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The author was Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem, who +flourished about two hundred years before Christ. As it was written +after the time of Esdras, it is not in the Jewish canon; but is received +as canonical and divine by the Catholic Church, instructed by +apostolical tradition, and directed by the spirit of God. It was first +written in the Hebrew, but afterwards translated into Greek, by another +Jesus, the grandson of the author, whose prologue to this book is the +following: + + +THE PROLOGUE + +The knowledge of many and great things hath been shewn us by the law, +and the prophets, and others that have followed them: for which things +Israel is to be commended for doctrine and wisdom, because not only they +that speak must needs be skilful, but strangers also, both speaking and +writing, may by their means become most learned. My grandfather Jesus, +after he had much given himself to a diligent reading of the law, and +the prophets, and other books, that were delivered to us from our +fathers, had a mind also to write something himself, pertaining to +doctrine and wisdom; that such as are desirous to learn, and are made +knowing in these things, may be more and more attentive in mind, and be +strengthened to live according to the law. I entreat you therefore to +come with benevolence, and to read with attention, and to pardon us for +those things wherein we may seem, while we follow the image of wisdom, +to come short in the composition of words; for the Hebrew words have not +the same force in them when translated into another tongue. And not only +these, but the law also itself, and the prophets, and the rest of the +books, have no small difference, when they are spoken in their own +language. For in the eight and thirtieth year coming into Egypt, when +Ptolemy Evergetes was king, and continuing there a long time, I found +there books left, of no small nor contemptible learning. Therefore I +thought it good, and necessary for me to bestow some diligence and +labour to interpret this book; and with much watching and study in some +space of time, I brought the book to an end, and set it forth for the +service of them that are willing to apply their mind, and to learn how +they ought to conduct themselves, who purpose to lead their life +according to the law of the Lord. + + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 1 + +All wisdom is from God, and is given to them that fear and love God. + +1:1. All wisdom is from the Lord God, and hath been always with him, and +is before all time. + +1:2. Who hath numbered the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and +the days of the world? Who hath measured the height of heaven, and the +breadth of the earth, and the depth of the abyss? + +1:3. Who hath searched out the wisdom of God that goeth before all +things? + +1:4. Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding +of prudence from everlasting. + +1:5. The word of God on high is the fountain of wisdom, and her ways are +everlasting commandments. + +1:6. To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed, and who hath known +her wise counsels? + +1:7. To whom hath the discipline of wisdom been revealed and made +manifest? and who hath understood the multiplicity of her steps? + +1:8. There is one most high Creator Almighty, and a powerful king, and +greatly to be feared, who sitteth upon his throne, and is the God of +dominion. + +1:9. He created her in the Holy Ghost, and saw her, and numbered her, +and measured her. + +1:10. And he poured her out upon all his works, and upon all flesh +according to his gift, and hath given her to them that love him. + +1:11. The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and a +crown of joy. + +1:12. The fear of the Lord shall delight the heart, and shall give joy, +and gladness, and length of days. + +1:13. With him that feareth the Lord, it shall go well in the latter +end, and in the day of his death he shall be blessed. + +1:14. The love of God is honourable wisdom. + +1:15. And they to whom she shall shew herself love her by the sight, and +by the knowledge of her great works. + +1:16. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and was created +with the faithful in the womb, it walketh with chosen women, and is +known with the just and faithful. + +1:17. The fear of the Lord is the religiousness of knowledge. + +1:18. Religiousness shall keep and justify the heart, it shall give joy +and gladness. + +1:19. It shall go well with him that feareth the Lord, and in the days +of his end he shall be blessed. + +1:20. To fear God is the fulness of wisdom, and fulness is from the +fruits thereof. + +1:21. She shall fill all her house with her increase, and the +storehouses with her treasures. + +1:22. The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, filling up peace and +the fruit of salvation: + +1:23. And it hath seen, and numbered her: but both are the gifts of God. + +1:24. Wisdom shall distribute knowledge, and understanding of prudence: +and exalteth the glory of them that hold her. + +1:25. The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord: and the branches thereof +are long-lived. + +1:26. In the treasures of wisdom is understanding, and religiousness of +knowledge: but to sinners wisdom is an abomination. + +1:27. The fear of the Lord driveth out sin: + +1:28. For he that is without fear, cannot be justified: for the wrath of +his high spirits is his ruin. + +1:29. A patient man shall bear for a time, and afterwards joy shall be +restored to him. + +1:30. A good understanding will hide his words for a time, and the lips +of many shall declare his wisdom. + +1:31. In the treasures of wisdom is the signification of discipline: + +1:32. But the worship of God is an abomination to a sinner. + +1:33. Son, if thou desire wisdom, keep justice, and God will give her to +thee. + +1:34. For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and discipline: and that which +is agreeable to him, + +1:35. Is faith, and meekness: and he will fill up his treasures. + +1:36. Be not incredulous to the fear of the Lord: and come not to him +with a double heart. + +1:37. Be not a hypocrite in the sight of men, and let not thy lips be a +stumblingblock to thee. + +1:38. Watch over them, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy +soul, + +1:39. And God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of +the congregation. + +1:40. Because thou camest to the Lord wickedly, and thy heart is full of +guile and deceit. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 2 + +God's servants must look for temptations: and must arm themselves with +patience and confidence in God. + +2:1. Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and +in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation. + +2:2. Humble thy heart, and endure: incline thy ear, and receive the +words of understanding: and make not haste in the time of clouds. + +2:3. Wait on God with patience: join thyself to God, and endure, that +thy life may be increased in the latter end. + +2:4. Take all that shall be brought upon thee: and in thy sorrow endure, +and in thy humiliation keep patience. + +2:5. For gold and silver are tried in the fire, but acceptable men in +the furnace of humiliation. + +2:6. Believe God, and he will recover thee: and direct thy way, and +trust in him. Keep his fear, and grow old therein. + +2:7. Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy: and go not aside from +him lest ye fall. + +2:8. Ye that fear the Lord, believe him: and your reward shall not be +made void. + +2:9. Ye that fear the Lord hope in him, and mercy shall come to you for +your delight. + +2:10. Ye that fear the Lord, love him, and your hearts shall be +enlightened. + +2:11. My children behold the generations of men: and know ye that no one +hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded. + +2:12. For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? +or who hath called upon him, and he despised him? + +2:13. For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in +the day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in +truth. + +2:14. Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to +the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two +ways. + +2:15. Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and +therefore they shall not be protected by him. + +2:16. Woe to them that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the +right ways, and have gone aside into crooked ways. + +2:17. And what will they do, when the Lord shall begin to examine? + +2:18. They that fear the Lord, will not be incredulous to his word: and +they that love him, will keep his way. + +2:19. They that fear the Lord, will seek after the things that are well +pleasing to him: and they that love him, shall be filled with his law. + +2:20. They that fear the Lord, will prepare their hearts, and in his +sight will sanctify their souls, + +2:21. They that fear the Lord, keep his commandments, and will have +patience even until his visitation, + +2:22. Saying: If we do not penance, we shall fall into the hands of the +Lord, and not into the hands of men. + +2:23. For according to his greatness, so also is his mercy with him. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3 + +Lessons concerning the honour of parents, and humility, and avoiding +curiosity. + +3:1. The sons of wisdom are the church of the just: and their +generation, obedience and love. + +3:2. Children, hear the judgment of your father, and so do that you may +be saved. + +3:3. For God hath made the father honourable to the children: and +seeking the judgment of the mothers, hath confirmed it upon the +children. + +3:4. He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer, and +shall refrain himself from them, and shall be heard in the prayer of +days. + +3:5. And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up a +treasure. + +3:6. He that honoureth his father shall have joy in his own children, +and in the day of his prayer he shall be heard. + +3:7. He that honoureth his father shall enjoy a long life: and he that +obeyeth the father, shall be a comfort to his mother. + +3:8. He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, and will serve +them as his masters that brought him into the world. + +3:9. Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience, + +3:10. That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may +remain in the latter end. + +3:11. The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but +the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation. + +3:12. Glory not in the dishonour of thy father: for his shame is no +glory to thee. + +3:13. For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father, and a +father without honour is the disgrace of the son. + +3:14. Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his +life; + +3:15. And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise +him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father +shall not be forgotten. + +3:16. For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother. + +3:17. And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of +affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the +ice in the fair warm weather. + +3:18. Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh his father: and he is +cursed of God that angereth his mother. + +3:19. My son, do thy works in meekness, and thou shalt be beloved above +the glory of men. + +3:20. The greater thou art, the more humble thyself in all things, and +thou shalt find grace before God: + +3:21. For great is the power of God alone, and he is honoured by the +humble. + +3:22. Seek not the things that are too high for thee, and search not +into things above thy ability: but the things that God hath commanded +thee, think on them always, and in many of his works be not curious. + +3:23. For it is not necessary for thee to see with thy eyes those things +that are hid. + +3:24. In unnecessary matters be not over curious, and in many of his +works thou shalt not be inquisitive. + +3:25. For many things are shewn to thee above the understanding of men. + +3:26. And the suspicion of them hath deceived many, and hath detained +their minds in vanity. + +3:27. A hard heart shall fear evil at the last: and he that loveth +danger shall perish in it. + +3:28. A heart that goeth two ways shall not have success, and the +perverse of heart shall be scandalized therein. + +3:29. A wicked heart shall be laden with sorrows, and the sinner will +add sin to sin. + +3:30. The congregation of the proud shall not be healed: for the plant +of wickedness shall take root in them, and it shall not be perceived. + +3:31. The heart of the wise is understood in wisdom, and a good ear will +hear wisdom with all desire. + +3:32. A wise heart, and which hath understanding, will abstain from +sins, and in the works of justice shall have success. + +3:33. Water quencheth a flaming fire, and alms resisteth sins: + +3:34. And God provideth for him that sheweth favour: he remembereth him +afterwards, and in the time of his fall he shall find a sure stay. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4 + +An exhortation to works of mercy, and to the love of wisdom. + +4:1. Son, defraud not the poor of alms, and turn not away thy eyes from +the poor. + +4:2. Despise not the hungry soul: and provoke not the poor in his want. + +4:3. Afflict not the heart of the needy, and defer not to gibe to him +that is in distress. + +4:4. Reject not the petition of the afflicted: and turn not away thy +face from the needy. + +4:5. Turn not away thy eyes from the poor for fear of anger: and leave +not to them that ask of thee to curse thee behind thy back. + +4:6. For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the bitterness of his +soul, shall be heard, for he that made him will hear him. + +4:7. Make thyself affable to the congregation of the poor, and humble +thy soul to the ancient, and bow thy head to a great man. + +4:8. Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest, +and answer him peaceable words with mildness. + +4:9. Deliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and +be not fainthearted in thy soul. + +4:10. In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a +husband to their mother. + +4:11. And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he +will have mercy on thee more than a mother. + +4:12. Wisdom inspireth life into her children, and protecteth them that +seek after her, and will go before them in the way of justice. + +4:13. And he that loveth her, loveth life: and they that watch for her, +shall embrace her sweetness. + +4:14. They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she +entereth, God will give a blessing. + +4:15. They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God +loveth them that love her. + +4:16. He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that +looketh upon her, shall remain secure. + +4:17. If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall +be in assurance. + +4:18. For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she +chooseth him. + +In temptation, etc... The meaning is, that before wisdom will choose any +for her favourite, she will try them by leading them through +contradictions, afflictions, and temptations, the usual noviceship of +the children of God. + +4:19. She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will +scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by +her laws, and trust his soul. + +4:20. Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and +give him joy, + +4:21. And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him +treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice. + +4:22. But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into +the hands of his enemy. + +4:23. Son, observe the time, and fly from evil. + +4:24. For thy soul be not ashamed to say the truth. + +4:25. For there is a shame that bringeth sin, and there is a shame that +bringeth glory and grace. + +4:26. Accept no person against thy own person, nor against thy soul a +lie. + +4:27. Reverence not thy neighbour in his fall: + +4:28. And refrain not to speak in the time of salvation. Hide not thy +wisdom in her beauty. + +4:29. For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and understanding, and +knowledge, and learning by the word of the wise, and steadfastness in +the works of justice. + +4:30. In nowise speak against the truth, but be ashamed of the lie of +thy ignorance. + +4:31. Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, but submit not thyself to +every man for sin. + +4:32. Resist not against the face of the mighty, and do not strive +against the stream of the river. + +4:33. Strive for justice for thy soul, and even unto death fight for +justice, and God will overthrow thy enemies for thee. + +4:34. Be not hasty in thy tongue: and slack and remiss in thy works. + +4:35. Be not as a lion in thy house, terrifying them of thy household, +and oppressing them that are under thee. + +4:36. Let not thy hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou +shouldst give. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 5 + +We must not presume of our wealth or strength: nor of the mercy of God, +to go on in sin: we must be steadfast in virtue and truth. + +5:1. Set not thy heart upon unjust possessions, and say not: I have +enough to live on: for it shall be of no service in the time of +vengeance and darkness. + +5:2. Follow not in thy strength the desires of thy heart: + +5:3. And say not: How mighty am I? and who shall bring me under for my +deeds? for God will surely take revenge. + +5:4. Say not: I have sinned, and what harm hath befallen me? for the +most High is a patient rewarder. + +5:5. Be not without fear about sin forgiven, and add not sin upon sin: + +5:6. And say not: The mercy of the Lord is great, he will have mercy on +the multitude of my sins. + +5:7. For mercy and wrath quickly come from him, and his wrath looketh +upon sinners. + +5:8. Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and defer it not from day to +day. + +5:9. For his wrath shall come on a sudden, and in the time of vengeance +he will destroy thee. + +5:10. Be not anxious for goods unjustly gotten: for they shall not +profit thee in the day of calamity and revenge. + +5:11. Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way: for so is +every sinner proved by a double tongue. + +5:12. Be steadfast in the way of the Lord, and in the truth of thy +judgment, and in knowledge, and let the word of peace and justice keep +with thee. + +5:13. Be meek to hear the word, that thou mayst understand: and return a +true answer with wisdom. + +5:14. If thou have understanding, answer thy neighbour: but if not, let +thy hand be upon thy mouth, lest thou be surprised in an unskilful word, +and be confounded. + +5:15. Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of the +fool is his ruin. + +5:16. Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and +confounded. + +5:17. For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of +disgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and +enmity, and reproach. + +5:18. Justify alike the small and the great. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6 + +Of true and false friends: and of the of the fruits of wisdom. + +6:1. Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an +evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is +envious and double tongued. + +6:2. Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy +strength be quashed by folly, + +6:3. And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left +as a dry tree in the wilderness. + +6:4. For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to +be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked. + +6:5. A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a +gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth. + +6:6. Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor. + +6:7. If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and +do not credit him easily. + +6:8. For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide +in the day of thy trouble. + +6:9. And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend +that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches. + +6:10. And there is a friend a companion at the table, and he will not +abide in the day of distress. + +6:11. A friend if he continue steadfast, shall be to thee as thyself, +and shall act with confidence among them of thy household. + +6:12. If he humble himself before thee, and hide himself from thy face, +thou shalt have unanimous friendship for good. + +6:13. Separate thyself from thy enemies, and take heed of thy friends. + +6:14. A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found him, +hath found a treasure. + +6:15. Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of +gold and silver is able to countervail the goodness of his fidelity. + +6:16. A faithful friend is the medicine of life and immortality: and +they that fear the Lord, shall find him. + +6:17. He that feareth God, shall likewise have good friendship: because +according to him shall his friend be. + +6:18. My son, from thy youth up receive instruction, and even to thy +grey hairs thou shalt find wisdom. + +6:19. Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her +good fruits: + +6:20. For in working about her thou shalt labour a little, and shalt +quickly eat of her fruits. + +6:21. How very unpleasant is wisdom to the unlearned, and the unwise +will not continue with her. + +6:22. She shall be to them as a mighty stone of trial, and they will +cast her from them before it be long. + +6:23. For the wisdom of doctrine is according to her name, and she is +not manifest unto many, but with them to whom she is known, she +continueth even to the sight of God. + +6:24. Give ear, my son, and take wise counsel, and cast not away my +advice. + +6:25. Put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chains: + +6:26. Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be not grieved with her +bands. + +6:27. Come to her with all thy mind, and keep her ways with all thy +power. + +6:28. Search for her, and she shall be made known to thee, and when thou +hast gotten her, let her not go: + +6:29. For in the latter end thou shalt find rest in her, and she shall +be turned to thy joy. + +6:30. Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a firm +foundation, and her chain a robe of glory: + +6:31. For in her is the beauty of life, and her bands are a healthful +binding. + +6:32. Thou shalt put her on as a robe of glory, and thou shalt set her +upon thee as a crown of joy. + +6:33. My son, if thou wilt attend to me, thou shalt learn: and if thou +wilt apply thy mind, thou shalt be wise. + +6:34. If thou wilt incline thy ear, thou shalt receive instruction: and +if thou love to hear, thou shalt be wise. + +6:35. Stand in the multitude of ancients that are wise, and join thyself +from thy heart to their wisdom, that thou mayst hear every discourse of +God, and the sayings of praise may not escape thee. + +6:36. And if thou see a man of understanding, go to him early in the +morning, and let thy foot wear the steps of his doors. + +6:37. Let thy thoughts be upon the precepts of God, and meditate +continually on his commandments: and he will give thee a heart, and the +desire of wisdom shall be given to thee. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 7 + +Religious and moral duties. + +7:1. Do no evils, and no evils shall lay hold of thee. + +7:2. Depart from the unjust, and evils shall depart from thee. + +7:3. My son, sow not evils in the furrows of injustice, and thou shalt +not reap them sevenfold. + +7:4. Seek not of the Lord a preeminence, nor of the king the seat of +honour. + +7:5. Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and +desire not to appear wise before the king. + +7:6. Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to +extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay +a stumblingblock for thy integrity. + +7:7. Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in +upon the people, + +7:8. Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou shalt not be unpunished. + +7:9. Be not fainthearted in thy mind: + +7:10. Neglect not to pray, and to give alms. + +7:11. Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and +when I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings. + +7:12. Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is +one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all. + +7:13. Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against +thy friend. + +7:14. Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof +is not good. + +7:15. Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not +the word in thy prayer. + +Repeat not, etc... Make not much babbling by repetition of words: but +aim more at fervour of heart. + +7:16. Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High. + +7:17. Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly. + +7:18. Remember wrath, for it will not tarry long. + +7:19. Humble thy spirit very much: for the vengeance on the flesh of the +ungodly is fire and worms. + +7:20. Do not transgress against thy friend deferring money, nor despise +thy dear brother for the sake of gold. + +7:21. Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou hast gotten in the +fear of the Lord: for the grace of her modesty is above gold. + +7:22. Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man +that giveth thee his life. + +7:23. Let a wise servant be dear to thee as thy own soul, defraud him +not of liberty, nor leave him needy. + +7:24. Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy +profit, keep them with thee. + +7:25. Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from +their childhood. + +7:26. Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thy +countenance gay towards them. + +7:27. Marry thy daughter well, and thou shalt do a great work, and give +her to a wise man. + +7:28. If thou hast a wife according to thy soul, cast her not off: and +to her that is hateful, trust not thyself. With thy whole heart, + +7:29. Honour thy father, and forget not the groanings of thy mother: + +7:30. Remember that thou hadst not been born but through them: and make +a return to them as they have done for thee. + +7:31. With all thy soul fear the Lord, and reverence his priests. + +7:32. With all thy strength love him that made thee: and forsake not his +ministers. + +7:33. Honour God with all thy soul and give honour to the priests, and +purify thyself with thy arms. + +Thy arms... That is, with all thy power: or else by arms (brachiis) are +here signified the right shoulders of the victims, which by the law fell +to the priests. See ver. 35. + +7:34. Give them their portion, as it is commanded thee, of the +firstfruits and of purifications: and for thy negligences purify thyself +with a few. + +7:35. Offer to the Lord the gift of thy shoulders, and the sacrifice of +sanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things: + +7:36. And stretch out thy hand to the poor, that thy expiation and thy +blessing may be perfected. + +7:37. A gift hath grace in the sight of all the living, and restrain not +grace from the dead. + +And restrain not grace from the dead... That is, withhold not from them +the benefit of alms, prayers, and sacrifices. Such was the doctrine and +practice of the church of God even in the time of the Old Testament. And +the same has always been continued from the days of the apostles in the +church of the New Testament. + +7:38. Be not wanting in comforting them that weep, and walk with them +that mourn. + +7:39. Be not slow to visit the sick: for by these things thou shalt be +confirmed in love. + +7:40. In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 8 + +Other lessons of wisdom and virtue. + +8:1. Strive not with a powerful man, lest thou fall into his hands. + +8:2. Contend not with a rich man, lest he bring an action against thee. + +8:3. For gold and silver hath destroyed many, and hath reached even to +the heart of kings, and perverted them. + +8:4. Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood +upon his fire. + +8:5. Communicate not with an ignorant man, lest he speak ill of thy +family. + +8:6. Despise not a man that turneth away from sin, nor reproach him +therewith: remember that we are all worthy of reproof. + +8:7. Despise not a man in his old age; for we also shall become old. + +8:8. Rejoice not at the death of thy enemy; knowing that we all die, and +are not willing that others should rejoice at our death. + +8:9. Despise not the discourse of them that are ancient and wise, but +acquaint thyself with their proverbs. + +8:10. For of them thou shalt learn wisdom, and instruction of +understanding, and to serve great men without blame. + +8:11. Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have +learned of their fathers: + +8:12. For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer +in time of need. + +8:13. Kindle not the coals of sinners by rebuking them, lest thou be +burnt with the flame of the fire of their sins. + +8:14. Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as +a spy to entrap thee in thy words. + +8:15. Lend not to a man that is mightier than thyself: and if thou +lendest, count it as lost. + +8:16. Be not surety above thy power: and if thou be surety, think as if +thou wert to pay it. + +8:17. Judge not against a judge: for he judgeth according to that which +is just. + +8:18. Go not on the way with a bold man, lest he burden thee with his +evils: for he goeth according to his own will, and thou shalt perish +together with his folly. + +8:19. Quarrel not with a passionate man, and go not into the desert with +a bold man: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no +help he will overthrow thee. + +8:20. Advise not with fools, for they cannot love but such things as +please them. + +8:21. Before a stranger do no matter of counsel: for thou knowest not +what he will bring forth. + +8:22. Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil +turn, and speak reproachfully to thee. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 9 + +Cautions with regard to women, and dangerous conversations. + +9:1. Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy +regard the malice of a wicked lesson. + +9:2. Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy +strength, and thou be confounded. + +9:3. Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall +into her snares. + +9:4. Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not +to her, lest thou perish by the force of her charms. + +9:5. Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be a stumblingblock to +thee. + +9:6. Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy +thyself and thy inheritance. + +9:7. Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up +and down in the streets thereof. + +9:8. Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon +another's beauty. + +9:9. For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is +enkindled as a fire. + +9:10. Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the +way. + +9:11. Many by admiring the beauty of another man's wife, have become +reprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire. + +9:12. Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor repose upon the bed +with her: + +9:13. And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards +her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction. + +9:14. Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him. + +9:15. A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt +drink it with pleasure. + +9:16. Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not +what his ruin shall be. + +9:17. Be not pleased with the wrong done by the unjust, knowing that +even to hell the wicked shall not please. + +9:18. Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill, so thou shalt +not suspect the fear of death. + +9:19. And if thou come to him, commit no fault, lest he take away thy +life. + +9:20. Know it to be a communication with death: for thou art going in +the midst of snares, and walking upon the arms of them that are grieved. + +9:21. According to thy power beware of thy neighbour, and treat with the +wise and prudent. + +9:22. Let just men be thy guests, and let thy glory be in the fear of +God. + +9:23. And let the thought of God be in thy mind, and all thy discourse +on the commandments of the Highest. + +9:24. Works shall be praised for the hand of the artificers, and the +prince of the people for the wisdom of his speech, but the word of the +ancients for the sense. + +9:25. A man full of tongue is terrible in his city, and he that is rash +in his word shall be hateful. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 10 + +The virtues and vices of men in power: the great evil of pride. + +10:1. A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a +prudent man shall be steady. + +Judge his people... In the Greek it is, instruct his people. + +10:2. As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: +and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that +dwell therein. + +10:3. An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall +be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers. + +10:4. The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he +will raise up a profitable ruler over it. + +10:5. The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person +of the scribe he shall lay his honour. + +The scribe... That is, the man that is wise and learned in the law. + +10:6. Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou +nothing by deeds of injury. + +10:7. Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations +is execrable. + +10:8. A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of +injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits. + +10:9. But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, +and ashes proud? + +10:10. There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a +one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath +cast away his bowels. + +10:11. All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the +physician. + +10:12. The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to +day, and to morrow he shall die. + +10:13. For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, +and worms. + +10:14. The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: + +10:15. Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride +is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with +maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. + +10:16. Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, +and hath utterly destroyed them. + +10:17. God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up +the meek in their stead. + +10:18. God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath +planted the humble of these nations. + +10:19. The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath +destroyed them even to the foundation. + +10:20. He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed +them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth. + +10:21. God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved +the memory of them that are humble in mind. + +10:22. Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women. + +10:23. That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that +seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the +Lord. + +10:24. In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they +that fear the Lord, be in his eyes. + +10:25. The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, +and of the poor. + +10:26. Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful +man that is rich. + +10:27. The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and +there is none greater than he that feareth God. + +10:28. They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man +that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; +and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured. + +10:29. Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time +of distress; + +10:30. Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he +that boasteth himself and wanteth bread. + +10:31. My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according +to its desert. + +10:32. Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who +will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul? + +10:33. The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear, and there +is a man that is honoured for his wealth. + +10:34. But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and +he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 11 + +Lessons of humility and moderation in all things. + +11:1. The wisdom of the humble shall exalt his head, and shall make him +sit in the midst of great men. + +11:2. Praise not a man for his beauty, neither despise a man for his +look. + +11:3. The bee is small among flying things but her fruit hath the +chiefest sweetness. + +11:4. Glory not in apparel at any time, and be not exalted in the day of +thy honour: for the works of the Highest only are wonderful, and his +works are glorious, and secret, and hidden. + +11:5. Many tyrants have sat on the throne, and he whom no man would +think on, hath worn the crown. + +11:6. Many mighty men have been greatly brought down, and the glorious +have been delivered into the hand of others. + +11:7. Before thou inquire, blame no man: and when thou hast inquired, +reprove justly. + +11:8. Before thou hear, answer not a word: and interrupt not others in +the midst of their discourse. + +11:9. Strive not in a matter which doth not concern thee, and sit not in +judgment with sinners. + +11:10. My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou +shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not +overtake; and if thou run before thou shalt not escape. + +11:11. There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is +in sorrow, and is so much the more in want. + +11:12. Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak +in ability, and full of poverty: + +11:13. Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted +him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have +wondered at him, and have glorified God. + +11:14. Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are +from God. + +11:15. Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with God. +Love and the ways of good things are with him. + +11:16. Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory +in evil things, grow old in evil. + +11:17. The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall +have success for ever. + +11:18. There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is +the portion of his reward. + +11:19. In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my +goods alone: + +11:20. And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death +approacheth, and that he must leave all to others, and shall die. + +11:21. Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and grow +old in the work of thy commandments. + +11:22. Abide not in the works of sinners. But trust in God, and stay in +thy place, + +11:23. For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor +man rich. + +11:24. The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a +swift hour his blessing beareth fruit. + +11:25. Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this? + +11:26. Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made +worse by this? + +11:27. In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the +day of evils be not unmindful of good things: + +11:28. For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one +according to his ways. + +11:29. The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and +in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works. + +11:30. Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his +children. + +11:31. Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of +the deceitful. + +11:32. For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the +partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so +also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of +his neighbour. + +11:33. For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect +he will lay a blot. + +11:34. Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much +blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood. + +11:35. Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: +lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever. + +11:36. Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a +whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 12 + +We are to be liberal to the just: and not to trust the wicked. + +12:1. If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be +much thanks for thy good deeds. + +12:2. Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if +not of him, assuredly of the Lord. + +12:3. For there is no good for him that is always occupied in evil, and +that giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on +the penitent. + +12:4. Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay +vengeance to the ungodly and to sinners, and keep them against the day +of vengeance. + +12:5. Give to the good, and receive not a sinner. + +12:6. Do good to the humble, and give not to the ungodly: hold back thy +bread, and give it not to him, lest thereby he overmaster thee. + +12:7. For thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou +shalt have done to him: for the Highest also hateth sinners, and will +repay vengeance to the ungodly. + +12:8. A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not +be hidden in adversity. + +12:9. In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are grieved: and a friend +is known in his adversity. + +12:10. Never trust thy enemy for as a brass pot his wickedness rusteth: + +12:11. Though he humble himself and go crouching, yet take good heed and +beware of him. + +12:12. Set him not by thee, neither let him sit on thy right hand, lest +he turn into thy place, and seek to take thy seat and at the last thou +acknowledge my words, and be pricked with my sayings. + +12:13. Who will pity an enchanter struck by a serpent, or any that come +near wild beasts? so is it with him that keepeth company with a wicked +man, and is involved in his sins. + +12:14. For an hour he will abide with thee: but if thou begin to +decline, he will not endure it. + +12:15. An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he +lieth in wait, to throw thee into a pit. + +12:16. An enemy weepeth with his eyes: but if he find an opportunity he +will not be satisfied with blood: + +12:17. And if evils come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first. + +12:18. An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while he pretendeth to help +thee, will undermine thy feet. + +12:19. He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and +change his countenance. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13 + +Cautions in the choice of company. + +13:1. He that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled with it: and he that hath +fellowship with the proud, shall put on pride. + +13:2. He shall take a burden upon him that hath fellowship with one more +honourable than himself. And have no fellowship with one that is richer +than thyself. + +13:3. What agreement shall the earthen pot have with the kettle? for if +they knock one against the other, it shall be broken. + +13:4. The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he will fume: but the poor +is wronged and must hold his peace. + +13:5. If thou give, he will make use of thee: and if thou have nothing, +he will forsake thee. + +13:6. If thou have any thing, he will live with thee, and will make thee +bare, and he will not be sorry for thee. + +13:7. If he have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon +thee will put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and will say: What +wantest thou? + +13:8. And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry +twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when +he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee. + +13:9. Humble thyself to God, and wait for his hands. + +13:10. Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled. + +13:11. Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived +into folly. + +13:12. If thou be invited by one that is mightier, withdraw thyself: for +so he will invite thee the more. + +13:13. Be not troublesome to him, lest thou be put back: and keep not +far from him, lest thou be forgotten. + +13:14. Affect not to speak with him as an equal, and believe not his +many words: for by much talk he will sift thee, and smiling will examine +thee concerning thy secrets. + +13:15. His cruel mind will lay up thy words: and he will not spare to do +thee hurt, and to cast thee into prison. + +13:16. Take heed to thyself, and attend diligently to what thou hearest: +for thou walkest in danger of thy ruin. + +13:17. When thou hearest those things, see as it were in sleep, and thou +shalt awake. + +13:18. Love God all thy life, and call upon him for thy salvation. + +13:19. Every beast loveth its like: so also every man him that is +nearest to himself. + +13:20. All flesh shall consort with the like to itself, and every man +shall associate himself to his like. + +13:21. If the wolf shall at any time have fellowship with the lamb, so +the sinner with the just. + +13:22. What fellowship hath a holy man with a dog, or what part hath the +rich with the poor? + +13:23. The wild ass is the lion's prey in the desert: so also the poor +are devoured by the rich. + +13:24. And as humility is an abomination to the proud: so also the rich +man abhorreth the poor. + +13:25. When a rich man is shaken, he is kept up by his friends: but when +a poor man is fallen down, he is thrust away even by his acquaintance. + +13:26. When a rich man hath been deceived, he hath many helpers: he hath +spoken proud things, and they have justified him. + +13:27. The poor man was deceived, and he is rebuked also: he hath spoken +wisely, and could have no place. + +13:28. The rich man spoke, and all held their peace, and what he said +they extol even to the clouds. + +13:29. The poor man spoke, and they say: Who is this? and if he stumble, +they will overthrow him. + +13:30. Riches are good to him that hath no sin in his conscience: and +poverty is very wicked in the mouth of the ungodly. + +13:31. The heart of a man changeth his countenance, either for good, or +for evil. + +13:32. The token of a good heart, and a good countenance thou shalt +hardly find, and with labour. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 14 + +The evil of avarice: works of mercy are recommended, and the love of +wisdom. + +14:1. Blessed is the man that hath not slipped by a word out of his +mouth, and is not pricked with the remorse of sin. + +14:2. Happy is he that hath had no sadness of his mind, and who is not +fallen from his hope. + +14:3. Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what +should an envious man do with gold? + +14:4. He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for +others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting. + +14:5. He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? and he shall +not take pleasure in his goods. + +14:6. There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the +reward of his wickedness: + +14:7. And if he do good, he doth it ignorantly, and unwillingly: and at +the last he discovereth his wickedness. + +14:8. The eye of the envious is wicked: and he turneth away his face, +and despiseth his own soul. + +14:9. The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of +iniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own soul, drying +it up. + +14:10. An evil eye is towards evil things: and he shall not have his +fill of bread, but shall be needy and pensive at his own table. + +14:11. My son, if thou have any thing, do good to thyself, and offer to +God worthy offerings. + +14:12. Remember that death is not slow, and that the covenant of hell +hath been shewn to thee: for the covenant of this world shall surely +die. + +Covenant of hell... The decree by which all are to go down to the +regions of death. + +14:13. Do good to thy friend before thou die, and according to thy +ability, stretching out thy hand give to the poor. + +14:14. Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a +good gift overpass thee. + +14:15. Shalt thou not leave to others to divide by lot thy sorrows and +labours? + +14:16. Give and take, and justify thy soul. + +14:17. Before thy death work justice: for in hell there is no finding +food. + +14:18. All flesh shall fade as grass, and as the leaf that springeth out +on a green tree. + +14:19. Some grow, and some fall off: so is the generation of flesh and +blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born. + +14:20. Every work that is corruptible shall fail in the end: and the +worker thereof shall go with it. + +14:21. And every excellent work shall be justified: and the worker +thereof shall be honoured therein. + +14:22. Blessed is the man that shall continue in wisdom, and that shall +meditate in his justice, and in his mind shall think of the all seeing +eye of God. + +14:23. He that considereth her ways in his heart, and hath understanding +in her secrets, who goeth after her as one that traceth, and stayeth in +her ways. + +14:24. He who looketh in at her windows, and hearkeneth at her door. + +14:25. He that lodgeth near her house, and fastening a pin in her walls +shall set up his tent high unto her, where good things shall rest in his +lodging for ever. + +14:26. He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge +under her branches: + +14:27. He shall be protected under her covering from the heat, and shall +rest in her glory. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 15 + +Wisdom embraceth them that fear God. God is not the author of sin. + +15:1. He that feareth God, will do good: and he that possesseth justice, +shall lay hold on her, + +15:2. And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive +him as a wife married of a virgin. + +15:3. With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and +give him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made +strong in him, and he shall not be moved. + +15:4. And she shall hold him fast, and he shall not be confounded: and +she shall exalt him among his neighbours. + +15:5. And in the midst of the church she shall open his mouth, and shall +fill him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and shall clothe +him with a robe of glory. + +15:6. She shall heap upon him a treasure of joy and gladness, and shall +cause him to inherit an everlasting name. + +15:7. But foolish men shall not obtain her, and wise men shall meet her, +foolish men shall not see her: for she is far from pride and deceit. + +15:8. Lying men shall be mindful of her: but men that speak truth shall +be found with her, and shall advance, even till they come to the sight +of God. + +15:9. Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner: + +15:10. For wisdom came forth from God: for praise shall be with the +wisdom of God, and shall abound in a faithful mouth, and the sovereign +Lord will give praise unto it. + +15:11. Say not: It is through God, that she is not with me: for do not +thou the things that he hateth. + +15:12. Say not: He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of wicked +men. + +15:13. The Lord hateth all abomination of error, and they that fear him +shall not love it. + +15:14. God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his +own counsel. + +15:15. He added his commandments and precepts. + +15:16. If thou wilt keep the commandments and perform acceptable +fidelity for ever, they shall preserve thee. + +15:17. He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand to +which thou wilt. + +15:18. Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall +choose shall be given him: + +15:19. For the wisdom of God is great, and he is strong in power, seeing +all men without ceasing. + +15:20. The eyes of the Lord are towards them that fear him, and he +knoweth al the work of man. + +15:21. He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, and he hath given no man +license to sin; + +15:22. For he desireth not a multitude of faithless and unprofitable +children. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 16 + +It is better to have none than many wicked children. Of the justice and +mercy of God. His ways are unsearchable. + +16:1. Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be +delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them. + +16:2. Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours. + +16:3. For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly +children. + +16:4. And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly +children. + +16:5. By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the +ungodly shall become desolate. + +16:6. Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these +my ear hath heard. + +16:7. In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an +unbelieving nation wrath shall flame out. + +16:8. The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sins, who were +destroyed trusting to their own strength: + +16:9. And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them +for the pride of their word. + +16:10. He had not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that +extolled themselves in their sins. + +16:11. So did he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were +gathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been +stiffnecked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished: + +Six hundred thousand footmen, etc... Viz., the children of Israel, whom +he sentenced to die in the wilderness. Num. 14. + +16:12. For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to +pour out indignation: + +16:13. According as his mercy is, so his correction judgeth a man +according to his works. + +16:14. The sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of +him that sheweth mercy shall not be put off. + +16:15. All mercy shall make a place for every man according to the merit +of his works, and according to the wisdom of his sojournment. + +16:16. Say not: I shall be hidden from God, and who shall remember me +from on high? + +16:17. In such a multitude I shall not be known: for what is my soul in +such an immense creation? + +16:18. Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all +the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight, + +16:19. The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the +earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with +trembling. + +16:20. And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart +is understood by him. + +16:21. And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of +man shall see? + +16:22. For many of his works are hidden, but the works of his justice +who shall declare? or who shall endure? for the testament is far from +some, and the examination of all is in the end. + +16:23. He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things, and the +foolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things. + +16:24. Hearken to me, my son, and learn the discipline of understanding, +and attend to my words in thy heart. + +16:25. And I will shew forth good doctrine in equity, and will seek to +declare wisdom: and attend to my words in thy heart, whilst with equity +of spirit I tell thee the virtues that God hath put upon his works from +the beginning, and I shew forth in truth his knowledge. + +16:26. The works of God are done in judgment from the beginning, and +from the making of them he distinguished their parts, and their +beginnings in their generations. + +16:27. He beautified their works for ever, they have neither hungered, +nor laboured, and they have not ceased from their works. + +16:28. Nor shall any of them straiten his neighbour at any time. + +16:29. Be not thou incredulous to his word. + +16:30. After this God looked upon the earth, and filled it with his +goods. + +16:31. The soul of every living thing hath shewn forth before the face +thereof, and into it they return again. + +Shewn forth... Viz., the glory and power of God upon the earth. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 17 + +The creation and favour of God to man. An exhortation to turn to God. + +17:1. God created man of the earth, and made him after his own image. + +17:2. And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength +according to himself. + +17:3. He gave him the number of his days and time, and gave him power +over all things that are upon the earth. + +17:4. He put the fear of him upon all flesh, and he had dominion over +beasts and fowls. + +17:5. He created of him a helpmate like to himself, he gave them +counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, and ears, and a heart to devise: and he +filled them with the knowledge of understanding. + +17:6. He created in them the science of the spirit, he fired their heart +with wisdom, and shewed them both good and evil. + +17:7. He set his eye upon their hearts to shew them the greatness of his +works: + +17:8. That they might praise the name which he hath sanctified: and +glory in his wondrous act that they might declare the glorious things of +his works. + +17:9. Moreover he gave them instructions, and the law of life for an +inheritance. + +17:10. He made an everlasting covenant with them, and he shewed them his +justice and judgments. + +17:11. And their eye saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears heard +his glorious voice, and he said to them: Beware of all iniquity. + +Their eye saw, etc... Viz., when he gave the law on mount Sinai. + +17:12. And he gave to every one of them commandment concerning his +neighbour. + +17:13. Their ways are always before him, they are not hidden from his +eyes. + +17:14. Over every nation he set a ruler. + +17:15. And Israel was made the manifest portion of God. + +17:16. And all their works are as the sun in the sight of God: and his +eyes are continually upon their ways. + +17:17. Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their +iniquities are in the sight of God. + +17:18. The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the +grace of a man as the apple of the eye: + +17:19. And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their +reward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into +the bowels of the earth. + +17:20. But to the penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he hath +strengthened them that were fainting in patience, and hath appointed to +them the lot of truth. + +17:21. Turn to the Lord, and forsake thy sins: + +17:22. Make thy prayer before the face of the Lord, and offend less. + +Offend less... Minue offendicula. That is, remove sins and the occasions +of sins. + +17:23. Return to the Lord, and turn away from thy injustice, and greatly +hate abomination. + +17:24. And know the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the +lot set before thee, and in prayer to the most high God. + +17:25. Go to the side of the holy age, with them that live and give +praise to God. + +Go to the side, etc... Fly from the side of Satan and sin, and join with +the holy ones, that follow God and godliness. + +17:26. Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give glory before death. +Praise perisheth from the dead as nothing. + +17:27. Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in +health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in +his mercies. + +17:28. How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them +that turn to him! + +17:29. For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not +immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil. + +17:30. What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what +is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this +shall be reproved. + +17:31. He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are +earth and ashes. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 18 + +God's works are wonderful: we must serve him, and not our lusts. + +18:1. He that liveth for ever created all things together. God only +shall be justified, and he remaineth an invincible king for ever. + +18:2. Who is able to declare his works? + +18:3. For who shall search out his glorious acts? + +18:4. And who shall show forth the power of his majesty? or who shall be +able to declare his mercy? + +18:5. Nothing may be taken away, nor added, neither is it possible to +find out the glorious works of God. + +18:6. When a man hath done, then shall he begin: and when he leaveth +off, he shall be at a loss. + +Then shall he begin... God is so great and incomprehensible, that when +man has done all that he can to find out his greatness and boundless +perfections, he is still to begin: for what he has found out, is but a +mere nothing in comparison with his infinity. + +18:7. What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what +is his evil? + +18:8. The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years, as +a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the +sand, so are a few years compared to eternity. + +18:9. Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy upon +them. + +18:10. He hath seen the presumption of their heart that it is wicked, +and hath known their end that it is evil. + +18:11. Therefore hath he filled up his mercy in their favour, and hath +shewn them the way of justice. + +18:12. The compassion of man is toward his neighbour: but the mercy of +God is upon all flesh. + +18:13. He hath mercy, and teacheth, and correcteth, as a shepherd doth +his flock. + +18:14. He hath mercy on him that receiveth the discipline of mercy, and +that maketh haste in his judgments. + +18:15. My son, in thy good deeds, make no complaint, and when thou +givest any thing, add not grief by an evil word. + +18:16. Shall not the dew assuage the heat? so also the good word is +better than the gift. + +18:17. Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a +justified man. + +18:18. A fool will upbraid bitterly: and a gift of one ill taught +consumeth the eyes. + +18:19. Before judgment prepare thee justice, and learn before thou +speak. + +18:20. Before sickness take a medicine, and before judgment examine +thyself, and thou shalt find mercy in the sight of God. + +18:21. Humble thyself before thou art sick, and in the time of sickness +shew thy conversation. + +18:22. Let nothing hinder thee from praying always, and be not afraid to +be justified even to death: for the reward of God continueth for ever. + +18:23. Before prayer prepare thy soul: and be not as a man that tempteth +God. + +18:24. Remember the wrath that shall be at the last day, and the time of +repaying when he shall turn away his face. + +18:25. Remember poverty in the time of abundance, and the necessities of +poverty in the day of riches. + +18:26. From the morning until the evening the time shall be changed, and +all these are swift in the eyes of God. + +18:27. A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the days of sins will +beware of sloth. + +18:28. Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give praise +to him that findeth her. + +18:29. They that were of good understanding in words, have also done +wisely themselves: and have understood truth and justice, and have +poured forth proverbs and judgments. + +18:30. Go not after thy lusts, but turn away from thy own will. + +18:31. If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to +thy enemies. + +18:32. Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: +for their concertation is continual. + +18:33. Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when +thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own +life. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 19 + +Admonition against sundry vices. + +19:1. A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that +contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little. + +19:2. Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the +prudent: + +19:3. And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked. +Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a +greater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number. + +19:4. He that is hasty to give credit, is light of heart, and shall be +lessened: and he that sinneth against his own soul, shall be despised. + +19:5. He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be censured, and he that +hateth chastisement, shall have less life: and he that hateth babbling, +extinguisheth evil. + +19:6. He that sinneth against his own soul, shall repent: and he that is +delighted with wickedness, shall be condemned. + +19:7. Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh word, and thou shalt not +fare the worse. + +19:8. Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with +thee, disclose it not. + +19:9. For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were +defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always. + +19:10. Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within +thee, trusting that it will not burst thee. + +19:11. At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman +groaning in the bringing forth a child. + +19:12. As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the +heart of a fool. + +19:13. Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did +it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more. + +19:14. Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if +he hath said it, that he may not say it again. + +19:15. Admonish thy friend: for there is often a fault committed. + +19:16. And believe not every word. There is one, that slippeth with the +tongue, but not from his heart. + +19:17. For who is there that hath not offended with his tongue? +Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him. + +19:18. And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God +is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the +law is in all wisdom. + +19:19. But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of +sinners is not prudence. + +19:20. There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and +there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom. + +19:21. Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, +with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and +transgresseth the law of the most High. + +19:22. There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust. + +19:23. And there is one that uttereth an exact word telling the truth. +There is one that humbleth himself wickedly, and his interior is full of +deceit: + +19:24. And there is one that submitteth himself exceedingly with a great +lowliness: and there is one that casteth down his countenance, and +maketh as if he did not see that which is unknown: + +19:25. And if he be hindered from sinning for want of power, if he shall +find opportunity to do evil, he will do it. + +19:26. A man is known by his look, and a wise man, when thou meetest +him, is known by his countenance. + +19:27. The attire of the body, and the laughter of the teeth, and the +gait of the man, shew what he is. + +19:28. There is a lying rebuke in the anger of an injurious man: and +there is a judgment that is not allowed to be good: and there is one +that holdeth his peace, he is wise. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 20 + +Rules with regard to correction, discretion, and avoiding lies. + +20:1. How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to +hinder him that confesseth in prayer. + +20:2. The lust of an eunuch shall deflour a young maiden: + +20:3. So is he that by violence executeth of the unwise. + +20:4. How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance! for +so thou shalt escape wilful sin. + +20:5. There is one that holdeth his peace, that is found wise: and there +is another that is hateful, that is bold in speech. + +20:6. There is one that holdeth his peace, because he knoweth not what +to say: and there is another that holdeth his peace, knowing the proper +time. + +20:7. A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity: but a +babbler, and a fool, will regard no time. + +20:8. He that useth many words shall hurt his own soul: and he that +taketh authority to himself unjustly shall be hated. + +20:9. There is success in evil things to a man without discipline, and +there is a finding that turneth to loss. + +20:10. There is a gift that is not profitable: and there is a gift, the +recompense of which is double. + +20:11. There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that +shall lift up his head from a low estate. + +20:12. There is that buyeth much for a small price, and restoreth the +same sevenfold. + +20:13. A man wise in words shall make himself beloved: but the graces of +fools shall be poured out. + +20:14. The gift of the fool shall do thee no good: for his eyes are +sevenfold. + +20:15. He will give a few things, and upbraid much: and the opening of +his mouth is the kindling of a fire. + +20:16. To day a man lendeth, and to morrow he asketh it again: such a +man as this is hateful. + +20:17. A fool shall have no friend, and there shall be no thanks for his +good deeds. + +20:18. For they that eat his bread, are of a false tongue. How often, +and how many will laugh him to scorn! + +20:19. For he doth not distribute with right understanding that which +was to be had: in like manner also that which was not to be had. + +20:20. The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the +pavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily. + +20:21. A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually +in the mouth of the unwise. + +20:22. A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he +doth not speak it in due season. + +20:23. There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his +rest he shall be pricked. + +20:24. There is that will destroy his own soul through shamefacedness, +and by occasion of an unwise person he will destroy it: and by respect +of person he will destroy himself. + +20:25. There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh +him his enemy for nothing. + +20:26. A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it will be continually in +the mouth of men without discipline. + +20:27. A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of +them shall inherit destruction. + +20:28. The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confusion +is with them without ceasing. + +20:29. A wise man shall advance himself with his words, and a prudent +man shall please the great ones. + +20:30. He that tilleth his land shall make a high heap of corn: and he +that worketh justice shall be exalted: and he that pleaseth great men +shall escape iniquity. + +20:31. Presents and gifts blind the eyes of judges, and make them dumb +in the mouth, so that they cannot correct. + +20:32. O Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is not seen: what profit +is there in them both? + +20:33. Better is he that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his +wisdom. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 21 + +Cautions against sin in general, and some sins in particular. + +21:1. My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more: but for thy former sins +also pray that they may be forgiven thee. + +21:2. Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest +near them, they will take hold of thee. + +21:3. The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, killing the souls of +men. + +21:4. All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for the +wound thereof. + +21:5. Injuries and wrongs will waste riches: and the house that is very +rich shall be brought to nothing by pride: so the substance of the proud +shall be rooted out. + +21:6. The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of +God, and judgment shall come for him speedily. + +21:7. He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: +and he that feareth God will turn to his own heart. + +21:8. He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise +man knoweth to slip by him. + +21:9. He that buildeth his house at other men's charges, is as he that +gathereth himself stones to build in the winter. + +21:10. The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the +end of them is a flame of fire. + +21:11. The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end is +hell, and darkness, and pains. + +21:12. He that keepeth justice shall get the understanding thereof. + +21:13. The perfection of the fear of God is wisdom and understanding. + +21:14. He that is not wise in good, will not be taught. + +21:15. But there is a wisdom that aboundeth in evil: and there is no +understanding where there is bitterness. + +21:16. The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood, and his +counsel continueth like a fountain of life. + +21:17. The heart of a fool is like a broken vessel, and no wisdom at all +shall it hold. + +21:18. A man of sense will praise every wise word he shall hear, and +will apply it to himself: the luxurious man hath heard it, and it shall +displease him, and he will cast it behind his back. + +21:19. The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but in the +lips of the wise, grace shall be found. + +21:20. The mouth of the prudent is sought after in the church, and they +will think upon his words in their hearts. + +21:21. As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the +knowledge of the unwise is as words without sense. + +21:22. Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles +on the right hand. + +21:23. A fool lifteth up his voice in laughter: but a wise man will +scarce laugh low to himself. + +21:24. Learning to the prudent is as an ornament of gold, and like a +bracelet upon his right arm. + +21:25. The foot of a fool is soon in his neighbour's house: but a man of +experience will be abashed at the person of the mighty. + +21:26. A fool will peep through the window into the house: but he that +is well taught will stand without. + +21:27. It is the folly of a man to hearken at the door: and a wise man +will be grieved with the disgrace. + +21:28. The lips of the unwise will be telling foolish things: but the +words of the wise shall be weighed in a balance. + +21:29. The heart of fools is in their mouth: and the mouth of wise men +is in their heart. + +21:30. While the ungodly curseth the devil, he curseth his own soul. + +While the ungodly, etc... He condemneth and curseth himself: inasmuch as +by sin he takes part with the devil, and is, as it were, his member and +subject. + +21:31. The talebearer shall defile his own soul, and shall be hated by +all: and he that shall abide with him shall be hateful: the silent and +wise man shall be honoured. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 22 + +Wise sayings on divers subjects. + +22:1. The sluggard is pelted with a dirty stone, and all men will speak +of his disgrace. + +22:2. The sluggard is pelted with the dung of oxen: and every one that +toucheth him will shake his hands. + +22:3. A son ill taught is the confusion of the father: and a foolish +daughter shall be to his loss. + +22:4. A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she +that confoundeth, becometh a disgrace to her father. + +22:5. She that is bold shameth both her father and husband, and will not +be inferior to the ungodly: and shall be disgraced by them both. + +22:6. A tale out of time is like music in mourning: but the stripes and +instruction of wisdom are never out of time. + +22:7. He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd +together. + +22:8. He that telleth a word to him that heareth not, is like one that +waketh a man out of a deep sleep. + +22:9. He speaketh with one that is asleep, who uttereth wisdom to a +fool: and in the end of the discourse he saith: Who is this? + +22:10. Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the +fool, for his understanding faileth. + +For the fool... In the language of the Holy Ghost, he is styled a fool, +that turns away from God to follow vanity and sin. And what is said by +the wise man against fools is meant of such fools as these. + +22:11. Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest. + +22:12. For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death. + +22:13. The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an +ungodly man all the days of their life. + +22:14. Talk not much with a fool and go not with him that hath no sense. + +22:15. Keep thyself from him, that thou mayst not have trouble, and thou +shalt not be defiled with his sin. + +22:16. Turn away from him, and thou shalt find rest, and shalt not be +wearied out with his folly. + +22:17. What is heavier than lead? and what other name hath he but fool? + +22:18. Sand and salt, and a mass of iron is easier to bear, than a man +without sense, that is both foolish and wicked. + +22:19. A frame of wood bound together in the foundation of a building, +shall not be loosed: so neither shall the heart that is established by +advised counsel. + +22:20. The thought of him that is wise at all times, shall not be +depraved by fear. + +22:21. As pales set in high places, and plasterings made without cost, +will not stand against the face of the wind: + +22:22. So also a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool shall not +resist against the violence of fear. + +22:23. As a fearful heart in the thought of a fool at all times will not +fear, so neither shall he that continueth always in the commandments of +God. + +22:24. He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that +pricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment. + +22:25. He that flingeth a stone at birds, shall drive them away: so he +that upbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship. + +22:26. Although thou hast drawn a sword at a friend, despair not: for +there may be a returning. To a friend, + +22:27. If thou hast opened a sad mouth, fear not, for there may be a +reconciliation: except upbraiding, and reproach, and pride, and +disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for in all these cases a +friend will flee away. + +22:28. Keep fidelity with a friend in his poverty, that in his +prosperity also thou mayst rejoice. + +22:29. In the time of his trouble continue faithful to him, that thou +mayst also be heir with him in his inheritance. + +22:30. As the vapour of a chimney, and the smoke of the fire goeth up +before the fire: so also injurious words, and reproaches, and threats, +before blood. + +22:31. I will not be ashamed to salute a friend, neither will I hide +myself from his face: and if any evil happen to me by him, I will bear +it. + +22:32. But every one that shall hear it, will beware of him. + +22:33. Who will set a guard before my mouth, and a sure seal upon my +lips, that I fall not by them, and that my tongue destroy me not? + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 23 + +A prayer for grace to flee sin: cautions against profane swearing and +other vices. + +23:1. O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to +their counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them. + +By them... Viz., the tongue and the lips, mentioned in the last verse of +the foregoing chapter. + +23:2. Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of +wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and +that their sins may not appear: + +That they spare me not in their ignorances, etc... That is, that the +scourges and discipline of wisdom may restrain the ignorances, that is, +the slips and offences which are usually committed by the tongue and the +lips. + +23:3. Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my +sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over +me? + +23:4. O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. + +23:5. Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all +coveting. + +23:6. Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of +the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and +foolish mind. + +23:7. Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth, and he that will +keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most +wicked works. + +23:8. A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil +speakers shall fall thereby. + +23:9. Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are +many falls. + +23:10. And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle +not with the names of saints, for thou shalt not escape free from them. + +23:11. For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a blue +mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure +from sin. + +23:12. A man that sweareth much, shall be filled with iniquity, and a +scourge shall not depart from his house. + +23:13. And if he make it void, his sin shall be upon him, and if he +dissemble it, he offendeth double: + +23:14. And if he swear in vain, he shall not be justified: for his house +shall be filled with his punishment. + +23:15. There is also another speech opposite to death, let it not be +found in the inheritance of Jacob. + +23:16. For from the merciful all these things shall be taken away, and +they shall not wallow in sins. + +23:17. Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein +is the word of sin. + +23:18. Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the midst +of great men: + +23:19. Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily +custom be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not +been born, and curse the day of thy nativity. + +23:20. The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be +corrected all the days of his life. + +23:21. Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and +destruction. + +23:22. A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched, till it +devour some thing. + +23:23. And a man that is wicked in the mouth of his flesh, will not +leave off till he hath kindled a fire. + +23:24. To a man that is a fornicator all bread is sweet, he will not be +weary of sinning unto the end. + +23:25. Every man that passeth beyond his own bed, despising his own +soul, and saying: Who seeth me? + +23:26. Darkness compasseth me about, and the walls cover me, and no man +seeth me: whom do I fear? the most High will not remember my sins. + +23:27. And he understandeth not that his eye seeth all things, for such +a man's fear driveth him from the fear of God, and the eyes of men +fearing him: + +23:28. And he knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are far brighter +than the sun, beholding round about all the ways of men, and the bottom +of the deep, and looking into the hearts of men, into the most hidden +parts. + +23:29. For all things were known to the Lord God, before they were +created: so also after they were perfected he beholdeth all things. + +23:30. This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and he +shall be chased as a colt: and where he suspected not, he shall be +taken. + +23:31. And he shall be in disgrace with all men, because he understood +not the fear of the Lord. + +23:32. So every woman also that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an +heir by another: + +23:33. For first she hath been unfaithful to the law of the most High: +and secondly, she hath offended against her husband: thirdly, she hath +fornicated in adultery, and hath gotten her children of another man. + +23:34. This woman shall be brought into the assembly, and inquisition +shall be made of her children. + +23:35. Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring +forth no fruit. + +23:36. She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her infamy shall not +be blotted out. + +23:37. And they that remain shall know, that there is nothing better +than the fear of God: and that there is nothing sweeter than to have +regard to the commandments of the Lord. + +23:38. It is great glory to follow the Lord: for length of days shall be +received from him. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 24 + +Wisdom praiseth herself: her origin, her dwelling, her dignity, and her +fruits. + +24:1. Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, +and shall glory in the midst of her people, + +24:2. And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and +shall glorify herself in the sight of his power, + +24:3. And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall +be admired in the holy assembly. + +24:4. And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among +the blessed she shall be blessed, saying: + +24:5. I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all +creatures: + +24:6. I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never +faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth: + +24:7. I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a +cloud. + +24:8. I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven, and have penetrated +into the bottom of the deep, and have walked in the waves of the sea, + +24:9. And have stood in all the earth: and in every people, + +24:10. And in every nation I have had the chief rule: + +24:11. And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all +the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in +the inheritance of the Lord. + +24:12. Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he +that made me, rested in my tabernacle, + +24:13. And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy +inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. + +24:14. From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto +the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling +place I have ministered before him. + +24:15. And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I +rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. + +24:16. And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my +God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. + +24:17. I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on +mount Sion. + +24:18. I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in +Jericho: + +24:19. As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the +water in the streets, was I exalted. + +24:20. I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I +yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: + +24:21. And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and +aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest +balm. + +24:22. I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my +branches are of honour and grace. + +24:23. As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers +are the fruit of honour and riches. + +24:24. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and +of holy hope. + +24:25. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope +of life and of virtue. + +24:26. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my +fruits. + +24:27. For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above +honey and the honeycomb. + +24:28. My memory is unto everlasting generations. + +24:29. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall +yet thirst. + +24:30. He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that +work by me, shall not sin. + +24:31. They that explain me shall have life everlasting. + +24:32. All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the +most High, and the knowledge of truth. + +24:33. Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an +inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel. + +24:34. He appointed to David his servant to raise up of him a most +mighty king, and sitting on the throne of glory for ever. + +A most mighty king... Viz., Christ, who by his gospel, like an +overflowing river, has enriched the earth with heavenly wisdom. + +24:35. Who filleth up wisdom as the Phison, and as the Tigris in the +days of the new fruits. + +24:36. Who maketh understanding to abound as the Euphrates, who +multiplieth it as the Jordan in the time of harvest. + +24:37. Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and riseth up as Gehon in the +time of the vintage. + +24:38. Who first hath perfect knowledge of her, and a weaker shall not +search her out. + +Who first hath perfect knowledge of her... Christ was the first that had +perfect knowledge of heavenly wisdom. + +24:39. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels +more deep than the great ocean. + +24:40. I, wisdom, have poured out rivers. + +24:41. I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty water; I, like a +channel of a river, and like an aqueduct, came out of paradise. + +24:42. I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water +abundantly the fruits of my meadow. + +24:43. And behold my brook became a great river, and my river came near +to a sea: + +24:44. For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, +and I will declare it afar off. + +24:45. I will penetrate to all the lower parts of the earth, and will +behold all that sleep, and will enlighten all that hope in the Lord. + +24:46. I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to +them that seek wisdom, and will not cease to instruct their offspring +even to the holy age. + +24:47. See ye that I have not laboured myself only, but for all that +seek out the truth. