41:1 O mors, quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis :

41:1 O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!

41:2 viro quieto, et cujus viæ directæ sunt in omnibus, et adhuc valenti accipere cibum !

41:2 To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!

41:3 O mors, bonum est judicium tuum homini indigenti, et qui minoratur viribus,

41:3 O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:

41:4 defecto ætate, et cui de omnibus cura est, et incredibili, qui perdit patientiam !

41:4 Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience!

41:5 Noli metuere judicium mortis : memento quæ ante te fuerunt, et quæ superventura sunt tibi : hoc judicium a Domino omni carni.

41:5 Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh.

41:6 Et quid superveniet tibi in beneplacito Altissimi ? sive decem, sive centum, sive mille anni :

41:6 And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.

41:7 non est enim in inferno accusatio vitæ.

41:7 For among the dead there is no accusing of life.

41:8 Filii abominationum fiunt filii peccatorum, et qui conversantur secus domos impiorum.

41:8 The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.

41:9 Filiorum peccatorum periet hæreditas, et cum semine illorum assiduitas opprobrii.

41:9 The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

41:10 De patre impio queruntur filii, quoniam propter illum sunt in opprobrio.

41:10 The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.

41:11 Væ vobis, viri impii, qui dereliquistis legem Domini Altissimi !

41:11 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord.

41:12 Et si nati fueritis, in maledictione nascemini : et si mortui fueritis, in maledictione erit pars vestra.

41:12 And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.

41:13 Omnia quæ de terra sunt in terram convertentur : sic impii a maledicto in perditionem.

41:13 All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.

41:14 Luctus hominum in corpore ipsorum : nomen autem impiorum delebitur.

41:14 The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out.

41:15 Curam habe de bono nomine : hoc enim magis permanebit tibi quam mille thesauri pretiosi et magni.

41:15 Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.

41:16 Bonæ vitæ numerus dierum : bonum autem nomen permanebit in ævum.

41:16 A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever.

41:17 Disciplinam in pace conservate, filii : sapientia enim abscondita, et thesaurus invisus, quæ utilitas in utrisque ?

41:17 My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?

41:18 Melior est homo qui abscondit stultitiam suam, quam homo qui abscondit sapientiam suam.

41:18 Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.

41:19 Verumtamen reveremini in his quæ procedunt de ore meo :

41:19 Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.

41:20 non est enim bonum omnem reverentiam observare, et non omnia omnibus bene placent in fide.

41:20 For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.

41:21 Erubescite a patre et a matre de fornicatione : et a præsidente et a potente de mendacio :

41:21 Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:

41:22 a principe et a judice de delicto : a synagoga et plebe de iniquitate :

41:22 Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:

41:23 a socio et amico de injustitia, et de loco in quo habitas :

41:23 Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,

41:24 de furto, de veritate Dei, et testamento : de discubitu in panibus, et ab obfuscatione dati et accepti :

41:24 Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking:

41:25 a salutantibus de silentio, a respectu mulieris fornicariæ, et ab aversione vultus cognati.

41:25 Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.

41:26 Ne avertas faciem a proximo tuo, et ab auferendo partem et non restituendo.

41:26 Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.

41:27 Ne respicias mulierem alieni viri, et ne scruteris ancillam ejus, neque steteris ad lectum ejus.

41:27 Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.

41:28 Ab amicis de sermonibus improperii : et cum dederis, ne improperes.

41:28 Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not.