Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
CHAP. XXVI.
Of good and bad women.
1 Happy is the husband
of a good wife: for the
number of his years is double.
2 A vertuous woman rejoiceth
her husband, and shall
fulfil the years of his life in
peace.
3 A good wife is a good
portion, she shall be given in
the portion of them that fear
God to a man for his good
deeds:
4 Rich or poor, if his
heart is good, his countenance
shall be chearful at all times.
5 Of three things my heart
hath been afraid, and at the
fourth my face hath trembled:
6 The accusation of a city,
and the gathering together of
the people:
7 And a false calumny, all
are more grievous than death.
8 A jealous woman is the
grief and mourning of the
heart.
9 With a jealous woman is
a scourge of the tongue which
communicateth with all.
10 As a yoke of oxen that
is moved to and fro, so also is
a wicked woman: he that
hath hold of her, is as he that
taketh hold of a scorpion.
11 A drunken woman is a
great wrath: and her reproach
and shame shall not be hid.
12 The fornication of a
woman shall be known by the
haughtiness of her eyes, and
by her eye-lids.
13 On a daughter that
turneth not away herself, set
a strict watch: lest finding an
opportunity she abuse herself.
14 Take heed of the impudence
of her eyes, and
wonder not if she slight thee.
15 She will open her mouth
as a thirsty traveller to the
fountain, and will drink of
every water near her, and
will sit down by every hedge,
and open her quiver against
every arrow, until she fail.
16 The grace of a diligent
woman shall delight her husband,
and shall fat his bones.
17 Her discipline is the
gift of God.
18 Such is a wise and silent
woman, and there is nothing
-- --
so much worth as a well
instructed soul:
19 A holy and shamefaced
woman is grace upon grace.
20 And no price is worthy
of a continent soul.
21 As the sun when it riseth
to the world in the high
places of God, so is the beauty
of a good wife for the ornament
of her house.
22 As the lamp shining
upon the holy candlestick, so
is the beauty of the face in a
ripe age.
23 As golden pillars upon
bases of silver, so are the firm
feet upon the soles of a steady
woman.
24 As everlasting foundations
upon a solid rock, so the
commandments of God in the
heart of a holy woman.
25 At two things my heart
is grieved, and the third bringeth
anger upon me:
26 A man of war fainting
through poverty: and a man
of sense despised:
27 And he that passeth
over from justice to sin: God
hath prepared such an one for
the sword.
28 Two sorts of callings
have appeared to me hard
and dangerous: a merchant is
hardly free note from negligence:
and note a huckster
shall not be justified from the
sins of the lips.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
|
