Liber Proverbiorum, 8
1. numquid non sapientia clamitat et prudentia dat vocem suam
1. Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice ?
2. in summis excelsisque verticibus super viam in mediis semitis stans
2. Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths.
3. juxta portas civitatis in ipsis foribus loquitur dicens
3. Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:
4. o viri ad vos clamito et vox mea ad filios hominum
4. O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
5. intellegite parvuli astutiam et insipientes animadvertite
5. O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice.
6. audite quoniam de rebus magnis locutura sum et aperientur labia mea ut recta prædicent
6. Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.
7. veritatem meditabitur guttur meum et labia mea detestabuntur impium
7. My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.
8. justi sunt omnes sermones mei non est in eis pravum quid neque perversum
8. All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them.
9. recti sunt intellegentibus et æqui invenientibus scientiam
9. They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.
10. accipite disciplinam meam et non pecuniam doctrinam magis quam aurum eligite
10. Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.
11. melior est enim sapientia cunctis pretiosissimis et omne desiderabile ei non potest conparari
11. 11For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to
12. ego sapientia habito in consilio et eruditis intersum cogitationibus
12. I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.
13. timor Domini odit malum arrogantiam et superbiam et viam pravam et os bilingue detestor
13. The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.
14. meum est consilium et æquitas mea prudentia mea est fortitudo
14. Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.
15. per me reges regnant et legum conditores justa decernunt
15. By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things,
16. per me principes imperant et potentes decernunt justitiam
16. By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.
17. ego diligentes me diligo et qui mane vigilant ad me invenient me
17. I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.
18. mecum sunt divitiæ et gloria opes superbæ et justitia
18. With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.
19. melior est fructus meus auro et pretioso lapide et genimina mea argento electo
19. For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.
20. in viis justitiæ ambulo in medio semitarum judicii
20. I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
21. ut ditem diligentes me et thesauros eorum repleam
21. That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.
22. Dominus possedit me initium viarum suarum antequam quicquam faceret a principio
22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
23. ab æterno ordita sum et ex antiquis antequam terra fieret
23. I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made.
24. necdum erant abyssi et ego jam concepta eram necdum fontes aquarum eruperant
24. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:
25. necdum montes gravi mole constiterant ante colles ego parturiebar
25. The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth:
26. adhuc terram non fecerat et flumina et cardines orbis terræ
26. He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.
27. quando præparabat cælos aderam quando certa lege et gyro vallabat abyssos
27. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths:
28. quando æthera firmabat sursum et librabat fontes aquarum
28. When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:
29. quando circumdabat mari terminum suum et legem ponebat aquis ne transirent fines suos quando adpendebat fundamenta terræ
29. When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth;
30. cum eo eram cuncta conponens et delectabar per singulos dies ludens coram eo omni tempore
30. I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;
31. ludens in orbe terrarum et deliciæ meæ esse cum filiis hominum
31. Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.
32. nunc ergo filii audite me beati qui custodiunt vias meas
32. Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.
33. audite disciplinam et estote sapientes et nolite abicere eam
33. Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
34. beatus homo qui audit me qui vigilat ad fores meas cotidie et observat ad postes ostii mei
34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.
35. qui me invenerit inveniet vitam et hauriet salutem a Domino
35. He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord:
36. qui autem in me peccaverit lædet animam suam omnes qui me oderunt diligunt mortem
36. But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
