📖 Proverbs 17
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Better is a drye morsell wt quyetnesse, the a full house and many fatt catell wt stryfe.
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A discrete seruaut shal haue more rule then the sonnes yt haue no wysdome, and shal haue like heretage wt the brethren.
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3
Like as syluer is tried in the fyre and golde in the fornace, euen so doth the LORDE proue the hertes.
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4
A wicked body holdeth moch of false lippes, & a dyssemblynge persone geueth eare to a disceatfull toge.
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Who so laugheth ye poore to scorne, blasphemeth his maker: and he yt is glad of another mans hurte, shal not be vnpunyshed.
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6
Childers children are a worshipe vnto the elders, and the fathers are the honor of the children.
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An eloquent speach becometh not a foole, a dyssemblinge mouth also besemeth not a prynce.
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8
Liberalite is a precious stone vnto him that hath it, for where so euer he becometh, he prospereth.
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9
Who so couereth another mans offence, seketh loue: but he yt discloseth the faute, setteth frendes at variaunce.
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10
One reprofe only doth more good to him yt hath vnderstodinge, then an C. stripes vnto a foole.
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11
A sedicious personne seketh myschefe, but a cruell messaunger shal be sent agaynst him.
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12
It were better to come agaynst a she Bere robbed of hir whelpes, then agaynst a foole in his foolishnes.
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13
Who so rewardeth euell for good, the plage shal not departe fro his house.
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14
He yt soweth discorde & strife, is like one yt dyggeth vp a water broke: but an open enemie is like the water yt breaketh out & reneth abrode.
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15
The LORDE hateth as well him yt iustifieth ye vngodly, as him yt condempneth the innocet.
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16
What helpeth it to geue a foole money in his hode, where as he hath no mynde to bye wy?dome?
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17
He is a frende that allwaye loueth, and in aduersite a man shal knowe who is his brother.
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18
Who so promiseth by the hande, & is suertie for another, he is a foole.
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19
He yt loueth strife, delyteth in synne: & who so setteth his dore to hye, seketh after a fall.
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20
Who so hath a frowarde herte, opteyneth no good: and he yt hath an ouerthwarte tonge, shal fall into myschefe.
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21
An vnwyse body bryngeth himselfe in to sorowe, and ye father of a foole can haue no ioye.
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22
A mery herte maketh a lusty age, but a sorowfull mide dryeth vp ye bones.
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23
The vngodly taketh giftes out of the bosome, to wraist the wayes of iudgment.
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24
Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.
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25
An vndiscrete sonne is a grefe vnto his father, and heuynesse vnto his mother yt bare him.
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26
To punysh ye innocent, and to smyte ye prynces yt geue true iudgmet, are both euell.
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27
He is wyse and discrete, yt tempereth his wordes: and he is a ma of vnderstodinge, yt maketh moch of his sprete.
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28
Yee a very foole (when he holdeth his tonge) is counted wyse, and to haue vnderstodinge, when he shutteth his lippes.