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WORD Research this...Sirach 18
- 1 He that lyueth with out bigynnyng and ende, made of nouyt alle thingis togidere; God alone schal be iustified, and he dwellith a king vnouercomun with outen ende.
- 2 Who schal suffice to telle out his werkis?
- 3 for whi who schal seke the grete thingis of hym?
- 4 But who schal telle out the vertu of his greetnesse? ether who schal leie to for to telle out his mercy?
- 5 It is not to make lesse, nether to leie to; nethir it is to fynde the grete thingis of God.
- 6 Whanne a man hath endid, thanne he schal bigynne; and whanne he hath restid, he schal worche.
- 7 What is a man, and what is the glorie of him? and what is good, ether what is the wickid thing of him?
- 8 The noumbre of the daies of men, that ben comynli an hundrid yeer, ben arettid as the dropis of the watir of the see; and as the stoon of grauel, so a fewe yeeris in the dai of euerlastyngnesse.
- 9 For this thing God is pacient in hem, and schedith out on hem his merci.
- 10 He siy the presumpcioun of her herte, for it was yuel; and he knew the distriyng of hem, for it was wickid.
- 11 Therfor he fillide his merci in hem, and schewide to hem the weie of equite.
- 12 The merciful doyng of man is aboute his neiybore; but the merci of the Lord is ouer ech fleisch.
- 13 He that hath merci, and techith, and chastisith as a scheepherde his floc,
- 14 do merci, takynge the techyng of merciful doyng; and he that hastith in the domes therof.
- 15 Sone, in goodis yyue thou not pleynt, and in ech yifte yyue thou not heuynesse of an yuel word.
- 16 Whether dew schal not kele heete? so and a word is betere than yifte.
- 17 Lo! whether a word is not aboue a good yifte? but euer ethir is with a man iustified.
- 18 A fool schal vpbreide scharpli; and the yifte of an vntauyt man makith iyen to faile.
- 19 Bifore the doom make thou redi riytfulnesse to thee; and lerne thou, bifore that thou speke.
- 20 Bifore sikenesse yyue thou medicyn; and bifore the doom axe thi silf, and thou schalt fynde merci in the siyt of God.
- 21 Bifore sikenesse make the meke, and in the tyme of sikenesse schewe thi lyuyng.
- 22 Be thou not lettid to preye euere, and drede thou not to be iustified til to deth; for whi the meede of God dwellith with outen ende.
- 23 Bifore preier make redi thi soule; and nyle thou be as a man that temptith God.
- 24 Haue thou mynde of ire in the dai of endyng; and make thou in lyuyng the tyme of yelding.
- 25 Haue thou mynde of pouert in the dai of abundaunce; and the nede of pouert in the tyme of richessis.
- 26 Fro the morewtid `til to the euentid the tyme schal be chaungid; and alle these thingis ben swift in the iyen of God.
- 27 A wise man schal drede in alle thingis; and in the daies of trespassis he schal fle fro vnkunnyng, ether slouthe.
- 28 Ech fel man knowith wisdom; and to hym that fyndith it, he schal yyue knouleching.
- 29 Witti men in wordis also thei diden wiseli, and vndurstoden treuthe, and riytfulnesse; and bisouyten prouerbis and domes.
- 30 Go thou not aftir thi coueitises; and be thou turned awei fro thi wille.
- 31 If thou yyuest to thi soule the coueitisis therof, it schal make thee in to ioie to thin enemyes.
- 32 Delite thou not in cumpenyes, nether in litle cumpenyes; for whi the synnyng of hem is contynuel.
- 33 Be thou not meene in the stryuyng of looue, and sum thing is to thee in the world; for whi thou schalt be enuyouse to thi soule.
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John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395) (wycliffe - 2.4.1)
2020-08-01English (enm)
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers, c.1395
Source text https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Wycliffe)
John Wycliffe organized the first complete translation of the Bible into Middle English in the 1380s.
The translation from the Vulgate was a collaborative effort, and it is not clear which portions are actually Wycliffe's work.
Church authorities officially condemned the translators of the Bible into vernacular languages and called these heretics Lollards.
Despite their prohibition, revised versions of Wycliffite Bibles remained in use for about 100 years.
Wikisource attributes its source as the Wesley Center Online.
That in turn was derived from the Fedosov transcription on the Slavic Bibles site http://www.sbible.ru
The source text makes no use of archaic letters that were part of Middle English orthography.
The Latin letter Yogh [ȝ] was evidently replaced by the letter [y] in the Fedosov transcription.
The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Verse numbers were not used in either the earlier or later version of the Wycliffe Bible in the fourteenth century. Each chapter consisted of one unbroken block of text. There were not even any paragraphs. Hence whatever verse numbers we now have in modern editions have been added retrospectively by comparison with other English Bibles and the Latin Vulgate.
Two books found in the Vulgate, II Esdras and Psalm 151, were never part of the Wycliffe Bible.
Module build notes:
1. The Prayer of Manasseh has been separated from 2 Chronicles in order to avoid a critical versification issue.
cf. In Wikisource it was assigned as 2 Paralipomenon chapter 37.
2. The Letter of Jeremiah has been joined to Baruch as chapter 6 thereof.
3. The book order of Wycliffe's Bible differs from that of the Vulg versification used in this module.
4. There are now 313 notes in the Wikisource document.
5. The Wikisource text substantially matches that of the nine books in module version 1.0
6. Each of these five verses not in the Vulg versification was appended to the previous verse: Deut.27.27 Esth.5.15 Ps.38.15 Ps.147.10 Luke.10.43
7. There are also several verses without any text. Use Sword utility emptyvss to list these.- Encoding: UTF-8
- Direction: LTR
- LCSH: Bible.Old English (1100-1500)
- Distribution Abbreviation: wycliffe
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Source (OSIS)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Wycliffe)
- history_1.0
- (2002-09-05) Initial incomplete edition based on the Slavic Bible source text for the Pentateuch and the Gospels only.
- history_2.0
- (2017-03-27) Rebuilt from complete Bible text at Wikisource.
- history_2.1
- (2017-03-28) Minor improvement: Versified Prayer of Manasseh on Wikisource.
- history_2.1.1
- (2017-03-29) Added GlobalOptionFilter=OSISFootnotes (the module already had 14 notes in 2 Samuel, Job and Tobit).
- history_2.2
- (2017-04-03) Rebuilt after 299 notes were added to Pentateuch & Gospels in Wikisource. Minor change to markup of added words.
- history_2.3
- (2019-01-07) Updated toolchain
- history_2.4
- (2020-08-01) title misplacement is fixed for the *Prayer of Jeremiah* in Baruch 6
- history_2.4.1
- (2022-08-06) Fix typo in DistributionLicense
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