The Latin Vulgate VUL
New American Standard Bible NAS
1 numquid non sapientia clamitat et prudentia dat vocem suam
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Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice?
2 in summis excelsisque verticibus super viam in mediis semitis stans
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On top of the heights beside the way, Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
3 iuxta portas civitatis in ipsis foribus loquitur dicens
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Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:
4 o viri ad vos clamito et vox mea ad filios hominum
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"To you, O men, I call, And my voice is to the sons of men.
5 intellegite parvuli astutiam et insipientes animadvertite
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"O naive ones, understand prudence; And, O fools, understand wisdom.
6 audite quoniam de rebus magnis locutura sum et aperientur labia mea ut recta praedicent
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"Listen, for I will speak noble things; And the opening of my lips will reveal right things.
7 veritatem meditabitur guttur meum et labia mea detestabuntur impium
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"For my mouth will utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 iusti sunt omnes sermones mei non est in eis pravum quid neque perversum
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"All the utterances of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverted in them.
9 recti sunt intellegentibus et aequi invenientibus scientiam
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"They are all straightforward to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge.
10 accipite disciplinam meam et non pecuniam doctrinam magis quam aurum eligite
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"Take my instruction and not silver, And knowledge rather than choicest gold.
11 melior est enim sapientia cunctis pretiosissimis et omne desiderabile ei non potest conparari
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"For wisdom is better than jewels; And all desirable things cannot compare with her.
12 ego sapientia habito in consilio et eruditis intersum cogitationibus
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"I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And I find knowledge and discretion.
13 timor Domini odit malum arrogantiam et superbiam et viam pravam et os bilingue detestor
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"The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverted mouth, I hate.
14 meum est consilium et aequitas mea prudentia mea est fortitudo
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"Counsel is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.
15 per me reges regnant et legum conditores iusta decernunt
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"By me kings reign, And rulers decree justice.
16 per me principes imperant et potentes decernunt iustitiam
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"By me princes rule, and nobles, All who judge rightly.
17 ego diligentes me diligo et qui mane vigilant ad me invenient me
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"I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me.
18 mecum sunt divitiae et gloria opes superbae et iustitia
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"Riches and honor are with me, Enduring wealth and righteousness.
19 melior est fructus meus auro et pretioso lapide et genimina mea argento electo
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"My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, And my yield better than choicest silver.
20 in viis iustitiae ambulo in medio semitarum iudicii
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"I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice,
21 ut ditem diligentes me et thesauros eorum repleam
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To endow those who love me with wealth, That I may fill their treasuries.
22 Dominus possedit me initium viarum suarum antequam quicquam faceret a principio
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"The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old.
23 ab aeterno ordita sum et ex antiquis antequam terra fieret
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"From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
24 necdum erant abyssi et ego iam concepta eram necdum fontes aquarum eruperant
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"When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
25 necdum montes gravi mole constiterant ante colles ego parturiebar
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"Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;
26 adhuc terram non fecerat et flumina et cardines orbis terrae
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While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world.
27 quando praeparabat caelos aderam quando certa lege et gyro vallabat abyssos
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"When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
28 quando aethera firmabat sursum et librabat fontes aquarum
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When He made firm the skies above , When the springs of the deep became fixed,
29 quando circumdabat mari terminum suum et legem ponebat aquis ne transirent fines suos quando adpendebat fundamenta terrae
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When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
30 cum eo eram cuncta conponens et delectabar per singulos dies ludens coram eo omni tempore
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Then I was beside Him, as a master workman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him,
31 ludens in orbe terrarum et deliciae meae esse cum filiis hominum
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Rejoicing in the world, His earth, And having my delight in the sons of men.
32 nunc ergo filii audite me beati qui custodiunt vias meas
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"Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways.
33 audite disciplinam et estote sapientes et nolite abicere eam
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"Heed instruction and be wise, And do not neglect it.
34 beatus homo qui audit me qui vigilat ad fores meas cotidie et observat ad postes ostii mei
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"Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts.
35 qui me invenerit inveniet vitam et hauriet salutem a Domino
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"For he who finds me finds life And obtains favor from the LORD .
36 qui autem in me peccaverit laedet animam suam omnes qui me oderunt diligunt mortem
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"But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death."
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