The Latin Vulgate VUL
American Standard Version ASV
1 voca ergo si est qui tibi respondeat et ad aliquem sanctorum convertere
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Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
2 vere stultum interficit iracundia et parvulum occidit invidia
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For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
3 ego vidi stultum firma radice et maledixi pulchritudini eius statim
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I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 longe fient filii eius a salute et conterentur in porta et non erit qui eruat
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His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
5 cuius messem famelicus comedet et ipsum rapiet armatus et ebibent sitientes divitias eius
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
6 nihil in terra sine causa fit et de humo non orietur dolor
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For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 homo ad laborem nascitur et avis ad volatum
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But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
8 quam ob rem ego deprecabor Dominum et ad Deum ponam eloquium meum
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But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
9 qui facit magna et inscrutabilia et mirabilia absque numero
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Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
10 qui dat pluviam super faciem terrae et inrigat aquis universa
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Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
11 qui ponit humiles in sublimi et maerentes erigit sospitate
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So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
12 qui dissipat cogitationes malignorum ne possint implere manus eorum quod coeperant
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He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 qui adprehendit sapientes in astutia eorum et consilium pravorum dissipat
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
14 per diem incurrent tenebras et quasi in nocte sic palpabunt in meridie
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They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
15 porro salvum faciet a gladio oris eorum et de manu violenti pauperem
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But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16 et erit egeno spes iniquitas autem contrahet os suum
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So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17 beatus homo qui corripitur a Domino increpationem ergo Domini ne reprobes
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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
18 quia ipse vulnerat et medetur percutit et manus eius sanabunt
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For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 in sex tribulationibus liberabit te et in septima non tanget te malum
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He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20 in fame eruet te de morte et in bello de manu gladii
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In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword.
21 a flagello linguae absconderis et non timebis calamitatem cum venerit
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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22 in vastitate et fame ridebis et bestiam terrae non formidabis
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At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 sed cum lapidibus regionum pactum tuum et bestiae terrae pacificae erunt tibi
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For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 et scies quod pacem habeat tabernaculum tuum et visitans speciem tuam non peccabis
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And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
25 scies quoque quoniam multiplex erit semen tuum et progenies tua quasi herba terrae
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 ingredieris in abundantia sepulchrum sicut infertur acervus in tempore suo
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Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
27 ecce hoc ut investigavimus ita est quod auditum mente pertracta
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Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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