Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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CAP. III.
1 The sones of wisdom ben the chirche
of iust men, and the nacioun of hem is
obedience and loue.
2 Dereworthe sones,
here &yogh;e the doom of the fadir; and do &yogh;e
so, that &yogh;e be saaf.
3 For whi God onouride
the fadir note in sones, and he sekith, and
hath maad stidfast the doom of the
modir in to sones.
4 He that loueth God,
schal preie for synnes, and he schal absteyne
hym silf fro tho, and he schal be
herd in the preier of daies.
5 And as he
that tresourith, so and he that onourith
his modir.
6 He that onourith his fadir,
schal be maad myrie in sones, and he
schal be herd in the dai of his preier.
7 He that onourith his fadir, schal lyue bi
lengere lijf; and he that obeieth to the
fader, schal refreische the modir note.
8 He
that dredith the Lord, onourith fadir and
modir; and he schal serue in werk, and word,
9 and al pacience to hem that gendriden
hym as to lordis.
10 Onoure thi fadir, that
the blessyng of God come to thee; and his
blessing dwellith in the laste.
11 The blessyng
of the fadir makith stidfast the housis
of sones; but the cursyng of the modir
drawith out the foundementis.
12 Haue
-- --
thou not glorie in the dispisyng of thi
fadir; for it is not glorie to thee, but confusioun.
13 For whi the glorie of a man is
of the onour of his fadir; and the schenschip
of the sone is a fadir with out onour.
14 Sone, resseyue the elde of thi fadir, and
make thou not hym sori in his lijf;
15 and
if he failith in wit note, &yogh;yue thou for&yogh;yuenesse,
and dispise thou not hym in thi
vertu; for whi the almes of the fadir
schal not be for&yogh;etyng.
16 For whi good
schal be restorid to thee for the synne of
the modir,
17 and bildyng schal be maad to
thee in ri&yogh;tfulnesse; and it schal remembre
of thee in dai of tribulacioun, and thi
synnes schulen be releessid, as iys in clerenesse
of the sunne.
18 He is of ful yuel
fame, that forsakith the fadir; and he
that wraththith the modir, is cursid of
God.
19 Sone, performe thi werkis in myldenesse,
and thou schalt be loued ouer the
glorie of men.
20 In as myche as thou art
greet note, make thee meke in alle thingis,
and thou schalt fynde grace bifore God;
for whi the power of God aloon is greet,
21
and he is onourid of meke men.
22 Seke
thou not hi&yogh;ere thingis than thou, and
enquere thou not strongere thingis than
thou; but euere thenke thou tho thingis,
whiche God comaundide to thee; and be
thou not curiouse note in ful many werkis of
hym.
23 For it is not nedeful to thee to se
with thin i&yogh;en tho thingis, that ben hid.
24 In superflu thingis nyle thou seke manyfold;
and be thou not curiouse in many
werkis of hym;
25 for whi ful many thingis
aboue the wit of men note ben schewid to
thee.
26 For the suspecioun of many men
hath disseyued hem, and withhelde her
wittis in vanytee.
27 And hard herte schal
haue yuel in the laste tyme; and he that
loueth perel, schal perische ther ynne.
28 An
herte that entrith bi tweie weies note, schal
not haue prosperitees, ether reste; and a
-- --
man of schrewid herte schal be sclaundrid
in tho.
29 A wickid herte schal be greuyd
in sorewis; and a synnere schal `hepe to
do synne.
30 Helthe schal not be note to the
synagoge of proude men; for whi the
thicke wode of synne schal be drawun
out bi the roote in hem, and it schal not
be vndurstondun note.
31 The herte of a wise
man is vndurstondun in wisdom, and a
good eere schal here wisdom with al coueitise.
32 A wijs herte and able to vndurstonde
schal absteyne it silf fro synnes,
and schal haue prosperitees in the werkis
of ri&yogh;tfulnesse.
33 Watir quenchith fier brennynge,
and almes a&yogh;enstondith synnes.
34 And
God, the biholdere of hym that &yogh;eldith
grace note, hath mynde aftirward; and he
schal fynde stidefastnesse in the tyme of
his fal.
Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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