Proverbs 31:1-12 ▼

1 These are the wordes of Kynge Lamuel, & ye lesson yt his mother taught him.

2 My sonne, thou sonne of my body: O my deare beloued sonne,

3 geue not ouer thy substaunce & mynde vnto women, which are the destruccio eue of kynges.

4 O Lamuel, geue kinges no wyne, geue kynges & prynces no stronge drynke:

5 lest they beinge dronken forget the lawe, & regarde not ye cause of the poore, & of all soch as be in aduersite.

6 Geue stronge drynke vnto soch as are condempned to death, & wyne vnto those yt mourne:

7 that they maye drynke it, & forget their misery & aduersite.

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.

10 Who so fyndeth an honest faithful woma, she is moch more worth the perles.

11 The herte of hir husbande maye safely trust in her, so that he shal haue no nede of spoyles.

12 She wil do him good & not euel all ye dayes of hir life.