전도서 10장 Coverdale Bible
- 1 Deed flyes yt corruppe swete oyntment & make it to styncke, are somthinge more worth then the wy?dome & honor of a foole.
- 2 A wyse mans hert is vpon the right hande, but a fooles hert is vpon the left.
- 3 A dotinge foole thinketh, yt euery ma doth as foolishly as himself.
- 4 Yf a principall sprete be geue the to beare rule, be not negliget the in thine office: for so shal greate wickednesse be put downe, as it were wt a medecyne.
- 5 Another plage is there, which I haue sene vnder the Sonne: namely, ye ignoraunce yt is comonly amonge prynces:
- 6 in yt a foole sytteth in greate dignite, & the rich are sett downe beneth:
- 7 I se seruauntes ryde vpon horses, & prynces goinge vpon their fete as it were seruauntes.
- 8 But he yt dyggeth vp a pytt, shall fall therin himself: & who so breaketh downe the hedge, a serpent shal byte him.
- 9 Who so remoueth stones, shall haue trauayle withall: and he that heweth wod, shalbe hurt therwith.
- 10 When an yron is blont, and ye poynt not sharpened, it must be whett againe, and that with might: Euen so doth wi?dome folowe diligence.
- 11 A babler of his tonge is no better, then a serpent that styngeth without hyssynge.
- 12 The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gracious, but the lippes of a foole wil destroye himself.
- 13 The begynnynge of his talkynge is foolishnes, and the last worde of his mouth is greate madnesse.
- 14 A foole is so full of wordes, that a man can not tell what ende he wyll make: who wyl then warne him to make a conclucion?
- 15 The laboure of ye foolish is greuous vnto the, while they knowe not how to go in to the cite.
- 16 Wo be vnto the (O thou realme and londe) whose kynge is but a childe, and whose prynces are early at their banckettes.
- 17 But well is the (O thou realme and londe) whose kinge is come of nobles, and whose prynces eate in due season, for strength and not for lust.
- 18 Thorow slouthfulnesse the balkes fall downe, and thorow ydle hades it rayneth in at the house.
- 19 Meate maketh men to laugh, and wyne maketh them mery: but vnto money are all thinges obedient.
- 20 Wysh the kynge no euell in yi thought, and speake no hurte of ye ryche in thy preuy chambre: for a byrde of the ayre shal betraye thy voyce, and wt hir fethers shal she bewraye thy wordes.