The Latin Vulgate VUL
American Standard Version ASV
1 parabolae Salomonis filii David regis Israhel
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The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
2 ad sciendam sapientiam et disciplinam
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To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
3 ad intellegenda verba prudentiae et suscipiendam eruditionem doctrinae iustitiam et iudicium et aequitatem
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To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;
4 ut detur parvulis astutia adulescenti scientia et intellectus
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To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:
5 audiens sapiens sapientior erit et intellegens gubernacula possidebit
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That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
6 animadvertet parabolam et interpretationem verba sapientium et enigmata eorum
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To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 timor Domini principium scientiae sapientiam atque doctrinam stulti despiciunt
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The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
8 audi fili mi disciplinam patris tui et ne dimittas legem matris tuae
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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 ut addatur gratia capiti tuo et torques collo tuo
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For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
10 fili mi si te lactaverint peccatores ne adquiescas
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My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.
11 si dixerint veni nobiscum insidiemur sanguini abscondamus tendiculas contra insontem frustra
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If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
12 degluttiamus eum sicut infernus viventem et integrum quasi descendentem in lacum
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Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
13 omnem pretiosam substantiam repperiemus implebimus domos nostras spoliis
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We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;
14 sortem mitte nobiscum marsuppium unum sit omnium nostrum
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Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:
15 fili mi ne ambules cum eis prohibe pedem tuum a semitis eorum
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My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
16 pedes enim illorum ad malum currunt et festinant ut effundant sanguinem
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For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
17 frustra autem iacitur rete ante oculos pinnatorum
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For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
18 ipsique contra sanguinem suum insidiantur et moliuntur fraudes contra animas suas
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And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
19 sic semitae omnis avari animas possidentium rapiunt
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So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 sapientia foris praedicat in plateis dat vocem suam
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Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21 in capite turbarum clamitat in foribus portarum urbis profert verba sua dicens
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She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
22 usquequo parvuli diligitis infantiam et stulti ea quae sibi sunt noxia cupiunt et inprudentes odibunt scientiam
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How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
23 convertimini ad correptionem meam en proferam vobis spiritum meum et ostendam verba mea
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Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
24 quia vocavi et rennuistis extendi manum meam et non fuit qui aspiceret
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Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
25 despexistis omne consilium meum et increpationes meas neglexistis
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But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
26 ego quoque in interitu vestro ridebo et subsannabo cum vobis quod timebatis advenerit
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I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 cum inruerit repentina calamitas et interitus quasi tempestas ingruerit quando venerit super vos tribulatio et angustia
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When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
28 tunc invocabunt me et non exaudiam mane consurgent et non invenient me
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Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
29 eo quod exosam habuerint disciplinam et timorem Domini non susceperint
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For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:
30 nec adquieverint consilio meo et detraxerint universae correptioni meae
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They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.
31 comedent igitur fructus viae suae suisque consiliis saturabuntur
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Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
32 aversio parvulorum interficiet eos et prosperitas stultorum perdet illos
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For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
33 qui autem me audierit absque terrore requiescet et abundantia perfruetur malorum timore sublato
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But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.
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