📖 Proverbs 31
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The wordes of king Lamuel, and the lesson that his mother taught him.
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What my sonne? what the sonne of my body? and what O my deare beloued sonne?
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Geue not ouer thy strength & wayes vnto women, which are the destruction euen of kynges.
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O Lamuel, it is not for kynges, it is not I say for kynges to drynke wine, nor princes strong drynke.
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Lest they by drnkyng forget the lawe, and peruert the iudgement of all poore mens children.
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Geue strong drynke vnto such as are redy to perishe, and wine vnto those that mourne:
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That they may drynke it, and forget their miserie and aduersitie.
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Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, to speake in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde.
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Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.
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Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman, she is much more worth then pearles.
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The heart of her husbande may safely trust in her, so that he shall fall into no pouertie.
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She wyll do hym good, and not euill, all the dayes of her lyfe.
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She occupieth wooll and flaxe, and laboureth gladly with her handes.
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She is like a marchauntes ship, that bryngeth her vittayles from a farre.
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She is vp in the nyght season, to prouide meate for her housholde, and foode for her maydens.
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She considereth lande, and byeth it: and with the fruite of her handes she planteth a vineyarde.
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She girdeth her loynes with strength, and fortifieth her armes.
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And yf she perceaue that her huswiferie doth good, her candell goeth not out by nyght.
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She layeth her fingers to the spindle, & her hande taketh holde of the distaffe.
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She openeth her hande to the poore, yea she stretcheth foorth her handes to such as haue neede.
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She feareth not that the colde of wynter shall hurt her housholde, for all her housholde folkes are clothed with scarlet.
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She maketh her selfe faire ornametes, her clothyng is white silke and purple.
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Her husbande is much set by in the gates, when he sitteth among the rulers of the lande.
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She maketh cloth of silke, and selleth it: and deliuereth girdles vnto the marchaunt.
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Strength and honour is her clothing, and in the latter day she shall reioyce.
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She openeth her mouth with wisdome, and in her tongue is the lawe of grace.
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She loketh well to the wayes of her housholde: and eateth not her bread with idlenesse.
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Her children arise vp & call her blessed: and her husbande shall make much of her.
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Many daughters there be that gather riches together: but thou goest aboue them all.
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As for fauour it is deceiptfull, & beautie is a vayne thyng: but a woman that feareth the Lorde, shalbe praysed.
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Geue her of the fruite of her handes: and let her owne workes prayse her in the gates.