Proverbs 24 Clementine Vulgate
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1 [Ne æmuleris viros malos, nec desideres esse cum eis:
1 Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;
2 quia rapinas meditatur mens eorum, et fraudes labia eorum loquuntur.
2 for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.
3 Sapientia ædificabitur domus, et prudentia roborabitur.
3 Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;
4 In doctrina replebuntur cellaria, universa substantia pretiosa et pulcherrima.
4 by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.
5 Vir sapiens fortis est, et vir doctus robustus et validus:
5 A wise man has great power. A knowledgeable man increases strength,
6 quia cum dispositione initur bellum, et erit salus ubi multa consilia sunt.
6 for by wise guidance you wage your war, and victory is in many advisors.
7 Excelsa stulto sapientia; in porta non aperiet os suum.
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
8 Qui cogitat mala facere stultus vocabitur:
8 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
9 cogitatio stulti peccatum est, et abominatio hominum detractor.
9 The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
10 Si desperaveris lassus in die angustiæ, imminuetur fortitudo tua.]
10 If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
11 [Erue eos qui ducuntur ad mortem, et qui trahuntur ad interitum, liberare ne cesses.
11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
12 Si dixeris: Vires non suppetunt; qui inspector est cordis ipse intelligit: et servatorem animæ tuæ nihil fallit, reddetque homini juxta opera sua.
12 If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not give to every man according to his work?
13 Comede, fili mi, mel, quia bonum est, et favum dulcissimum gutturi tuo.
13 My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
14 Sic et doctrina sapientiæ animæ tuæ: quam cum inveneris, habebis in novissimis spem, et spes tua non peribit.
14 so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.
15 Ne insidieris, et quæras impietatem in domo justi, neque vastes requiem ejus.
15 Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;
16 Septies enim cadet justus, et resurget: impii autem corruent in malum.
16 for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
17 Cum ceciderit inimicus tuus ne gaudeas, et in ruina ejus ne exsultet cor tuum:
17 Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
18 ne forte videat Dominus, et displiceat ei, et auferat ab eo iram suam.
18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
19 Ne contendas cum pessimis, nec æmuleris impios:
19 Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;
20 quoniam non habent futurorum spem mali, et lucerna impiorum extinguetur.
20 for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
21 Time Dominum, fili mi, et regem, et cum detractoribus non commiscearis:
21 My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious,
22 quoniam repente consurget perditio eorum, et ruinam utriusque quis novit?]
22 for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both?
23 Hæc quoque sapientibus. [Cognoscere personam in judicio non est bonum.
23 These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
24 Qui dicunt impio: Justus es: maledicent eis populi, et detestabuntur eos tribus.
24 He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
25 Qui arguunt eum laudabuntur, et super ipsos veniet benedictio.
25 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.
26 Labia deosculabitur qui recta verba respondet.
26 An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
27 Præpara foris opus tuum, et diligenter exerce agrum tuum, ut postea ædifices domum tuam.
27 Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
28 Ne sis testis frustra contra proximum tuum, nec lactes quemquam labiis tuis.
28 Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
29 Ne dicas: Quomodo fecit mihi, sic faciam ei; reddam unicuique secundum opus suum.]
29 Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
30 [Per agrum hominis pigri transivi, et per vineam viri stulti:
30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
31 et ecce totum repleverant urticæ, et operuerant superficiem ejus spinæ, et maceria lapidum destructa erat.
31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
32 Quod cum vidissem, posui in corde meo, et exemplo didici disciplinam.
32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
33 Parum, inquam, dormies, modicum dormitabis; pauxillum manus conseres ut quiescas:
33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
34 et veniet tibi quasi cursor egestas, et mendicitas quasi vir armatus.]
34 so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.
