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| [1]Of these things be not thou ashamed, and accept no person to sin thereby: |
[1]Of these thinges be not ashamed, and accept no person to offend. [Namely of these thinges be not ashamed:] |
| [2]Of the law of the most High, and his covenant; and of judgment to justify the ungodly; |
[2]Of the lawe of God, of the couenaunt, of iudgement to bring the vngodly from his vngodlinesse vnto righteousnesse, & to make him a good man, |
| [3]Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift of the heritage of friends; |
[3]To deale faithfully with thy neyghbour and companion, to distribute the heritage vnto the friendes: |
| [4]Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or little; |
[4]To be diligent to kepe true measure & wayght: to be content whether thou gettest much or litle: |
| [5]And of merchants' indifferent selling; of much correction of children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed. |
[5]To deale truely with temporall goodes in bying and selling, to bring vp children with diligence, to correct an euyll seruaunt: |
| [6]Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are. |
[6]To kepe that thyne is from an euyll wyfe, to set a locke where many handes are: |
| [7]Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in. |
[7]What thou deliuerest and geuest out to be kept, to tell it, and to wey it: to write vp all thy outgeuing and receauing: |
| [8]Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus shalt thou be truly learned, and approved of all men living. |
[8]To enforme the vnlearned and vnwise, of the aged that are iudged of the young: If thou be diligent in these thinges, truely thou shalt be learned and wyse, and accepted of all men. |
| [9]The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; and the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she should be hated: |
[9]The daughter maketh the father to watch secretly, and the carefulnesse that he hath for her, taketh away his sleepe, yea in her youth, lest she shoulde ouergrowe him, and when she hath an husbande lest she shoulde be hated: |
| [10]In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with child in her father's house; and having an husband, lest she should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren. |
[10]Lest she shoulde be defiled or rauished in her virginitie, or gotten with childe in her fathers house: or when she commeth to the man, lest she behaue her selfe not right, or continue vnfruitefull. |
| [11]Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude. |
[11]If thy daughter be wanton, kepe her straytly, lest she cause thyne enemies to laugh thee to scorne, and the whole citie to geue thee an euyll report: and so thou be fayne to heare thy shame of euery man, and be confounded before all the people. |
| [12]Behold not every body's beauty, and sit not in the midst of women. |
[12]Behold not euery bodies beautie, and haue not much dwelling among wome. |
| [13]For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness. |
[13]For like as the worme and moth commeth out of clothing: so doth wickednesse come of women. |
| [14]Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach. |
[14]It is better to be with an euyll man, then with a friendly wyfe that putteth one to shame and rebuke. |
| [15]I will now remember the works of the Lord, and declare the things that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works. |
[15]I will remember the wordes of the Lord, and declare the thing that I haue seene: In the wordes of the Lorde are his workes. |
| [16]The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord. |
[16]The sunne ouerloketh all thinges with his shine, and all his workes are full of the clearenes therof. |
| [17]The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvellous works, which the Almighty Lord firmly settled, that whatsoever is might be established for his glory. |
[17]Hath not the Lord brought to passe, that his sainctes shoulde tell out all his wonderous workes which the almightie Lord hath stablished? Al thinges endure in his glorie. |
| [18]He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth their crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and he beholdeth the signs of the world. |
[18]He seketh out the grounde of the deepe, and the heart of men, and he knoweth all their imaginations and wisdome: for the Lord knoweth all science, and he loketh into the token of the time. |
| [19]He declareth the things that are past, and for to come, and revealeth the steps of hidden things. |
[19]He declareth the thinges that are past and for to come, and discloseth thinges that are secrete. |
| [20]No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him. |
[20]No thought may escape hym, neither may any worde be hyd from him. |
| [21]He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom, and he is from everlasting to everlasting: unto him may nothing be added, neither can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor. |
[21]He hath garnished the hye excellent workes of his wysdome, and he is from euerlasting to euerlasting: Unto him may nothing be added, neither can he be minished, he hath no neede also of any mans counsel. |
| [22]Oh how desirable are all his works! and that a man may see even to a spark. |
[22]O howe amiable are all his workes, and as a sparke to loke vpon? |
| [23]All these things live and remain for ever for all uses, and they are all obedient. |
[23]They liue all, and endure for euer: and when so euer neede is, they are all obedient vnto him. |
| [24]All things are double one against another: and he hath made nothing imperfect. |
[24]They are all double, one against another: he hath made nothing that hath fault or blemishe. |
| [25]One thing establisheth the good or another: and who shall be filled with beholding his glory? |
[25]He hath stablished the goodes of euery one: and who may be satisfied with his glorie when he seeth it? |