Proverbs 9
1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
Wisdom bildide an hous to him silf; he hewide out seuene pileris,
2 She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
he offride his slayn sacrifices, he medlide wijn, and settide forth his table.
3 She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.
He sente hise handmaides, that thei schulden clepe to the tour; and to the wallis of the citee.
4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
If ony man is litil; come he to me. And wisdom spak to vnwise men,
5 “Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
Come ye, ete ye my breed; and drynke ye the wiyn, which Y haue medlid to you.
6 Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
Forsake ye yong childhed, and lyue ye; and go ye bi the weyes of prudence.
7 He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.
He that techith a scornere, doith wrong to him silf; and he that vndirnymmeth a wickid man, gendrith a wem to him silf.
8 Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
Nile thou vndirnyme a scornere; lest he hate thee. Vndirnyme thou a wise man; and he schal loue thee.
9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
Yyue thou occasioun to a wise man; and wisdom schal be encreessid to hym. Teche thou a iust man; and he schal haste to take.
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
The bigynnyng of wisdom is the dreed of the Lord; and prudence is the kunnyng of seyntis.
11 For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
For thi daies schulen be multiplied bi me; and yeeris of lijf schulen be encreessid to thee.
12 If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
If thou art wijs; thou schalt be to thi silf, and to thi neiyboris. Forsothe if thou art a scornere; thou aloone schalt bere yuel.
13 The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
A fonned womman, and ful of cry, and ful of vnleueful lustis, and that kan no thing outirli,
14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,
sittith in the doris of hir hous, on a seete, in an hiy place of the cite;
15 calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.
to clepe men passinge bi the weie, and men goynge in her iournei.
16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
Who is a litil man `of wit; bowe he to me. And sche spak to a coward,
17 “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
Watris of thefte ben swettere, and breed hid is swettere.
18 But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
And wiste not that giauntis ben there; and the gestis `of hir ben in the depthis of helle. Sotheli he that schal be applied, ether fastned, to hir; schal go doun to hellis. For whi he that goith awei fro hir; schal be saued. (Sheol h7585)
