Proverbs 29:2

The comynalte schal be glad in the multipliyng of iust men; whanne wickid men han take prinshod, the puple schal weyle.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

In Context

1Sodeyn perischyng schal come on that man, that with hard nol dispisith a blamere; and helth schal not sue hym.

3A man that loueth wisdom, makith glad his fadir; but he that nurschith `an hoore, schal leese catel.

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Cross References

Esther 8:15Sotheli Mardochee yede out of the paleis and of the kyngis siyt, and schynede in the kyngis clothis, that is, of iacynct and of colour of the eir, and he bar a goldun coroun in his heed, and was clothid with a mentil of selk and of purpur; and al the citee fulli ioiede, and was glad.

Proverbs 11:10A citee schal be enhaunsid in the goodis of iust men; and preysyng schal be in the perdicioun of wickid men.

Proverbs 28:28Whanne vnpitouse men risen, men schulen be hid; whanne tho `vnpitouse men han perischid, iust men schulen be multiplied.

Ecclesiastes 10:5An yuel is, which Y siy vndur the sunne, and goith out as bi errour fro the face of the prince; a fool set in hiy dignyte,

Jeremiah 23:5Lo! daies comen, seith the Lord, and Y schal reise a iust buriownyng to Dauid; and he schal regne a kyng, and he schal be wijs, and he schal make doom and riytfulnesse in erthe.

Matthew 2:16Thanne Eroude seynge that he was disseyued of the astromyens, was ful wrooth; and he sente, and slowe alle the children, that weren in Bethleem, and in alle the coostis therof, fro two yeer age and with inne, aftir the tyme that he had enquerid of the astromyens.

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