The Latin Vulgate VUL
Good News Translation GNT
1 mitte panem tuum super transeuntes aquas quia post multa tempora invenies illum
1
Invest your money in foreign trade, and one of these days you will make a profit.
2 da partem septem necnon et octo quia ignoras quid futurum sit mali super terram
2
Put your investments in several places - many places even - because you never know what kind of bad luck you are going to have in this world.
3 si repletae fuerint nubes imbrem super terram effundent si ceciderit lignum ad austrum aut ad aquilonem in quocumque loco ceciderit ibi erit
3
No matter which direction a tree falls, it will lie where it fell. When the clouds are full, it rains.
4 qui observat ventum non seminat et qui considerat nubes numquam metet
4
If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.
5 quomodo ignoras quae sit via spiritus et qua ratione conpingantur ossa in ventre praegnatis sic nescis opera Dei qui fabricator est omnium
5
God made everything, and you can no more understand what he does than you understand how new life begins in the womb of a pregnant woman.
6 mane semina sementem tuam et vespere ne cesset manus tua quia nescis quid magis oriatur hoc an illud et si utrumque simul melius erit
6
Do your planting in the morning and in the evening, too. You never know whether it will all grow well or whether one planting will do better than the other.
7 dulce lumen et delectabile est oculis videre solem
7
It is good to be able to enjoy the pleasant light of day.
8 si annis multis vixerit homo et in omnibus his laetatus fuerit meminisse debet tenebrosi temporis et dierum multorum qui cum venerint vanitatis arguentur praeterita
8
Be grateful for every year you live. No matter how long you live, remember that you will be dead much longer. There is nothing at all to look forward to.
9 laetare ergo iuvenis in adulescentia tua et in bono sit cor tuum in diebus iuventutis tuae et ambula in viis cordis tui et in intuitu oculorum tuorum et scito quod pro omnibus his adducet te Deus in iudicium
9
Young people, enjoy your youth. Be happy while you are still young. Do what you want to do, and follow your heart's desire. But remember that God is going to judge you for whatever you do.
10 aufer iram a corde tuo et amove malitiam a carne tua adulescentia enim et voluptas vana sunt
10
Don't let anything worry you or cause you pain. You aren't going to be young very long.
The Latin Vulgate is in the public domain.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.