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[1]He that feareth God, wil do good: & who so kepeth the lawe, shall obtayne wysdome. |
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[2]As an honorable mother shall she meete hym, and she as his wife maried of a virgin shal receaue him. |
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[3]With the bread of lyfe and vnderstanding shal she feede him, & geue him the water of wholsome wisdome to drinke. |
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[4]If he be constant in her, he shall not be moued, and if he holde him fast by her, he shall not come to confusion. |
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[5]She shall bring him to honour among his neyghbours, and in the middest of the congregation shall she open his mouth: With the spirite of wysdome and vnderstanding shall she fyll him, and cloth him with the garment of glorie. |
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[6]She shall heape the treasure of myrth and ioye vpon him, and geue him an euerlasting name to heritage. |
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[7]Foolishe men will not take holde vpon her, but such as haue vnderstanding, will meete her: Foolishe men shall not see her, for she is farre from pryde and disceyte. |
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[8]Men that go about with lyes, will not remember her: but men of trueth shalbe founde in her, and shall prosper euen vnto the beholding of God. |
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[9]Prayse is not seemely in the mouth of the vngodly, for he is not sent of the Lorde. |
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[10]But if prayse come of wysdome and be plenteous in a faythfull mouth, then the Lorde will prosper it. |
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[11]Say not thou, it is the Lordes fault that I am gone by: for thou shalt not do the thing that God hateth. |
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[12]Say not thou, he hath caused me to do wrong: for he hath no neede of the vngodly. |
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[13]God hateth al abhomination of errour, and they that feare God will loue none such. |
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[14]God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hande of his counsell: He gaue his commaundementes and preceptes. |
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[15]If thou wilt obserue the commaundementes and kepe acceptable faythfulnesse for euer, they shall preserue thee. |
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[16]He hath set water and fyre before thee, reache out thine hande vnto which thou wilt. |
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[17]Before man is lyfe and death, good and euyll: loke what him lyketh, shalbe geuen him. |
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[18]For the wysdome of God is great and mightie in power, and beholdeth all thinges continually: |
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[19]The eyes of the Lorde are vpon them that feare him, and he knoweth all the workes of man. |
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[20]He hath commaunded no man to do vngodly, neither hath he geuen any man licence to sinne: for he desireth not a multitude of infidels and vnprofitable children. |
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