται κοσμῆσαι ὃν ἂν ὁ Θεὸς διαστρέψῃ αὐτόν; |
| 14 | Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised. | Considera opera Dei, quod nemo possit corrigere quem ille despexerit. | Ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἀγαθωσύνης ζῆθι ἐν ἀγαθῷ, καὶ ἴδε ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κακίας· ἴδε, καί γε σὺν τούτῳ συμφώνως τοῦτο ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς περὶ λαλιᾶς, ἵνα μὴ εὕρῃ ἄνθρωπος ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ οὐδέν. |
| 15 | In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint. | In die bona fruere bonis, et malam diem praecave; sicut enim hanc, sic et illam fecit Deus, ut non inveniat homo contra eum iustas querimonias. | Σύμπαντα εἶδον ἐν ἡμέραις ματαιότητός μου· ἐστὶ δίκαιος ἀπολλύμενος ἐν δικαίῳ αὐτοῦ, καί ἐστιν ἀσεβὴς μένων ἐν κακίᾳ αὐτοῦ. |
| 16 | These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness. | Haec quoque vidi in diebus vanitatis meae: iustus perit in iustitia sua, et impius multo vivit tempore in malitia sua. | Μὴ γίνου δίκαιος πολὺ, μηδὲ σοφίζου περισσὰ, μή ποτε ἐκπλαγῇς. |
| 17 | Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid. | Noli esse iustus multum, neque plus sapias quam necesse est, ne obstupescas. | Μὴ ἀσεβήσῃς πολὺ, καὶ μὴ γίνου σκληρὸς, ἵνα μὴ ἀποθάνῃς ἐν οὐ καιρῷ σου. |
| 18 | Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time. | Ne impie agas multum, et noli esse stultus, ne moriaris in tempore non tuo. | Ἀγαθὸν τὸ ἀντέχεσθαί σε ἐν τούτῳ, καί γε ἀπὸ τούτου μὴ μιάνῃς τὴν χεῖρά σου, ὅτι φοβουμένοις τὸν Θεὸν ἐξελεύσεται τὰ πάντα. |
| 19 | It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing. | Bonum est te sustentare iustum: sed et ab illo ne subtrahas manum tuam; quia qui timet Deum nihil negligit. | Ἡ σοφία βοηθήσει τῷ σοφῷ ὑπὲρ δέκα ἐξουσιάζοντας τοὺς ὄντας ἐν τῇ πόλει. |
| 20 | Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city. | Sapientia confortavit sapientem super decem principes civitatis; | Ὅτι ἄνθρωπος οὐκ ἔστι δίκαιος ἐν τῇ γῇ, ὃς ποιήσει ἀγαθὸν καὶ οὐχ ἁμαρτήσεται. |
| 21 | For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not. | non est enim homo iustus in terra qui faciat bonum et non peccet. | Καί γε εἰς πάντας λόγους οὓς λαλήσουσιν ἀσεβεῖς, μὴ θῇς καρδίαν σου, ὅπως μὴ ἀκούσῃς τοῦ δούλου σου καταρωμένου σε. |
| 22 | But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee. | Sed et cunctis sermonibus qui dicuntur ne accomodes cor tuum, ne forte audias servum tuum maledicentem tibi; | Ὅτι πλειστάκις πονηρεύσεταί σε, καὶ καθόδους πολλὰς κακώσει καρδίαν σου, ὅτι ὡς καί γε σὺ κατηράσω ἑτέρους. |
| 23 | For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others. | scit enim conscientia tua quia et tu crebro maledixisti aliis. | Πάντα ταῦτα ἐπείρασα ἐν σοφίᾳ· εἶπα, σοφισθήσομαι· καὶ αὕτη ἐμακρύνθη ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ. |
| 24 | I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me, | Cuncta tentavi in sapientia. Dixi: Sapiens efficiar: et ipsa longius recessit a me, | Μακρὰν ὑπὲρ ὃ ἦν, καὶ βαθὺ βάθος, τίς εὑρήσει αὐτό; |
| 25 | Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out? | multo magis quam erat. Et alta profunditas, quis inveniet eam? | Ἐκύκλωσα ἐγὼ καὶ ἡ καρδία μου τοῦ γνῶναι καὶ τοῦ κατασκέψασθαι καὶ τοῦ ζητῆσαι σοφίαν καὶ ψῆφον, καὶ τοῦ γνῶναι ἀσεβοῦς ἀφροσύνην καὶ ὀχληρίαν καὶ περιφοράν. |
| 26 | I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent: | Lustravi universa animo meo, ut scirem et considerarem, et quaererem sapientiam, et rationem, et ut cognoscerem impietatem stulti, et errorem imprudentium: | Καὶ εὑρίσκω ἐγὼ αὐτὴν, καὶ ἐρῶ πικρότερον ὑπὲρ θάνατον· σὺν τὴν γυναῖκα ἥτις ἐστι θήρευμα, καὶ σαγῆναι καρδία αὐτῆς, δεσμὸς εἰς χεῖρας αὐτῆς· ἀγαθὸς πρὸ προσώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐξαιρεθήσεται ἀπʼ αὐτῆς, καὶ ἁμαρτάνων συλληφθήσεται ἐν αὐτῇ. |
| 27 | And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter’s snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her. | et inveni amariorem morte mulierem, quae laqueus venatorum est, et sagena cor eius; vincula sunt manus illius. Qui placet Deo effugiet illam; qui autem peccator est capietur ab illa. | Ἴδε τοῦτο εὗρον, εἶπεν ὁ Ἐκκλησιαστής· μία τῇ μιᾷ τοῦ εὑρεῖν λογισμὸν, |
| 28 | Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account, | Ecce hoc inveni, dixit Ecclesiastes, unum et alterum ut invenirem rationem, | ὃν ἐπεζήτησεν ἡ ψυχή μου, καὶ οὐχ εὗρον· καὶ ἄνθρωπον ἕνα ἀπὸ χιλίων εὗρον, καὶ γυναῖκα ἐν πᾶσι τούτοις οὐχ εὗρον. |
| 29 | Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found. | quam adhuc quaerit anima mea, et non inveni. Virum de mille unum reperi; mulierem ex omnibus non inveni. | Πλὴν ἴδε τοῦτο εὗρον, ὃ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς σὺν τὸν ἄνθρωπον εὐθῆ· καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐζήτησαν λογισμοὺς πολλούς. Τίς οἶδε σοφοὺς, καὶ τίς οἶδε λύσιν ῥήματος; |
| 30 | Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word? | Solummodo hoc inveni, quod fecerit Deus hominem rectum, et ipse se infinitis miscuerit quaestionibus. Quis talis ut sapiens est? et quis cognovit solutionem verbi? | — |
