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The Great Bible 1539
| 7:1 | A Good name is more worth then a precyous oyntment, and the daye of death is better then the daye of byrth. |
| 7:2 | It is better to go into an house of mourninge, then into a bancketinge house. For there is the ende of all men, & he that is liuing, taketh it to hert: |
| 7:3 | grauytie is better then to laugh: for when the countenaunce is heuy, the herte is refourmed. |
| 7:4 | The hert of the wyse is in the mournyng house, but the hert of the folysh is in the house of myrth. |
| 7:5 | It is better to geue care to the chastenynge of a wyse man then to heare the songe of fooles. |
| 7:6 | For the laughinge of foles is lyke the crackynge of thornes vnder a pot. And that is but a vayne thynge. |
| 7:7 | The wyse man hateth wronge delynge: & abhorreth the harte that couetith rewardes. |
| 7:8 | Better it is to consydre, the ende of a thinge then the begynnynge. The pacient of sprete is better then the hye mynded. |
| 7:9 | Be not hastely angrie in thy mynde, for wrath resteth in the bosome of fooles. |
| 7:10 | Saye not thou: What is the cause, that the dayes of the olde tyme were better, then they that be nowe? for that were no wyse question. |
| 7:11 | Wysdome wt enheritaunce is good yet better is it wt them that without care may beholde the sonne. |
| 7:12 | For wysdome defendeth as well as moneye, & the excellent knowledge & wysdome geueth lyfe vnto him that hath it in possession. |
| 7:13 | Considre the worke of God how that no man can make the thing straight which he maketh croked. |
| 7:14 | Use wel the tyme of prosperite, & remembre the tyme of mysfortune: for God maketh the one by the other, so that a man can fynde nothing els. |
| 7:15 | All thinges haue I considred in the tyme of my vanite: that the iust man perisheth for his righteousnes sake, & the vngodly lyueth in hys wyckednesse. |
| 7:16 | Therfore be thou nether to ryghteous ner ouer wyse, that thou perishe not: |
| 7:17 | be nether to vnryghteous also ner to folysh, lest thou dye before thy tyme. |
| 7:18 | It is good for the to take holde of this, & not to let that go out of thy hand. For he that feareth God, commeth forth with them all. |
| 7:19 | Wysdome geueth more corage vnto the wyse, then ten myghtie men of the citye: |
| 7:20 | for there is not one iust vpon earth, that doth good, and synneth not. |
| 7:21 | Take not hede vnto euery worde that is spoken, lest thou heare thy seruaunt curse the: |
| 7:22 | for thine awne hert knoweth that thou thy selfe also hast oft tymes spoken euell by other men. |
| 7:23 | All these thinges haue I proued in wysdome: for I thought to be wyse but she went farther fro me then she was before, |
| 7:24 | yee & so depe that I might not reach vnto her. |
| 7:25 | I applyed my mynde also vnto knowledge, & to seke & searche oute science, wysdome & vnderstanding: to knowe the foolyshnesse of the vngodly, & the errour of dotinge fooles. |
| 7:26 | And I founde, that a woman is bytterer then death: for she hath cast abrode, her herte as a nett that men fishe with, and her handes are cheynes. Who so pleaseth God, shall escape from her: but the synner will be taken with her. |
| 7:27 | Beholde (sayeth the preacher) thys haue I diligently searched oute & proued. One thinge must be considred with another, that a man may come by knowledge: whych as yet I seke, & fynde it not. |
| 7:28 | Among a thousande men I haue founde one, but not one woman amonge all. |
| 7:29 | Lo, this onely haue I founde, that God made man iust and ryght, but they sought many inuencions. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."