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  • 1. Be not thou enuious to folow wicked men, and desire not to be among them:
  • 2. For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.
  • 3. Thorowe wysdome is an house buylded, & with vnderstanding is it set vp.
  • 4. Thorowe discretion shall the chaumbers be filled with all costly and pleasaunt riches.
  • 5. A wise man is [euer] strong: yea a man of vnderstanding increaseth strength.
  • 6. For with discretion must warres be taken in hand: and where as are many that can geue counsaile, there is health.
  • 7. Wysdome is to hye a thyng for a foole: for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.
  • 8. He that imagineth mischiefe, maye well be called an vngratious person.
  • 9. The wicked thought of the foolishe is sinne: and the scornefull is an abhomination vnto men.
  • 10. If thou be faynt in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.
  • 11. Deliuer them that are drawen vnto death, and ceasse not to preserue them that are led to be slayne:
  • 12. If thou wylt say, beholde I knewe not of it: doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that kepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Shall not he also recompence euery man according to his workes?
  • 13. My sonne, eate thou hony because it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth:
  • 14. So [sweete] shal the knowledge of wysdome be vnto thy soule when thou hast found it: and there shalbe hope, and thy hope shall not be cut of.
  • 15. Laye no priuie wayte (O wicked man) against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
  • 16. For a iust man falleth seuen tymes, and ryseth vp agayne: but the vngodly fall into mischiefe.
  • 17. Reioyce not thou at the fall of thyne enemie, and let not thyne heart be glad when he stumbleth:
  • 18. Lest the Lorde when he seeth it be angry, and turne his wrath from hym [vnto thee.]
  • 19. Fret not thy selfe because of the malitious, neither be enuious at the wicked:
  • 20. For the wicked shall haue no posteritie, and the candle of the vngodly shalbe put out.
  • 21. My sonne, feare thou the Lorde and the kyng, and kepe no company with them that slide backe [from his feare:]
  • 22. For their destruction shall rise sodainlye: and who knoweth the aduersitie that may come from them both?
  • 23. It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.
  • 24. He that saith to the vngodly thou art righteous, hym shall the people curse, yea the comminaltie shall abhorre him:
  • 25. But they that rebuke [the vngodly] in them doth God delight, and a rych blessing shall come vpon them.
  • 26. Euery man shall kisse his lippes that geueth a good aunswere.
  • 27. Make redie thy worke that is without, and looke well vnto that whiche thou hast in the fielde: and then buylde thyne house.
  • 28. Be not a false witnesse against thy neighbour, and speake no falsehood with thy lippes.
  • 29. Say not, I wyll handle hym euen as he hath dealt with me: and wyll rewarde euery man according to his deedes.
  • 30. I went by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the foolishe man:
  • 31. And lo, it was all couered with nettles, and stoode full of thornes, and the stone wall was broken downe.
  • 32. This I sawe, and considered it well: I looked vpon it, and toke it for a warning.
  • 33. Yea sleepe on styll [I say] a litle, slumber a litle, folde thy handes together yet a litle:
  • 34. So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie lyke a weaponed man.