Comparison
Sirach 16
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them. | Ne iucunderis in filiis impiis, si multiplicentur: nec oblecteris super ipsos, si non est timor Dei in illis. |
| 2 | Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours. | Non credas vitae illorum, et ne respexeris in labores eorum. |
| 3 | For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children. | Melior est enim unus timens Deum, quam mille filii impii: |
| 4 | And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children. | et utile est mori sine filiis, quam relinquere filios impios. |
| 5 | By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate. | Ab uno sensato inhabitabitur patria: tribus impiorum deseretur. |
| 6 | Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard. | Multa talia vidit oculis meus, et fortiora horum audivit auris mea. |
| 7 | In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath shall dame out. | In synagoga peccantium exardebit ignis, et in gente incredibili exardescet ira. |
| 8 | The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sins, who were destroyed trusting to their own strength: | Non exoraverunt pro peccatis suis antiqui gigantes, qui destructi sunt confidentes suae virtuti. |
| 9 | And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the pride of their word. | Et non pepercit peregrinationi Lot, et execratus est eos prae superbia verbi illorum. |
| 10 | He had not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that extolled themselves in their sins. | Non misertus est illis, gentem totam perdens, et extollentem se in peccatis suis. |
| 11 | So did he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been stiffnecked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished: | Et sicut sexcenta millia peditum, qui congregati sunt in duritia cordis sui: et si unus fuisset cervicatus, mirum si fuisset immunis. |
| 12 | For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation: | Misericordia enim et ira est cum illo: potens exoratio, et effundens iram. |
| 13 | According as his mercy is, so his correction judgeth a man according to his works. | Secundum misericordiam suam, sic correptio illius homines secundum opera sua iudicat. |
| 14 | The sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of him that sheweth mercy shall not be put off. | Non effugiet in rapina peccator, et non retardabit sufferentia misericordiam facientis. |
| 15 | All mercy shall make a place for every man according to the merit of his works, and according to the wisdom of his sojournment. | Omnis misericordia faciet locum unicuique, secundum meritum operum suorum, et secundum intellectum peregrinationis ipsius. |
| 16 | Say not: I shall be hidden from God. and who shall remember me from on high? | Non dicas: A Deo abscondar: et ex summo, quis mei memorabitur? |
| 17 | In such a multitude I shall not be known: for what is my soul in such an immense creation? | in populo magno non agnoscar: quae est enim anima mea in tam immensa creatura? |
| 18 | Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight, | Ecce caelum et caeli caelorum, abyssus, et universa terra, et quae in eis sunt, in conspectu illius commovebuntur. |
| 19 | The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling. | Montes simul, et colles, et fundamenta terrae, cum conspexerit illa Deus, tremore concutientur. |
| 20 | And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him: | Et in omnibus his insensatum est cor, et omne cor intelligitur ab illo. |
| 21 | And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man see? | Et vias illius quis intelligit, et procellam quam nec oculus videbit hominis? |
| 22 | For many of his works are hidden: hut the works of his justice who shall declare? or who shall endure? for the testament is far from some, and the examination of all is in the end. | Nam plurima illius opera sunt in absconsis: sed opera iustitiae eius quis enuntiabit, aut quis sustinebit? longe enim est testamentum a quibusdam, et interrogatio omnium in consummatione est. |
| 23 | He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things: and the foolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things. | Qui minoratur corde cogitat inania, et vir imprudens et errans cogitat stulta. |
| 24 | Hearken to me, my son, and learn the discipline of understanding, and attend to my words in thy heart. | Audi me, fili, et disce disciplinam sensus, et in verbis meis attende in corde tuo: |
| 25 | And I will shew forth good doctrine in equity, and will seek to declare wisdom: and attend to my words in thy heart, whilst with equity of spirit I tell thee the virtues that God hath put upon his works from the beginning, and I shew forth in truth his knowledge. | et dicam in aequitate disciplinam, et scrutabor enarrare sapientiam: et in verbis meis attende in corde tuo, et dico in aequitate spiritus virtutes quas posuit Deus in opera sua ab initio, et in veritate enuntio scientiam eius. |
| 26 | The works of God are done in judgment from the beginning, and from the making of them he distinguished their parts, and their beginnings in their generations. | In iudicio Dei opera eius ab initio, et ab institutione ipsorum distinxit partes illorum, et initia eorum in gentibus suis. |
| 27 | He beautified their works for ever, they have neither hungered, nor laboured, and they have not ceased from their works. | Ornavit in aeternum opera illorum: nec esurierunt, nec laboraverunt, et non destiterunt ab operibus suis. |
| 28 | Nor shall any of them straiten his neighbour at any time. | Unusquisque proximum sibi non angustiabit in aeternum: |
| 29 | Be not thou incredulous to his word. | non sis incredibilis verbo illius. |
| 30 | After this God looked upon the earth, and filled it with his goods. | Post haec Deus in terram respexit, et implevit illam bonis suis: |
| 31 | The soul of every living thing hath shewn forth before the face thereof, and into it they return again. | anima omnis vitalis denuntiavit ante faciem ipsius, et in ipsam iterum reversio illorum. |
