Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, the king of Israel:
The parablis of Salomon, the sone of Dauid, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the sayings of understanding;
to kunne wisdom and kunnyng;
3 To accept the instruction of intelligence, righteousness, and justice, and equity;
to vndurstonde the wordis of prudence; and to take the lernyng of teching; to take riytfulnesse, and dom, and equyte;
4 To give to the simple prudence, to the youth knowledge and discretion.
that felnesse be youun to litle children, and kunnyng, and vndurstonding to a yong wexynge man.
5 The wise will hear, and will increase [his] information; and the man of understanding will obtain wise counsels:
A wise man heringe schal be wisere; and a man vndurstondinge schal holde gouernails.
6 To understand a proverb, and a sage sentence; the words of the wise, and their riddles.
He schal perseyue a parable, and expownyng; the wordis of wise men, and the derk figuratif spechis of hem.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools [alone] despise.
The drede of the Lord is the bigynning of wisdom; foolis dispisen wisdom and teching.
8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and cast not off the teaching of thy mother;
My sone, here thou the teching of thi fadir, and forsake thou not the lawe of thi modir;
9 For a wreath of grace are they unto thy head, and chains for thy throat.
that grace be addid, ethir encreessid, to thin heed, and a bie to thi necke.
10 My son, if sinners wish to entice thee, consent thou not.
Mi sone, if synneris flateren thee, assente thou not to hem.
11 If they should say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us watch in concealment for the uselessly innocent;
If thei seien, Come thou with vs, sette we aspies to blood, hide we snaris of disseitis ayens an innocent without cause;
12 We will swallow them up like the grave alive; and the men of integrity, as those that go down into the pit; (Sheol h7585)
swolowe we him, as helle swolowith a man lyuynge; and al hool, as goynge doun in to a lake; we schulen fynde al preciouse catel, (Sheol h7585)
13 We shall find all [kinds of] precious wealth, we will fill our houses with booty;
we schulen fille oure housis with spuylis; sende thou lot with vs,
14 Thy lot must thou cast in our midst; one purse shall be for us all:
o purs be of vs alle;
15 My son, walk not thou on the way with them; withhold thy foot from their path;
my sone, go thou not with hem; forbede thi foot fro the pathis of hem.
16 For their feet run after evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
For the feet of hem rennen to yuel; and thei hasten to schede out blood.
17 For uselessly is the net spread out before the eyes of every winged bird:
But a net is leid in veyn bifore the iyen of briddis, that han wengis.
18 While they lie in wait for their [own] blood; they watch in concealment for their [own] lives.
Also `thilke wickid disseyueris setten aspies ayens her owne blood; and maken redi fraudis ayens her soulis.
19 So are the paths of every one that is greedy after [unlawful] gain; it taketh away the life of those that own it.
So the pathis of ech auerouse man rauyschen the soulis of hem that welden.
20 Wisdom crieth loudly without; in the public places she uttereth her voice;
Wisdom prechith with outforth; in stretis it yyueth his vois.
21 At the corner of noisy streets she calleth, at the entrances of gates; in the city she sayeth her speeches:
It crieth ofte in the heed of cumpenyes; in the leeues of yatis of the citee it bringith forth hise wordis,
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
and seith, Hou long, ye litle men in wit, louen yong childhod, and foolis schulen coueyte tho thingis, that ben harmful to hem silf, and vnprudent men schulen hate kunnyng?
23 Turn back to my admonition: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Be ye conuertid at my repreuyng; lo, Y schal profre forth to you my spirit, and Y schal schewe my wordis.
24 Whereas I called, and ye refused; I stretched out my hand, and no man was attentive;
For Y clepide, and ye forsoken; Y helde forth myn hond, and noon was that bihelde.
25 And ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would not accept my admonition:
Ye dispisiden al my councel; and chargiden not my blamyngis.
26 [Therefore] I also will truly laugh at your calamity; I will deride [you] when your terror cometh;
And Y schal leiye in youre perisching; and Y schal scorne you, whanne that, that ye dreden, cometh to you.
27 When your terror cometh like the tempest-cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction.
Whanne sodeyne wretchidnesse fallith in, and perisching bifallith as tempest; whanne tribulacioun and angwisch cometh on you.
28 Then will they call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me;
Thanne thei schulen clepe me, and Y schal not here; thei schulen rise eerli, and thei schulen not fynde me.
29 For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;
For thei hatiden teching, and thei token not the drede of the Lord,
30 [That] they would not attend to my counsel: [that] they rejected all my admonition.
nether assentiden to my councel, and depraueden al myn amendyng.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and from their own counsels shall they be satisfied.
Therfor thei schulen ete the fruytis of her weie; and thei schulen be fillid with her counseils.
32 For the defection of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will cause them to be lost.
The turnyng awei of litle men in wit schal sle hem; and the prosperite of foolis schal leese hem.
33 But he that hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from the dread of evil.
But he that herith me, schal reste with outen drede; and he schal vse abundaunce, whanne the drede of yuels is takun awei.
