Sabiduría · Vulgata Clementina
Sabiduría 15 Vulgata Clementina
1 [Tu autem, Deus noster, suavis et verus es, patiens, et in misericordia disponens omnia.
1 But you, our God, are gracious and true, patient, and in mercy ordering all things.
2 Etenim si peccaverimus, tui sumus, scientes magnitudinem tuam; et si non peccaverimus, scimus quoniam apud te sumus computati.
2 For even if we sin, we are yours, knowing your dominion; but we will not sin, knowing that we have been accounted yours.
3 Nosse enim te, consummata justitia est; et scire justitiam et virtutem tuam, radix est immortalitatis.
3 For to be acquainted with you is perfect righteousness, and to know your dominion is the root of immortality.
4 Non enim in errorem induxit nos hominum malæ artis excogitatio, nec umbra picturæ labor sine fructu, effigies sculpta per varios colores:
4 For we weren’t led astray by any evil plan of men’s, nor yet by painters’ fruitless labor, a form stained with varied colors,
5 cujus aspectus insensato dat concupiscentiam, et diligit mortuæ imaginis effigiem sine anima.
5 the sight of which leads fools into lust. Their desire is for the breathless form of a dead image.
6 Malorum amatores digni sunt qui spem habeant in talibus, et qui faciunt illos, et qui diligunt, et qui colunt.]
6 Lovers of evil things, and worthy of such hopes, are those who make, desire, and worship them.
7 [Sed et figulus mollem terram premens, laboriose fingit ad usus nostros unumquodque vas; et de eodem luto fingit quæ munda sunt in usum vasa, et similiter quæ his sunt contraria: horum autem vasorum quis sit usus, judex est figulus.
7 For a potter, kneading soft earth, laboriously molds each article for our service. He fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort, all in like manner. What shall be the use of each article of either sort, the potter is the judge.
8 Et cum labore vano deum fingit de eodem luto ille qui paulo ante de terra factus fuerat, et post pusillum reducit se unde acceptus est, repetitus animæ debitum quam habebat.
8 Also, laboring to an evil end, he molds a vain god out of the same clay, he who, having but a little before been made of earth, after a short space goes his way to the earth out of which he was taken, when he is required to give back the soul which was lent him.
9 Sed cura est illi non quia laboraturus est, nec quoniam brevis illi vita est: sed concertatur aurificibus et argentariis; sed et ærarios imitatur, et gloriam præfert, quoniam res supervacuas fingit.
9 However he has anxious care, not because his powers must fail, nor because his span of life is short; But he compares himself with goldsmiths and silversmiths, and he imitates molders in brass, and considers it great that he molds counterfeit gods.
10 Cinis est enim cor ejus, et terra supervacua spes illius, et luto vilior vita ejus:
10 His heart is ashes. His hope is of less value than earth. His life is of less honor than clay,
11 quoniam ignoravit qui se finxit, et qui inspiravit illi animam quæ operatur, et qui insufflavit ei spiritum vitalem.
11 because he was ignorant of him who molded him, and of him that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed into him a vital spirit.
12 Sed et æstimaverunt ludum esse vitam nostram, et conversationem vitæ compositam ad lucrum, et oportere undecumque etiam ex malo acquirere.
12 But he accounted our life to be a game, and our lifetime a festival for profit; for, he says, one must get gain however one can, even if it is by evil.
13 Hic enim scit se super omnes delinquere, qui ex terræ materia fragilia vasa et sculptilia fingit.
13 For this man, beyond all others, knows that he sins, out of earthy matter making brittle vessels and engraved images.
14 Omnes enim insipientes, et infelices supra modum animæ superbi, sunt inimici populi tui, et imperantes illi:
14 But most foolish and more miserable than a baby, are the enemies of your people, who oppressed them;
15 quoniam omnia idola nationum deos æstimaverunt, quibus neque oculorum usus est ad videndum, neque nares ad percipiendum spiritum, neque aures ad audiendum, neque digiti manuum ad tractandum, sed et pedes eorum pigri ad ambulandum.
15 because they even considered all the idols of the nations to be gods, which have neither the use of eyes for seeing, nor nostrils for drawing breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers for handling, and their feet are helpless for walking.
16 Homo enim fecit illos; et qui spiritum mutuatus est, is finxit illos. Nemo enim sibi similem homo poterit deum fingere.
16 For a man made them, and one whose own spirit is borrowed molded them; for no one has power as a man to mold a god like himself.
17 Cum enim sit mortalis, mortuum fingit manibus iniquis. Melior enim est ipse his quos colit, quia ipse quidem vixit, cum esset mortalis, illi autem numquam.]
17 But, being mortal, he makes a dead thing by the work of lawless hands; for he is better than the objects of his worship, since he indeed had life, but they never did.
18 [Sed et animalia miserrima colunt; insensata enim comparata his, illis sunt deteriora.
18 Yes, and they worship the creatures that are most hateful, for, being compared as to lack of sense, these are worse than all others;
19 Sed nec aspectu aliquis ex his animalibus bona potest conspicere: effugerunt autem Dei laudem et benedictionem ejus.]
19 Neither, as seen beside other creatures, are they beautiful, so that one should desire them, but they have escaped both the praise of God and his blessing.