Wycliffe - Sirach - 22

22:1  A slow man is stonyd in a stoon of cley; and alle men schulen speke on the dispisyng of him.

22:2  A slow man is stonyd of the dung of oxis; and ech man that touchith hym, schal schake the hondis.

22:3  The schame of a fadir is of a sone vnlerned; but a fonned douyter schal be in decreessyng.

22:4  A prudent douyter is eritage to hir hosebonde; for sche that schendith hir hosebonde, is in dispisyng of the fadir.

22:5  A `schameles womman schendith the fadir and hosebonde, and schal not be maad lesse than vnfeithful men; forsothe sche schal not be onourid of euer either.

22:6  Melodie in morenyng is vncouuenable tellyng; betyngis and techyng in al tyme with wisdom.

22:7  He that techith a fool, as he that glueth togidere a tiel stoon.

22:8  He that tellith a word to hym that herith not, is as he that reisith a man slepynge fro a greuouse sleep.

22:9  He that tellith wisdom to a fool, spekith with a man slepynge; and in the ende of the tellyng he schal seie, Who is this?

22:10  Wepe thou on a deed man, for whi his liyt failide; and wepe thou on a fool, for he failide of wit.

22:11  Wepe thou a litil on a deed man, for he hath restid.

22:12  Forsothe the lijf of a ful wickid man is ful wickid, more than the deth of a fool.

22:13  The morenyng of a deed man is seuene daies; but the morenyng of a fool and of a wickid man is alle the daies of her lijf.

22:14  Speke thou not myche with a fool, and go thou not with an vnwijs man.

22:15  Keep thee fro hym, that thou haue not disese; and thou schalt not be defoulid in the synne of hym.

22:16  Boowe thou awei fro hym, and thou schalt fynde reste; and be thou not anoied by his foly.

22:17  What schal be maad heuyere than leed? and what othere name than a fool is to it?

22:18  It is liytere to bere grauel, and salt, and a gobet of yrun, than a man vnprudent, and a fool, and vnfeithful.

22:19  As an heep of trees, boundun togidere in the foundement of the bilding, schal not be vnboundun, so and an herte confermed in the thouyt of counsel.

22:20  The thouyt of a wijs man shal not be maad schrewid in ony tyme, nether drede.

22:21  As chaffis in hiye places, and soond with out medling of hym, set ayens the face of wynd, schulen not dwelle;

22:22  so and a dreedful herte in the thouyt of a fool ayenstondith not ayens the feersnesse of drede.

22:23  As ournyng, ether pargetyng, ful of grauel in a cleer wal, so and a ferdful herte in the thouyt of a fool schal not drede in ony tyme; so and he that dwellith euere in the heestis of God.

22:24  He that prickith the iye, schal leede out teeris; and he that prickith the herte, bryngith forth wit.

22:25  He that castith a stoon to briddis, schal caste doun tho; so and he that doith wrong to a frend, departith frenschipe.

22:26  Thouy thou bryngist forth a swerd to a frend, dispeire thou not; for ther is going ayen to the frend.

22:27  If he openeth a soreuful mouth, drede thou not; for whi ther is acordyng, outakun dispisynge, and schenschipe, and pride, and schewyng of preuyte, and a tretcherouse wounde; in alle these thingis a frend schal fle awei.

22:28  Haue thou feith with a frend in his pouert, that thou be glad also in hise goodis.

22:29  In the tyme of his tribulacioun dwelle thou feithful to hym, that also thou be euene eir in the eritage of hym.

22:30  Heete and smook of fier is maad hiy bifore the fier of a chymenei; so and cursyngis, and dispisyngis, and manaassis, comen bifore blood.

22:31  I schal not be aschamed for to grete a frend, and Y schal not hide me fro his face; thouy yuels comen to me bi hym, Y schal suffre.

22:32  Ech man that schal here, schal kepe warli hym silf fro hym.

22:33  Who schal yyue keping to my mouth, and a certeyn ceelyng on my lippis, that Y falle not bi tho, and that my tunge leese not me?