Proverbs 4
1 to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
Sones, here ye the teching of the fadir; and perseiue ye, that ye kunne prudence.
2 for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
Y schal yyue to you a good yifte; forsake ye not my lawe.
3 for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
For whi and Y was the sone of my fadir, a tendir sone, and oon `gendride bifore my modir.
4 and to show me and to say to/for me to grasp word my heart your to keep: obey commandment my and to live
And my fadir tauyte me, and seide, Thin herte resseyue my wordis; kepe thou myn heestis, and thou schalt lyue.
5 to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
Welde thou wisdom, welde thou prudence; foryete thou not, nethir bowe thou awey fro the wordis of my mouth.
6 not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
Forsake thou not it, and it schal kepe thee; loue thou it, and it schal kepe thee.
7 first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
The bigynnyng of wisdom, welde thou wisdom; and in al thi possessioun gete thou prudence.
8 to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
Take thou it, and it schal enhaunse thee; thou schalt be glorified of it, whanne thou hast biclippid it.
9 to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
It schal yyue encresyngis of graces to thin heed; and a noble coroun schal defende thee.
10 to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
Mi sone, here thou, and take my wordis; that the yeris of lijf be multiplied to thee.
11 in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
Y schal schewe to thee the weie of wisdom; and Y schal lede thee bi the pathis of equyte.
12 in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
In to whiche whanne thou hast entrid, thi goyngis schulen not be maad streit; and thou schalt rennen, and schalt not haue hirtyng.
13 to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
Holde thou teching, and forsake it not; kepe thou it, for it is thi lijf.
14 in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
Delite thou not in the pathis of wyckid men; and the weie of yuele men plese not thee.
15 to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
Fle thou fro it, and passe thou not therbi; bowe thou awei, and forsake it.
16 for not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *Q(K)*)
For thei slepen not, `no but thei han do yuele; and sleep is rauyschid fro hem, no but thei han disseyued.
17 for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
Thei eten the breed of vnpite, and drinken the wyn of wickidnesse.
18 and way righteous like/as light brightness to go: continue and to light till to establish: prepare [the] day
But the path of iust men goith forth as liyt schynynge, and encreessith til to perfit dai.
19 way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
The weie of wickid men is derk; thei witen not where thei schulen falle.
20 son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
Mi sone, herkene thou my wordis; and bowe doun thin eeris to my spechis.
21 not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
Go not tho awei fro thyn iyen; kepe thou hem in the myddil of thin herte.
22 for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
For tho ben lijf to men fyndynge thoo, and heelthe `of al fleisch.
23 from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
With al keping kepe thin herte, for lijf cometh forth of it.
24 to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
Remoue thou a schrewid mouth fro thee; and backbitynge lippis be fer fro thee.
25 eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
Thin iyen se riytful thingis; and thin iyeliddis go bifore thi steppis.
26 to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
Dresse thou pathis to thi feet, and alle thi weies schulen be stablischid.
27 not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
Bowe thou not to the riytside, nether to the leftside; turne awei thi foot fro yuel. For the Lord knowith the weies that ben at the riytside; but the weies ben weiward, that ben at the leftside. Forsothe he schal make thi goyngis riytful; and thi weies schulen be brouyt forth in pees.
