1A drunken workman shall not be made rich; and he that chargeth not little sins or despiseth little things, falleth down into grievouser sins, little and little.
2Wine and women make to be apostates, yea, wise men, or Wine and women make also wise men to go backward; and they reprove witty, (or witting, or knowing) men. And he that joineth himself to whores, shall be wicked;
3rot and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be set on high into more ensample, and his soul shall be taken away from (the) number of chosen men.
4He that believeth soon, is un-stable or light in heart, and shall be made less; and he that trespasseth against his (own) soul, shall be had furthermore.
5He that joyeth in wickedness, shall be cursed; and he that hateth blaming or correction, shall be made less in life;
6and he that hateth jangling or much speech, quencheth malice. He that sinneth against his (own) soul, shall not repent or do penance; and that is merry in malice, shall be cursed or reproved.
7Rehearse thou (or Repeat) not an hard word, and wicked; and thou shalt not be made less.
8Do not thou tell thy wit to friend and (or) to (an) enemy; and if trespass is to thee, do not thou make (it) naked.
9For he shall hear thee, and shall keep thee, and he as defending the sin shall hate thee; and so he shall be ever(more) with thee.
10Thou hast heard a word against thy neighbour; die it (al)together in (or with) thee, and trust thou that it shall not break thee.
11A fool travaileth greatly of (or in) the face of a word, as the sorrow of (the) bearing of a young child or (the) wailing of the birth of a child.
12An arrow fastened or fixed in the hip of a dog, so a word in the heart of a fool.
13Reprove thou or Chastise a friend, lest peradventure he understand not, and say, I did (it) not; either if he hath done (it), lest he add to do (it) again.
14Reprove thou or Chastise a neigh-bour, lest peradventure he say (it) not; and if he saith or said (it), lest per-adventure he rehearse (or repeat it).
15Reprove thou or Chastise a friend, for why trespassing is done often; and believe thou not to each word.
16There is a man that falleth or that slideth by his tongue, but not of will, that is, wittingly and of (or on) purpose. For why who is he, that trespasseth not in (or with) his tongue?
17Reprove thou or Chastise a neighbour, betwixt thee and him, before that thou menace or threaten (him); and give thou place to the dread of the Highest.
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20For why all wisdom is the dread of God, and in that wisdom for to dread God; and the ordinance or the disposing of (the) law is in all wisdom.
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22And the teaching of wickedness is not wisdom; and the prudence of sins is not good thought. And wisdom is not the discipline of shrewdness (or depravity); and good thinking is not the prudence of sins.
23There is wickedness of prudence, and cursedness is therein; and there is an unwise man, which is made little in wisdom. There is shrewdness (or depravity) of prudence, and in it cursing; and there is an unwise man, that is less(en)ed in wisdom.
24Better is a man that hath little wisdom, and failing in wit, in the dread of God, than he that hath plenty of or aboundeth in wit, and breaketh the law of the Highest.
25There is (a) certain subtlety or slyness, and it is wicked. And there is a man, that sendeth out a certain word, telling out (the) truth.
26There is a man that meeketh himself wickedly to deceive men the more; and his inner things be full of guile. There is, that shrewdly meeketh himself; and the entrails of him be full of treachery.
27And there is a just or rightwise man, that maketh low greatly or under-putteth himself of (or by) much meek-ness; and there is a just or rightwise man, that boweth the face, and feign-eth him(self) to see not that, that is unknown.
28(Even) Though or And if he is forbidden of (or by the) feebleness or infirmity of strengths to do sin; if he findeth (the) time to do evil, he shall do evil.
29A man is known by (his) sight (or by his appearance); and a witty, (or a witting, or a knowing) man is known by meeting of face.
30The clothing of (the) body, and the laughing of teeth, and the enter-ing or the going in of a man, tell out of him.
