Proverbs 12:15 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁵ Loke what a foole taketh in honde, he thinketh it well done: but he that is wyse, wyl be couceled.

⁵ By hearinge, the wyse ma shal come by more wysdome: and by experience,

⁷ Be not wyse in thine owne conceate, but feare ye LORDE and departe from euell:

⁹ Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.

¹² There is a waye, which some men thinke to be right, but the ende therof ledeth vnto death.

¹⁶ A wyse man, feareth, and departeth from euell, but a foole goeth on presumptuously.

² A ma thinketh all his waies to be clene, but it is ye LORDE yt fashioneth ye myndes.

²⁵ There is a waye yt men thinke to be right, but the ende therof leadeth vnto death.

²⁰ O geue eare vnto good councell, & be content to be refourmed, that thou mayest bewyse here after.

² Euery man thinketh his owne waye to be right, but the LORDE iudgeth ye hertes.

¹² Yf thou seyest a man yt is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a foole then in hi.

¹⁶ The slogarde thinketh him self wyser, then vij. men that sytt and teach.

¹¹ The rich man thynketh him self to be wyse, but the poore that hath vnderstondinge, ca perceaue him wel ynough.

¹² The generacion that thynke them selues cleane, shal not be clensed from their fylthynesse.

¹³ A poore childe beynge wyse, is better then an olde kinge, that doteth, and can not bewarre in tyme to come.

¹⁵ The Ieremy answerde Sedechias: Yf I be playne vnto the, thou wilt cause me suffre death: yf I geue the coucell, thou wilt not folowe me. ¹⁶ So the kynge swore an ooth secretly vnto Ieremy, sayenge: As truly as the LORDE lyueth, that made vs these soules, I will not slaye the, ner geue the in to the hodes of them, that seke after thy life. ¹⁷ Then sayde Ieremy vnto Sedechias: Thus saieth ye LORDE off hoostes the God of Israel: Yf case be, that thou wilt go forth vnto the kynge off Babilons prynces, thou shalt saue thy life, and this cite shall not be bret, yee both thou and thy housholde shall escape with youre lyues. ¹⁸ But yff thou wilt not go forth to the kynge off Babilons prynces, then shal this cite be delyuered in to the hondes of the Caldees which shal set fyre vpon it, and thou shalt be able to escape them. ¹⁹ And Sedechias sayde vnto Ieremy: I am afrayde for the Iewes, that are fled vnto the Caldees, lest I come in their hodes, and so they to haue me in derision. ²⁰ But Ieremy answerde: No, they shal not betraye the: O herken vnto the voyce off the LORDE (I beseke ye) which I speake vnto the, so shalt thou be well, and saue thy life. ²¹ But yf thou wilt not go forth, the LORDE hath tolde me this planely: ²² Beholde, all the women that are left in the kynge of Iudaes house, shal go out to the kynge of Babilons prynces. For they thynke, yt thou art disceaued: and that ye men in whom thou didest put thy trust, haue gotten the vnder, and set thy fete fast in the myre, and gone their waye from the. ²³ Therfore all thy wyues with their children shall fle vnto the Caldees, and thou shalt not escape their hondes, but shalt be ye kynge of Babilons presoner, & this cite shall be brent. ²⁴ Then sayde Sedechias vnto Ieremy: loke yt no body knowe off these wordes, and thou shalt not dye. ²⁵ But yf the prynces perceaue, that I haue talked with the, and come vnto the, sayenge: O speake, what sayde the kynge to the? hyde it not from vs, and we wil not put the to death. Tell vs (we praye the) what sayde ye kynge to the? ²⁶ Se thou geue them this answere: I haue humbly besought the kynge, that he will let me lye nomore in Ionathas house, that I dye not there? ²⁷ Then came all the princes vnto Ieremy, and axed him, And he tolde them, after the maner as the kynge bad him. Then they helde their peace, for they perceaued nothinge. ²⁸ So Ieremy abode still in the fore entrie off the preson, vntill the daye that Ierusalem was wonne.

¹¹ The Pharise stode, and prayed by himself after this maner: I thanke the God, that I am not as other men, robbers, vnrighteous, aduouters, or as this publican.

³ But yf eny man thinke himselfe to be somwhat (whan in dede he is nothinge) the same disceaueth himselfe.