Wycliffe - Sirach - 32

32:1  Thei han set thee a gouernour, nyle thou be enhaunsid; be thou among hem as oon of hem.

32:2  Haue thou cure of hem, and so biholde thou; and whanne al thi cure is fillid, sitte thou to mete.

32:3  That thou be glad for hem, and take the ournement of grace; and gete coroun, and dignyte of congregacioun.

32:4  Speke thou the gretter man in birthe;

32:5  for whi the word of hym that loueth kunnyng bicome thee first; and lette thou not musik.

32:6  Where heryng is not, schede thou not out a word; and nyle thou be enhaunsid vncouenabli in thi wisdom.

32:7  A iemme of carbuncle in the ournement of gold; and comparisoun of musikis in the feeste of wyn.

32:8  As in the makyng of gold is a signe of smaragde, so the noumbre of musikis is in myrie and mesurable wyn.

32:9  Here thou stille, and good grace schal come to thee for reuerence.

32:10  Yonge man, speke thou vnnethis in thi cause, whanne nede is.

32:11  If thou art axid twies, the heed haue thin answere.

32:12  In many thingis be thou as vnkunnyng, and here thou stille togidere and axynge.

32:13  And presume thou not to speke in the myddis of grete men; and where elde men ben, speke thou not myche.

32:14  Leityng schal go bifore hail, and grace schal go bifore schamfastnesse, and good grace schal come to thee for reuerence.

32:15  And in the our of risyng tifle thee not; forsothe renne thou bifore first in to thin hous, and there clepe thou thee to answer, and there pleie thou.

32:16  And do thi conseitis, and not in synnes, and in a proud word.

32:17  On alle these thingis blesse thou the Lord, that made thee, and fillynge thee greetli of alle hise goodis.

32:18  He that dredith God, schal take his techyng; and thei that waken to hym, schulen fynde blessyng.

32:19  He that sekith the lawe, schal be fillid therof; and he that doith tretourousli, schal be sclaundrid ther ynne.

32:20  Thei that dreden God, schulen fynde iust dom; and schulen kyndle riytfulnesse as liyt.

32:21  A synful man schal eschewe blamyng; and aftir his wille he schal fynde comparisoun.

32:22  A man of counsel schal not leese vndirstonding; a man alien and proud schal not drede dredyng.

32:23  Yhe, aftir that he hath do with that drede with out councel, and he schal be repreued bi hise suyngis.

32:24  Sone, do thou no thing with out councel; and aftir the dede thou schalt not repente.

32:25  Go thou not in the weie of fallyng, and offende thou not ayens stoonys. Bitake thou not thee to a trauelouse weie, lest thou sette sclaundir to thi soule;

32:26  and be thou war of thi sones, and perseyue thou of thi meyneals.

32:27  In al thi werk bileue thou bi feith of thi soule; for whi this is the keping of comaundementis.

32:28  He that bileueth to God, takith heede to the comaundementis; and he that tristith in hym, schal not be maad lesse.