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1Many men have trespassed for neediness [or mis-ease] ; and he that seeketh to be made rich, turneth away his eye.
2As a stake [or a pale] is fastened in the midst of a heap [or a joining] of stones, so and a man shall be an-guished by sins betwixt the midst of selling and buying. Trespass shall be all-broken with him that trespasseth.
3If thou holdest not thee diligently in the dread of the Lord, thine house shall soon be turned upside-down.
4As dust shall dwell in the holes of a riddle, so the anguish of a man shall dwell in the thoughts of him.
5A furnace proveth the vessels of a potter; and the temptation of tribu-lation proveth just [or rightwise] men.
6As churl-like travail [or earth-working] about a tree showeth the fruit thereof, so a word of thought showeth the heart of man.
7Praise thou not a man before a word fully ended ; for why this is the temptation, that is, proving , of men.
8If thou pursuest rightfulness [or followest rightwiseness] , thou shalt take it; thou shalt clothe it as a long cloth [or aube] of honour, and thou shalt dwell with it, and it shall defend thee without end, and in the day of knowing thou shalt find steadfastness.
9Volatiles [or Fowls] come together to birds like themselves; and truth shall turn again to them that work it.
10A lion setteth espies ever to hunting [or A lion to hunting waiteth evermore] ; so sins to them that work wickedness.
11An holy man dwelleth in wisdom, as the sun dwelleth ; for why a fool is changed as the moon.
12In the midst of unwise men keep thou a word to time; but be thou busy in the midst of them that think the law of God.
13The telling of sinners is hateful; and the laughing of them is in the trespasses of sin.
14Speech swearing much shall make standing up of hairs, for aston-ishing, to the head; and unreverence thereof [or irreverence of it] is stop-ping of ears.
15The shedding out of blood is in the chiding [or jangling] of proud men; and the cursing of them is grievous hearing, for in their chiding they blaspheme God often, and it is full grievous to faithful ears to hear such blasphemy of God .
16He that showeth openly the privates of a friend, loseth faithfulness [or the faith of a friend] ; and he shall not find a friend to his soul.
17Love thou a neighbour, and be thou joined with him in faith. For if thou showest openly the privates of him, thou shalt not perfectly pursue after him [or pursue thou not after him] .
18For as a man that loseth his friend, so he that loseth the friendship of his neighbour.
19And as a man that letteth go a bird from [or out of] his hand, so thou that hast forsaken thy neighbour, and thou shalt not take him.
20Thou shalt not pursue [or follow] him, for he is far absent [or away] ; for he escaped as a capret from a snare, for the soul of him is wounded.
21Thou shalt no more be able to bind him together; but of evil saying is according. Soothly to show openly the privates of a friend, is despair of a soul unblessed, [or To make naked forsooth the privates of a friend, is the despairing of the unfaithful soul] .
22He that twinkleth with the eye, maketh [or forgeth] wicked things; and no man shall cast him away.
23In the sight of thine eyes he shall defoul his mouth, and he shall wonder on thy words; but at the last he shall turn waywardly [or shall pervert] his mouth, and in his word [or in thy words] he shall give slander.
24I [have] heard many things, that is, evils , and I made them not even to him, yea, I areckoned not another malice even to the malice of this man ; and the Lord shall hate him.
25If a man casteth a stone on high, it shall fall on his head; and the guileful wound of a guileful [or treacherous] man shall part wounds.
26And he that diggeth a ditch, shall fall into it; and he that setteth a stone to a neighbour, shall offend therein [or stumble in it] ; and he that setteth a snare to another man, shall perish therein.
27If a man maketh worst [or wicked] counsel, it shall be turned on him; and he shall not know from whence it shall come to him.
28The scorning and despising of proud men and vengeance shall set espy to him, as a lion doeth. [Illusion, or scorn, and reproof of proud men and vengeance, as a lion shall espy to him.]
29They that delight in the fall of just [or rightwise] men, shall perish by a snare; forsooth sorrow shall waste them, before that they die.
30Ire [or Wrath] and madness or rage, ever either be abominable; and a sinful man shall hold those [or them] .