1Betere is a good name, than many richessis; for good grace is aboue siluer and gold.

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2A riche man and a pore man metten hem silf; the Lord is worchere of euer eithir.

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Luke 17:10, Luke 17:10, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8, Galatians 6:7

3A felle man seeth yuel, and hidith him silf; and an innocent man passid, and he was turmentid bi harm.

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Malachi 2:17, Job 23:10, Job 23:12, Proverbs 11:20, Psalms 119:59

4The ende of temperaunce is the drede of the Lord; richessis, and glorye, and lijf.

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Job 14:3, Job 14:3, Psalms 143:2, Psalms 143:2, Revelation 3:19

5Armuris and swerdis ben in the weie of a weiward man; but the kepere of his soule goith awey fer fro tho.

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Psalms 40:12, Psalms 40:12, Job 11:6, Job 4:7, Job 4:11

6It is a prouerbe, A yong wexynge man bisidis his weie, and whanne he hath wexe elde, he schal not go awei fro it.

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Exodus 22:26, Exodus 22:26, Ezekiel 18:16, Ezekiel 18:12, Ezekiel 18:16

7A riche man comaundith to pore men; and he that takith borewyng, is the seruaunt of the leenere.

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Job 31:17, Job 31:17, Isaiah 58:7, Matthew 25:42, Isaiah 58:7

8He that sowith wickidnes, schal repe yuels; and the yerde of his yre schal be endid.

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Isaiah 9:15, Isaiah 9:15, Job 31:34, Job 13:8, Isaiah 3:3

9He that is redi to merci, schal be blessid; for of his looues he yaf to a pore man. He that yyueth yiftis, schal gete victorie and onour; forsothe he takith awei the soule of the takeris.

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Job 24:3, Job 24:21, Job 24:3, Job 24:21, Ezekiel 22:7

10Caste thou out a scornere, and strijf schal go out with hym; and causis and dispisyngis schulen ceesse.

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Job 18:8, Job 18:10, Job 6:4, Job 13:21, Job 18:8

11He that loueth the clennesse of herte, schal haue the kyng a freend, for the grace of hise lippis.

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Psalms 69:1, Psalms 69:2, Lamentations 3:54, Psalms 69:1, Psalms 69:2

12The iyen of the Lord kepen kunnyng; and the wordis of a wickid man ben disseyued.

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Job 11:8, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Job 11:8, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Psalms 115:16

13A slow man schal seie, A lioun is withoutforth; Y schal be slayn in the myddis of the stretis.

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Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 8:12, Psalms 10:11, Psalms 10:11, Psalms 73:11

14The mouth of an alien womman is a deep diche; he to whom the Lord is wrooth, schal falle in to it.

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Psalms 97:2, Psalms 139:11, Psalms 139:12, Psalms 97:2, Psalms 139:11

15Foli is boundun togidere in the herte of a child; and a yerde of chastisyng schal dryue it awey.

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Luke 17:26, Luke 17:27, Luke 17:26, Luke 17:27, Genesis 6:5

16He that falsli chalengith a pore man, to encreesse hise owne richessis, schal yyue to a richere man, and schal be nedi.

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Job 15:32, Job 15:32, Genesis 7:17, Genesis 7:24, Genesis 7:17

17My sone, bowe doun thin eere, and here thou the wordis of wise men; but sette thou the herte to my techyng.

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Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Psalms 4:6

18That schal be fair to thee, whanne thou hast kept it in thin herte, and it schal flowe ayen in thi lippis.

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Job 21:16, Job 21:16, Job 12:6, Job 12:6, 1 Samuel 2:7

19That thi trist be in the Lord; wherfor and Y haue schewid it to thee to dai.

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Psalms 58:10, Psalms 58:10, Psalms 107:42, Psalms 52:6, Psalms 107:42

20Lo! Y haue discryued it in thre maneres, in thouytis and kunnyng,

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Job 1:16, Job 20:26, 2 Peter 2:6, 2 Peter 2:7, Job 1:16

21that Y schulde schewe to thee the sadnesse and spechis of trewthe; to answere of these thingis to hem, that senten thee.

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1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Isaiah 27:5, Isaiah 27:5, Psalms 34:10

22Do thou not violence to a pore man, for he is pore; nethir defoule thou a nedi man in the yate.

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Job 23:12, Psalms 119:11, Job 23:12, Psalms 119:11, Deuteronomy 6:6

23For the Lord schal deme his cause, and he schal turmente hem, that turmentiden his soule.

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Job 11:13, Job 11:14, Zechariah 1:3, Job 11:13, Job 11:14

24Nyle thou be freend to a wrathful man, nether go thou with a wood man;

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1 Kings 9:28, Isaiah 13:12, 1 Kings 9:28, Isaiah 13:12, Job 31:25

25lest perauenture thou lerne hise weies, and take sclaundir to thi soule.

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Isaiah 33:6, Isaiah 33:6, Genesis 15:1, Genesis 15:1, Psalms 16:5

26Nyle thou be with hem that oblischen her hondis, and that proferen hem silf borewis for dettis; for if he hath not wherof he schal restore,

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Psalms 37:4, Isaiah 58:14, Psalms 37:4, Isaiah 58:14, Job 27:10

27what of cause is, that thou take awei hilyng fro thi bed?

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Isaiah 58:9, Isaiah 58:9, Psalms 116:1, Psalms 116:1, 1 John 5:14

28Go thou not ouer the elde markis, whiche thi faders han set.

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Matthew 21:22, Matthew 21:22, Psalms 90:17, Psalms 90:17, Psalms 20:4

29Thou hast seyn a man smert in his werk; he schal stonde bifore kyngis, and he schal not be bifor vnnoble men.

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James 4:6, James 4:6, Job 5:19, Job 5:27, Job 5:19