Proverbs 27
1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
Haue thou not glorie on the morewe, `not knowynge what thing the dai to comynge schal bringe forth.
2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
Another man, and not thi mouth preise thee; a straunger, and not thi lippis `preise thee.
3 A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
A stoon is heuy, and grauel is chariouse; but the ire of a fool is heuyere than euer eithir.
4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
Ire hath no merci, and woodnesse brekynge out `hath no merci; and who mai suffre the fersnesse of a spirit stirid?
5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Betere is opyn repreuyng, than loue hid.
6 The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
Betere ben the woundis of hym that loueth, than the gileful cossis of hym that hatith.
7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
A man fillid schal dispise an hony coomb; but an hungri man schal take, yhe, bittir thing for swete.
8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
As a brid passinge ouer fro his nest, so is a man that forsakith his place.
9 Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
The herte delitith in oynement, and dyuerse odours; and a soule is maad swete bi the good counsels of a frend.
10 Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
Forsake thou not thi frend, and the frend of thi fadir; and entre thou not in to the hous of thi brothir, in the dai of thi turment. Betere is a neiybore nyy, than a brothir afer.
11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.
Mi sone, studie thou a boute wisdom, and make thou glad myn herte; that thou maist answere a word to a dispisere.
12 The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
A fel man seynge yuel was hid; litle men of wit passinge forth suffriden harmes.
13 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
Take thou awei his clooth, that bihiyte for a straunger; and take thou awei a wed fro hym for an alien man.
14 He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.
He that blessith his neiybore with greet vois; and risith bi niyt, schal be lijk hym that cursith.
15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
Roouys droppynge in the dai of coold, and a womman ful of chidyng ben comparisond.
16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
He that withholdith hir, as if he holdith wynd; and auoidith the oile of his riyt hond.
17 Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
Yrun is whettid bi irun; and a man whettith the face of his frend.
18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
He that kepith a fige tre, schal ete the fruytis therof; and he that is a kepere of his lord, schal be glorified.
19 Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
As the cheris of men biholdinge schynen in watris; so the hertis of men ben opyn to prudent men.
Helle and perdicioun schulen not be fillid; so and the iyen of men moun not be fillid. (Sheol h7585)
21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.
As siluer is preuyd in a wellyng place, and gold `is preued in a furneys; so a man is preued bi the mouth of preyseris. The herte of a wickid man sekith out yuels; but a riytful herte sekith out kunnyng.
22 Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
Thouy thou beetist a fool in a morter, as with a pestel smytynge aboue dried barli; his foli schal not be don awei fro him.
23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
Knowe thou diligentli the cheere of thi beeste; and biholde thou thi flockis.
24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
For thou schalt not haue power contynueli; but a coroun schal be youun to thee in generacioun and in to generacioun.
25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
Medewis ben openyd, and greene eerbis apperiden; and hey is gaderid fro hillis.
26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
Lambren be to thi clothing; and kidis be to the prijs of feeld.
27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
The mylke of geete suffice to thee for thi meetis; in to the necessarie thingis of thin hous, and to lijflode to thin handmaidis.
