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. XXXIII.
1 To the dredende God eueles shul not
meete; but in tempting God shal kepen
hym, and delyueren hym fro euelys.
2 The wise man hateth not hestes, and
ri&yogh;twisnesses; and he shal not ben hurtlid,
as in the tempest of a ship.
3 A weel
felende man leeueth to the lawe of God,
and the lawe feithful to hym.
4 Who the
asking maketh open, shal greithe a wrd;
and so louli pre&yogh;ende he shal be ful out
herd, and he shal kepe disciplyne, and
thanne he shal answern.
5 The entrailes
of a fool as the whel of a carre, and as a
turnende ful axtre the thenkingus of
hym.
6 An hors courser, so and a frend priue
scornere, vnder eche man vpon sittende
ne&yogh;eth.
7 Whi dai the dai ouercometh, and
eft li&yogh;t the li&yogh;t, and &yogh;er the &yogh;er, sunne the
sunne?
8 Of the kunnyng of the Lord
-- --
thei ben seuered, the sunne mad, and
kepende the heste; bi the wisdam of
God thei ben deuydid.
9 And he shal
chaunge the tymes and the feste da&yogh;es
of hem, and in hem the feste da&yogh;es thei
haleweden at the hour.
10 Of hem God
enhauncede and magnefiede; and of them
he putte in to the noumbre of da&yogh;es and
&yogh;eres; and alle men of the soil, and of
the erthe, wherof Adam was foormed.
11 In the multitude of the disciplyne of the
Lord he seuerede them, and chaungide
the weies of them.
12 And of them he
blissede, and enhauncede; and of hem
he halewide, and to hymself he presentede;
of hem he curside, and mekede,
and turnede them to the seueryng of
hem.
13 As the cley of the crockere in the
hond of hym, to foormen and to disposen
it,
14 alle the weies of it aftir his
disposicioun; so a man in his hond that
made hym; and he shal &yogh;eelde to them
aftir his dom.
15 A&yogh;en euel is good, and
a&yogh;en lif deth; so and a&yogh;en the ri&yogh;twis
man the synnere. And so bihold in to
alle the werkis of the he&yogh;est; two a&yogh;en
two, oon a&yogh;en oon.
16 And I the laste
wakide, and as that gedereth clustris,
aftir the grape kutteres.
17 In the blessing
of God and I myself hopede; and as he
that grapes kutteth, I fulfilde presse.
18 Beholdeth, for not to me alone I trauailede,
but to alle men sechende out
disciplyne.
19 Hereth me, &yogh;ee grete men,
and alle puples; and &yogh;ee gouernoures of
the chirche, with eres parceyueth.
20 To
sone, and wif, brother, and frend, &yogh;if thou
not power vp on thee in thi lif; and &yogh;yue
thou not to an other thi possessioun, lest
it othinke thee, and thou louli pre&yogh;e for
hem.
21 Whil &yogh;it thou art aboue, `or lyuest,
and brethest, shal not chaungen thee alle
flesh.
22 Betere is forsothe, that thi sonus
thee pre&yogh;en, than thee to beholden in to
-- --
the hondus of thi sonus.
23 In alle thi
werkes beforn passende be thou;
24 ne
&yogh;yue thou a wem in to thi glorie. In
the dai of the ful endyng of the da&yogh;es of
thi lif, and in tyme of thi deth dele thin
eritage.
25 Metes, and &yogh;erde, and berthene
to an asse; bred, and disciplyne, and
werk to a seruaunt.
26 He werketh in disciplyne,
and the largid hond to hym
secheth `to resten, and secheth fredam.
27 &YOGH;oc and brydil reyne crooken the harde
necke; and the seruaunt bowen besy
werkis.
28 To the euel willi seruaunt tormenting
and gyues; put hym into werching,
lest he be voide;
29 forsothe myche
malice idilnesse ta&yogh;te.
30 In werk set hym,
so forsothe it semeth hym; that if he
here not, bowe hym with gyues, and
make thou not large `vp on alle flesh,
but with oute dom noo thing do thou
heuy.
31 If ther is to thee a feithful seruaunt,
be he to thee as thi lif; as a
brother so trete hym, for in blod of lif
thou bo&yogh;tyst hym.
32 If thou `schalt hurte
hym vnri&yogh;twisly, in to fli&yogh;t he shal ben
turned;
33 and if enhauncende he schal go
awei, whom schalt thou seche, and in
what weie thou schalt seche hym, thou
wost not.
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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