잠언 27장 Coverdale Bible
- 1 Make not thy boost of tomorow, for thou knowest not what maye happen todaye.
- 2 Let another ma prayse the, & not thine owne mouth: yee other folkes lippes, and not thyne.
- 3 The stone is heuy, and the sonde weightie: but a fooles wrath is heuyer then they both.
- 4 Wrath is a cruell thige, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: yee who is able to abyde envye?
- 5 An open rebuke is better, then a secrete loue.
- 6 Faithfull are the woundes of a louer, but ye kysses of an enemie are disceatfull.
- 7 He that is full, abhorreth an hony combe: but vnto him that is hogrie, euery sower thinge is swete.
- 8 He that oft tymes flytteth, is like a byrde yt forsaketh hir nest.
- 9 The herte is glad of a swete oyntment and sauoure, but a stomacke that ca geue good councell, reioyseth a mans neghboure.
- 10 Thyne owne frende and thy fathers frende se thou forsake not, but go not in to thy brothers house in tyme of thy trouble. Better is a frende at hode, then a brother farre of.
- 11 My sonne, be wyse, and thou shalt make me a glad herte: so that I shal make answere vnto my rebukers.
- 12 A wyse man seynge the plage wyl hyde him self, as for fooles they go on still, and suffer harme.
- 13 Take his garment that is suertie for a straunger, & take a pledge of him for the vnknowne mans sake.
- 14 He that is to hastie to praise his neghboure aboue measure, shalbe taken as one yt geueth him an euell reporte.
- 15 A brawlynge woman and the rofe of the house droppynge in a raynie daye, maye well be compared together.
- 16 He that refrayneth her, refrayneth the wynde, and holdeth oyle fast in his hode.
- 17 Like as one yro whetteth another, so doth one man comforte another.
- 18 Who so kepeth his fyge tre, shal enioye the frutes therof: he that wayteth vpon his master, shal come to honoure.
- 19 Like as in one water there apeare dyuerse faces, eue so dyuerse men haue dyuerse hertes.
- 20 Like as hell & destruccion are neuer full, euen so the eyes of me can neuer be satisfied.
- 21 Syluer is tryed in the moulde, & golde in the fornace, & so is a man, whan he is openly praysed to his face.
- 22 Though thou shuldest bray a foole wt a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him.
- 23 Se yt thou knowe the nombre of thy catell thy self, and loke well to thy flockes.
- 24 For riches abyde not allwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer.
- 25 The hay groweth, ye grasse cometh vp, & herbes are gathered in ye mountaines.
- 26 The lambes shal clothe the, & for the goates thou shalt haue money to yi hu?bondry.
- 27 Thou shalt haue goates mylck ynough to fede the, to vpholde thy husholde, & to susteyne thy maydens.