DRC, KJV, VulgClementine - Sirach - 10

10:1  A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady.

10:1  Judex sapiens judicabit populum suum, et principatus sensati stabilis erit.

10:2  As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell therein.

10:2  Secundum judicem populi, sic et ministri ejus : et qualis rector est civitatis, tales et inhabitantes in ea.

10:3  An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers.

10:3  Rex insipiens perdet populum suum : et civitates inhabitabuntur per sensum potentium.

10:4  The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he will raise up a profitable ruler over it.

10:4  In manu Dei potestas terræ : et utilem rectorem suscitabit in tempus super illam.

10:5  The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay his honour.

10:5  In manu Dei prosperitas hominis, et super faciem scribæ imponet honorem suum.

10:6  Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of injury.

10:6  Omnis injuriæ proximi ne memineris, et nihil agas in operibus injuriæ.

10:7  Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable.

10:7  Odibilis coram Deo est et hominibus superbia, et execrabilis omnis iniquitas gentium.

10:8  A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits.

10:8  Regnum a gente in gentem transfertur propter injustitias, et injurias, et contumelias, et diversos dolos.

10:9  But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud?

10:9  Avaro autem nihil est scelestius. Quid superbit terra et cinis ?

10:10  There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels.

10:10  Nihil est iniquius quam amare pecuniam : hic enim et animam suam venalem habet, quoniam in vita sua projecit intima sua.

10:11  All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.

10:11  Omnis potentatus brevis vita ; languor prolixior gravat medicum.

10:12  The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.

10:12  Brevem languorem præcidit medicus : sic et rex hodie est, et cras morietur.

10:13  For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.

10:13  Cum enim morietur homo, hæreditabit serpentes, et bestias, et vermes.

10:14  The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:

10:14  Initium superbiæ hominis apostatare a Deo :

10:15  Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.

10:15  quoniam ab eo qui fecit illum recessit cor ejus, quoniam initium omnis peccati est superbia. Qui tenuerit illam adimplebitur maledictis, et subvertet eum in finem.

10:16  Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.

10:16  Propterea exhonoravit Dominus conventus malorum, et destruxit eos usque in finem.

10:17  God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.

10:17  Sedes ducum superborum destruxit Deus, et sedere fecit mites pro eis.

10:18  God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations.

10:18  Radices gentium superbarum arefecit Deus, et plantavit humiles ex ipsis gentibus.

10:19  The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation.

10:19  Terras gentium evertit Dominus, et perdidit eas usque ad fundamentum.

10:20  He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth.

10:20  Arefecit ex ipsis, et disperdidit eos, et cessare fecit memoriam eorum a terra.

10:21  God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind.

10:21  Memoria superborum perdidit Deus, et reliquit memoriam humilium sensu.

10:22  Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women.

10:22  Non est creata hominibus superbia, neque iracundia nationi mulierum.

10:23  That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord.

10:23  Semen hominum honorabitur hoc, quod timet Deum : semen autem hoc exhonorabitur, quod præterit mandata Domini.

10:24  In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes.

10:24  In medio fratrum rector illorum in honore : et qui timent Dominum erunt in oculis illius.

10:25  The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor.

10:25  Gloria divitum, honoratorum, et pauperum, timor Dei est.

10:26  Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.

10:26  Noli despicere hominem justum pauperem, et noli magnificare virum peccatorem divitem.

10:27  The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God.

10:27  Magnus, et judex, et potens est in honore : et non est major illo qui timet Deum.

10:28  They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.

10:28  Servo sensato liberi servient : et vir prudens et disciplinatus non murmurabit correptus, et inscius non honorabitur.

10:29  Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress;

10:29  Noli extollere te in faciendo opere tuo, et noli cunctari in tempore angustiæ.

10:30  Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread.

10:30  Melior est qui operatur et abundat in omnibus, quam qui gloriatur et eget pane.

10:31  My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert.

10:31  Fili, in mansuetudine serva animam tuam, et da illi honorem secundum meritum suum.

10:32  Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul?

10:32  Peccantem in animam suam quis justificabit ? et quis honorificabit exhonorantem animam suam ?

10:33  The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear, and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth.

10:33  Pauper gloriatur per disciplinam et timorem suum : et est homo qui honorificatur propter substantiam suam.

10:34  But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty.

10:34  Qui autem gloriatur in paupertate, quanto magis in substantia ! et qui gloriatur in substantia, paupertatem vereatur.