< Proverbs 30 >
1 word Agur son: child Jakeh [the] burden utterance [the] great man to/for `God` to/for `God` and `worn out`
The wordis of hym that gaderith, of the sone spuynge. The prophesie which a man spak, with whom God was, and which man was coumfortid bi God dwellyng with hym,
2 for stupid I from man: anyone and not understanding man to/for me
and seide, Y am the moost fool of men; and the wisdom of men is not with me.
3 and not to learn: learn wisdom and knowledge holy to know
Y lernede not wisdom; and Y knew not the kunnyng of hooli men.
4 who? to ascend: rise heaven and to go down who? to gather spirit: breath in/on/with palm his who? to constrain water in/on/with mantle who? to arise: establish all end land: country/planet what? name his and what? name son: child his for to know
Who stiede in to heuene, and cam doun? Who helde togidere the spirit in hise hondis? who bonde togidere watris as in a cloth? Who reiside alle the endis of erthe? What is name of hym? and what is the name of his sone, if thou knowist?
5 all word god to refine shield he/she/it to/for to seek refuge in/on/with him
Ech word of God is a scheld set a fiere, to alle that hopen in hym.
6 not to add upon word his lest to rebuke in/on/with you and to lie
Adde thou not ony thing to the wordis of hym, and thou be repreued, and be foundun a liere.
7 two to ask from with you not to withhold from me in/on/with before to die
I preiede thee twei thingis; denye not thou to me, bifor that Y die.
8 vanity: false and word: because lie to remove from me poverty and riches not to give: give to/for me to tear me food statute: portion my
Make thou fer fro me vanyte and wordis of leesyng; yyue thou not to me beggery and richessis; yyue thou oneli necessaries to my lijflode;
9 lest to satisfy and to deceive and to say who? LORD and lest to possess: poor and to steal and to capture name God my
lest perauenture Y be fillid, and be drawun to denye, and seie, Who is the Lord? and lest Y compellid bi nedynesse, stele, and forswere the name of my God.
10 not to slander servant/slave to(wards) (lord his *Q(K)*) lest to lighten you and be guilty
Accuse thou not a seruaunt to his lord, lest perauenture he curse thee, and thou falle doun.
11 generation father his to lighten and [obj] mother his not to bless
A generacioun that cursith his fadir, and that blessith not his modir.
12 generation pure in/on/with eye his and from filth his not to wash: wash
A generacioun that semeth cleene to it silf, and netheles is not waischun fro hise filthis.
13 generation what? to exalt eye his and eyelid his to lift: look
A generacioun whose iyen ben hiy, and the iye liddis therof ben reisid in to hiy thingis.
14 generation sword tooth his and knife jaw his to/for to eat afflicted from land: country/planet and needy from man
A generacioun that hath swerdis for teeth, and etith with hise wank teeth; that it ete nedi men of erthe, and the porails of men.
15 to/for leech two daughter to give to give three they(fem.) not to satisfy four not to say substance
The watir leche hath twei douytris, seiynge, Brynge, bringe. Thre thingis ben vnable to be fillid, and the fourthe, that seith neuere, It suffisith;
16 hell: Sheol and coercion womb land: country/planet not to satisfy water and fire not to say substance (Sheol )
helle, and the mouth of the wombe, and the erthe which is neuere fillid with water; but fier seith neuere, It suffisith. (Sheol )
17 eye to mock to/for father and to despise to/for obedience mother to dig her raven torrent: valley and to eat her son: young animal eagle
Crowis of the stronde picke out thilke iye, that scorneth the fadir, and that dispisith the child beryng of his modir; and the briddis of an egle ete that iye.
18 three they(masc.) to wonder from me (and four *Q(k)*) not to know them
Thre thingis ben hard to me, and outirli Y knowe not the fourthe thing;
19 way: journey [the] eagle in/on/with heaven way: journey serpent upon rock way: journey fleet in/on/with heart sea and way: journey great man in/on/with maiden
the weye of an egle in heuene, the weie of a serpent on a stoon, the weie of a schip in the myddil of the see, and the weie of a man in yong wexynge age.
20 so way: conduct woman to commit adultery to eat and to wipe lip her and to say not to work evil: wickedness
Siche is the weie of a womman auowtresse, which etith, and wipith hir mouth, and seith, Y wrouyte not yuel.
21 underneath: under three to tremble land: country/planet and underneath: under four not be able to lift: bear
The erthe is moued bi thre thingis, and the fourthe thing, which it may not susteyne;
22 underneath: instead servant/slave for to reign and foolish for to satisfy food
bi a seruaunt, whanne he regneth; bi a fool, whanne he is fillid with mete;
23 underneath: instead to hate for rule: to marry and maidservant for to possess: take lady her
bi an hateful womman, whanne sche is takun in matrymonye; and bi an handmaide, whanne sche is eir of hir ladi.
24 four they(masc.) small land: country/planet and they(masc.) wise be wise
Foure ben the leeste thingis of erthe, and tho ben wisere than wise men;
25 [the] ant people not strong and to establish: prepare in/on/with summer food their
amtis, a feble puple, that maken redi mete in heruest to hem silf;
26 rock badger people not mighty and to set: make in/on/with crag house: home their
a hare, a puple vnmyyti, that settith his bed in a stoon;
27 king nothing to/for locust and to come out: come to divide all his
a locust hath no kyng, and al goith out bi cumpanyes; an euete enforsith with hondis,
28 lizard in/on/with hand to capture and he/she/it in/on/with temple: palace king
and dwellith in the housis of kingis.
29 three they(masc.) be good step and four be good to go: walk
Thre thingis ben, that goon wel, and the fourthe thing, that goith richeli.
30 lion mighty man in/on/with animal and not to return: return from face: before all
A lioun, strongeste of beestis, schal not drede at the meetyng of ony man;
31 greyhound loin or male goat and king army with him
a cok gird the leendis, and a ram, and noon is that schal ayenstonde him.
32 if be senseless in/on/with to lift: exalt and if to plan hand to/for lip
He that apperith a fool, aftir that he is reisid an hiy; for if he hadde vndurstonde, he hadde sett hond on his mouth.
33 for pressing milk to come out: produce curd and pressing face: nose to come out: produce blood and pressing face: anger to come out: produce strife
Forsothe he that thristith strongli teetis, to drawe out mylk, thristith out botere; and he that smytith greetli, drawith out blood; and he that stirith iris, bringith forth discordis.