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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
This Book is so called, because it consists of wise and weightysentences: regulating the morals of men: and directing them to wisdomand virtue. And these sentences are also called PARABLES, because greattruths are often couched in them under certain figures and similitudes.
Proverbs Chapter 1
The use and end of the proverbs. An exhortation to flee the company ofthe wicked: and to hearken to the voice of wisdom.
1:1. The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,
1:2. To know wisdom, and instruction:
1:3. To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instructionof doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
1:4. To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge andunderstanding.
1:5. A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he thatunderstandeth shall possess governments.
1:6. He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words ofthe wise, and their mysterious sayings.
1:7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despisewisdom and instruction.
1:8. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the lawof thy mother:
1:9. That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thyneck.
1:10. My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
1:11. If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, letus hide snares for the innocent without cause:
1:12. Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goethdown into the pit.
1:13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houseswith spoils.
1:14. Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
1:15. My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from theirpaths.
1:16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
1:17. But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that havewings.
1:18. And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practisedeceits against their own souls.
1:19. So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of thepossessors.
1:20. Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
1:21. At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of thegates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
1:22. O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covetthose things