< Proverbs 1 >
1 The parablis of Salomon, the sone of Dauid, king of Israel;
proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
2 to kunne wisdom and kunnyng;
to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
3 to vndurstonde the wordis of prudence; and to take the lernyng of teching; to take riytfulnesse, and dom, and equyte;
to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
4 that felnesse be youun to litle children, and kunnyng, and vndurstonding to a yong wexynge man.
to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
5 A wise man heringe schal be wisere; and a man vndurstondinge schal holde gouernails.
to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
6 He schal perseyue a parable, and expownyng; the wordis of wise men, and the derk figuratif spechis of hem.
to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
7 The drede of the Lord is the bigynning of wisdom; foolis dispisen wisdom and teching.
fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
8 My sone, here thou the teching of thi fadir, and forsake thou not the lawe of thi modir;
to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
9 that grace be addid, ethir encreessid, to thin heed, and a bie to thi necke.
for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
10 Mi sone, if synneris flateren thee, assente thou not to hem.
son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
11 If thei seien, Come thou with vs, sette we aspies to blood, hide we snaris of disseitis ayens an innocent without cause;
if to say to go: come [emph?] with us to ambush to/for blood to treasure to/for innocent for nothing
12 swolowe we him, as helle swolowith a man lyuynge; and al hool, as goynge doun in to a lake; we schulen fynde al preciouse catel, (Sheol )
to swallow up them like/as hell: Sheol alive and unblemished: complete like/as to go down pit (Sheol )
13 we schulen fille oure housis with spuylis; sende thou lot with vs,
all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
15 my sone, go thou not with hem; forbede thi foot fro the pathis of hem.
son: child my not to go: walk in/on/with way: journey with them to withhold foot your from path their
16 For the feet of hem rennen to yuel; and thei hasten to schede out blood.
for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
17 But a net is leid in veyn bifore the iyen of briddis, that han wengis.
for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
18 Also `thilke wickid disseyueris setten aspies ayens her owne blood; and maken redi fraudis ayens her soulis.
and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
19 So the pathis of ech auerouse man rauyschen the soulis of hem that welden.
so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
20 Wisdom prechith with outforth; in stretis it yyueth his vois.
wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
21 It crieth ofte in the heed of cumpenyes; in the leeues of yatis of the citee it bringith forth hise wordis,
in/on/with head: top to roar to call: call out in/on/with entrance gate in/on/with city word her to say
22 and seith, Hou long, ye litle men in wit, louen yong childhod, and foolis schulen coueyte tho thingis, that ben harmful to hem silf, and vnprudent men schulen hate kunnyng?
till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
23 Be ye conuertid at my repreuyng; lo, Y schal profre forth to you my spirit, and Y schal schewe my wordis.
to return: repent to/for argument my behold to bubble to/for you spirit my to know word my [obj] you
24 For Y clepide, and ye forsoken; Y helde forth myn hond, and noon was that bihelde.
because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
25 Ye dispisiden al my councel; and chargiden not my blamyngis.
and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
26 And Y schal leiye in youre perisching; and Y schal scorne you, whanne that, that ye dreden, cometh to you.
also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
27 Whanne sodeyne wretchidnesse fallith in, and perisching bifallith as tempest; whanne tribulacioun and angwisch cometh on you.
in/on/with to come (in): come (like/as devastation *Q(K)*) dread your and calamity your like/as whirlwind to come in/on/with to come (in): come upon you distress and anguish
28 Thanne thei schulen clepe me, and Y schal not here; thei schulen rise eerli, and thei schulen not fynde me.
then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
29 For thei hatiden teching, and thei token not the drede of the Lord,
underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
30 nether assentiden to my councel, and depraueden al myn amendyng.
not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
31 Therfor thei schulen ete the fruytis of her weie; and thei schulen be fillid with her counseils.
and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
32 The turnyng awei of litle men in wit schal sle hem; and the prosperite of foolis schal leese hem.
for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
33 But he that herith me, schal reste with outen drede; and he schal vse abundaunce, whanne the drede of yuels is takun awei.
and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm