Liber Proverbiorum, 1
1. parabolæ Salomonis filii David regis Israël
1. The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
2. ad sciendam sapientiam et disciplinam
2. To know wisdom, and instruction:
3. ad intellegenda verba prudentiæ et suscipiendam eruditionem doctrinæ justitiam et judicium et æquitatem
3. To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
4. ut detur parvulis astutia adulescenti scientia et intellectus
4. To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
5. audiens sapiens sapientior erit et intellegens gubernacula possidebit
5. A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.
6. animadvertet parabolam et interpretationem verba sapientium et enigmata eorum
6. He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
7. timor Domini principium scientiæ sapientiam atque doctrinam stulti despiciunt
7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8. audi fili mi disciplinam patris tui et ne dimittas legem matris tuæ
8. 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
9. That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
10. fili mi si te lactaverint peccatores ne adquiescas
10. My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
11. si dixerint veni nobiscum insidiemur sanguini abscondamus tendiculas contra insontem frustra
11. If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
12. degluttiamus eum sicut infernus viventem et integrum quasi descendentem in lacum
12. Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
13. omnem pretiosam substantiam repperiemus implebimus domos nostras spoliis
13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
14. sortem mitte nobiscum marsuppium unum sit omnium nostrum
14. Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
15. fili mi ne ambules cum eis prohibe pedem tuum a semitis eorum
15. My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
16. pedes enim illorum ad malum currunt et festinant ut effundant sanguinem
16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17. frustra autem jacitur rete ante oculos pinnatorum
17. But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
18. ipsique contra sanguinem suum insidiantur et moliuntur fraudes contra animas suas
18. And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
19. sic semitæ omnis avari animas possidentium rapiunt
19. So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
20. sapientia foris prædicat in plateis dat vocem suam
20. Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21. in capite turbarum clamitat in foribus portarum urbis profert verba sua dicens
21. At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
22. usquequo parvuli diligitis infantiam et stulti ea quæ sibi sunt noxia cupiunt et inprudentes odibunt scientiam
22. O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
23. convertimini ad correptionem meam en proferam vobis spiritum meum et ostendam verba mea
23. Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
24. quia vocavi et rennuistis extendi manum meam et non fuit qui aspiceret
24. Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
25. despexistis omne consilium meum et increpationes meas neglexistis
25. You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
26. ego quoque in interitu vestro ridebo et subsannabo cum vobis quod timebatis advenerit
26. I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
27. cum inruerit repentina calamitas et interitus quasi tempestas ingruerit quando venerit super vos tribulatio et angustia
27. When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
28. tunc invocabunt me et non exaudiam mane consurgent et non invenient me
28. Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
29. eo quod exosam habuerint disciplinam et timorem Domini non susceperint
29. Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
30. nec adquieverint consilio meo et detraxerint universæ correptioni meæ
30. Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
31. comedent igitur fructus viæ suæ suisque consiliis saturabuntur
31. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
32. aversio parvulorum interficiet eos et prosperitas stultorum perdet illos
32. The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33. qui autem me audierit absque terrore requiescet et abundantia perfruetur malorum timore sublato
33. But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.
