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