Proverbiorum 5
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
King James Version with Apocrypha
1[Fili mi, attende ad sapientiam meam, et prudentiæ meæ inclina aurem tuam:
1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2ut custodias cogitationes, et disciplinam labia tua conservent. Ne attendas fallaciæ mulieris;
2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3favus enim distillans labia meretricis, et nitidius oleo guttur ejus:
3¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4novissima autem illius amara quasi absinthium, et acuta quasi gladius biceps.
4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5Pedes ejus descendunt in mortem, et ad inferos gressus illius penetrant.
5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6Per semitam vitæ non ambulant; vagi sunt gressus ejus et investigabiles.
6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them .
7Nunc ergo fili mi, audi me, et ne recedas a verbis oris mei.
7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8Longe fac ab ea viam tuam, et ne appropinques foribus domus ejus.
8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9Ne des alienis honorem tuum, et annos tuos crudeli:
9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10ne forte implentur extranei viribus tuis, et labores tui sint in domo aliena,
10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11et gemas in novissimis, quando consumpseris carnes tuas et corpus tuum, et dicas:
11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12Cur detestatus sum disciplinam, et increpationibus non acquievit cor meum,
12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13nec audivi vocem docentium me, et magistris non inclinavi aurem meam?
13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14pene fui in omni malo, in medio ecclesiæ et synagogæ.
14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15Bibe aquam de cisterna tua, et fluenta putei tui;
15¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16deriventur fontes tui foras, et in plateis aquas tuas divide.
16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17Habeto eas solus, nec sint alieni participes tui.
17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18Sit vena tua benedicta, et lætare cum muliere adolescentiæ tuæ.
18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19Cerva carissima, et gratissimus hinnulus: ubera ejus inebrient te in omni tempore; in amore ejus delectare jugiter.
19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20Quare seduceris, fili mi, ab aliena, et foveris in sinu alterius?
20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21Respicit Dominus vias hominis, et omnes gressus ejus considerat.
21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD , and he pondereth all his goings.
22Iniquitates suas capiunt impium, et funibus peccatorum suorum constringitur.
22¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23Ipse morietur, quia non habuit disciplinam, et in multitudine stultitiæ suæ decipietur.]
23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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