Proverbs 22
1 to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
Betere is a good name, than many richessis; for good grace is aboue siluer and gold.
2 rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
A riche man and a pore man metten hem silf; the Lord is worchere of euer eithir.
3 prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
A felle man seeth yuel, and hidith him silf; and an innocent man passid, and he was turmentid bi harm.
4 consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
The ende of temperaunce is the drede of the Lord; richessis, and glorye, and lijf.
5 thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them
Armuris and swerdis ben in the weie of a weiward man; but the kepere of his soule goith awey fer fro tho.
6 to dedicate to/for youth upon lip: word way: conduct his also for be old not to turn aside: depart from her
It is a prouerbe, A yong wexynge man bisidis his weie, and whanne he hath wexe elde, he schal not go awei fro it.
7 rich in/on/with be poor to rule and servant/slave to borrow to/for man to borrow
A riche man comaundith to pore men; and he that takith borewyng, is the seruaunt of the leenere.
8 to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
He that sowith wickidnes, schal repe yuels; and the yerde of his yre schal be endid.
9 pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
He that is redi to merci, schal be blessid; for of his looues he yaf to a pore man. He that yyueth yiftis, schal gete victorie and onour; forsothe he takith awei the soule of the takeris.
10 to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
Caste thou out a scornere, and strijf schal go out with hym; and causis and dispisyngis schulen ceesse.
11 to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
He that loueth the clennesse of herte, schal haue the kyng a freend, for the grace of hise lippis.
12 eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
The iyen of the Lord kepen kunnyng; and the wordis of a wickid man ben disseyued.
13 to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
A slow man schal seie, A lioun is withoutforth; Y schal be slayn in the myddis of the stretis.
14 pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
The mouth of an alien womman is a deep diche; he to whom the Lord is wrooth, schal falle in to it.
15 folly to conspire in/on/with heart youth tribe: staff discipline to remove her from him
Foli is boundun togidere in the herte of a child; and a yerde of chastisyng schal dryue it awey.
16 to oppress poor to/for to multiply to/for him to give: give to/for rich surely to/for need
He that falsli chalengith a pore man, to encreesse hise owne richessis, schal yyue to a richere man, and schal be nedi.
17 to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my
My sone, bowe doun thin eere, and here thou the wordis of wise men; but sette thou the herte to my techyng.
18 for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your
That schal be fair to thee, whanne thou hast kept it in thin herte, and it schal flowe ayen in thi lippis.
19 to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
That thi trist be in the Lord; wherfor and Y haue schewid it to thee to dai.
20 not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
Lo! Y haue discryued it in thre maneres, in thouytis and kunnyng,
21 to/for to know you truth word truth: true to/for to return: reply word truth: true to/for to send: depart you
that Y schulde schewe to thee the sadnesse and spechis of trewthe; to answere of these thingis to hem, that senten thee.
22 not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
Do thou not violence to a pore man, for he is pore; nethir defoule thou a nedi man in the yate.
23 for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
For the Lord schal deme his cause, and he schal turmente hem, that turmentiden his soule.
24 not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
Nyle thou be freend to a wrathful man, nether go thou with a wood man;
25 lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
lest perauenture thou lerne hise weies, and take sclaundir to thi soule.
26 not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
Nyle thou be with hem that oblischen her hondis, and that proferen hem silf borewis for dettis; for if he hath not wherof he schal restore,
27 if nothing to/for you to/for to complete to/for what? to take: take bed your from underneath: under you
what of cause is, that thou take awei hilyng fro thi bed?
28 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
Go thou not ouer the elde markis, whiche thi faders han set.
29 to see man quick in/on/with work his to/for face: before king to stand not to stand to/for face: before obscure
Thou hast seyn a man smert in his werk; he schal stonde bifore kyngis, and he schal not be bifor vnnoble men.
