Wycliffe - Sirach - 10

10:1  A wijs iuge schal deme his puple; and the prinshed of a witti man schal be stidfast.

10:2  Aftir the iuge of the puple, so and hise mynystris; and what maner man is the gouernour of the citee, siche ben also men dwellinge ther ynne.

10:3  An vnwijs king schal leese his puple; and citees schulen be enhabitid bi the wit of prudent men.

10:4  The power of erthe is in the hond of God, and al the wickidnesse of hethene men is abhomynable; and he schal reise a profitable gouernour at a tyme on it.

10:5  The power of man is in the hond of God; and he schal sette his onour on the face of a wijs man in the lawe.

10:6  Haue thou not mynde on al the wrong of the neiybore; and do thou no thing in the werkis of wrong.

10:7  Pride is hateful bifore God and men; and al the wickidnesse of hethene men is abhomynable.

10:8  A rewme is translatid fro a folk in to folk, for vnriytfulnessis, and wrongis, and dispisyngis, and dyuerse gilis.

10:9  No thing is cursidere than an auerouse man. What art thou proude, thou erthe and aische?

10:10  No thing is worse, than for to loue monei; for whi this man hath also his soule set to sale, for in his lijf he hath cast awei hise ynneste thingis.

10:11  Ech power is schort lijf; lengere siknesse greueth the leche.

10:12  A leche kittith awei schort siknesse; so and a king is to dai, and to morewe he schal die.

10:13  Forsothe whanne a man schal die, he schal enherite serpentis, and beestis, and wormes.

10:14  The bigynnyng of pride of man was to be apostata fro God;

10:15  for his herte yede awei fro hym that made hym. For whi pride is the bigynnyng of al synne; he that holdith it, schal be fillid with cursyngis, and it schal distrye hym in to the ende.

10:16  Therfor the Lord hath schent the couentis of yuele men, and hath destried hem til `in to the ende.

10:17  God destriede the seetis of proude duykis; and made mylde men to sitte for hem.

10:18  God made drie the rootis of proude folkis; and plauntide meke men of tho folkis.

10:19  The Lord destriede the londis of folkis; and loste tho `til to the foundement.

10:20  He made drie the rootis of hem, and loste hem; and made the mynde of hem to ceesse fro the erthe.

10:21  God loste the mynde of proude men; and lefte the mynde of meke men in wit.

10:22  Pride was not maad to men; nether wrathfulnesse to the nacioun of wymmen.

10:23  This seed of men that dredith God, schal be onourid; but this seed schal be disonourid, that passith the comaundementis of the Lord.

10:24  In the myddis of britheren the gouernour of hem is in onour; and thei that dreden God, schulen be in hise iyen.

10:25  The glorie of riche men onourid and of pore men is the drede of God.

10:26  Nyle thou dispise a iust pore man; and nyle thou magnefie a riche synful man.

10:27  The iuge is greet, and is miyti in onour; and he is not grettere than that man that dredith God.

10:28  Fre children seruen a witti seruaunt; and a prudent man and lerned schal not grutche, whanne he is blamed, and an vnkunnynge man schal not be onourid.

10:29  Nyle thou enhaunse thee in thi werk to be don; and nyle thou be slow in the tyme of angwisch.

10:30  He is betere that worchith, and hath plente in alle thingis, than he that hath glorie, and nedith breed.

10:31  Sone, kepe thi soule in myldenesse; and yyue thou onour to it, aftir his merit.

10:32  Who schal iustifie hym that synneth ayens his soule? and who schal onoure hym that disonourith his soule?

10:33  A pore man hath glorie bi his lernyng and drede; and ther is a man that is onourid for his catel.

10:34  Forsothe if a man hath glorie in pouert, hou myche more in catel? and he that hath glorie in catel, drede pouerte.