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| [1]A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. |
[1]A good name is more to be desired then great riches: and louing fauour [is better] then siluer and golde |
| [2]The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. |
[2]The riche and poore meete together: the Lorde is the maker of them all |
| [3]A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. |
[3]A wyse man seeth the plague, and hydeth hym selfe: but the foolishe go on still, and are punished |
| [4]By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life. |
[4]By humilitie and the feare of the Lorde, [commeth] riches, honour, and life |
| [5]Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. |
[5]Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that doth kepe his soule, wyll flee farre from them |
| [6]Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. |
[6]Teache a chylde what way he should go: for he shall not leaue it when he is olde |
| [7]The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. |
[7]The ryche ruleth the poore, and the borower is seruaunt to the lender |
| [8]He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. |
[8]He that soweth wickednes, shal reape wickednes: and the rodde of his anger shall fayle |
| [9]He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. |
[9]He that hath a bountifull eye, shalbe blessed: for he geueth of his bread to the poore |
| [10]Cast out the scorner, and contention shall end; yes, strife and reproach shall cease. |
[10]Cast out the scorneful man, and so shal strife go out with hym: yea variaunce and sclaunder shall ceasse |
| [11]He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. |
[11]Who so loueth cleannes of heart, for the grace of his lippes the kyng shalbe his frende |
| [12]The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. |
[12]The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge: and he ouerthroweth the wordes of the transgressours |
| [13]The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. |
[13]The slouthfull body saith there is a Lion without: I might be slaine in the streate |
| [14]The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD shall fall therein. |
[14]The mouth of straunge women is a deepe pit: wherein he falleth that the Lorde is angrye withall |
| [15]Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. |
[15]Foolishnes is bounde in the heart of the chylde: and the rodde of correction shall driue it away |
| [16]He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. |
[16]Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne [riches] and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe |
| [17]Bow down thy ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge. |
[17]Bowe downe thyne eare, and heare the wordes of the wise: applie thy mind vnto my doctrine |
| [18]For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. |
[18]For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes |
| [19]That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. |
[19]That thou mayest put thy trust in the Lorde, I haue shewed thee this day the thing that thou knowest |
| [20]Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, |
[20]Haue not I warned thee very oft with counsayle and learning |
| [21]That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send to thee? |
[21]That I might make thee knowe the trueth, that thou with the veritie mightest aunswere them that sende vnto thee |
| [22]Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: |
[22]Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement |
| [23]For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. |
[23]For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence |
| [24]Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: |
[24]Make no frendship with an angrye wylfull man, and walke not with the furious |
| [25]Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. |
[25]Lest thou learne his wayes, and receaue hurt to thy soule |
| [26]Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. |
[26]Be not thou one of them that binde their hande vpon promise, and are suretie for waightie causes |
| [27]If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? |
[27]For if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from vnder thee |
| [28]Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. |
[28]Thou shalt not remoue the auncient lande marke, whiche thy fore elders haue set |
| [29]Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. |
[29]Seest thou not that they which be diligent in their businesse stande before kinges, & not among the simple people |