en_wbms - Pro 20 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Wine is a lecherous thing, and drunkenness is full of noise; whoever delighteth in these, shall not be wise.

² As the roaring of a lion, so and the dread of a king; he that stirreth him to ire, sinneth against his soul.

³ It is honour to a man that separateth himself from strivings; but fond men be meddled [or fools shall be mingled] with despisings.

⁴ A slow man would not ear for cold; therefore he shall beg in summer, and men shall not give to him.

⁵ As deep water, so counsel is in the heart of a man; but a wise man shall draw it out.

⁶ Many men be called merciful; but who shall find a faithful man?

⁷ Forsooth a just [or rightwise] man that goeth in his simpleness, shall leave blessed sons after him.

⁸ A king that sitteth in the seat of doom, destroyeth all evil by his looking.

⁹ Who may say, Mine heart is clean; I am clean of sin?

¹⁰ A weight, greater in buying, and a weight, lesser in selling, a measure and a measure, ever either is abominable at God.

¹¹ A child is understood by his studies, if his works be rightful [or right] and clean.

¹² An ear hearing, and an eye seeing, [or The hearing ear, and the seeing eye], God made ever either.

¹³ Do not thou love sleep, lest needi-ness oppress thee; open thine eyes, and be thou [ful] filled with loaves.

¹⁴ Each buyer saith, It is evil, it is evil; and when he hath gone away, then he shall have glory.

¹⁵ Gold, and the multitude of gems, and a precious vessel, be the lips of knowing.

¹⁶ Take thou away the cloth of him that was a borrow of another man; and for strangers take thou away a wed from him.

¹⁷ The bread of a leasing, that is, gotten by a leasing, is sweet to a man; and afterward his mouth shall be filled with reckoning [or with little pebble stones].

¹⁸ Thoughts be made strong by counsels; and battles shall be treated by governances.

¹⁹ Be thou not meddled [or mingled] with him that showeth privates, and goeth guilefully, and alargeth his lips.

²⁰ The light of him that curseth his father and mother, shall be quenched in the midst of darknesses.

²¹ Heritage to which men hasteth in the beginning, shall want blessing in the last time.

²² Say thou not, I shall yield evil for evil; abide thou the Lord, and he shall deliver thee.

²³ Abomination with God is weight and weight; a guileful balance is not good.

²⁴ The steps of man be dressed of the Lord; who forsooth of men may understand his way?

²⁵ Falling of man is to make avow [or vow] to saints, and afterward to withdraw the vows.

²⁶ A wise king scattereth wicked men; and boweth a bow of victory, that is, a stone bow, over them.

²⁷ The lantern of the Lord is the spirit of man, that seeketh out all the privates of the womb.

²⁸ Mercy and truth keep a king; and his throne is made strong by meekness.

²⁹ The full out joying of young men is the strength of them; and the dignity of eld [or old] men is hoariness.

³⁰ The wanness of wound shall wipe away evils, and wounds in the privier things of the womb.