That the very babes might have wit, and that young men might have knowledge and understanding.

yet in the summer she provideth her meat, and gathereth her food together in the harvest.

And behold, there met him a woman with open tokens of a harlot. Only her heart was hid.

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, that I might seek thy face, and so I have found thee.

My bed have I made to smell of Myrrh, Aloes, and Cinnamon.

I have been ordained from everlasting, and from the beginning before the earth was made.

The earth and all that is upon the earth was not yet made, no not the ground itself.

For when he made the heavens, I was present; when he set up the depths in order;

As for the hearing of the ear and the sight of the eye, the LORD hath made them both.

Whether riches or poverty do meet us, it cometh all of God.

The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street."

That I might show thee the truth and that thou with the verity mightest answer them that lay anything against thee?

and if thou wilt rule thy own self, be not over greedy of his meat, for meat beguileth and deceiveth.

Eat not thou with the envious, and desire not his meat,

If thou wilt say, "I knew not of it"; Thinkest thou that he which made the hearts, doth not consider it? And that he which regardeth thy soul, seeth it not? Shall not he recompense every man according to his works?

Like as snow is not mete in summer, nor rain in harvest; even so is worship unseemly for a fool.

The poor and the lender meet together; the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.

The Emmets are but a weak people, yet gather they their meat together in the harvest.

She riseth ere day and giveth meat to her household, and food to her maidens.