Sacred Scripture · Old Testament

Proverbs

31 Chapters · Douay-Rheims Bible · Old Testament

About This Book

This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences: regulating the morals of men: and directing them to wisdom and virtue. And these sentences are also called Parables, because great truths are often couched in them under certain figures and similitudes. (For more information, see the article BOOK OF PROVERBS in the Catholic Encyclopedia.)

Chapter Directory

  1. Chapter 1The use and end of the proverbs. An exhortation to flee the company of the wicked: and to hearken to the voice of wisdom.
  2. Chapter 2The advantages of wisdom: and the evils from which it delivers.
  3. Chapter 3An exhortation to the practice of virtue.
  4. Chapter 4A further exhortation to seek after wisdom.
  5. Chapter 5An exhortation to fly unlawful lust, and the occasions of it.
  6. Chapter 6Documents on several heads.
  7. Chapter 7The love of wisdom is the best preservative from being led astray by temptation.
  8. Chapter 8The preaching of wisdom. Her excellence.
  9. Chapter 9Wisdom invites all to her feast. Folly calls another way.
  10. Chapter 10In the twenty following chapters are contained many wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  11. Chapter 11More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  12. Chapter 12More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  13. Chapter 13More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  14. Chapter 14More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  15. Chapter 15More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  16. Chapter 16More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  17. Chapter 17More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  18. Chapter 18More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  19. Chapter 19More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  20. Chapter 20More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  21. Chapter 21More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  22. Chapter 22More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  23. Chapter 23More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  24. Chapter 24More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  25. Chapter 25More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  26. Chapter 26More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  27. Chapter 27More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  28. Chapter 28More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  29. Chapter 29More wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
  30. Chapter 30The wise man thinks humbly of himself. His prayer and sentiments upon certain virtues and vices.
  31. Chapter 31An exhortation to chastity, temperance, and works of mercy; with the praise of a wise woman.

Edition Record

Book
Proverbs
Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible
Old Testament
First published at Douay in 1609
New Testament
First published at Rheims in 1582
Revision and Notes
Bishop Richard Challoner, 1749
Historical Imprimatur
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1 September 1899