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| [1]A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace. |
[1]Betere is a good name, than many richessis; for good grace is aboue siluer and gold. |
| [2]Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah. |
[2]A riche man and a pore man metten hem silf; the Lord is worchere of euer eithir. |
| [3]The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished. |
[3]A felle man seeth yuel, and hidith him silf; and an innocent man passid, and he was turmentid bi harm. |
| [4]The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life. |
[4]The ende of temperaunce is the drede of the Lord; richessis, and glorye, and lijf. |
| [5]Thorns -- snares [are] in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them. |
[5]Armuris and swerdis ben in the weie of a weiward man; but the kepere of his soule goith awey fer fro tho. |
| [6]Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it. |
[6]It is a prouerbe, A yong wexynge man bisidis his weie, and whanne he hath wexe elde, he schal not go awei fro it. |
| [7]The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender. |
[7]A riche man comaundith to pore men; and he that takith borewyng, is the seruaunt of the leenere. |
| [8]Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out. |
[8]He that sowith wickidnes, schal repe yuels; and the yerde of his yre schal be endid. |
| [9]The good of eye -- he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor. |
[9]He that is redi to merci, schal be blessid; for of his looues he yaf to a pore man. He that yyueth yiftis, schal gete victorie and onour; forsothe he takith awei the soule of the takeris. |
| [10]Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease. |
[10]Caste thou out a scornere, and strijf schal go out with hym; and causis and dispisyngis schulen ceesse. |
| [11]Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace [are] his lips, a king [is] his friend. |
[11]He that loueth the clennesse of herte, schal haue the kyng a freend, for the grace of hise lippis. |
| [12]The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous. |
[12]The iyen of the Lord kepen kunnyng; and the wordis of a wickid man ben disseyued. |
| [13]The slothful hath said, `A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.' |
[13]A slow man schal seie, A lioun is withoutforth; Y schal be slayn in the myddis of the stretis. |
| [14]A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there. |
[14]The mouth of an alien womman is a deep diche; he to whom the Lord is wrooth, schal falle in to it. |
| [15]Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him. |
[15]Foli is boundun togidere in the herte of a child; and a yerde of chastisyng schal dryue it awey. |
| [16]He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want. |
[16]He that falsli chalengith a pore man, to encreesse hise owne richessis, schal yyue to a richere man, and schal be nedi. |
| [17]Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, |
[17]My sone, bowe doun thin eere, and here thou the wordis of wise men; but sette thou the herte to my techyng. |
| [18]For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips. |
[18]That schal be fair to thee, whanne thou hast kept it in thin herte, and it schal flowe ayen in thi lippis. |
| [19]That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou. |
[19]That thi trist be in the Lord; wherfor and Y haue schewid it to thee to dai. |
| [20]Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge? |
[20]Lo! Y haue discryued it in thre maneres, in thouytis and kunnyng, |
| [21]To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee. |
[21]that Y schulde schewe to thee the sadnesse and spechis of trewthe; to answere of these thingis to hem, that senten thee. |
| [22]Rob not the poor because he [is] poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. |
[22]Do thou not violence to a pore man, for he is pore; nethir defoule thou a nedi man in the yate. |
| [23]For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers. |
[23]For the Lord schal deme his cause, and he schal turmente hem, that turmentiden his soule. |
| [24]Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, |
[24]Nyle thou be freend to a wrathful man, nether go thou with a wood man; |
| [25]Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul. |
[25]lest perauenture thou lerne hise weies, and take sclaundir to thi soule. |
| [26]Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties [for] burdens. |
[26]Nyle thou be with hem that oblischen her hondis, and that proferen hem silf borewis for dettis; for if he hath not wherof he schal restore, |
| [27]If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee? |
[27]what of cause is, that thou take awei hilyng fro thi bed? |
| [28]Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made. |
[28]Go thou not ouer the elde markis, whiche thi faders han set. |
| [29]Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men! |
[29]Thou hast seyn a man smert in his werk; he schal stonde bifore kyngis, and he schal not be bifor vnnoble men. |