Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. I.
1 Alle wisdam of the Lord God is, and
with hym was euermor, and is biforn
aungelis during.
2 The grauel of the se,
and the dropis of reyn, and the da&yogh;es of
the world, who distinctli hath noumbrede?
The hei&yogh;te of heuene, and the
brede of erthe, and the depthe of the
se, who distinctli mesurede?
3 The wisdam
of God goende beforn alle thingus,
who enserchede?
4 First of alle formed is
wisdam, and the vnderstonding of prudence,
fro the during of aungelis.
5 The
welle of wisdam the wrd of God in
hei&yogh;tes; and the ingoyng of it euere
lastende maundemens.
6 The roote of wisdam
to whom is it shewyd? and the `sutil
wittis of it who kne&yogh;?
7 The discyplyne
of wisdam, to whom is it shewid, and
-- --
opened? and the multepliyng of the
`incomyng of it who vnderstod?
8 Oon
is the hei&yogh;est makere of no&yogh;t of alle
thingus, al my&yogh;ti, and a my&yogh;ti king, and
wrthi to be drad ful myche, sittende vp
on the trone of hym, and Godd lordshipende.
9 He formede it in the Hoeli
Goest, and sa&yogh;, and distinctli noumbrede,
and mesurede;
10 and helde out it vpon alle
his werkes, and vp on alle flesh aftir his
&yogh;ifte; he &yogh;yueth it to men loouende itself.
11 The drede of the Lord glorie, and io&yogh;yng,
and gladnesse, and coroun of outward
io&yogh;yng.
12 The drede of the Lord shal delyten
the herte; and shal &yogh;yue gladnesse
and io&yogh;e in to the lengthe of da&yogh;es.
13 To
the dredende God, wel shal be in the
laste endys; and in the dai of his diyng
he shal be blissid.
14 To whom forsothe it
shal aperen in si&yogh;t, thei loouen it in seeyng,
and in the knowing of his grete
thingus.
15 The loouyng of God wrshepeful
wisdam.
16 The bigynnyng of wisdam
drede of the Lord; and with feithful men
in the wombe he is togidere formed, and
with chosen wymmen he goth, and with
ri&yogh;twis and feithful men he is knowen.
17 The drede of the Lord religiosite of kunnyng.
18 Religiosite shal kepen, and iustefien
the herte; ful myrthe and io&yogh;e it
shal &yogh;yue.
19 To the dredende God wel
shal be; and in the da&yogh;es of endynge
of hym he shal be blessid.
20 Plente of
wisdam to dreden God; and plente of
the frutes of it.
21 Eche hous of hym it
shal fulfille fro ieneraciouns, and the
resceyuyng places fro the tresores of
hym.
22 The croune of wisdam drede of
the Lord, fulfillende pes, and the frut of
helthe.
23 And it sa&yogh;, and distinctli noumbrede
it; bothe forsothe ben the &yogh;iftis
of God.
24 Kunnyng and vnderstonding of
-- --
prudence wisdam shal with departen; and
the glorie of men holdende itself it enhaunceth.
25 The roote of wisdam is `to
dreden God; the braunches forsothe
of it long lyuyng.
26 In the tresores of
wisdam vnderstonding, and religiosite of
kunnyng; kursyng forsothe to synneres
wisdam.
27 The drede of the Lord putteth
awei synne,
28 for who withoute drede is,
shal not moun be iustefied; wrathefulnesse
forsothe of wilfulnesse `or hardynesse of
hym is his turnyng vp so doun.
29 Vn to
tyme the pacient shal suffre; and aftirward
30 is &yogh;eldynge a&yogh;een of ful myrthe.
Good wit vnto time shal hide his wrdis;
and the lippis of manye shuln tellen out
the wit of hym.
31 In the tresores of wisdam
is tocnyng of discyplyne;
32 cursing
forsothe to the synnere is the heriyng of
God.
33 Sone, coueitende wisdam, kep ri&yogh;twysnesse,
and God shal &yogh;yue it to thee.
34 Wisdam forsothe and disciplyne the drede
of the Lord, and that weel plesid is to
hym, feith and debonernesse;
35 and it shal
fulfille the tresores of hym.
36 Be thou
not rebel, and `mys leeful to the dred
of the Lord; and ne ne&yogh;he thou to hym
with double herte.
37 Ne be thou an ipocrite
in the si&yogh;te of men; and be thou not
sclaundred in thi lippes.
38 Tac heed in tho
thingus, lest parauenture thou falle, and
bringe to thi soule vnwrsheping;
39 and
God openeth in hid thingus, and in the
myddel of the synagoge he hurtle thee;
40 for thou ne&yogh;hedist maliciously to the
Lord, and thin herte is ful of treccherie
and desceyt.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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