Wycliffe - Proverbs - 1

1:1  The parablis of Salomon, the sone of Dauid, king of Israel;

1:2  to kunne wisdom and kunnyng;

1:3  to vndurstonde the wordis of prudence; and to take the lernyng of teching; to take riytfulnesse, and dom, and equyte;

1:4  that felnesse be youun to litle children, and kunnyng, and vndurstonding to a yong wexynge man.

1:5  A wise man heringe schal be wisere; and a man vndurstondinge schal holde gouernails.

1:6  He schal perseyue a parable, and expownyng; the wordis of wise men, and the derk figuratif spechis of hem.

1:7  The drede of the Lord is the bigynning of wisdom; foolis dispisen wisdom and teching.

1:8  My sone, here thou the teching of thi fadir, and forsake thou not the lawe of thi modir;

1:9  that grace be addid, ethir encreessid, to thin heed, and a bie to thi necke.

1:10  Mi sone, if synneris flateren thee, assente thou not to hem.

1:11  If thei seien, Come thou with vs, sette we aspies to blood, hide we snaris of disseitis ayens an innocent without cause;

1:12  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,

1:13  we schulen fille oure housis with spuylis; sende thou lot with vs,

1:14  o purs be of vs alle;

1:15  my sone, go thou not with hem; forbede thi foot fro the pathis of hem.

1:16  For the feet of hem rennen to yuel; and thei hasten to schede out blood.

1:17  But a net is leid in veyn bifore the iyen of briddis, that han wengis.

1:18  Also `thilke wickid disseyueris setten aspies ayens her owne blood; and maken redi fraudis ayens her soulis.

1:19  So the pathis of ech auerouse man rauyschen the soulis of hem that welden.

1:20  Wisdom prechith with outforth; in stretis it yyueth his vois.

1:21  It crieth ofte in the heed of cumpenyes; in the leeues of yatis of the citee it bringith forth hise wordis,

1:22  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?

1:23  Be ye conuertid at my repreuyng; lo, Y schal profre forth to you my spirit, and Y schal schewe my wordis.

1:24  For Y clepide, and ye forsoken; Y helde forth myn hond, and noon was that bihelde.

1:25  Ye dispisiden al my councel; and chargiden not my blamyngis.

1:26  And Y schal leiye in youre perisching; and Y schal scorne you, whanne that, that ye dreden, cometh to you.

1:27  Whanne sodeyne wretchidnesse fallith in, and perisching bifallith as tempest; whanne tribulacioun and angwisch cometh on you.

1:28  Thanne thei schulen clepe me, and Y schal not here; thei schulen rise eerli, and thei schulen not fynde me.

1:29  For thei hatiden teching, and thei token not the drede of the Lord,

1:30  nether assentiden to my councel, and depraueden al myn amendyng.

1:31  Therfor thei schulen ete the fruytis of her weie; and thei schulen be fillid with her counseils.

1:32  The turnyng awei of litle men in wit schal sle hem; and the prosperite of foolis schal leese hem.

1:33  But he that herith me, schal reste with outen drede; and he schal vse abundaunce, whanne the drede of yuels is takun awei.