Proverbs 24:30 Cross References - Coverdale

³⁰ I wente by ye felde of ye slouthfull, & by ye vynyarde of the foolish ma.

⁸ As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same.

²⁷ Lo, this is the matter, as we oure selues haue proued by experience. Therfore now that thou hearest it, take better hede to thy selff.

¹⁷ I will tell the, heare me: I wil shewe the a thinge, that I knowe:

²⁵ I haue bene yonge, & now am olde: yet sawe I neuer the rightuous forsake, ner his sede to seke their bred.

⁴² The rightuous wil cosidre this and reioyse, the mouth of all wickednesse shall be stopped.

⁶ Go to the Emmet (thou slogarde) cosidre hir wayes, & lerne to be wyse. ⁷ She hath no gyde, no teacher, no leder: ⁸ yet in the sommer she prouideth hir meate, & gathereth hir foode together i ye haruest. ⁹ How loge wilt thou slepe, thou slogish ma? Wha wilt thou aryse out of thy slepe? ¹⁰ Yee slepe on still a litle, slober a litle, folde thine handes together yet a litle, that thou mayest slepe: ¹¹ so shal pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by the waye, & necessite like a wapened man. ¹² A dissemblynge person, a wicked man goeth with a frowarde mouth: ¹³ he wyncketh with his eyes, he tokeneth wt his fete, he poynteth wt his fyngers, ¹⁴ he is euer ymageninge myschefe & frowardnesse in his hert, & causeth discorde. ¹⁵ Therfore shal his destruccion come hastely vpo him, sodenly shal he be all tobroken, and not be healed. ¹⁶ There be sixe thinges, which the LORDE hateth, & the seuenth he vtterly abhorreth: ¹⁷ A proude loke, a dyssemblynge tonge, hades that shed innocent bloude, ¹⁸ an herte yt goeth aboute wt wicked ymaginacios, fete that be swift in rennynge to do myschefe, ¹⁹ a false wytnesse yt bringeth vp lyes, & soch one as soweth discorde amonge brethren.

³² But who so comitteth aduoutrie with a woma, he is a foole, and bryngeth his life to destruccion.

¹³ In ye lippes of him yt hath vnderstodinge a ma shal fynde wysdome, but ye rodde belogeth to ye backe of ye foolish.

¹¹ He that tilleth his lode, shal haue plenteousnesse of bred: but he yt foloweth ydylnes, is a very foole.

¹ So I turned me, and considered all the violent wronge that is done vnder the Sonne: and beholde, the teares of soch as were oppressed, and there was no man to comforte them, or that wolde delyuer and defende them from the violence of their oppressours. ² Wherfore I iudged those that are deed, to be more happie then soch as be alyue: ³ yee him that is yet vnborne to be better at ease the they both, because he seith not the miserable workes that are done vnder the Sonne. ⁴ Agayne, I sawe that all trauayle and diligence of laboure was hated of euery man. This is also a vaine thinge, and a vexacion of mynde. ⁵ The foole foldeth his handes together, & eateth vp his owne flesh. ⁶ One handfull (saieth he) is better wt rest, the both ye handes full with labor and trauayle. ⁷ Morouer, I turned me, and beholde yet another vanite vnder the Sonne. ⁸ There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge.

¹⁵ These ij. thiges also haue I cosidred in ye tyme of vanite: yt the iust man perisheth for his rightuousnes sake, & the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse.

⁹ All these thinges haue I considered, and applied my mynde vnto euery worke that is vnder the Sonne: how one man hath lordshipe vpon another to his owne harme. ¹⁰ For I haue oft sene ye vngodly brought to their graues, and fallen downe from the hye and glorious place: in so moch yt they were forgotten in the cite, where they were had in so hye & greate reputacion. This is also a vayne thinge. ¹¹ Because now that euell workes are not haistely punyshed, the hert of man geueth him self ouer vnto wickednesse: