Wisdom having built her house with seven pillars, inviteth all to a prepared banquet, 11. promising to multiply joyful days. 13. Folly inciteth to her contrary banquet of stolen water and hidden bread.Wisdom hauing built her house with seuen pillers, inuiteth al to a prepared banquette, 11. promising to multiplie ioyful dayes. 13. Folie inciteth to her contrarie banquet of stollen water and hidde bread.✦
Wisdom hath built herself an house, she hath cut out seven pillars.WISEDOME hath built herself an house, she hath cut out seuen pillers.¶✦Sapientia ædificavit sibi domum : excidit columnas septem.
2She hath immolavit: offered in sacrifice her victimas: the sacrificial beasts slain, mingled her wine, and set forth her table.She hath immolated her victimes, mingled her wine, and set forth her table.✦Immolavit victimas suas, miscuit vinum, et proposuit mensam suam.
3She hath sent her handmaids to call to the tower, and to the walls of the city:She hath sent her handmaides to cal to the towre, and to the walles of the citie:✦Misit ancillas suas ut vocarent ad arcem et ad mœnia civitatis.
4If any be a little one, let him come to me. And to the unwise she spake:If any be a litle one, let him come to me. And to the vnwise she spake:Si quis est parvulus, veniat ad me. Et insipientibus locuta est :
5Come, eat ye my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you.Come, eate ye my bread, & drinke the wine which I haue mingled for you.Venite, comedite panem meum, et bibite vinum quod miscui vobis.
6Leave infancy, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.Leaue infancie, and liue, and walke by the wayes of prudence.✦Relinquite infantiam, et vivite, et ambulate per vias prudentiæ.
7He that teacheth a scorner doth injury to himself; and he that rebuketh the impious, generat: bringeth upon himself, procureth a maculam: a stain, a blemish to himself.He that teacheth a scorner doth iniurie to himself; and he that rebuketh the impious, purchaseth a blotte to himself.Qui erudit derisorem, ipse injuriam sibi facit, et qui arguit impium, sibi maculam generat.
8Rebuke not the scorner lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.Rebuke not the scorner lest hee hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he wil loue thee.Noli arguere derisorem, ne oderit te : argue sapientem, et diliget te.
9Give occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach the just, and he shall make haste to take it.Geue occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shal be added to him. Teach the iust, and he shal make haste to take it.✦Da sapienti occasionem, et addetur ei sapientia ; doce justum, et festinabit accipere.
10The beginning of wisdom, the fear of our Lord: and the knowledge of the holy, prudence.The beginning of wisdom, the feare of our Lord: and the knowlege of the holie, prudence.✦Principium sapientiæ timor Domini, et scientia sanctorum prudentia.
11For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.For by me shal thy dayes be multiplied, and yeres of life shal be added to thee.✦Per me enim multiplicabuntur dies tui, et addentur tibi anni vitæ.
12If thou be wise, to thyself thou shalt be: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.If thou be wise, to thyself thou shalt be: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt beare the euil.Si sapiens fueris, tibimetipsi eris ; si autem illusor, solus portabis malum.
13A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,A foolish woman and clamorous, and ful of alurementes, and knowing nothing at al,✦Mulier stulta et clamosa, plenaque illecebris, et nihil omnino sciens,
14sat in the doors of her house upon a seat in a high place of the city,sate in the doores of her house vpon a seate in a high place of the citie,✦sedit in foribus domus suæ, super sellam in excelso urbis loco,
15to call them that pass by the way, and go on their journey:to cal them that passe by the way, and goe on their iourney:ut vocaret transeuntes per viam, et pergentes itinere suo :
16He that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she spake:He that is a litle one, let him turne to me. And to the foole she spake:✦Qui est parvulus declinet ad me. Et vecordi locuta est :
17Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread more pleasant.Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread more pleasant.✦Aquæ furtivæ dulciores sunt, et panis absconditus suavior.
