Wycliffe - Sirach - 33

33:1  Iuelis schulen not come to hym that dredith God; but God schal kepe hym in temptacioun, and schal delyuere fro yuelis.

33:2  A wijs man hatith not the comaundementis, and riytfulnessis; and he schal not be hurtlid doun, as in the tempest of a schip.

33:3  A wijs man bileeueth to the lawe of God, and the lawe is feithful to hym.

33:4  He that makith opene axyng, schal make redi a word; and so he schal preie, and schal be herd, and he schal kepe techyng, and thanne he schal answere.

33:5  The entraylis of a fool ben as a wheel of a carte, and his thouytis as an extre able to turne aboute.

33:6  An hors a staloun, so and a frend a scornere, neiyeth vndur ech sittynge aboue.

33:7  Whi a dai ouercometh a dai, and eft the liyt ouercometh liyt, and a yeer ouercometh a yeer, the sunne ouercometh the sunne?

33:8  Tho ben departid of the kunnyng of the Lord, bi the sunne maad, and kepynge the comaundement of God.

33:9  And it schal chaunge tymes and the feeste daies of hem, and in tho tymes the Jewis halewiden hali daies at an our.

33:10  God enhaunside and magnyfiede of tho hali daies; and of tho he settide in to the noumbre of daies; and God made alle men of sad erthe, and of neische erthe, whereof Adam was formed.

33:11  In the multitude of kunnyng of the Lord he departide hem, and chaungide the weies of hem.

33:12  Of hem God blesside, and enhaunside; and of hem he halewide, and chees to hym silf; of hem he curside, and made lowe, and turnyde hem fro the departyng of hem.

33:13  As cley of a pottere is in the hond of hym,

33:14  to make and dispose, that alle the weies therof ben aftir the ordynaunce of hym; so a man is in the hond of hym that made hym; and he schal yelde to hym bi his dom.

33:15  Ayens yuel is good, and ayens lijf is deth; so and a synnere is ayens a iust man. And so biholde thou in to alle the werkis of the hiyeste; twey thingis ayens tweyne, and o thing ayens oon.

33:16  And Y the laste wakide, and as he that gaderith draf of grapis, aftir the gadereris of grapis.

33:17  And Y hopide in the blessyng of God; and as he that gaderith grapis, Y fillide the pressour.

33:18  Biholde ye, for Y trauelide not to me aloone, but to alle that seken kunnyng.

33:19  Grete men, and alle puplis, here ye me; and ye gouernouris of the chirche, perseyue with eeris.

33:20  Yyue thou not power ouer thee in thi lijf to a sone, and to a womman, to a brothir, and to a freend; and yyue thou not thi possessioun to another man, lest perauenture it repente thee, and thou biseche for tho.

33:21  While thou art alyue, and brethist yit, ech man schal not chaunge thee.

33:22  For it is betere, that thi sones preye thee, than that thou biholde in to the hondis of thi sones.

33:23  In alle thi werkis be thou souereyn;

33:24  yyue thou not a wem in to thi glorie. In the day of endyng of daies of thi lijf, and in tyme of thi goyng out departe thin erytage.

33:25  Metis, and a yerde, and birthun to an asse; breed, and chastisyng, and werk to a seruaunt.

33:26  He worchith in chastisyng, and sekith to haue reste; slake thou hondis to hym, and he sekith fredom.

33:27  A yok and bridil bowen doun an hard necke; and bisi worchingis bowen doun a seruaunt.

33:28  Turment and stockis to an yuel willid seruaunt; sende thou hym in to worchyng, lest he be ydel;

33:29  for whi idilnesse hath tauyte miche malice.

33:30  Ordeyne thou hym in werk, for so it bicometh hym; that if he obeieth not, bowe thou doun hym in stockis, and make thou not hym large ouer ony man, but with out dom do thou no thing greuouse.

33:31  If a feithful seruaunt is to thee, be he as thi soule to thee; trete thou him so as a brother, for thou hast bouyt hym in the blood of lijf.

33:32  If thou hurtist hym vniustli, he schal be turned in to fleyng awei;

33:33  and if he enhaunsynge goith awei, thou noost whom thou schalt seke, and in what weie thou schalt seke hym.