Proverbs Chapter 9

Wisdom invites all to her feast. Folly calls another way.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.
2 She hath slain her victims, mingled her wine, and set forth her table.
3 She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city:
4 Whosoever is a little one, let him come to me. And to the unwise she said:
5 Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you.
6 Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.

7 He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.
8 Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9 Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he shall make haste to receive it.
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence.
11 For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.
12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

13 A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,
14 Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,
15 To call them that pass by the way, and go on their journey:
16 He that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she said:
17 Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.
18 And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Sapientia ædificavit sibi domum:
excidit columnas septem.
2 Immolavit victimas suas, miscuit vinum,
et proposuit mensam suam.
3 Misit ancillas suas ut vocarent
ad arcem et ad mœnia civitatis.
4 Si quis est parvulus, veniat ad me.
Et insipientibus locuta est:
5 Venite, comedite panem meum,
et bibite vinum quod miscui vobis.
6 Relinquite infantiam, et vivite,
et ambulate per vias prudentiæ.

7 Qui erudit derisorem, ipse injuriam sibi facit,
et qui arguit impium, sibi maculam generat.
8 Noli arguere derisorem, ne oderit te:
argue sapientem, et diliget te.
9 Da sapienti occasionem, et addetur ei sapientia;
doce justum, et festinabit accipere.
10 Principium sapientiæ timor Domini,
et scientia sanctorum prudentia.
11 Per me enim multiplicabuntur dies tui,
et addentur tibi anni vitæ.
12 Si sapiens fueris, tibimetipsi eris;
si autem illusor, solus portabis malum.

13 Mulier stulta et clamosa,
plenaque illecebris, et nihil omnino sciens,
14 sedit in foribus domus suæ,
super sellam in excelso urbis loco,
15 ut vocaret transeuntes per viam,
et pergentes itinere suo:
16 Qui est parvulus declinet ad me.
Et vecordi locuta est:
17 Aquæ furtivæ dulciores sunt,
et panis absconditus suavior.
18 Et ignoravit quod ibi sint gigantes,
et in profundis inferni convivæ ejus.

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