18and he was ignorant that giants are there, and her guests in the depths of hell.and he was ignorant that giantes are there, and her guestes in the depthes of hel.✦Et ignoravit quod ibi sint gigantes, et in profundis inferni convivæ ejus.
Annotationsfrom the original 1609 Douay Old Testament
1Wisdom hath built herself a house. According to the literal sense, wherein the mystical is grounded (both intended by the Holy Ghost) Wisdom which is God himself, Creator and Conserver of all things, whose special good pleasure, and delight is to be with men, built his house the Church, first in the Patriarchs, Priests, Prophets and his other faithful servants in the old Testament; partly before; but more conspicuously in the people of Israel, establishing the same with seven, that is (according to the frequent phrase of holy Scripture) with many pillars, Pastors and chief governors, by whom the whole people were directed in all spiritual causes; as the Psalmist likewise induceth God, saying: I have confirmed the pillars thereof. And as S. Paul afterward calleth S. Peter, S. James, and S. John, pillars. In this house wisdom also prepared a banquet, appointed victims of divers sorts, as grateful Sacrifices to God, and thereto invited all men in much better order, and to their more profit, then the adulteress woman, folly and wicked concupiscence, inciteth to her carnal and worldly pleasures, which bring to eternal ruin. And for this purpose, God never ceased to send Priests and Prophets to invite the people of Israel, to this strong tower fenced with walls. In the Allegorical sense, the same divine increated Wisdom, the second Person in the B. Trinity, the Divine WORD coeternal to the Father, built himself a house, his human body in the virgin's womb, and thereunto, as to the head, adjoined the members, his mystical body the Church, immolated victims of Martyrs, prepared the Table in bread and wine, where also appeareth his Priesthood, according to the Order of Melchisedec, and called thereto such as before were unwise, and of small understanding: because as the Apostle saith: God chose the weak of this world to confound the strong. As S. Augustin expoundeth this passage li. 17. c. 20. de civit. & q. 51. veter. & novi. Test. to. 4. Margin (left, scripture cross-references): Prou. 8. 7. 31.; Psal. 74.; Galat. 2.; 1. Cor. 1. Margin (right): God built his Church with spiritual Pastors and Rites of Religion in the old Testament. Margin (right): The same are more excellent in the Church of Christ.Wisdom hath built herself a house. According to the literal sense, wherin the mystical is grounded (both intended by the Holie Ghost) Wisdom which is God himself, Creator & Conseruer of al thinges, whose special good pleasure, and delight is to be with men, built his house the Church, first in the Patriarches, Priestes, Prophetes and his other faithful seruantes in the old Testament; partly before; but more conspicously in the people of Israel, establishing the same with seuen, that is (according to the frequent phrase of holie Scripture) with manie pillers, Pastors and chief gouerners, by whom the whole people were directed in al spiritual causes; as the Psalmist likewise induceth God, saying: I haue confirmed the pillers therof. And as S. Paul afterward calleth S. Peter, S. Iames, and S. Iohn, pillers. In this house wisdom also prepared a banquette, appointed victimes of diuers sortes, as gratful Sacrifices to God, & therto inuited al men in much better order, and to their more profite, then the adultresse woman, follie and wicked concupiscence, inciteth to her carnal and wordlie pleasures, which bring to eternal ruine. And for this purpose, God neuer ceased to send Priestes and Prophetes to inuite the people of Israel, to this strong towre fensed with walles. In the Allegorical sense, the same diuine increated Wisdom, the second Person in the B. Trinitie, the Diuine WORD coeternal to the Father, built himself a house, his humane bodie in the virgins wombe, and therunto, as to the head, adioyned the members, his mystical bodie the Church, immolated victimes of Martyrs, prepared the Table in breade and wine, where also appeareth his Priesthood, according to the Order of Melchisedec, and called therto such as before were vnwise, and of smal vnderstanding: because as the Apostle saith: God chose the weake of this world to confound the strong. As S. Augustin expoundeth this passage li. 17. c. 20. de ciuit. & q. 51. veter. & noui. Test. to. 4.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.