Proverbs 27
1 Haue thou not glorie on the morewe, `not knowynge what thing the dai to comynge schal bringe forth.
not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
2 Another man, and not thi mouth preise thee; a straunger, and not thi lippis `preise thee.
to boast: praise you be a stranger and not lip your foreign and not lips your
3 A stoon is heuy, and grauel is chariouse; but the ire of a fool is heuyere than euer eithir.
heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
4 Ire hath no merci, and woodnesse brekynge out `hath no merci; and who mai suffre the fersnesse of a spirit stirid?
cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
5 Betere is opyn repreuyng, than loue hid.
pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
6 Betere ben the woundis of hym that loueth, than the gileful cossis of hym that hatith.
be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
7 A man fillid schal dispise an hony coomb; but an hungri man schal take, yhe, bittir thing for swete.
soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
8 As a brid passinge ouer fro his nest, so is a man that forsakith his place.
like/as bird to wander from nest her so man to wander from place his
9 The herte delitith in oynement, and dyuerse odours; and a soule is maad swete bi the good counsels of a frend.
oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
10 Forsake thou not thi frend, and the frend of thi fadir; and entre thou not in to the hous of thi brothir, in the dai of thi turment. Betere is a neiybore nyy, than a brothir afer.
neighbor your (and neighbor *Q(K)*) father your not to leave: forsake and house: home brother: male-sibling your not to come (in): come in/on/with day calamity your pleasant neighboring near from brother: male-sibling distant
11 Mi sone, studie thou a boute wisdom, and make thou glad myn herte; that thou maist answere a word to a dispisere.
be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
12 A fel man seynge yuel was hid; litle men of wit passinge forth suffriden harmes.
prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
13 Take thou awei his clooth, that bihiyte for a straunger; and take thou awei a wed fro hym for an alien man.
to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
14 He that blessith his neiybore with greet vois; and risith bi niyt, schal be lijk hym that cursith.
to bless neighbor his in/on/with voice great: large in/on/with morning to rise curse to devise: count to/for him
15 Roouys droppynge in the dai of coold, and a womman ful of chidyng ben comparisond.
dripping to pursue in/on/with day rain and woman: wife (contention *Q(K)*) be like
16 He that withholdith hir, as if he holdith wynd; and auoidith the oile of his riyt hond.
to treasure her to treasure spirit: breath and oil right his to encounter: toward
17 Yrun is whettid bi irun; and a man whettith the face of his frend.
iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
18 He that kepith a fige tre, schal ete the fruytis therof; and he that is a kepere of his lord, schal be glorified.
to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
19 As the cheris of men biholdinge schynen in watris; so the hertis of men ben opyn to prudent men.
like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
20 Helle and perdicioun schulen not be fillid; so and the iyen of men moun not be fillid. (Sheol h7585)
hell: Sheol (and destruction his *Q(K)*) not to satisfy and eye [the] man not to satisfy (Sheol h7585)
21 As siluer is preuyd in a wellyng place, and gold `is preued in a furneys; so a man is preued bi the mouth of preyseris. The herte of a wickid man sekith out yuels; but a riytful herte sekith out kunnyng.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and man to/for lip praise his
22 Thouy thou beetist a fool in a morter, as with a pestel smytynge aboue dried barli; his foli schal not be don awei fro him.
if to pound [obj] [the] fool(ish) in/on/with hollow in/on/with midst [the] grain in/on/with pestle not to turn aside: depart from upon him folly his
23 Knowe thou diligentli the cheere of thi beeste; and biholde thou thi flockis.
to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
24 For thou schalt not haue power contynueli; but a coroun schal be youun to thee in generacioun and in to generacioun.
for not to/for forever: enduring wealth and if: surely yes consecration: crown to/for generation (and generation *Q(K)*)
25 Medewis ben openyd, and greene eerbis apperiden; and hey is gaderid fro hillis.
to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
26 Lambren be to thi clothing; and kidis be to the prijs of feeld.
lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
27 The mylke of geete suffice to thee for thi meetis; in to the necessarie thingis of thin hous, and to lijflode to thin handmaidis.
and sufficiency milk goat to/for food your to/for food house: household your and life to/for maiden your
