Proverbs 2
1 O son my if you will receive words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.
Mi sone, if thou resseyuest my wordis, `and hidist myn heestis anentis thee;
2 To make attend to wisdom ear your you will incline heart your to understanding.
that thin eere here wisdom, bowe thin herte to knowe prudence.
3 That except to discernment you will call to understanding you will give voice your.
For if thou inwardli clepist wisdom, and bowist thin herte to prudence;
4 If you will seek it like silver and like treasures you will search for it.
if thou sekist it as money, and diggist it out as tresours;
5 Then you will discern [the] fear of Yahweh and [the] knowledge of God you will find.
thanne thou schalt vndirstonde the drede of the Lord, and schalt fynde the kunnyng of God.
6 For Yahweh he gives wisdom from mouth his knowledge and understanding.
For the Lord yyueth wisdom; and prudence and kunnyng is of his mouth.
7 (He stores up *Q(K)*) for upright [people] success a shield to [those who] walk of integrity.
He schal kepe the heelthe of riytful men, and he schal defende hem that goen sympli.
8 To guard [the] paths of justice and [the] way of (faithful [people] his *Q(K)*) he will preserve.
And he schal kepe the pathis of riytfulnesse, and he schal kepe the weies of hooli men.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness every course of good.
Thanne thou schalt vndirstonde riytfulnesse, and dom, and equytee, and ech good path.
10 For it will come wisdom in heart your and knowledge to self your it will be pleasant.
If wysdom entrith in to thin herte, and kunnyng plesith thi soule,
11 Discretion it will watch over you understanding it will preserve you.
good councel schal kepe thee, and prudence schal kepe thee; that thou be delyuered fro an yuel weie,
12 To deliver you from a way evil from anyone [who] speaks perverse things.
and fro a man that spekith weiward thingis.
13 Those [who] leave paths of uprightness to walk in [the] ways of darkness.
Whiche forsaken a riytful weie, and goen bi derk weies;
14 The [ones] joyful to do evil they exult in perverse things of evil.
whiche ben glad, whanne thei han do yuel, and maken ful out ioye in worste thingis;
15 Who paths their [are] twisted and [who are] crooked in tracks their.
whose weies ben weywerd, and her goyingis ben of yuel fame.
16 To deliver you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.
That thou be delyuered fro an alien womman, and fro a straunge womman, that makith soft hir wordis;
17 Who leaves [the] close friend of youth her and [the] covenant of God her she forgets.
and forsakith the duyk of hir tyme of mariage,
18 For she sank down to death house her and to [the] shades tracks her.
and hath foryete the couenaunt of hir God. For the hous of hir is bowid to deeth, and hir pathis to helle.
19 All [those who] go to her not they return! and not they reach [the] paths of life.
Alle that entren to hir, schulen not turne ayen, nether schulen catche the pathis of lijf.
20 So that you may walk in [the] way of good [people] and [the] paths of righteous [people] you will keep.
That thou go in a good weie, and kepe the pathis of iust men.
21 For upright [people] (they will dwell *L(bah)*) [the] land and blameless [people] they will remain in it.
Forsothe thei that ben riytful, schulen dwelle in the lond; and symple men schulen perfitli dwelle ther ynne.
22 And wicked [people] from [the] land they will be cut off and treacherous [people] they will be torn away from it.
But vnfeithful men schulen be lost fro the loond; and thei that doen wickidli, schulen be takun awey fro it.