Cross references (34)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 37:7; Proverbs 23:17; Proverbs 3:31; James 4:5–6; Psalm 37:1
- 2 Psalm 7:14; Psalm 28:3; Psalm 10:7; Isaiah 59:4; Job 15:35
- 3 Proverbs 14:1; Proverbs 9:1; 1 Corinthians 3:9; Colossians 2:7; Jeremiah 10:12
- 4 Proverbs 15:6; Proverbs 21:20; Proverbs 20:15; Proverbs 8:21; Matthew 13:52
- 5 Ecclesiastes 7:19; Colossians 1:11; Isaiah 40:31; Proverbs 21:22; Proverbs 8:14
- 6 Proverbs 11:14; Proverbs 20:18; Ephesians 6:10–20; Proverbs 15:22; Luke 14:31
- 7 Proverbs 14:6; Psalm 10:5; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Psalm 92:5–6; Amos 5:10
- 8 Psalm 21:11; Ezekiel 38:10–11; Romans 1:30; Nahum 1:11; Proverbs 6:14
- 9 Matthew 15:19; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Isaiah 55:7; Proverbs 29:8; Acts 8:22
- 10 Isaiah 40:28–31; Ephesians 3:13; Jeremiah 51:46; Hebrews 12:3–5; 1 Samuel 27:1
- 11 Psalm 82:4; Isaiah 58:6–7; 1 John 3:16–17; Job 29:17; Luke 10:31–32
- 12 Job 34:11; Jeremiah 17:10; Revelation 2:23; Romans 2:6; 1 Samuel 16:7
- 13 Isaiah 7:15; Song of Songs 5:1; Proverbs 25:16; Song of Songs 4:11; Matthew 3:4
- 14 James 1:25; Proverbs 2:10; Jeremiah 15:16; Psalm 119:103; Proverbs 23:18
- 15 Jeremiah 11:19; Acts 9:24; 1 Samuel 22:18–19; 1 Samuel 9:11; Matthew 26:4
- 16 Psalm 34:19; Psalm 37:24; Micah 7:8–10; Job 5:19; 2 Corinthians 4:8–12
- 17 Obadiah 12; Job 31:29; 1 Corinthians 13:6–7; Proverbs 17:5; 2 Samuel 16:5–14
- 18 Lamentations 4:21–22; Zechariah 1:15–16
- 19 Proverbs 23:17; Psalm 37:1; Psalm 1:1; Proverbs 13:20; Proverbs 24:1
- 20 Proverbs 13:9; Job 18:5–6; Job 21:17; Psalm 11:6; Proverbs 20:20
- 21 Romans 13:1–7; 1 Peter 2:13–17; Titus 3:1; 1 Kings 12:16; Exodus 14:31
- 22 Numbers 16:31–35; Psalm 90:11; 2 Samuel 18:7–8; Hosea 5:11; 2 Chronicles 13:16–17
- 23 Proverbs 28:21; Proverbs 18:5; James 3:17; Leviticus 19:15; Psalm 107:43
- 24 Proverbs 17:15; Isaiah 5:23; Proverbs 11:26; Exodus 23:6–7; Proverbs 28:27
- 25 1 Timothy 5:20; 1 Samuel 3:13; Proverbs 28:23; Nehemiah 13:8–11; 1 Kings 21:19–20
- 26 Proverbs 15:23; Genesis 41:38–57; Proverbs 25:11–12; Job 6:25; Proverbs 16:1
- 27 Luke 14:28–30; 1 Kings 5:17–18; 1 Kings 6:7
- 28 Ephesians 4:25; Matthew 26:59–60; Proverbs 25:18; 1 Kings 21:9–13; Colossians 3:9
- 29 Romans 12:17–21; Proverbs 20:22; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; Matthew 5:39–44; Proverbs 25:21–22
- 30 Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 6:6–19; Ecclesiastes 8:9–11; Job 4:8; Proverbs 10:13
- 31 Isaiah 5:5; Ecclesiastes 10:18; Genesis 3:17–19; Jeremiah 4:3; Proverbs 22:13
- 32 1 Corinthians 10:11; Deuteronomy 21:21; Luke 2:51; 1 Corinthians 10:6; Job 7:17
- 33 Proverbs 6:4–11; 1 Thessalonians 5:6–8; Romans 13:11; Ephesians 5:14
- 34 Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 13:4
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
On this account it is often put for all numbers together, as, "A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again," --that is, let him fall never so often, he will not perish (and this was meant to be understood not of sins, but of afflictions conducing to lowliness).
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For no other reason it was said, "a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again:" that is, the just man perisheth not, though brought low in every way, yet not induced to transgress, otherwise he will not be just.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
But "God strengtheneth." For "the just falleth seven times, and riseth again; but the wicked shall be weakened in evils." When evils befall the wicked, they are weakened thereby; when evils befall the righteous, "the Lord strengtheneth all that are falling."..."And lifteth up all those that have been cast down:" all, that is, who belong to him; for "God resisteth …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)