Comparison
Sirach 10
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady. | Iudex sapiens iudicabit populum suum, et principatus sensati stabilis erit. |
| 2 | As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell therein. | Secundum iudicem populi, sic et ministri eius: et qualis rector est civitatis, tales et inhabitantes in ea. |
| 3 | An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers. | Rex insipiens perdet populum suum: et civitates inhabitabuntur per sensum potentium. |
| 4 | The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he will raise up a profitable ruler over it. | In manu Dei potestas terrae: et utilem rectorem suscitabit in tempus super illam. |
| 5 | The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay his honour. | In manu Dei prosperitas hominis, et super faciem scribae imponet honorem suum. |
| 6 | Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of injury. | Omnis iniuriae proximi ne memineris, et nihil agas in operibus iniuriae. |
| 7 | Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable. | Odibilis coram Deo est et hominibus superbia, et execrabilis omnis iniquitas gentium. |
| 8 | A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits. | Regnum a gente in gentem transfertur propter iniustitias, et iniurias, et contumelias, et diversos dolos. |
| 9 | But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth and ashes proud? | Avaro autem nihil est scelestius. Quid superbit terra et cinis? |
| 10 | There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels. | Nihil est iniquius quam amare pecuniam: hic enim et animam suam venalem habet, quoniam in vita sua proiecit intima sua. |
| 11 | All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician. | Omnis potentatus brevis vita; languor prolixior gravat medicum. |
| 12 | The physician cutteth off it short sickness: so also a king is today, and tomorrow he shall die. | Brevem languorem praecidit medicus: sic et rex hodie est, et cras morietur. |
| 13 | For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms. | Cum enim morietur homo, haereditabit serpentes, et bestias, et vermes. |
| 14 | The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: | Initium superbiae hominis apostatare a Deo: |
| 15 | Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: be that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. | quoniam ab eo qui fecit illum recessit cor eius, quoniam initium omnis peccati est superbia. Qui tenuerit illam adimplebitur maledictis, et subvertet eum in finem. |
| 16 | Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them. | Propterea exhonoravit Dominus conventus malorum, et destruxit eos usque in finem. |
| 17 | God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead. | Sedes ducum superborum destruxit Deus, et sedere fecit mites pro eis. |
| 18 | God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations. | Radices gentium superbarum arefecit Deus, et plantavit humiles ex ipsis gentibus. |
| 19 | The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation. | Terras gentium evertit Dominus, et perdidit eas usque ad fundamentum. |
| 20 | He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth. | Arefecit ex ipsis, et disperdidit eos, et cessare fecit memoriam eorum a terra. |
| 21 | God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind. | Memoria superborum perdidit Deus, et reliquit memoriam humilium sensu. |
| 22 | Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women. | Non est creata hominibus superbia, neque iracundia nationi mulierum. |
| 23 | That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord. | Semen hominum honorabitur hoc, quod timet Deum: semen autem hoc exhonorabitur, quod praeterit mandata Domini. |
| 24 | In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes. | In medio fratrum rector illorum in honore: et qui timent Dominum erunt in oculis illius. |
| 25 | The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor: | Gloria divitum, honoratorum, et pauperum, timor Dei est. |
| 26 | Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich. | Noli despicere hominem iustum pauperem, et noli magnificare virum peccatorem divitem. |
| 27 | The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God. | Magnus, et iudex, et potens est in honore: et non est maior illo qui timet Deum. |
| 28 | They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured. | Servo sensato liberi servient: et vir prudens et disciplinatus non murmurabit correptus, et inscius non honorabitur. |
| 29 | Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress: | Noli extollere te in faciendo opere tuo, et noli cunctari in tempore angustiae. |
| 30 | Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread. | Melior est qui operatur et abundat in omnibus, quam qui gloriatur et eget pane. |
| 31 | My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert. | Fili, in mansuetudine serva animam tuam, et da illi honorem secundum meritum suum. |
| 32 | Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul? | Peccantem in animam suam quis iustificabit? et quis honorificabit exhonorantem animam suam? |
| 33 | The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear: and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth. | Pauper gloriatur per disciplinam et timorem suum: et est homo qui honorificatur propter substantiam suam. |
| 34 | But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty. | Qui autem gloriatur in paupertate, quanto magis in substantia! et qui gloriatur in substantia, paupertatem vereatur. |
