Proverbs 14:5-35

⁵A faithfull witnes will not lye: but a false record will speake lyes.

⁶A scorner seeketh wisdome, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easie to him that will vnderstande.

⁷Depart from the foolish man, when thou perceiuest not in him the lippes of knowledge.

⁸The wisdome of ye prudent is to vnderstand his way: but the foolishnes of the fooles is deceite.

⁹The foole maketh a mocke of sinne: but among the righteous there is fauour.

¹⁰The heart knoweth the bitternes of his soule, and the stranger shall not medle with his ioy.

¹¹The house of the wicked shalbe destroyed: but the tabernacle of the righteous shall florish.

¹²There is a way that seemeth right to a man: but the issues thereof are the wayes of death.

¹³Euen in laughing the heart is sorowful, and the ende of that mirth is heauinesse.

¹⁴The heart that declineth, shall be saciate with his owne wayes: but a good man shall depart from him.

¹⁵The foolish will beleeue euery thing: but the prudent will consider his steppes.

¹⁶A wise man feareth, and departeth from euill: but a foole rageth, and is carelesse.

¹⁷He that is hastie to anger, committeth follie, and a busie body is hated.

¹⁸The foolish do inherite follie: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

¹⁹The euill shall bowe before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

²⁰The poore is hated euen of his own neighbour: but the friendes of the rich are many.

²¹The sinner despiseth his neighbour: but he that hath mercie on the poore, is blessed.

²²Doe not they erre that imagine euill? but to them that thinke on good things, shalbe mercie and trueth.

²³In all labour there is abundance: but the talke of the lippes bringeth onely want.

²⁴The crowne of the wise is their riches, and the follie of fooles is foolishnes.

²⁵A faithfull witnes deliuereth soules: but a deceiuer speaketh lyes.

²⁶In the feare of the Lord is an assured strength, and his children shall haue hope.

²⁷The feare of the Lord is as a welspring of life, to auoyde the snares of death.

²⁸In the multitude of the people is the honour of a King, and for the want of people commeth the destruction of the Prince.

²⁹He that is slowe to wrath, is of great wisdome: but he that is of an hastie minde, exalteth follie.

³⁰A sounde heart is the life of the flesh: but enuie is the rotting of the bones.

³¹He that oppresseth the poore, reprooueth him that made him: but hee honoureth him, that hath mercie on the poore.

³²The wicked shall be cast away for his malice: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

³³Wisedome resteth in the heart of him that hath vnderstanding, and is knowen in the mids of fooles.

³⁴Iustice exalteth a nation, but sinne is a shame to the people.

³⁵The pleasure of a King is in a wise seruant: but his wrath shalbe toward him that is lewde.