Proverbs 1
1 The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
The parablis of Salomon, the sone of Dauid, king of Israel;
2 To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
to kunne wisdom and kunnyng;
3 To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
to vndurstonde the wordis of prudence; and to take the lernyng of teching; to take riytfulnesse, and dom, and equyte;
4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
that felnesse be youun to litle children, and kunnyng, and vndurstonding to a yong wexynge man.
5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided: )
A wise man heringe schal be wisere; and a man vndurstondinge schal holde gouernails.
6 To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
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 start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
The drede of the Lord is the bigynning of wisdom; foolis dispisen wisdom and teching.
8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
My sone, here thou the teching of thi fadir, and forsake thou not the lawe of thi modir;
9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
that grace be addid, ethir encreessid, to thin heed, and a bie to thi necke.
10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
Mi sone, if synneris flateren thee, assente thou not to hem.
11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
If thei seien, Come thou with vs, sette we aspies to blood, hide we snaris of disseitis ayens an innocent without cause;
12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; (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 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
we schulen fille oure housis with spuylis; sende thou lot with vs,
14 Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
o purs be of vs alle;
15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
my sone, go thou not with hem; forbede thi foot fro the pathis of hem.
16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
For the feet of hem rennen to yuel; and thei hasten to schede out blood.
17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
But a net is leid in veyn bifore the iyen of briddis, that han wengis.
18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
Also `thilke wickid disseyueris setten aspies ayens her owne blood; and maken redi fraudis ayens her soulis.
19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
So the pathis of ech auerouse man rauyschen the soulis of hem that welden.
20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;
Wisdom prechith with outforth; in stretis it yyueth his vois.
21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
It crieth ofte in the heed of cumpenyes; in the leeues of yatis of the citee it bringith forth hise wordis,
22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating 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 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
Be ye conuertid at my repreuyng; lo, Y schal profre forth to you my spirit, and Y schal schewe my wordis.
24 Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
For Y clepide, and ye forsoken; Y helde forth myn hond, and noon was that bihelde.
25 You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
Ye dispisiden al my councel; and chargiden not my blamyngis.
26 So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
And Y schal leiye in youre perisching; and Y schal scorne you, whanne that, that ye dreden, cometh to you.
27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
Whanne sodeyne wretchidnesse fallith in, and perisching bifallith as tempest; whanne tribulacioun and angwisch cometh on you.
28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
Thanne thei schulen clepe me, and Y schal not here; thei schulen rise eerli, and thei schulen not fynde me.
29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
For thei hatiden teching, and thei token not the drede of the Lord,
30 They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
nether assentiden to my councel, and depraueden al myn amendyng.
31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
Therfor thei schulen ete the fruytis of her weie; and thei schulen be fillid with her counseils.
32 For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.
The turnyng awei of litle men in wit schal sle hem; and the prosperite of foolis schal leese hem.
33 But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear 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.
