Proverbs 12 WYC
Summary: This chapter opens by praising the one who loves discipline and knowledge over the one who hates reproof, and contrasts the righteous, whose root is not moved, with the wicked, who will not be established. It includes the well-known line that "an excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones" (v. 4), and observes that anxiety weighs a heart down while a good word makes it glad. Notably it affirms that "whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast" (v. 10), and closes contrasting truthful lips that endure forever with a lying tongue that lasts only a moment.
1He that loueth chastisyng, loueth kunnyng; but he that hatith blamyngis, is vnwijs.
2He that is good, schal drawe to hym silf grace of the Lord; but he that tristith in hise thouytis, doith wickidli.
3A man schal not be maad strong by wyckidnesse; and the root of iust men schal not be moued.
4A diligent womman is a coroun to hir hosebond; and rot is in the boonys of that womman, that doith thingis worthi of confusioun.
5The thouytis of iust men ben domes; and the counselis of wickid men ben gileful.
6The wordis of wickid men setten tresoun to blood; the mouth of iust men schal delyuere hem.
7Turne thou wickid men, and thei schulen not be; but the housis of iust men schulen dwelle perfitli.
8A man schal be knowun bi his teching; but he that is veyn and hertles, schal be open to dispising.
9Betere is a pore man, and sufficient to him silf, than a gloriouse man, and nedi of breed.
10A iust man knowith the soulis of hise werk beestis; but the entrailis of wickid men ben cruel.
11He that worchith his lond, schal be fillid with looues; but he that sueth idilnesse, is moost fool. He that is swete, lyueth in temperaunces; and in hise monestyngis he forsakith dispisyngis.
12The desir of a wickid man is the memorial of worste thingis; but the roote of iust men schal encreesse.
13For the synnes of lippis `falling doun neiyeth to an yuel man; but a iust man schal scape fro angwisch.
14Of the fruyt of his mouth ech man schal be fillid with goodis; and bi the werkis of hise hondis it schal be yoldun to him.
15The weie of a fool is riytful in hise iyen; but he that is wijs, herith counsels.
16A fool schewith anoon his ire; but he that dissymelith wrongis, is wijs.
17He that spekith that, that he knowith, is a iuge of riytfulnesse; but he that lieth, is a gileful witnesse.
18A man is that bihetith, and he is prickid as with the swerd of conscience; but the tunge of wise men is helthe.
19The lippe of treuthe schal be stidfast with outen ende; but he that is a sudeyn witnesse, makith redi the tunge of leesyng.
20Gile is in the herte of hem that thenken yuels; but ioye sueth hem, that maken counsels of pees.
21What euere bifallith to a iust man, it schal not make hym sori; but wickid men schulen be fillid with yuel.
22False lippis is abhominacioun to the Lord; but thei that don feithfuli, plesen him.
23A fel man hilith kunnyng; and the herte of vnwise men stirith foli.
24The hond of stronge men schal haue lordschip; but the hond that is slow, schal serue to tributis.
25Morenynge in the herte of a iust man schal make hym meke; and he schal be maad glad bi a good word.
26He that dispisith harm for a frend, is a iust man; but the weie of wickid men schal disseyue hem.
27A gileful man schal not fynde wynnyng; and the substaunce of man schal be the prijs of gold.
28Lijf is in the path of riytfulnesse; but the wrong weie leedith to deeth.
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