Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - Coverdale

⁷ Wy?dome is an hie thinge, yee eue to ye foole, for he darre not ope his mouth in ye gate.

⁴ that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them:

⁷ when I wente thorow the cite vnto the gate, & whe they set me a chayre in ye strete: ⁸ whe the yonge me (as soone as they sawe me) hyd the selues, & when the aged arose, & stode vp vnto me: ⁹ whe the princes left of their talkinge, & laied their hade to their mouth: ¹⁰ whe the mightie kepte still their voyce, and whe their tonges cleued to the rofe of their mouthes. ¹¹ When all they yt herde me, called me happie: & when all they yt sawe me, wysshed me good. ¹² For I delyuered ye poore whe he cried, & the fatherlesse yt wanted helpe. ¹³ He yt shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, & ye widdowes hert praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me rightuousnes, which couered me as a garmet, & equite was my crowne. ¹⁵ I was an eye vnto the blynde, & a fote to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly. ¹⁷ I brake the chaftes of ye vnrightuous, & plucte the spoyle out of their teth. ¹⁸ Therfore, I thought verely, yt I shulde haue dyed in my nest: & yt my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see. ¹⁹ For my rote was spred out by the waters syde, & the dew laye vpo my corne. ²⁰ My honor encreased more & more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande. ²¹ Vnto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, & wt sylence they taried for my coucell. ²² Yf I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge the. ²³ They wayted for me, as the earth doth for the rayne: & gaped vpon me, as the groude doth to receaue the latter shower. ²⁴ When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest: & this testimony of my coutenaunce pleased the nothinge at all. ²⁵ When I agreed vnto their waye, I was the chefe, & sat as a kynge amonge his seruauntes: Or as one that comforteth soch as be in heuynesse.

²¹ Dyd I euer lyft vp my honde to hurte the fatherlesse? Yee in the gate where I sawe my self to be in auctorite:

⁵ His wayes are allwaye filthie, thy iudgmentes are farre out of his sight, he defyeth all his enemies.

⁵ O LORDE, how glorious are thy workes, thy thoughtes are very depe. ⁶ An vnwyse man wil not knowe this, & a foole wil not vnderstode it.

⁶ A scornefull body seketh wy?dome, & fyndeth it not: but knowlege is easy to come by, vnto him that wil vnderstonde.

²⁴ The waye of life ledeth vnto heaue, yt a man shulde bewarre of hell beneth.

²⁴ Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.

²² Se yt thou robbe not ye poore because he is weake, and oppresse not ye simple in iudgment:

⁸ Be thou an aduocate & stonde in iudgment thyself, to speake for all soch as be dome & sucourles. ⁹ With yi mouth defende ye thinge yt is laufull and right, and ye cause of ye poore and helplesse.

²¹ soch as laboure to drawe me vnto synne: and yt disceaue him, which reproueth them in the gate, & soch as turne good personnes to vanite.

¹⁰ but they owe him euel will, yt reproueth them openly: and who so telleth the the playne treuth, they abhorre him.

¹² as for the multitude of youre wickednesses and youre stoute synnes, I knowe them right well. Enemies are ye off the rightuous, ye take rewardes, ye oppresse the poore in iudgment.

¹⁵ Hate the euell, and loue the good: set vp right agayne in the porte: & (no doute) the LORDE God of hoostes shall be mercifull vnto the remnaunt of Ioseph.

¹⁴ Howbeit the naturall man perceaueth nothinge of ye sprete of God. It is foolishnes vnto him, and he can not perceaue it: for it must be spiritually discerned.