Comparison
Proverbs 23
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face. | Quando sederis ut comedas cum principe, diligenter attende quae apposita sunt ante faciem tuam. |
| 2 | And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power. | Et statue cultrum in gutture tuo: si tamen habes in potestate animam tuam. |
| 3 | Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit. | Ne desideres de cibis eius, in quo est panis mendacii. |
| 4 | Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence. | Noli laborare ut diteris, sed prudentiae tuae pone modum. |
| 5 | Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven. | Ne erigas oculos tuos ad opes quas non potes habere, quia facient sibi pennas quasi aquilae, et volabunt in caelum. |
| 6 | Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats: | Ne comedas cum homine invido, et ne desideres cibos eius: |
| 7 | Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee. | quoniam in similitudinem arioli et coniectoris aestimat quod ignorat. Comede et bibe, dicet tibi; et mens eius non est tecum. |
| 8 | The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words. | Cibos quos comederas evomes, et perdes pulchros sermones tuos. |
| 9 | Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech. | In auribus insipientium ne loquaris, qui despicient doctrinam eloquii tui. |
| 10 | Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: | Ne attingas parvulorum terminos, et agrum pupillorum ne introëas: |
| 11 | For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee. | propinquus enim illorum fortis est, et ipse iudicabit contra te causam illorum. |
| 12 | Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge. | Ingrediatur ad doctrinam cor tuum, et aures tuae ad verba scientiae. |
| 13 | Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. | Noli subtrahere a puero disciplinam: si enim percusseris eum virga, non morietur. |
| 14 | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell. | Tu virga percuties eum, et animam eius de inferno liberabis. |
| 15 | My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee: | Fili mi, si sapiens fuerit animus tuus, gaudebit tecum cor meum: |
| 16 | And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right. | et exsultabunt renes mei, cum locuta fuerint rectum labia tua. |
| 17 | Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long: | Non aemuletur cor tuum peccatores, sed in timore Domini esto tota die: |
| 18 | Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away. | quia habebis spem in novissimo, et praestolatio tua non auferetur. |
| 19 | Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way. | Audi, fili mi, et esto sapiens, et dirige in via animum tuum. |
| 20 | Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat: | Noli esse in conviviis potatorum, nec in comessationibus eorum qui carnes ad vescendum conferunt: |
| 21 | Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags. | quia vacantes potibus et dantes symbola consumentur, et vestietur pannis dormitatio. |
| 22 | Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old. | Audi patrem tuum, qui genuit te, et ne contemnas cum senuerit mater tua. |
| 23 | Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. | Veritatem eme, et noli vendere sapientiam, et doctrinam, et intelligentiam. |
| 24 | The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him. | Exsultat gaudio pater iusti; qui sapientem genuit, laetabitur in eo. |
| 25 | Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee. | Gaudeat pater tuus et mater tua, et exsultet quae genuit te. |
| 26 | My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways. | Praebe, fili mi, cor tuum mihi, et oculi tui vias meas custodiant. |
| 27 | For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit. | Fovea enim profunda est meretrix, et puteus angustus aliena. |
| 28 | She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill. | Insidiatur in via quasi latro, et quos incautos viderit, interficiet. |
| 29 | Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? | Cui vae? cuius patri vae? cui rixae? cui foveae? cui sine causa vulnera? cui suffusio oculorum? |
| 30 | Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups. | nonne his qui commorantur in vino, et student calicibus epotandis? |
| 31 | Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, | Ne intuearis vinum quando flavescit, cum splenduerit in vitro color eius: ingreditur blande, |
| 32 | But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk. | sed in novissimo mordebit ut coluber, et sicut regulus venena diffundet. |
| 33 | Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. | Oculi tui videbunt extraneas, et cor tuum loquetur perversa. |
| 34 | And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost. | Et eris sicut dormiens in medio mari, et quasi sopitus gubernator, amisso clavo. |
| 35 | And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake, and find wine again? | Et dices: Verberaverunt me, sed non dolui; traxerunt me, et ego non sensi. Quando evigilabo, et rursus vina reperiam? |
