The Latin Vulgate VUL
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 voca ergo si est qui tibi respondeat et ad aliquem sanctorum convertere
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"Call now; is there any one who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 vere stultum interficit iracundia et parvulum occidit invidia
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Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
3 ego vidi stultum firma radice et maledixi pulchritudini eius statim
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I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
4 longe fient filii eius a salute et conterentur in porta et non erit qui eruat
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His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
5 cuius messem famelicus comedet et ipsum rapiet armatus et ebibent sitientes divitias eius
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His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
6 nihil in terra sine causa fit et de humo non orietur dolor
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For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
7 homo ad laborem nascitur et avis ad volatum
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but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
8 quam ob rem ego deprecabor Dominum et ad Deum ponam eloquium meum
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"As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;
9 qui facit magna et inscrutabilia et mirabilia absque numero
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who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
10 qui dat pluviam super faciem terrae et inrigat aquis universa
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he gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields;
11 qui ponit humiles in sublimi et maerentes erigit sospitate
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he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
12 qui dissipat cogitationes malignorum ne possint implere manus eorum quod coeperant
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He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
13 qui adprehendit sapientes in astutia eorum et consilium pravorum dissipat
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He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
14 per diem incurrent tenebras et quasi in nocte sic palpabunt in meridie
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, 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 saves the fatherless from their mouth, 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 have hope, and injustice shuts 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 reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
18 quia ipse vulnerat et medetur percutit et manus eius sanabunt
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For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.
19 in sex tribulationibus liberabit te et in septima non tanget te malum
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He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch you.
20 in fame eruet te de morte et in bello de manu gladii
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In famine he will redeem you 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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You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
22 in vastitate et fame ridebis et bestiam terrae non formidabis
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At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
23 sed cum lapidibus regionum pactum tuum et bestiae terrae pacificae erunt tibi
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For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 et scies quod pacem habeat tabernaculum tuum et visitans speciem tuam non peccabis
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You shall know that your tent is safe, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
25 scies quoque quoniam multiplex erit semen tuum et progenies tua quasi herba terrae
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You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 ingredieris in abundantia sepulchrum sicut infertur acervus in tempore suo
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You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.
27 ecce hoc ut investigavimus ita est quod auditum mente pertracta
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Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good."
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