Proverbs 8
1 not wisdom to call: call out and understanding to give: cry out voice her
Whether wisdom crieth not ofte; and prudence yyueth his vois?
2 in/on/with head: top height upon way: road place path to stand
In souereyneste and hiy coppis, aboue the weie, in the myddis of pathis,
3 to/for hand: to gate to/for lip: edge town entrance entrance to sing
and it stondith bisidis the yate of the citee, in thilke closyngis, and spekith, and seith, A!
4 to(wards) you man to call: call out and voice my to(wards) son: child man
ye men, Y crie ofte to you; and my vois is to the sones of men.
5 to understand simple craftiness and fool to understand heart
Litle children, vndirstonde ye wisdom; and ye vnwise men, `perseyue wisdom.
6 to hear: hear for leader to speak: speak and opening lips my uprightness
Here ye, for Y schal speke of grete thingis; and my lippis schulen be openyd, to preche riytful thingis.
7 for truth: true to mutter palate my and abomination lips my wickedness
My throte schal bithenke treuthe; and my lippis schulen curse a wickid man.
8 in/on/with righteousness all word lip my nothing in/on/with them to twist and twisted
My wordis ben iust; no schrewid thing, nether weiward is in tho.
9 all their straightforward to/for to understand and upright to/for to find knowledge
`My wordis ben riytful to hem that vndurstonden; and ben euene to hem that fynden kunnyng.
10 to take: take discipline: instruction my and not silver: money and knowledge from gold to choose
Take ye my chastisyng, and not money; chese ye teching more than tresour.
11 for pleasant wisdom from jewel and all pleasure not be like in/on/with her
For wisdom is betere than alle richessis moost preciouse; and al desirable thing mai not be comparisound therto.
12 I wisdom to dwell craftiness and knowledge plot to find
Y, wisdom, dwelle in counsel; and Y am among lernyd thouytis.
13 fear LORD to hate bad: evil pride and pride and way: conduct bad: evil and lip: word perversity to hate
The drede of the Lord hatith yuel; Y curse boost, and pride, and a schrewid weie, and a double tungid mouth.
14 to/for me counsel and wisdom I understanding to/for me might
Counseil is myn, and equyte `is myn; prudence is myn, and strengthe `is myn.
15 in/on/with me king to reign and to rule to decree righteousness
Kyngis regnen bi me; and the makeris of lawis demen iust thingis bi me.
16 in/on/with me ruler to rule and noble all to judge (righteousness *L(H)*)
Princis comaunden bi me; and myyti men demen riytfulnesse bi me.
17 I (to love: lover me *Q(K)*) to love: lover and to seek me to find me
I loue hem that louen me; and thei that waken eerli to me, schulen fynde me.
18 riches and glory with me substance surpassing and righteousness
With me ben rychessis, and glorie; souereyn richessis, and riytfulnesse.
19 pleasant fruit my from gold and from pure gold and produce my from silver: money to choose
My fruyt is betere than gold, and precyouse stoon; and my seedis ben betere than chosun siluer.
20 in/on/with way righteousness to go: walk in/on/with midst path justice
Y go in the weies of riytfulnesse, in the myddis of pathis of doom;
21 to/for to inherit to love: lover me there and treasure their to fill
that Y make riche hem that louen me, and that Y fille her tresouris.
22 LORD to buy me first: beginning way: conduct his front: old work his from the past
The Lord weldide me in the bigynnyng of hise weies; bifore that he made ony thing, at the bigynnyng.
23 from forever: antiquity to install from head: first from front: old land: country/planet
Fro with out bigynnyng Y was ordeined; and fro elde tymes, bifor that the erthe was maad.
24 in/on/with nothing abyss to twist: give birth in/on/with nothing spring to honor: many water
Depthis of watris weren not yit; and Y was conseyued thanne. The wellis of watris hadden not brokun out yit,
25 in/on/with before mountain: mount to sink to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
and hillis stoden not togidere yit bi sad heuynesse; bifor litil hillis Y was born.
26 till not to make land: country/planet and outside and head: first dust world
Yit he hadde not maad erthe; and floodis, and the herris of the world.
27 in/on/with to establish: establish he heaven there I in/on/with to decree he circle upon face: surface abyss
Whanne he made redi heuenes, Y was present; whanne he cumpasside the depthis of watris bi certeyn lawe and cumpas.
28 in/on/with to strengthen he cloud from above in/on/with be strong spring abyss
Whanne he made stidfast the eir aboue; and weiede the wellis of watris.
29 in/on/with to set: appoint he to/for sea statute: allotment his and water not to pass: trespass lip: word his in/on/with to decree he foundation land: country/planet
Whanne he cumpasside to the see his marke; and settide lawe to watris, that tho schulden not passe her coostis. Whanne he peiside the foundementis of erthe;
30 and to be beside him artisan and to be delight day: daily day: daily to laugh to/for face: before his in/on/with all time
Y was making alle thingis with him. And Y delitide bi alle daies, and pleiede bifore hym in al tyme,
31 to laugh in/on/with world land: country/planet his and delight my with son: child man
and Y pleiede in the world; and my delices ben to be with the sones of men.
32 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and blessed way: conduct my to keep: obey
Now therfor, sones, here ye me; blessid ben thei that kepen my weies.
33 to hear: hear discipline: instruction and be wise and not to neglect
Here ye teching, and be ye wise men; and nile ye caste it awei.
34 blessed man to hear: hear to/for me to/for to watch upon door my day: daily day: daily to/for to keep: look at doorpost entrance my
Blessid is the man that herith me, and that wakith at my yatis al dai; and kepith at the postis of my dore.
35 for to find me (to find *Q(K)*) life and to promote acceptance from LORD
He that fyndith me, schal fynde lijf; and schal drawe helthe of the Lord.
36 and to sin me to injure soul: myself his all to hate me to love: lover death
But he that synneth ayens me, schal hurte his soule; alle that haten me, louen deeth.
