Proverbs 31:1-9 ▼

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.