Comparison
Proverbs 8
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice? | Numquid non sapientia clamitat, et prudentia dat vocem suam? |
| 2 | Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths. | In summis excelsisque verticibus supra viam, in mediis semitis stans, |
| 3 | Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: | iuxta portas civitatis, in ipsis foribus loquitur, dicens: |
| 4 | O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. | O viri, ad vos clamito, et vox mea ad filios hominum. |
| 5 | O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice. | Intelligite, parvuli, astutiam, et insipientes, animadvertite. |
| 6 | Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things. | Audite, quoniam de rebus magnis locutura sum, et aperientur labia mea ut recta praedicent. |
| 7 | My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness. | Veritatem meditabitur guttur meum, et labia mea detestabuntur impium. |
| 8 | All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them. | Iusti sunt omnes sermones mei: non est in eis pravum quid, neque perversum; |
| 9 | They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge. | recti sunt intelligentibus, et aequi invenientibus scientiam. |
| 10 | Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold. | Accipite disciplinam meam, et non pecuniam; doctrinam magis quam aurum eligite: |
| 11 | For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it. | melior est enim sapientia cunctis pretiosissimis, et omne desiderabile ei non potest comparari. |
| 12 | I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts. | Ego sapientia, habito in consilio, et eruditis intersum cogitationibus. |
| 13 | The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue. | Timor Domini odit malum: arrogantiam, et superbiam, et viam pravam, et os bilingue, detestor. |
| 14 | Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine. | Meum est consilium et aequitas; mea est prudentia, mea est fortitudo. |
| 15 | By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things, | Per me reges regnant, et legum conditores iusta decernunt; |
| 16 | By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice. | per me principes imperant, et potentes decernunt iustitiam. |
| 17 | I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me. | Ego diligentes me diligo, et qui mane vigilant ad me, invenient me. |
| 18 | With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice. | Mecum sunt divitiae et gloria, opes superbae et iustitia. |
| 19 | For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver. | Melior est enim fructus meus auro et lapide pretioso, et genimina me argento electo. |
| 20 | I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment, | In viis iustitiae ambulo, in medio semitarum iudicii: |
| 21 | That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures. | ut ditem diligentes me, et thesauros eorum repleam. |
| 22 | The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. | Dominus possedit me in initio viarum suarum antequam quidquam faceret a principio. |
| 23 | I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made. | Ab aeterno ordinata sum, et ex antiquis antequam terra fieret. |
| 24 | The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out: | Nondum erant abyssi, et ego iam concepta eram: necdum fontes aquarum eruperant, |
| 25 | The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth: | necdum montes gravi mole constiterant: ante colles ego parturiebar. |
| 26 | He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. | Adhuc terram non fecerat, et flumina, et cardines orbis terrae. |
| 27 | When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths: | Quando praeparabat caelos, aderam; quando certa lege et gyro vallabat abyssos; |
| 28 | When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: | quando aethera firmabat sursum, et librabat fontes aquarum; |
| 29 | When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth; | quando circumdabat mari terminum suum, et legem ponebat aquis, ne transirent fines suos; quando appendebat fundamenta terrae: |
| 30 | I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; | cum eo eram, cuncta componens. Et delectabar per singulos dies, ludens coram eo omni tempore, |
| 31 | Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. | ludens in orbe terrarum; et deliciae meae esse cum filiis hominum. |
| 32 | Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways. | Nunc ergo, filii, audite me: beati qui custodiunt vias meas. |
| 33 | Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not. | Audite disciplinam, et estote sapientes, et nolite abiicere eam. |
| 34 | Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. | Beatus homo qui audit me, et qui vigilat ad fores meas quotidie, et observat ad postes ostii mei. |
| 35 | He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord: | Qui me invenerit, inveniet vitam, et hauriet salutem a Domino. |
| 36 | But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death. | Qui autem in me peccaverit, laedet animam suam; omnes qui me oderunt diligunt mortem. |
