men. ¶ The voice of a haly man that sees the vanyte of the warld multiplid, and therfor dredis, and for mykilnes of the peril cries. saf me make god. and whi dred .i., for haloghe failed, that is ther is na haly man funden in this warld. whare swa many ere of ill men. and therfor says he thus: noght that we trow that na haly man be in the warld, bot for vnnethes ere any funden that failes noght fra halynes, and that is for sothfastnessis ere lessid: that makis halynes to faile. for nane is haly bot that is sothfast in thoght and word and dede. fra sonnes of men, for thaire synn, that makes the giftis of god to be distroid & lessid fra thaim.
2. Vana locuti sunt vnusquisque ad proximum suum: labia dolosa, in corde & corde locuti sunt. ¶ Vayn spak ilkan till his neghbure: swikill lippes, in hert and thurgh hert thai spake. ¶ Sothfastnes is lessid, and falshede waxis, and alswa vayn spak ilkan, to bigil his neghbure: and many spendis thaire tyme in vayn speche withouten profite and gastly froit: and thai ere swikil lippes, that is ianglers, berkand agayn sothfastnes: & swikil, for thai speke in hert & thurgh hert, that is in dubbil hert: when a fals man thynkis an and says a nother, to desaif him that he spekis with.
3. Disperdat dominus vniuersa labia dolosa: & linguam magniloquam. ¶ Lord lose all swikil lippes: and tonge of gret speche. ¶ He prays noght that god lose the men, bot all thaire ianglyngis & tresons, that will make thaim to be lost. bot if god distroy thaim here. and the tonge of gret speche, that is a proud tonge, the whilk ypocrites has, louand thaim self. that thai myght seme gret bifor men.
4. Qui dixerunt linguam nostram magnificabimus: labia nostra a nobis sunt, quis noster dominus est. ¶ The whilke sayd oure tonge we sall worschip: oure lippes ere of vs, wha is oure lord. ¶ The ypocrites worschipis thaire tonge: for thai hegh thaim self in ianglynge, and settis in thaire pouste to doe mykill thynge and grete: and thai rose thaim that thaire lippes, that is thaire facunde and thaire skilles ere of thaim self, noght of god, ne of haly mennys lare: for thi say thai, wha is oure lord. that is. what is he til whas rewle & conuersacioun we sall be vndirloute & conforme vs til: as wha say, ther is nane.
5. Propter miseriam inopum & gemitum pauperum: nunc exurgam, dicit dominus. ¶ ffor the wrechidnes of
