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