Proverbs 17
1 Betere is a drie mussel with ioye, than an hous ful of sacrifices with chidyng.
pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
2 A wijs seruaunt schal be lord of fonned sones; and he schal departe eritage among britheren.
servant/slave be prudent to rule in/on/with son: child be ashamed and in/on/with midst brother: male-sibling to divide inheritance
3 As siluer is preued bi fier, and gold is preued bi a chymnei, so the Lord preueth hertis.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 An yuel man obeieth to a wickid tunge; and a fals man obeieth to false lippis.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 He that dispisith a pore man, repreueth his maker; and he that is glad in the fallyng of another man, schal not be vnpunyschid.
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 The coroun of elde men is the sones of sones; and the glorie of sones is the fadris of hem.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Wordis wel set togidere bisemen not a fool; and a liynge lippe bicometh not a prince.
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 A preciouse stoon moost acceptable is the abiding of hym that sekith; whidur euere he turneth hym silf, he vndurstondith prudentli.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 He that helith trespas, sekith frenschipis; he that rehersith bi an hiy word, departith hem, that ben knyt togidere in pees.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 A blamyng profitith more at a prudent man, than an hundryd woundis at a fool.
to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
11 Euere an yuel man sekith stryues; forsothe a cruel aungel schal be sent ayens hym.
surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
12 It spedith more to meete a femal bere, whanne the whelpis ben rauyschid, than a fool tristynge to hym silf in his foli.
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 Yuel schal not go a wei fro the hous of hym, that yeldith yuels for goodis.
to return: return distress: evil underneath: instead welfare not (to remove *Q(k)*) distress: evil from house: home his
14 He that leeueth watir, is heed of stryues; and bifor that he suffrith wrong, he forsakith dom.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 Bothe he that iustifieth a wickid man, and he that condempneth a iust man, euer ethir is abhomynable at God.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 What profitith it to a fool to haue richessis, sithen he mai not bie wisdom? He that makith his hous hiy, sekith falling; and he that eschewith to lerne, schal falle in to yuels.
to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
17 He that is a frend, loueth in al tyme; and a brother is preuyd in angwischis.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 A fonned man schal make ioie with hondis, whanne he hath bihiyt for his frend.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 He that bithenkith discordis, loueth chidingis; and he that enhaunsith his mouth, sekith fallyng.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 He that is of weiward herte, schal not fynde good; and he that turneth the tunge, schal falle in to yuel.
twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
21 A fool is borun in his schenschipe; but nether the fadir schal be glad in a fool.
to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
22 A ioiful soule makith likinge age; a sorewful spirit makith drie boonys.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 A wickid man takith yiftis fro the bosum, to mys turne the pathis of doom.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 Wisdom schyneth in the face of a prudent man; the iyen of foolis ben in the endis of erthe.
with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
25 A fonned sone is the ire of the fadir, and the sorewe of the modir that gendride hym.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 It is not good to brynge in harm to a iust man; nether to smyte the prince that demeth riytfuli.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 He that mesurith his wordis, is wijs and prudent; and a lerud man is of preciouse spirit.
to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
28 Also a foole, if he is stille, schal be gessid a wijs man; and, if he pressith togidre hise lippis, he `schal be gessid an vndurstondynge man.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
