Sirach 32
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| v | Wycliffe |
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| 1 | Thei han set thee a gouernour, nyle thou be enhaunsid; be thou among hem as oon of hem. |
| 2 | Haue thou cure of hem, and so biholde thou; and whanne al thi cure is fillid, sitte thou to mete. |
| 3 | That thou be glad for hem, and take the ournement of grace; and gete coroun, and dignyte of congregacioun. |
| 4 | Speke thou the gretter man in birthe; |
| 5 | for whi the word of hym that loueth kunnyng bicome thee first; and lette thou not musik. |
| 6 | Where heryng is not, schede thou not out a word; and nyle thou be enhaunsid vncouenabli in thi wisdom. |
| 7 | A iemme of carbuncle in the ournement of gold; and comparisoun of musikis in the feeste of wyn. |
| 8 | As in the makyng of gold is a signe of smaragde, so the noumbre of musikis is in myrie and mesurable wyn. |
| 9 | Here thou stille, and good grace schal come to thee for reuerence. |
| 10 | Yonge man, speke thou vnnethis in thi cause, whanne nede is. |
| 11 | If thou art axid twies, the heed haue thin answere. |
| 12 | In many thingis be thou as vnkunnyng, and here thou stille togidere and axynge. |
| 13 | And presume thou not to speke in the myddis of grete men; and where elde men ben, speke thou not myche. |
| 14 | Leityng schal go bifore hail, and grace schal go bifore schamfastnesse, and good grace schal come to thee for reuerence. |
| 15 | And in the our of risyng tifle thee not; forsothe renne thou bifore first in to thin hous, and there clepe thou thee to answer, and there pleie thou. |
| 16 | And do thi conseitis, and not in synnes, and in a proud word. |
| 17 | On alle these thingis blesse thou the Lord, that made thee, and fillynge thee greetli of alle hise goodis. |
| 18 | He that dredith God, schal take his techyng; and thei that waken to hym, schulen fynde blessyng. |
| 19 | He that sekith the lawe, schal be fillid therof; and he that doith tretourousli, schal be sclaundrid ther ynne. |
| 20 | Thei that dreden God, schulen fynde iust dom; and schulen kyndle riytfulnesse as liyt. |
| 21 | A synful man schal eschewe blamyng; and aftir his wille he schal fynde comparisoun. |
| 22 | A man of counsel schal not leese vndirstonding; a man alien and proud schal not drede dredyng. |
| 23 | Yhe, aftir that he hath do with that drede with out councel, and he schal be repreued bi hise suyngis. |
| 24 | Sone, do thou no thing with out councel; and aftir the dede thou schalt not repente. |
| 25 | Go thou not in the weie of fallyng, and offende thou not ayens stoonys. Bitake thou not thee to a trauelouse weie, lest thou sette sclaundir to thi soule; |
| 26 | and be thou war of thi sones, and perseyue thou of thi meyneals. |
| 27 | In al thi werk bileue thou bi feith of thi soule; for whi this is the keping of comaundementis. |
| 28 | He that bileueth to God, takith heede to the comaundementis; and he that tristith in hym, schal not be maad lesse. |