Comparison
Sirach 41
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! | O mors, quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis: |
| 2 | To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat! | viro quieto, et cuius viae directae sunt in omnibus, et adhuc valenti accipere cibum! |
| 3 | O death, thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth: | O mors, bonum est iudicium tuum homini indigenti, et qui minoratur viribus, |
| 4 | Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience! | defecto aetate, et cui de omnibus cura est, et incredibili, qui perdit patientiam! |
| 5 | Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh. | Noli metuere iudicium mortis: memento quae ante te fuerunt, et quae superventura sunt tibi: hoc iudicium a Domino omni carni. |
| 6 | And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? Whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years. | Et quid superveniet tibi in beneplacito Altissimi? sive decem, sive centum, sive mille anni: |
| 7 | For among the dead there is no accusing of life. | non est enim in inferno accusatio vitae. |
| 8 | The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly. | Filii abominationum fiunt filii peccatorum, et qui conversantur secus domos impiorum. |
| 9 | The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach. | Filiorum peccatorum periet haereditas, et cum semine illorum assiduitas opprobrii. |
| 10 | The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach. | De patre impio queruntur filii, quoniam propter illum sunt in opprobrio. |
| 11 | Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord. | Vae vobis, viri impii, qui dereliquistis legem Domini Altissimi! |
| 12 | And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion. | Et si nati fueritis, in maledictione nascemini: et si mortui fueritis, in maledictione erit pars vestra. |
| 13 | All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction. | Omnia quae de terra sunt in terram convertentur: sic impii a maledicto in perditionem. |
| 14 | The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out. | Luctus hominum in corpore ipsorum: nomen autem impiorum delebitur. |
| 15 | Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great. | Curam habe de bono nomine: hoc enim magis permanebit tibi quam mille thesauri pretiosi et magni. |
| 16 | A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever. | Bonae vitae numerus dierum: bonum autem nomen permanebit in aevum. |
| 17 | My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both? | Disciplinam in pace conservate, filii: sapientia enim abscondita, et thesaurus invisus, quae utilitas in utrisque? |
| 18 | Better is the man that hideth his folly, then the man that hideth his wisdom. | Melior est homo qui abscondit stultitiam suam, quam homo qui abscondit sapientiam suam. |
| 19 | Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of. | Verumtamen reveremini in his quae procedunt de ore meo: |
| 20 | For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion. | non est enim bonum omnem reverentiam observare, et non omnia omnibus bene placent in fide. |
| 21 | Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power: | Erubescite a patre et a matre de fornicatione: et a praesidente et a potente de mendacio: |
| 22 | Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people: | a principe et a iudice de delicto: a synagoga et plebe de iniquitate: |
| 23 | Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest, | a socio et amico de iniustitia, et de loco in quo habitas: |
| 24 | Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking: | de furto, de veritate Dei, et testamento: de discubitu in panibus, et ab obfuscatione dati et accepti: |
| 25 | Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman. | a salutantibus de silentio, a respectu mulieris fornicariae, et ab aversione vultus cognati. |
| 26 | Turn not sway thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring. | Ne avertas faciem a proximo tuo, et ab auferendo partem et non restituendo. |
| 27 | Gaze not upon another man’s wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed. | Ne respicias mulierem alieni viri, et ne scruteris ancillam eius, neque steteris ad lectum eius. |
| 28 | Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not. | Ab amicis de sermonibus improperii: et cum dederis, ne improperes. |
