Sabiduría · Vulgata Clementina
Sabiduría 11 Vulgata Clementina
1 [Direxit opera eorum in manibus prophetæ sancti.
1 Wisdom prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet.
2 Iter fecerunt per deserta quæ non habitabantur, et in locis desertis fixerunt casas.
2 They traveled through a desert without inhabitant, and they pitched their tents in trackless regions.
3 Steterunt contra hostes, et de inimicis se vindicaverunt.
3 They withstood enemies and repelled foes.
4 Sitierunt, et invocaverunt te, et data est illis aqua de petra altissima, et requies sitis de lapide duro.]
4 They thirsted, and they called upon you, and water was given to them out of the flinty rock, and healing of their thirst out of the hard stone.
5 [Per quæ enim pœnas passi sunt inimici illorum a defectione potus sui, et in eis cum abundarent filii Israël lætati sunt:
5 For by what things their foes were punished, by these they in their need were benefited.
6 per hæc, cum illis deessent, bene cum illis actum est.
6 When enemies were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain,
7 Nam pro fonte quidem sempiterni fluminis, humanum sanguinem dedisti injustis.
7 to rebuke the decree for the slaying of babies, you gave them abundant water beyond all hope,
8 Qui cum minuerentur in traductione infantium occisorum, dedisti illis abundantem aquam insperate,
8 having shown by the thirst which they had suffered how you punished the adversaries.
9 ostendens per sitim quæ tunc fuit, quemadmodum tuos exaltares, et adversarios illorum necares.
9 For when they were tried, although chastened in mercy, they learned how the ungodly were tormented, being judged with wrath.
10 Cum enim tentati sunt, et quidem cum misericordia disciplinam accipientes, scierunt quemadmodum cum ira judicati impii tormenta paterentur.
10 For you tested these as a father admonishing them; but you searched out those as a stern king condemning them.
11 Hos quidem tamquam pater monens probasti; illos autem tamquam durus rex interrogans condemnasti.
11 Yes and whether they were far off or near, they were equally distressed;
12 Absentes enim, et præsentes, similiter torquebantur.
12 for a double grief seized them, and a groaning at the memory of things past.
13 Duplex enim illos acceperat tædium et gemitus, cum memoria præteritorum.
13 For when they heard that through their own punishments the others benefited, they recognized the Lord.
14 Cum enim audirent per sua tormenta bene secum agi, commemorati sunt Dominum, admirantes in finem exitus.
14 For him who long before was thrown out and exposed they stopped mocking. In the end of what happened, they marveled, having thirsted in another manner than the righteous.
15 Quem enim in expositione prava projectum deriserunt, in finem eventus mirati sunt, non similiter justis sitientes.
15 But in return for the senseless imaginings of their unrighteousness, wherein they were led astray to worship irrational reptiles and wretched vermin, you sent upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them,
16 Pro cogitationibus autem insensatis iniquitatis illorum, quod quidam errantes colebant mutos serpentes et bestias supervacuas, immisisti illis multitudinem mutorum animalium in vindictam;
16 that they might learn that by what things a man sins, by these he is punished.
17 ut scirent quia per quæ peccat quis, per hæc et torquetur.
17 For your all-powerful hand that created the world out of formless matter didn’t lack means to send upon them a multitude of bears, fierce lions,
18 Non enim impossibilis erat omnipotens manus tua, quæ creavit orbem terrarum ex materia invisa, immittere illis multitudinem ursorum, aut audaces leones,
18 or newly-created and unknown wild beasts, full of rage, either breathing out a blast of fiery breath, or belching out smoke, or flashing dreadful sparks from their eyes;
19 aut novi generis ira plenas ignotas bestias, aut vaporem ignium spirantes, aut fumi odorem proferentes, aut horrendas ab oculis scintillas emittentes;
19 which had power not only to consume them by their violence, but to destroy them even by the terror of their sight.
20 quarum non solum læsura poterat illos exterminare, sed et aspectus per timorem occidere.
20 Yes and without these they might have fallen by a single breath, being pursued by Justice, and scattered abroad by the breath of your power; but you arranged all things by measure, number, and weight.
21 Sed et sine his uno spiritu poterant occidi, persecutionem passi ab ipsis factis suis, et dispersi per spiritum virtutis tuæ: sed omnia in mensura, et numero et pondere disposuisti.
21 For to be greatly strong is yours at all times. Who could withstand the might of your arm?
22 Multum enim valere, tibi soli supererat semper: et virtuti brachii tui quis resistet?
22 Because the whole world before you is as a grain in a balance, and as a drop of dew that comes down upon the earth in the morning.
23 Quoniam tamquam momentum stateræ, sic est ante te orbis terrarum, et tamquam gutta roris antelucani quæ descendit in terram.
23 But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, and you overlook the sins of men to the end that they may repent.
24 Sed misereris omnium, quia omnia potes; et dissimulas peccata hominum, propter pœnitentiam.
24 For you love all things that are, and abhor none of the things which you made; For you never would have formed anything if you hated it.
25 Diligis enim omnia quæ sunt, et nihil odisti eorum quæ fecisti; nec enim odiens aliquid constituisti aut fecisti.
25 How would anything have endured unless you had willed it? Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been preserved?
26 Quomodo autem posset aliquid permanere, nisi tu voluisses? aut quod a te vocatum non esset conservaretur?
26 But you spare all things, because they are yours, O Sovereign Lord, you who love the living.
27 Parcis autem omnibus, quoniam tua sunt, Domine, qui amas animas.]
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