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 25 + +Documents of wisdom on several subjects. + +25:1. With three things my spirit is pleased, which are approved before +God and men: + +25:2. The concord of brethren, and the love of neighbours, and man and +wife that agree well together. + +25:3. Three sorts my soul hateth, and I am greatly grieved at their +life: + +25:4. A poor man that is proud: a rich man that is a liar: an old man +that is a fool, and doting. + +25:5. The things that thou hast not gathered in thy youth, how shalt +thou find them in thy old age? + +25:6. O how comely is judgment for a grey head, and for ancients to know +counsel! + +25:7. O how comely is wisdom for the aged, and understanding and counsel +to men of honour! + +25:8. Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is +their glory. + +25:9. Nine things that are not to be imagined by the heart have I +magnified, and the tenth I will utter to men with my tongue. + +25:10. A man that hath joy of his children: and he that liveth and seeth +the fall of his enemies. + +25:11. Blessed is he that dwelleth with a wise woman, and that hath not +slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served such as are unworthy +of him. + +25:12. Blessed is he that findeth a true friend, and that declareth +justice to an ear that heareth. + +25:13. How great is he that findeth wisdom and knowledge! but there is +none above him that feareth the Lord. + +25:14. The fear of God hath set itself above all things: + +25:15. Blessed is the man, to whom it is given to have the fear of God: +he that holdeth it, to whom shall he be likened? + +25:16. The fear of God is the beginning of his love: and the beginning +of faith is to be fast joined unto it. + +25:17. The sadness of the heart is every plague: and the wickedness of a +woman is all evil. + +25:18. And a man will choose any plague, but the plague of the heart: + +25:19. And any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman: + +25:20. And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate him: + +25:21. And any revenge, but the revenge of enemies. + +25:22. There is no head worse than the head of a serpent: + +25:23. And there is no anger above the anger of a woman. It will be more +agreeable to abide with a lion and a dragon, than to dwell with a wicked +woman. + +25:24. The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth +her countenance as a bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst +of her neighbours, + +25:25. Her husband groaned, and hearing he sighed a little. + +25:26. All malice is short to the malice of a woman, let the lot of +sinners fall upon her. + +25:27. As the climbing of a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is +a wife full of tongue to a quiet man. + +25:28. Look not upon a woman's beauty, and desire not a woman for +beauty. + +25:29. A woman's anger, and impudence, and confusion is great. + +25:30. A woman, if she have superiority, is contrary to her husband. + +25:31. A wicked woman abateth the courage, and maketh a heavy +countenance, and a wounded heart. + +25:32. Feeble hands, and disjointed knees, a woman that doth not make +her husband happy. + +25:33. From the woman came the beginning of sin, and by her we all die. + +25:34. Give no issue to thy water, no, not a little: nor to a wicked +woman liberty to gad abroad. + +25:35. If she walk not at thy hand, she will confound thee in the sight +of thy enemies. + +25:36. Cut her off from thy flesh, lest she always abuse thee. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 26 + +Of good and bad women. + +26:1. Happy is the husband of a good wife: for the number of his years +is double. + +26:2. A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and shall fulfil the years +of his life in peace. + +26:3. A good wife is a good portion, she shall be given in the portion +of them that fear God, to a man for his good deeds. + +26:4. Rich or poor, if his heart is good, his countenance shall be +cheerful at all times. + +26:5. Of three things my heart hath been afraid, and at the fourth my +face hath trembled: + +26:6. The accusation of a city, and the gathering together of the +people: + +26:7. And a false calumny, all are more grievous than death. + +26:8. A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart. + +26:9. With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which +communicateth with all. + +26:10. As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked +woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a +scorpion. + +26:11. A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame +shall not be hid. + +26:12. The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of +her eyes and by her eyelids. + +26:13. On a daughter that turneth not away herself, set a strict watch: +lest finding an opportunity she abuse herself. + +26:14. Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she +slight thee. + +26:15. She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, +and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every +hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail. + +26:16. The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and +shall fat his bones. + +26:17. Her discipline is the gift of God. + +26:18. Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much +worth as a well instructed soul. + +26:19. A holy and shamefaced woman is grace upon grace. + +26:20. And no price is worthy of a continent soul. + +26:21. As the sun when it riseth to the world in the high places of God, +so is the beauty of a good wife for the ornament of her house. + +26:22. As the lamp shining upon the holy candlestick, so is the beauty +of the face in a ripe age, + +26:23. As golden pillars upon bases of silver, so are the firm feet upon +the soles of a steady woman. + +26:24. As everlasting foundations upon a solid rock, so the commandments +of God in the heart of a holy woman. + +26:25. At two things my heart is grieved, and the third bringeth anger +upon me. + +26:26. A man of war fainting through poverty, and a man of sense +despised: + +26:27. And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared +such an one for the sword. + +26:28. Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a +merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be +justified from the sins of the lips. + +From negligence... That is, from the neglect of the service of God: +because the eager pursuit of the mammon of this world, is apt to make +men of that calling forget the great duties of loving God above all +things, and their neighbours as themselves.-Ibid. A huckster... Or, a +retailer of wine. Men of that profession are both greatly exposed to +danger of sin themselves, and are too often accessary to the sins of +others. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 27 + +Dangers of sin from several heads: the fear of God is the best +preservative. He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it. + +27:1. Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be +enriched, turneth away his eye. + +27:2. As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so +also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast. + +27:3. Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner. + +27:4. Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy +house shall quickly be overthrown. + +27:5. As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will +the perplexity of a man in his thoughts. + +27:6. The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of +affliction just men. + +27:7. As the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out +of the thought of the heart of man. + +27:8. Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the trial of men. + +27:9. If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and shalt put +her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she +shall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou shalt +find a strong foundation. + +27:10. Birds resort unto their like: so truth will return to them that +practise her. + +27:11. The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sins for them that +work iniquities. + +27:12. A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is changed +as the moon. + +27:13. In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its time: but be +continually among men that think. + +27:14. The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the +pleasures of sin. + +27:15. The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head +stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears. + +27:16. In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their +cursing is a grievous hearing. + +27:17. He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and +shall never find a friend to his mind. + +27:18. Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity. + +27:19. But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him. + +27:20. For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that destroyeth +the friendship of his neighbour. + +27:21. And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou +let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again. + +27:22. Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as +a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded. + +27:23. Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is +reconciliation: + +And of a curse there is reconciliation... That is, it is easier to +obtain a reconciliation after a curse, than after disclosing a secret. + +27:24. But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an +unhappy soul. + +27:25. He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man +will cast him off: + +27:26. In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will +admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy +words he will lay a stumblingblock. + +27:27. I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate +him. + +27:28. If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and +the deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful. + +27:29. He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that setteth a +stone for his neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he that layeth a +snare for another, shall perish in it. + +27:30. A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author, and +he shall not know from whence it cometh to him. + +27:31. Mockery and reproach are of the proud, and vengeance as a lion +shall lie in wait for him. + +27:32. They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of +the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die. + +27:33. Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man +shall be subject to them. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 28 + +Lessons against revenge and quarrels. The evils of the tongue. + +28:1. He that seeketh to revenge himself, shall find vengeance from the +Lord, and he will surely keep his sins in remembrance. + +28:2. Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt thee: and then shall thy +sins be forgiven to thee when thou prayest. + +28:3. Man to man reserveth anger, and doth he seek remedy of God? + +28:4. He hath no mercy on a man like himself, and doth he entreat for +his own sins? + +28:5. He that is but flesh, nourisheth anger, and doth he ask +forgiveness of God? who shall obtain pardon for his sins? + +28:6. Remember thy last things, and let enmity cease: + +28:7. For corruption and death hang over in his commandments. + +In his commandments... Supply the sentence out of the Greek thus: +Remember corruption and death, and abide in the commandments. + +28:8. Remember the fear of God, and be not angry with thy neighbour. + +28:9. Remember the covenant of the most High, and overlook the ignorance +of thy neighbour. + +28:10. Refrain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins. + +28:11. For a passionate man kindleth strife, and a sinful man will +trouble his friends, and bring in debate in the midst of them that are +at peace. + +28:12. For as the wood of the forest is, so the fire burneth, and as a +man's strength is, so shall his anger be, and according to his riches he +shall increase his anger. + +28:13. A hasty contention kindleth a fire and a hasty quarrel sheddeth +blood and a tongue that beareth witness bringeth death. + +28:14. If thou blow the spark, it shall burn as a fire: and if thou spit +upon it, it shall be quenched: both come out of the mouth. + +28:15. The whisperer and the double tongue is accursed: for he hath +troubled many that were at peace. + +28:16. The tongue of a third person hath disquieted many, and scattered +them from nation to nation. + +28:17. It hath destroyed the strong cities of the rich, and hath +overthrown the houses of great men. + +28:18. It hath cut in pieces the forces of people, and undone strong +nations. + +28:19. The tongue of a third person hath cast out valiant women, and +deprived them of their labours. + +28:20. He that hearkeneth to it, shall never have rest, neither shall he +have a friend in whom he may repose. + +28:21. The stroke of a whip maketh a blue mark: but the stroke of the +tongue will break the bones. + +28:22. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as +have perished by their own tongue. + +28:23. Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath +not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke +thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands. + +28:24. For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass. + +28:25. The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to +it. + +28:26. Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall +possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its +flame. + +28:27. They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in +them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a +lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them. + +28:28. Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear not a wicked tongue, and make +doors and bars to thy mouth. + +28:29. Melt down thy gold and silver, and make a balance for thy words, +and a just bridle for thy mouth: + +28:30. And take heed lest thou slip with thy tongue, and fall in the +sight of thy enemies who lie in wait for thee, and thy fall be incurable +unto death. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 29 + +Of charity in lending money, and justice in repaying. Of alms, and of +being surety. + +29:1. He that sheweth mercy, lendeth to his neighbour: and he that is +stronger in hand, keepeth the commandments. + +And he that is stronger in hand... That is, he that is hearty and +bountiful in lending to his neighbour in his necessity. + +29:2. Lend to thy neighbour in the time of his need, and pay thou thy +neighbour again in due time. + +29:3. Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him: and thou shalt always +find that which is necessary for thee. + +29:4. Many have looked upon a thing lent as a thing found, and have +given trouble to them that helped them. + +29:5. Till they receive, they kiss the hands of the lender, and in +promises they humble their voice: + +29:6. But when they should repay, they will ask time, and will return +tedious and murmuring words, and will complain of the time: + +29:7. And if he be able to pay, he will stand off, he will scarce pay +one half, and will count it as if he had found it: + +29:8. But if not, he will defraud him of his money, and he shall get him +for an enemy without cause. + +29:9. And he will pay him with reproaches and curses, and instead of +honour and good turn will repay him injuries. + +29:10. Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness, but they were +afraid to be defrauded without cause. + +29:11. But yet towards the poor be thou more hearty, and delay not to +shew him mercy. + +29:12. Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away +empty handed because of his poverty. + +29:13. Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend: and hide it not +under a stone to be lost. + +29:14. Place thy treasure in the commandments of the most High, and it +shall bring thee more profit than gold. + +29:15. Shut up alms in the heart of the poor, and it shall obtain help +for thee against all evil. + +29:16. Better than the shield of the mighty, and better than the spear: + +29:17. It shall fight for thee against thy enemy. + +29:18. A good man is surety for his neighbour: and he that hath lost +shame, will leave him to himself. + +29:19. Forget not the kindness of thy surety: for he hath given his life +for thee. + +29:20. The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety. + +29:21. A sinner attributeth to himself the goods of his surety: and he +that is of an unthankful mind will leave him that delivered him. + +29:22. A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all +shame, he shall forsake him. + +29:23. Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed +them as a wave of the sea. + +29:24. It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, +and they have wandered in strange countries. + +29:25. A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall +fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall +fall into judgment. + +29:26. Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to +thyself that thou fall not. + +29:27. The chief thing for man's life is water and bread, and clothing, +and a house to cover shame. + +29:28. Better is the poor man's fare under a roof of boards, than +sumptuous cheer abroad in another man's house. + +29:29. Be contented with little instead of much, and thou shalt not hear +the reproach of going abroad. + +29:30. It is a miserable life to go as a guest from house to house: for +where a man is a stranger, he shall not deal confidently, nor open his +mouth. + +29:31. He shall entertain and feed, and give drink to the unthankful, +and moreover he shall hear bitter words. + +29:32. Go, stranger, and furnish the table, and give others to eat what +thou hast in thy hand. + +29:33. Give place to the honourable presence of my friends: for I want +my house, my brother being to be lodged with me. + +29:34. These things are grievous to a man of understanding: the +upbraiding of houseroom, and the reproaching of the lender. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 30 + +Of correction of children. Health is better than wealth. Excessive grief +is hurtful. + +30:1. He that loveth his son, frequently chastiseth him, that he may +rejoice in his latter end, and not grope after the doors of his +neighbours. + +30:2. He that instructeth his son shall be praised in him, and shall +glory in him in the midst of them of his household. + +30:3. He that teacheth his son, maketh his enemy jealous, and in the +midst of his friends he shall glory in him. + +30:4. His father is dead, and he is as if he were not dead: for he hath +left one behind him that is like himself. + +30:5. While he lived he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died he was +not sorrowful, neither was he confounded before his enemies. + +30:6. For he left behind him a defender of his house against his +enemies, and one that will requite kindness to his friends. + +30:7. For the souls of his sons he shall bind up his wounds, and at +every cry his bowels shall be troubled. + +30:8. A horse not broken becometh stubborn, and a child left to himself +will become headstrong. + +30:9. Give thy son his way, and he shall make thee afraid: play with +him, and he shall make thee sorrowful. + +30:10. Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow, and at the last thy +teeth be set on edge. + +30:11. Give him not liberty in his youth, and wink not at his devices. + +30:12. Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat his sides while he +is a child, lest he grow stubborn, and regard thee not, and so be a +sorrow of heart to thee. + +30:13. Instruct thy son, and labour about him, lest his lewd behaviour +be an offence to thee. + +30:14. Better is a poor man who is sound, and strong of constitution, +than a rich man who is weak and afflicted with evils. + +30:15. Health of the soul in holiness of justice, is better than all +gold and silver: and a sound body, than immense revenues. + +30:16. There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body: +and there is no pleasure above the joy of the heart. + +30:17. Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than +continual sickness. + +30:18. Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as +messes of meat set about a grave. + +30:19. What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither +eat, nor smell: + +30:20. So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of +his iniquity: + +30:21. He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a +virgin, and sighing. + +30:22. Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy +own counsel. + +30:23. The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never +failing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life. + +30:24. Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself: +gather up thy heart in his holiness: and drive away sadness far from +thee. + +30:25. For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it. + +30:26. Envy and anger shorten a man's days, and pensiveness will bring +old age before the time. + +30:27. A cheerful and good heart is always feasting: for his banquets +are prepared with diligence. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 31 + +Of the desire of riches, and of moderation in eating and drinking. + +31:1. Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the thought thereof +driveth away sleep. + +31:2. The thinking beforehand turneth away the understanding, and a +grievous sickness maketh the soul sober. + +31:3. The rich man hath laboured in gathering riches together, and when +he resteth he shall be filled with his goods. + +31:4. The poor man hath laboured in his low way of life, and in the end +he is still poor. + +31:5. He that loveth gold, shall not be justified: and he that followeth +after corruption, shall be filled with it. + +31:6. Many have been brought to fall for gold, and the beauty thereof +hath been their ruin. + +31:7. Gold is a stumblingblock to them that sacrifice to it: woe to them +that eagerly follow after it, and every fool shall perish by it. + +31:8. Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that +hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. + +31:9. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful +things in his life. + +31:10. Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have +glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not +transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them: + +31:11. Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the +church of the saints shall declare his alms. + +31:12. Art thou set at a great table? be not the first to open thy mouth +upon it. + +31:13. Say not: There are many things which are upon it. + +31:14. Remember that a wicked eye is evil. + +31:15. What is created more wicked than an eye? therefore shall it weep +over all the face when it shall see. + +31:16. Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy +thou be put to confusion. + +31:17. Be not hasty in a feast. + +31:18. Judge of the disposition of thy neighbour by thyself. + +31:19. Use as a frugal man the things that are set before thee: lest if +thou eatest much, thou be hated. + +31:20. Leave off first, for manners' sake: and exceed not, lest thou +offend. + +31:21. And if thou sittest among many, reach not thy hand out first of +all, and be not the first to ask for drink. + +31:22. How sufficient is a little wine for a man well taught, and in +sleeping thou shalt not be uneasy with it, and thou shalt feel no pain. + +31:23. Watching, and choler, and gripes, are with an intemperate man: + +31:24. Sound and wholesome sleep with a moderate man: he shall sleep +till morning, and his soul shall be delighted with him. + +31:25. And if thou hast been forced to eat much, arise, go out, and +vomit: and it shall refresh thee, and thou shalt not bring sickness upon +thy body. + +31:26. Hear me, my son, and despise me not: and in the end thou shalt +find my words. + +31:27. In all thy works be quick, and no infirmity shall come to thee. + +31:28. The lips of many shall bless him that is liberal of his bread, +and the testimony of his truth is faithful. + +31:29. Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, +and the testimony of his niggardliness is true. + +31:30. Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very +many. + +31:31. Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to excess shall rebuke the +hearts of the proud. + +31:32. Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it +moderately, thou shalt be sober. + +31:33. What is his life, who is diminished with wine? + +31:34. What taketh away life? death. + +31:35. Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful, and not +to make them drunk. + +31:36. Wine drunken with moderation is the joy of the soul and the +heart. + +31:37. Sober drinking is health to soul and body. + +31:38. Wine drunken with excess raiseth quarrels, and wrath, and many +ruins. + +31:39. Wine drunken with excess is bitterness of the soul. + +31:40. The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool, +lessening strength and causing wounds. + +31:41. Rebuke not thy neighbour in a banquet of wine: and despise him +not in his mirth. + +31:42. Speak not to him words of reproach: and press him not in +demanding again. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 32 + +Lessons for superiors and inferiors. Advantages of fearing God, and +doing nothing without counsel. + +32:1. Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one +of them. + +32:2. Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted +thyself of all thy charge, take thy place: + +32:3. That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an +ornament of grace, and get the honour of the contribution. + +32:4. Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee, + +32:5. To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not +music. + +32:6. Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted +up out of season with thy wisdom. + +32:7. A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in +gold. + +32:8. As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of +music with pleasant and moderate wine. + +32:9. Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to +thee. + +32:10. Young man, scarcely speak in thy own cause. + +32:11. If thou be asked twice, let thy answer be short. + +32:12. In many things be as if thou wert ignorant, and hear in silence +and withal seeking. + +32:13. In the company of great men take not upon thee: and when the +ancients are present, speak not much. + +32:14. Before a storm goeth lightning: and before shamefacedness goeth +favour: and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee. + +32:15. And at the time of rising be not slack: but be first to run home +to thy house, and there withdraw thyself, and there take thy pastime. + +32:16. And do what thou hast a mind, but not in sin or proud speech. + +32:17. And for all these things bless the Lord, that made thee, and that +replenisheth thee with all his good things. + +32:18. He that feareth the Lord, will receive his discipline: and they +that will seek him early, shall find a blessing. + +32:19. He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that +dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein. + +32:20. They that fear the Lord, shall find just judgment, and shall +kindle justice as a light. + +32:21. A sinful man will flee reproof, and will find an excuse according +to his will. + +32:22. A man of counsel will not neglect understanding, a strange and +proud man will not dread fear: + +32:23. Even after he hath done with fear without counsel, he shall be +controlled by the things of his own seeking. + +32:24. My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not +repent when thou hast done. + +32:25. Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the +stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a +stumblingblock to thy soul. + +32:26. And beware of thy own children, and take heed of them of thy +household. + +32:27. In every work of thine regard thy soul in faith: for this is the +keeping of the commandments. + +In faith... That is, follow sincerely thy soul in her faith and +conscience. + +32:28. He that believeth God, taketh heed to the commandments: and he +that trusteth in him, shall fare never the worse. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 33 + +The fear of God is the best security. Times and men are in the hands of +God. Take care of thyself as long as thou livest, and look to thy +servants. + +33:1. No evils shall happen to him that feareth the Lord, but in +temptation God will keep him and deliver him from evils. + +33:2. A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall +not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm. + +33:3. A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law +is faithful to him. + +33:4. He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to say, and so +having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he +shall answer. + +33:5. The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are +like a rolling axletree. + +33:6. A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse: he neigheth +under every one that sitteth upon him. + +33:7. Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one +year another year, when all come of the sun? + +33:8. By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun +being made, and keeping his commandment. + +33:9. And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they +celebrated festivals at an hour. + +33:10. Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he +put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and +out of the earth, from whence Adam was created. + +33:11. With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified +their ways. + +33:12. Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath +he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and +brought low, and turned them from their station. + +33:13. As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it: + +33:14. All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand +of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his +judgment. + +33:15. Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the +sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most +High. Two and two, and one against another. + +33:16. And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the +grapegatherers. + +33:17. In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that +gathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress. + +33:18. See that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all that +seek discipline. + +33:19. Hear me, ye great men, and all ye people, and hearken with your +ears, ye rulers of the church. + +33:20. Give not to son or wife, brother or friend, power over thee while +thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest thou repent, and +thou entreat for the same. + +33:21. As long as thou livest, and hast breath in thee, let no man +change thee. + +Change thee... That is, so as to have this power over thee. + +33:22. For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that +thou look toward the hands of thy children. + +33:23. In all thy works keep the pre-eminence. + +The pre-eminence... That is, be master in thy own house, and part not +with thy authority. + +33:24. Let no stain sully thy glory. In the time when thou shalt end the +days of thy life, and in the time of thy decease, distribute thy +inheritance. + +33:25. Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and +correction, and work for a slave. + +33:26. He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands +be idle, and he seeketh liberty. + +33:27. The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours +bow a slave. + +33:28. Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, +that he be not idle: + +33:29. For idleness hath taught much evil. + +33:30. Set him to work: for so it is fit for him. And if he be not +obedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any +one, and do no grievous thing without judgment. + +33:31. If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own +soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou hast +gotten him. + +33:32. If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away: + +33:33. And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and +in what way to seek him. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 34 + +The vanity of dreams. The advantage of experience, and of the fear of +God. + +34:1. The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and +deceitful: and dreams lift up fools. + +34:2. The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that +catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. + +34:3. The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: +as when a man's likeness is before the face of a man. + +34:4. What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come +from that which is false? + +34:5. Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, +are vanity: + +34:6. And the heart fancieth as that of a woman in travail: except it be +a vision sent forth from the most High, set not thy heart upon them. + +34:7. For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their +trust in them. + +34:8. The word of the law shall be fulfilled without a lie, and wisdom +shall be made plain in the mouth of the faithful. + +34:9. What doth he know, that hath not been tried? A man that hath much +experience, shall think of many things: and he that hath learned many +things, shall shew forth understanding. + +34:10. He that hath no experience, knoweth little: and he that hath been +experienced in many things, multiplieth prudence. + +34:11. He that hath not been tried, what manner of things doth he know? +he that hath been surprised, shall abound with subtlety. + +34:12. I have seen many things by travelling, and many customs of +things. + +34:13. Sometimes I have been in danger of death for these things, and I +have been delivered by the grace of God. + +34:14. The spirit of those that fear God, is sought after, and by his +regard shall be blessed. + +34:15. For their hope is on him that saveth them, and the eyes of God +are upon them that love him. + +34:16. He that feareth the Lord shall tremble at nothing, and shall not +be afraid: for he is his hope. + +34:17. The soul of him that feareth the Lord is blessed. + +34:18. To whom doth he look, and who is his strength? + +34:19. The eyes of the Lord are upon them that fear him, he is their +powerful protector, and strong stay, a defence from the heat, and a +cover from the sun at noon, + +34:20. A preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling: he +raiseth up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes, and giveth health, and +life, and blessing. + +34:21. The offering of him that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully +gotten, is stained, and the mockeries of the unjust are not acceptable. + +34:22. The Lord is only for them that wait upon him in the way of truth +and justice. + +34:23. The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked: neither hath +he respect to the oblations of the unjust, nor will he be pacified for +sins by the multitude of their sacrifices. + +34:24. He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor, is as one +that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father. + +34:25. The bread of the needy, is the life of the poor: he that +defraudeth them thereof, is a man of blood. + +34:26. He that taketh away the bread gotten by sweat, is like him that +killeth his neighbour. + +34:27. He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his +hire, are brothers. + +34:28. When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have +they but the labour? + +34:29. When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God hear? + +34:30. He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth +him again, what doth his washing avail? + +34:31. So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again, what +doth his humbling himself profit him? who will hear his prayer? + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 35 + +What sacrifices are pleasing to God. + +35:1. He that keepeth the law, multiplieth offerings. + +35:2. It is a wholesome sacrifice to take heed to the commandments, and +to depart from all iniquity. + +35:3. And to depart from injustice, is to offer a propitiatory sacrifice +for injustices, and a begging of pardon for sins. + +35:4. He shall return thanks, that offereth fine flour: and he that doth +mercy, offereth sacrifice. + +35:5. To depart from iniquity is that which pleaseth the Lord, and to +depart from injustice, is an entreaty for sins. + +35:6. Thou shalt not appear empty in the sight of the Lord. + +35:7. For all these things are to be done because of the commandment of +God. + +35:8. The oblation of the just maketh the altar fat, and is an odour of +sweetness in the sight of the most High. + +35:9. The sacrifice of the just is acceptable, and the Lord will not +forget the memorial thereof. + +35:10. Give glory to God with a good heart: and diminish not the +firstfruits of thy hands. + +35:11. In every gift shew a cheerful countenance, and sanctify thy +tithes with joy. + +35:12. Give to the most High according to what he hath given to thee, +and with a good eye do according to the ability of thy hands: + +35:13. For the Lord maketh recompense, and will give thee seven times as +much. + +35:14. Do not offer wicked gifts, for such he will not receive. + +35:15. And look not upon an unjust sacrifice, for the Lord is judge, and +there is not with him respect of person. + +35:16. The Lord will not accept any person against a poor man, and he +will hear the prayer of him that is wronged. + +35:17. He will not despise the prayers of the fatherless: nor the widow, +when she poureth out her complaint. + +35:18. Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against +him that causeth them to fall? + +35:19. For from the cheek they go up even to heaven, and the Lord that +heareth will not be delighted with them. + +35:20. He that adoreth God with joy, shall be accepted, and his prayer +shall approach even to the clouds. + +35:21. The prayer of him that humbleth himself, shall pierce the clouds: +and till it come nigh he will not be comforted: and he will not depart +till the most High behold. + +35:22. And the Lord will not be slack, but will judge for the just, and +will do judgment: and the Almighty will not have patience with them, +that he may crush their back: + +35:23. And he will repay vengeance to the Gentiles, till he have taken +away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptres of the unjust, + +35:24. Till he have rendered to men according to their deeds: and +according to the works of Adam, and according to his presumption, + +35:25. Till he have judged the cause of his people, and he shall delight +the just with his mercy. + +35:26. The mercy of God is beautiful in the time of affliction, as a +cloud of rain in the time of drought. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 36 + +A prayer for the church of God. Of a good heart, and a good wife. + +36:1. Have mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold us, and shew us the +light of thy mercies: + +36:2. And send thy fear upon the nations, that have not sought after +thee: that they may know that there is no God beside thee, and that they +may shew forth thy wonders. + +36:3. Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy +power. + +36:4. For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so thou +shalt be magnified among them in our presence, + +36:5. That they may know thee, as we also have known thee, that there is +no God beside thee, O Lord. + +36:6. Renew thy signs, and work new miracles. + +36:7. Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm. + +36:8. Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath. + +36:9. Take away the adversary, and crush the enemy. + +36:10. Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy +wonderful works. + +36:11. Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and +let them perish that oppress thy people. + +36:12. Crush the head of the princes of the enemies that say: There is +no other beside us. + +36:13. Gather together all the tribes of Jacob: that they may know that +there no God besides thee, and may declare thy great works: and thou +shalt inherit them as from the beginning. + +36:14. Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon +Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn. + +36:15. Have mercy on Jerusalem, the city which thou hast sanctified, the +city of thy rest. + +36:16. Fill Sion with thy unspeakable words, and thy people with thy +glory. + +36:17. Give testimony to them that are thy creatures from the beginning, +and raise up the prophecies which the former prophets spoke in thy name. + +36:18. Reward them that patiently wait for thee, that thy prophets may +be found faithful: and hear the prayers of thy servants, + +36:19. According to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, and direct us +into the way of justice, and let all know that dwell upon the earth, +that thou art God the beholder of all ages. + +36:20. The belly will devour all meat, yet one is better than another. + +36:21. The palate tasteth venison and the wise heart false speeches. + +36:22. A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will +resist it. + +36:23. A woman will receive every man: yet one daughter is better than +another. + +A woman will receive every man... That is, any man that her parents +propose to her to marry, though she does not like him, but marries in +obedience to her parents, who make the choice for her. + +36:24. The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband, +and a man desireth nothing more. + +36:25. If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and +shew mercy: her husband is not like other men. + +36:26. He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a +help like to himself, and a pillar of rest. + +36:27. Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and +where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want. + +36:28. Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth +wheresoever the night taketh him, as a robber well appointed, that +skippeth from city to city. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 37 + +Of the choice of friends and counsellors. + +37:1. Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a +friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to +death? + +37:2. But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy. + +37:3. O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with +thy malice, and deceitfulness? + +37:4. There is a companion who rejoiceth with his friend in his joys, +but in the time of trouble, he will be against him. + +37:5. There is a companion who condoleth with his friend for his belly's +sake, and he will take up a shield against the enemy. + +37:6. Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of him in +thy riches. + +37:7. Consult not with him that layeth a snare for thee, and hide thy +counsel from them that envy thee. + +37:8. Every counsellor giveth out counsel, but there is one that is a +counsellor for himself. + +37:9. Beware of a counsellor. And know before what need he hath: for he +will devise to his own mind: + +37:10. Lest he thrust a stake into the ground, and say to thee: + +37:11. Thy way is good; and then stand on the other side to see what +shall befall thee. + +37:12. Treat not with a man without religion concerning holiness, nor +with an unjust man concerning justice, nor with a woman touching her of +whom she is jealous, nor with a coward concerning war, nor with a +merchant about traffic, nor with a buyer of selling, nor with an envious +man of giving thanks, + +37:13. Nor with the ungodly of piety, nor with the dishonest of honesty, +nor with the field laborer of every work, + +37:14. Nor with him that worketh by the year of the finishing of the +year, nor with an idle servant of much business: give no heed to these +in any matter of counsel. + +37:15. But be continually with a holy man, whomsoever thou shalt know to +observe the fear of God, + +37:16. Whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou shalt +stumble in the dark, will be sorry for thee. + +37:17. And establish within thyself a heart of good counsel: for there +is no other thing of more worth to thee than it. + +37:18. The soul of a holy man discovereth sometimes true things, more +than seven watchmen that sit in a high place to watch. + +37:19. But above all these things pray to the most High, that he may +direct thy way in truth. + +37:20. In all thy works let the true word go before thee, and steady +counsel before every action. + +37:21. A wicked word shall change the heart: out of which four manner of +things arise, good and evil, life and death: and the tongue is +continually the ruler of them. There is a man that is subtle and a +teacher of many, and yet is unprofitable to his own soul. + +37:22. A skilful man hath taught many, and is sweet to his own soul. + +37:23. He that speaketh sophistically, is hateful: he shall be destitute +of every thing. + +37:24. Grace is not given him from the Lord: for he is deprived of all +wisdom. + +37:25. There is a wise man that is wise to his own soul: and the fruit +of his understanding is commendable. + +37:26. A wise man instructeth his own people, and the fruits of his +understanding are faithful. + +37:27. A wise man shall be filled with blessings, and they that see +shall praise him. + +37:28. The life of a man is in the number of his days: but the days of +Israel are innumerable. + +37:29. A wise man shall inherit honour among his people, and his name +shall live for ever. + +37:30. My son, prove thy soul in thy life: and if it be wicked, give it +no power: + +37:31. For all things are not expedient for all, and every kind pleaseth +not every soul. + +37:32. Be not greedy in any feasting, and pour not out thyself upon any +meat: + +37:33. For in many meats there will be sickness, and greediness will +turn to choler. + +37:34. By surfeiting many have perished, but he that is temperate, shall +prolong life. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 38 + +Of physicians and medicines: what is to be done in sickness, and how we +are to mourn for the dead. Of the employments of labourers and +artificers. + +38:1. Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most +High hath created him. + +38:2. For all healing is from God, and he shall receive gifts of the +king. + +38:3. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head, and in the +sight of great men he shall be praised. + +38:4. The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise +man will not abhor them. + +38:5. Was not bitter water made sweet with wood? + +38:6. The virtue of these things is come to the knowledge of men, and +the most High hath given knowledge to men, that he may be honoured in +his wonders. + +38:7. By these he shall cure and shall allay their pains, and of these +the apothecary shall make sweet confections, and shall make up ointments +of health, and of his works there shall be no end. + +38:8. For the peace of God is over all the face of the earth. + +38:9. My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but pray to the Lord, +and he shall heal thee. + +38:10. Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy +heart from all offence. + +38:11. Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat +offering, and then give place to the physician. + +38:12. For the Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, for +his works are necessary. + +38:13. For there is a time when thou must fall into their hands: + +38:14. And they shall beseech the Lord, that he would prosper what they +give for ease and remedy, for their conversation. + +38:15. He that sinneth in the sight of his Maker, shall fall into the +hands of the physician. + +38:16. My son, shed tears over the dead, and begin to lament as if thou +hadst suffered some great harm, and according to judgment cover his +body, and neglect not his burial. + +38:17. And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and +then comfort thyself in thy sadness. + +38:18. And make mourning for him according to his merit for a day, or +two, for fear of detraction. + +38:19. For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, +and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck. + +38:20. In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the +poor is according to his heart. + +38:21. Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and +remember the latter end. + +38:22. Forget it not: for there is no returning, and thou shalt do him +no good, and shalt hurt thyself. + +38:23. Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so: yesterday for +me, and to day for thee. + +38:24. When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, and comfort +him in the departing of his spirit. + +38:25. The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that +is less in action, shall receive wisdom. + +A scribe... That is, a doctor of the law, or, a learned man. + +38:26. With what wisdom shall he be furnished that holdeth the plough, +and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth the oxen therewith, and is +occupied in their labours, and his whole talk is about the offspring of +bulls? + +38:27. He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to +give the kine fodder. + +38:28. So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day, +he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the +figure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and by +his watching shall finish the work. + +38:29. So doth the smith sitting by the anvil and considering the iron +work. The vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the +heat of the furnace. + +38:30. The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is +upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh. + +38:31. He setteth his mind to finish his work, and his watching to +polish them to perfection. + +38:32. So doth the potter sitting at his work, turning the wheel about +with his feet, who is always carefully set to his work, and maketh all +his work by number: + +38:33. He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength +before his feet: + +38:34. He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to +make clean the furnace. + +38:35. All these trust to their hands, and every one is wise in his own +art. + +38:36. Without these a city is not built. + +38:37. And they shall not dwell, nor walk about therein, and they shall +not go up into the assembly. + +38:38. Upon the judges' seat they shall not sit, and the ordinance of +judgment they shall not understand, neither shall they declare +discipline and judgment, and they shall not be found where parables are +spoken: + +38:39. But they shall strengthen the state of the world, and their +prayer shall be in the work of their craft, applying their soul, and +searching in the law of the most High. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 39 + +The exercises of the wise man. The Lord is to be glorified for his +works. + +39:1. The wise man will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, and +will be occupied in the prophets. + +39:2. He will keep the sayings of renowned men, and will enter withal +into the subtilties of parables. + +39:3. He will search out the hidden meanings of proverbs, and will be +conversant in the secrets of parables. + +39:4. He shall serve among great men, and appear before the governor. + +39:5. He shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and +evil among men. + +39:6. He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, +and he will pray in the sight of the most High. + +39:7. He will open his mouth in prayer, and will make supplication for +his sins. + +39:8. For if it shall please the great Lord, he will fill him with the +spirit of understanding: + +39:9. And he will pour forth the words of his wisdom as showers, and in +his prayer he will confess to the Lord. + +39:10. And he shall direct his counsel, and his knowledge, and in his +secrets shall he meditate. + +39:11. He shall shew forth the discipline he hath learned, and shall +glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord. + +39:12. Many shall praise his wisdom, and it shall never be forgotten. + +39:13. The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be in +request from generation to generation. + +39:14. Nations shall declare his wisdom, and the church shall shew forth +his praise. + +39:15. If he continue, he shall leave a name above a thousand: and if he +rest, it shall be to his advantage. + +39:16. I will yet meditate that I may declare: for I am filled as with a +holy transport. + +39:17. By a voice he saith: Hear me, ye divine offspring, and bud forth +as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. + +Ye divine offspring... He speaks to the children of Israel, the people +of God: whom he exhorts to bud forth and flourish with virtue. + +39:18. Give ye a sweet odour as frankincense. + +39:19. Send forth flowers, as the lily, and yield a smell, and bring +forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in +his works. + +39:20. Magnify his name, and give glory to him with the voice of your +lips, and with the canticles of your mouths, and with harps, and in +praising him, you shall say in this manner: + +39:21. All the works of the Lord are exceeding good. + +39:22. At his word the waters stood as a heap: and at the words of his +mouth the receptacles of waters: + +39:23. For at his commandment favour is shewn, and there is no +diminishing of his salvation. + +39:24. The works of all flesh are before him, and there is nothing hid +from his eyes. + +39:25. He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing +wonderful before him. + +39:26. There is no saying: What is this, or what is that? for all things +shall be sought in their time. + +39:27. His blessing hath overflowed like a river. + +39:28. And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit +the nations, that have not sought after him. + +39:29. Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was +made dry: and his ways were made plain for their journey: so to sinners +they are stumblingblocks in his wrath. + +39:30. Good things were created for the good from the beginning, so for +the wicked, good and evil things. + +39:31. The principal things necessary for the life of men, are water, +fire, and iron, salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey, and the +cluster of the grape, and oil, and clothing. + +39:32. All these things shall be for good to the holy, so to the sinners +and the ungodly they shall be turned into evil. + +39:33. There are spirits that are created for vengeance, and in their +fury they lay on grievous torments. + +39:34. In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and +they shall appease the wrath of him that made them. + +39:35. Fire, hail, famine, and death, all these were created for +vengeance. + +39:36. The teeth of beasts, and scorpions, and serpents, and the sword +taking vengeance upon the ungodly unto destruction. + +39:37. In his commandments they shall feast, and they shall be ready +upon earth when need is, and when their time is come they shall not +transgress his word. + +39:38. Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and I have +meditated, and thought on these things and left them in writing, + +39:39. All the works of the Lord are good, and he will furnish every +work in due time. + +39:40. It is not to be said: This is worse than that: for all shall be +well approved in their time. + +39:41. Now therefore with the whole heart and mouth praise ye him, and +bless the name of the Lord. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 40 + +The miseries of the life of man are relieved by the grace of God and his +fear. + +40:1. Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the +children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother's +womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all. + +40:2. Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of +things to come, and the day of their end: + +40:3. From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is +humbled in earth and ashes: + +40:4. From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him +that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and +the fear of death, continual anger, and strife, + +40:5. And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night +changeth his knowledge. + +40:6. A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in +the day of keeping watch. + +40:7. He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he had escaped in +the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and wondereth +that there is no fear. + +40:8. Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon +sinners are sevenfold more. + +40:9. Moreover, death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, oppressions, +famine, and affliction, and scourges: + +40:10. All these things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes +came the flood. + +40:11. All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth +again, and all waters shall return to the sea. + +40:12. All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity +shall stand for ever. + +40:13. The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and +shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain. + +40:14. While he openeth his hands he shall rejoice: but transgressors +shall pine away in the end. + +40:15. The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, +and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock. + +40:16. The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, +shall be pulled up before all grass. + +40:17. Grace is like a paradise in blessings, and mercy remaineth for +ever. + +40:18. The life of a laborer that is content with what he hath, shall be +sweet, and in it thou shalt find a treasure. + +40:19. Children, and the building of a city shall establish a name, but +a blameless wife shall be counted above them both. + +40:20. Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above +them both. + +40:21. The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant +tongue is above them both. + +40:22. Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green +sown fields. + +40:23. A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them +both is a wife with her husband. + +40:24. Brethren are a help in the time of trouble, but mercy shall +deliver more than they. + +40:25. Gold and silver make the feet stand sure: but wise counsel is +above them both. + +40:26. Riches and strength lift up the heart: but above these is the +fear of the Lord. + +40:27. There is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to +seek for help. + +40:28. The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they +have covered it above all glory. + +40:29. My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die +than to want. + +40:30. The life of him that looketh toward another man's table is not to +be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man's meat. + +40:31. But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself. + +40:32. Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his +belly there shall burn a fire. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 41 + +Of the remembrance of death: of an evil and of a good name: of what +things we ought to be ashamed. + +41:1. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath +peace in his possessions! + +41:2. To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all +things, and that is yet able to take meat! + +41:3. O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to +him whose strength faileth: + +41:4. Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, +and to the distrustful that loseth patience! + +41:5. Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been +before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the +Lord upon all flesh. + +41:6. And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most +High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years. + +41:7. For among the dead there is no accusing of life. + +41:8. The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they +that converse near the houses of the ungodly. + +41:9. The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with +their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach. + +41:10. The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his +sake they are in reproach. + +41:11. Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most +high Lord. + +41:12. And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you +die, in malediction shall be your portion. + +41:13. All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so +the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction. + +41:14. The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the +ungodly shall be blotted out. + +41:15. Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more +than a thousand treasures precious and great. + +41:16. A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall +continue for ever. + +41:17. My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, +and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both? + +41:18. Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth +his wisdom. + +41:19. Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak +of. + +Have a shame, etc... That is to say, be ashamed of doing any of these +things, which I am now going to mention; for though sometimes +shamefacedness is not to be indulged: yet it is often good and +necessary: as in the following cases. + +41:20. For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do +not please all men in opinion. + +41:21. Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie +before a governor and a man in power: + +41:22. Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a +congregation and a people: + +41:23. Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the +place where thou dwellest, + +41:24. Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning +with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking: + +41:25. Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a +harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman. + +41:26. Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a +portion and not restoring. + +41:27. Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after +his handmaid, and approach not her bed. + +41:28. Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou +hast given, upbraid not. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 42 + +Of what things we ought not to be ashamed. Cautions with regard to +women. The works and greatness of God. + +42:1. Repeat not the word which thou hast heard, and disclose not the +thing that is secret; so shalt thou be truly without confusion, and +shalt find favour before all men: be not ashamed of any of these things, +and accept no person to sin thereby: + +42:2. Of the law of the most High, and of his covenant, and of judgment +to justify the ungodly: + +42:3. Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of the +inheritance of friends: + +42:4. Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little: + +42:5. Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much +correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed. + +42:6. Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife. + +42:7. Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in +number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or +receivest in. + +42:8. Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, +that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all +things, and well approved in the sight of all men living. + +42:9. The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the +care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass +away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be +hateful: + +42:10. In her virginity, lest she should be corrupted, and be found with +child in her father's house: and having a husband, lest she should +misbehave herself, or at the least become barren. + +42:11. Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she +make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the +city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before +all the multitude. + +42:12. Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not among women. + +42:13. For from garments cometh a moth, and from a woman the iniquity of +a man. + +42:14. For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good +turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach. + +Better is the iniquity, etc... That is, there is, commonly speaking, +less danger to be apprehended to the soul from the churlishness, or +injuries we receive from men, than from the flattering favours and +familiarity of women. + +42:15. I will now remember the works of the Lord, and I will declare the +things I have seen. By the words of the Lord are his works. + +42:16. The sun giving light hath looked upon all things, and full of the +glory of the Lord is his work. + +42:17. Hath not the Lord made the saints to declare all his wonderful +works, which the Lord Almighty hath firmly settled to be established for +his glory? + +42:18. He hath searched out the deep, and the heart of men: and +considered their crafty devices. + +42:19. For the Lord knoweth all knowledge, and hath beheld the signs of +the world, he declareth the things that are past, and the things that +are to come, and revealeth the traces of hidden things. + +42:20. No thought escapeth him, and no word can hide itself from him. + +42:21. He hath beautified the glorious works of his wisdom: and he is +from eternity to eternity, and to him nothing may be added, + +42:22. Nor can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor. + +42:23. O how desirable are all his works, and what we can know is but as +a spark! + +42:24. All these things live, and remain for ever, and for every use all +things obey him. + +42:25. All things are double, one against another, and he hath made +nothing defective. + +42:26. He hath established the good things of every one. And who shall +be filled with beholding his glory? + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 43 + +The works of God are exceedingly glorious and wonderful: no man is able +sufficiently to praise him. + +43:1. The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its +glorious shew. + +43:2. The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an +admirable instrument, the work of the most High. + +43:3. At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat? +As one keeping a furnace in the works of heat: + +43:4. The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out +fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes. + +43:5. Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened +his course. + +43:6. And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times +and a sign of the world. + +43:7. From the moon is the sign of the festival day, a light that +decreaseth in her perfection. + +43:8. The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in her +perfection. + +43:9. Being an instrument of the armies on high, shining gloriously in +the firmament of heaven. + +43:10. The glory of the stars is the beauty of heaven; the Lord +enlighteneth the world on high. + +43:11. By the words of the holy one they stand in judgment, and shall +never fall in their watches. + +43:12. Look upon the rainbow, and bless him that made it: it is very +beautiful in its brightness. + +43:13. It encompasseth the heaven about with the circle of its glory, +the hands of the most High have displayed it. + +43:14. By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth +forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment. + +43:15. Through this are the treasures opened, and the clouds fly out +like birds. + +43:16. By his greatness he hath fixed the clouds, and the hailstones are +broken. + +43:17. At his sight shall the mountains be shaken, and at his will the +south wind shall blow. + +43:18. The noise of his thunder shall strike the earth, so doth the +northern storm, and the whirlwind: + +43:19. And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and +the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts. + +43:20. The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the +heart is astonished at the shower thereof. + +43:21. He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, +it shall become like the tops of thistles. + +43:22. The cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into +crystal; upon every gathering together of waters it shall rest, and +shall clothe the waters as a breastplate. + +43:23. And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and +consume all that is green as with fire. + +43:24. A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a +dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it. + +43:25. At his word the wind is still, and with his thought he appeaseth +the deep, and the Lord hath planted islands therein. + +43:26. Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and when +we hear with our ears, we shall admire. + +43:27. There are great and wonderful works: a variety of beasts, and of +all living things, and the monstrous creatures of whales. + +43:28. Through him is established the end of their journey, and by his +word all things are regulated. + +43:29. We shall say much, and yet shall want words: but the sum of our +words is, He is all. + +43:30. What shall we be able to do to glorify him? for the Almighty +himself is above all his works. + +43:31. The Lord is terrible, and exceeding great, and his power is +admirable. + +43:32. Glorify the Lord as much as ever you can, for he will yet far +exceed, and his magnificence is wonderful. + +43:33. Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as you can; for he is above +all praise. + +43:34. When you exalt him put forth all your strength, and be not weary: +for you can never go far enough. + +43:35. Who shall see him, and declare him? and who shall magnify him as +he is from the beginning? + +43:36. There are many things hidden from us that are greater than these: +for we have seen but a few of his works. + +43:37. But the Lord hath made all things, and to the godly he hath given +wisdom. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 44 + +The praises of the holy fathers, in particular of Enoch, Noe, Abraham, +Isaac, and Jacob. + +44:1. Let us now praise men of renown and our fathers in their +generation. + +44:2. The Lord hath wrought great glory through his magnificence from +the beginning. + +44:3. Such as have borne rule in their dominions, men of great power, +and endued with their wisdom, shewing forth in the prophets the dignity +of prophets, + +44:4. And ruling over the present people, and by the strength of wisdom +instructing the people in most holy words. + +44:5. Such as by their skill sought out musical tunes, and published +canticles of the scriptures. + +44:6. Rich men in virtue, studying beautifulness: living at peace in +their houses. + +44:7. All these have gained glory in their generations, and were praised +in their days. + +44:8. They that were born of them have left a name behind them, that +their praises might be related: + +44:9. And there are some, of whom there is no memorial: who are +perished, as if they had never been: and are become as if they had never +been born, and their children with them. + +44:10. But these were men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not failed: + +44:11. Good things continue with their seed, + +44:12. Their posterity are a holy inheritance, and their seed hath stood +in the covenants. + +44:13. And their children for their sakes remain for ever: their seed +and their glory shall not be forsaken. + +44:14. Their bodies are buried in peace, and their name liveth unto +generation and generation. + +44:15. Let the people shew forth their wisdom, and the church declare +their praise. + +44:16. Henoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he may +give repentance to the nations. + +44:17. Noe was found perfect, just, and in the time of wrath he was made +a reconciliation. + +44:18. Therefore was there a remnant left to the earth, when the flood +came. + +44:19. The covenants of the world were made with him, that all flesh +should no more be destroyed with the flood. + +44:20. Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and there +was not found the like to him in glory, who kept the law of the most +High, and was in covenant with him. + +44:21. In his flesh he established the covenant, and in temptation he +was found faithful. + +44:22. Therefore by an oath he gave him glory in his posterity, that he +should increase as the dust of the earth, + +44:23. And that he would exalt his seed as the stars, and they should +inherit from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. + +44:24. And he did in like manner with Isaac for the sake of Abraham his +father. + +44:25. The Lord gave him the blessing of all nations, and confirmed his +covenant upon the head of Jacob. + +44:26. He acknowledged him in his blessings, and gave him an +inheritance, and divided him his portion in twelve tribes. + +44:27. And he preserved for him men of mercy, that found grace in the +eyes of all flesh. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 45 + +The praises of Moses, of Aaron, and of Phinees. + +45:1. Moses was beloved of God, and men: whose memory is in benediction. + +45:2. He made him like the saints in glory, and magnified him in the +fear of his enemies, and with his words he made prodigies to cease. + +45:3. He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments +in the sight of his people, and shewed him his glory. + +45:4. He sanctified him in his faith, and meekness, and chose him out of +all flesh. + +45:5. For he heard him, and his voice, and brought him into a cloud. + +45:6. And he gave him commandments before his face, and a law of life +and instruction, that he might teach Jacob his covenant, and Israel his +judgments. + +45:7. He exalted Aaron his brother, and like to himself of the tribe of +Levi: + +45:8. He made an everlasting covenant with him, and gave him the +priesthood of the nation, and made him blessed in glory, + +45:9. And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him +with a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire. + +45:10. He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an +ephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round +about, + +45:11. That as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that +might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his +people. + +45:12. He gave him a holy robe of gold, and blue, and purple, a woven +work of a wise man, endued with judgment and truth: + +45:13. Of twisted scarlet the work of an artist, with precious stones +cut and set in gold, and graven by the work of a lapidary for a +memorial, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. + +45:14. And a crown of gold upon his mitre wherein was engraved Holiness, +an ornament of honour: a work of power, and delightful to the eyes for +its beauty. + +45:15. Before him there were none so beautiful, even from the beginning. + +45:16. No stranger was ever clothed with them, but only his children +alone, and his grandchildren for ever. + +45:17. His sacrifices were consumed with fire every day. + +45:18. Moses filled his hands and anointed him with holy oil. + +45:19. This was made to him for an everlasting testament, and to his +seed as the days of heaven, to execute the office of the priesthood, and +to have praise, and to glorify his people in his name. + +45:20. He chose him out of all men living, to offer sacrifice to God, +incense, and a good savour, for a memorial to make reconciliation for +his people: + +45:21. And he gave him power in his commandments, in the covenants of +his judgments, that he should teach Jacob his testimonies, and give +light to Israel in his law. + +45:22. And strangers stood up against him, and through envy the men that +were with Dathan and Abiron, compassed him about in the wilderness, and +the congregation of Core in their wrath. + +45:23. The Lord God saw and it pleased him not, and they were consumed +in his wrathful indignation. + +45:24. He wrought wonders upon them, and consumed them with a flame of +fire. + +45:25. And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and +divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase of the earth. + +45:26. He prepared them bread in the first place unto fulness: for the +sacrifices also of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave to him, and to +his seed. + +45:27. But he shall not inherit among the people in the land, and he +hath no portion among the people: for he himself is his portion and +inheritance. + +45:28. Phinees the son of Eleazar is the third in glory, by imitating +him in the fear of the Lord: + +45:29. And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the +goodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel. + +45:30. Therefore he made to him a covenant of peace, to be the prince of +the sanctuary, and of his people, that the dignity of priesthood should +be to him and to his seed for ever. + +45:31. And a covenant to David the king, the son of Jesse of the tribe +of Juda, an inheritance to him and to his seed, that he might give +wisdom into our heart to judge his people in justice, that their good +things might not be abolished, and he made their glory in their nation +everlasting. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 46 + +The praise of Josue, of Caleb, and of Samuel. + +46:1. Valiant in war was Jesus the son of Nave, who was successor of +Moses among the prophets, who was great according to his name, + +Jesus the son of Nave... So Josue is named in the Greek Bibles. For +Josue and Jesus signify the same thing, viz., a saviour. + +46:2. Very great for the saving the elect of God, to overthrow the +enemies that rose up against them, that he might get the inheritance for +Israel. + +46:3. How great glory did he gain when he lifted up his hands, and +stretched out swords against the cities? + +46:4. Who before him hath so resisted? for the Lord himself brought the +enemies. + +46:5. Was not the sun stopped in his anger, and one day made as two? + +46:6. He called upon the most high Sovereign when the enemies assaulted +him on every side, and the great and holy God heard him by hailstones of +exceeding great force. + +46:7. He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and +in the descent he destroyed the adversaries. + +And in the descent... Of Beth-horon (Jos. 10.). + +46:8. That the nations might know his power, that it is not easy to +fight against God. And he followed the mighty one: + +46:9. And in the days of Moses he did a work of mercy, he and Caleb the +son of Jephone, in standing against the enemy, and withholding the +people from sins, and appeasing the wicked murmuring. + +46:10. And they two being appointed, were delivered out of the danger +from among the number of six hundred thousand men on foot, to bring them +into their inheritance, into the land that floweth with milk and honey. + +46:11. And the Lord gave strength also to Caleb, and his strength +continued even to his old age, so that he went up to the high places of +the land, and his seed obtained it for an inheritance: + +46:12. That all the children of Israel might see, that it is good to +obey the holy God. + +46:13. Then all the judges, every one by name, whose heart was not +corrupted: who turned not away from the Lord, + +46:14. That their memory might be blessed, and their bones spring up out +of their place, + +46:15. And their name continue for ever, the glory of the holy men +remaining unto their children. + +46:16. Samuel the prophet of the Lord, the beloved of the Lord his God, +established a new government, and anointed princes over his people. + +46:17. By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the God of +Jacob beheld, and by his fidelity he was proved a prophet. + +46:18. And he was known to be faithful in his words, because he saw the +God of light: + +46:19. And called upon the name of the Lord Almighty, in fighting +against the enemies who beset him on every side, when he offered a lamb +without blemish. + +46:20. And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise made +his voice to be heard. + +46:21. And he crushed the princes of the Tyrians, and all the lords of +the Philistines: + +46:22. And before the time of the end of his life in the world, he +protested before the Lord, and his anointed: money, or any thing else, +even to a shoe, he had not taken of any man, and no man did accuse him. + +46:23. And after this he slept, and he made known to the king, and +shewed him the end of his life, and he lifted up his voice from the +earth in prophecy to blot out the wickedness of the nation. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 47 + +The praise of Nathan, of David, and of Solomon: Of his fall and +punishment. + +47:1. Then Nathan the prophet arose in the days of David. + +47:2. And as the fat taken away from the flesh, so was David chosen from +among the children of Israel. + +47:3. He played with lions as with lambs: and with bears he did in like +manner as with the lambs of the flock, in his youth. + +47:4. Did not he kill the giant, and take away reproach from his people? + +47:5. In lifting up his hand, with the stone in the sling he beat down +the boasting of Goliath: + +47:6. For he called upon the Lord the Almighty, and he gave strength in +his right hand, to take away the mighty warrior, and to set up the horn +of his nation. + +47:7. So in ten thousand did he glorify him, and praised him in the +blessings of the Lord, in offering to him a crown of glory: + +47:8. For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and extirpated the +Philistines the adversaries unto this day: he broke their horn for ever. + +47:9. In all his works he gave thanks to the holy one, and to the most +High, with words of glory. + +47:10. With his whole heart he praised the Lord, and loved God that made +him: and he gave him power against his enemies: + +47:11. And he set singers before the altar, and by their voices he made +sweet melody. + +47:12. And to the festivals he added beauty, and set in order the solemn +times even to the end of his life, that they should praise the holy name +of the Lord, and magnify the holiness of God in the morning. + +47:13. The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his horn for ever: and +he gave him a covenant of the kingdom, and a throne of glory in Israel. + +47:14. After him arose up a wise son, and for his sake he cast down all +the power of the enemies. + +47:15. Solomon reigned in days of peace, and God brought all his enemies +under him, that he might build a house in his name, and prepare a +sanctuary for ever: O how wise wast thou in thy youth! + +47:16. And thou wast filled as a river with wisdom, and thy soul covered +the earth. + +47:17. And thou didst multiply riddles in parables: thy name went abroad +to the islands far off, and thou wast beloved in thy peace. + +47:18. The countries wondered at thee for thy canticles, and proverbs, +and parables, and interpretations, + +47:19. And at the name of the Lord God, whose surname is, God of Israel. + +47:20. Thou didst gather gold as copper, and didst multiply silver as +lead, + +47:21. And thou didst bow thyself to women: and by thy body thou wast +brought under subjection. + +47:22. Thou hast stained thy glory, and defiled thy seed so as to bring +wrath upon thy children, and to have thy folly kindled, + +47:23. That thou shouldst make the kingdom to be divided, and out of +Ephraim a rebellious kingdom to rule. + +47:24. But God will not leave off his mercy, and he will not destroy, +nor abolish his own works, neither will he cut up by the roots the +offspring of his elect: and he will not utterly take away the seed of +him that loveth the Lord. + +47:25. Wherefore he gave a remnant to Jacob, and to David of the same +stock. + +47:26. And Solomon had an end with his fathers. + +47:27. And he left behind him of his seed, the folly of the nation, + +47:28. Even Roboam that had little wisdom, who turned away the people +through his counsel: + +47:29. And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who caused Israel to sin, and +shewed Ephraim the way of sin, and their sins were multiplied +exceedingly. + +47:30. They removed them far away from their land. + +47:31. And they sought out all iniquities, till vengeance came upon +them, and put an end to all their sins. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapte 48 + +The praise of Elias, of Eliseus, of Ezechias, and of Isaias. + +48:1. And Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like +a torch. + +48:2. He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked him in their +envy, were reduced to a small number, for they could not endure the +commandments of the Lord. + +48:3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and he brought down +fire from heaven thrice. + +48:4. Thus was Elias magnified in his wondrous works. And who can glory +like to thee? + +48:5. Who raisedst up a dead man from below, from the lot of death, by +the word of the Lord God. + +48:6. Who broughtest down kings to destruction, and brokest easily their +power in pieces, and the glorious from their bed. + +48:7. Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the judgments of +vengeance. + +48:8. Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets successors +after thee. + +48:9. Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery +horses. + +48:10. Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath +of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to +restore the tribes of Jacob. + +48:11. Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy +friendship. + +48:12. For we live only in our life, but after death our name shall not +be such. + +48:13. Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spirit was +filled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared not the prince, and no man +was more powerful than he. + +48:14. No word could overcome him, and after death his body prophesied. + +48:15. In his life he did great wonders, and in death he wrought +miracles. + +48:16. For all this the people repented not, neither did they depart +from their sins till they were cast out of their land, and were +scattered through all the earth. + +48:17. And there was left but a small people, and a prince in the house +of David. + +48:18. Some of these did that which pleased God: but others committed +many sins. + +48:19. Ezechias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst +thereof, and he digged a rock with iron, and made a well for water. + +48:20. In his days Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and lifted up +his hand against them, and he stretched out his hand against Sion, and +became proud through his power. + +48:21. Then their hearts and hands trembled, and they were in pain as +women in travail. + +48:22. And they called upon the Lord who is merciful, and spreading +their hands, they lifted them up to heaven: and the holy Lord God +quickly heard their voice. + +48:23. He was not mindful of their sins, neither did he deliver them up +to their enemies, but he purified them by the hand of Isaias, the holy +prophet. + +48:24. He overthrew the army of the Assyrians, and the angel of the Lord +destroyed them. + +48:25. For Ezechias did that which pleased God, and walked valiantly in +the way of David his father, which Isaias, the great prophet, and +faithful in the sight of God, had commanded him. + +48:26. In his days the sun wen backward, and he lengthened the king's +life. + +48:27. With a great spirit he saw the things that are to come to pass at +last, and comforted the mourners in Sion. + +48:28. He showed what should come to pass for ever, and secret things +before they came. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 49 + +The praise of Josias, of Jeremias, Ezechiel, and the twelve prophets. +Also of Zorobabel, Jesus the son of Josedech, Nehemias, Enoch, Joseph, +Seth, Sem, and Adam. + +49:1. The memory of Josias is like the composition of a sweet smell made +by the art of a perfumer: + +49:2. His remembrance shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, and as +music at a banquet of wine. + +49:3. He was directed by God unto the repentance of the nation, and he +took away the abominations of wickedness. + +49:4. And he directed his heart towards the Lord, and in the days of +sinners he strengthened godliness. + +49:5. Except David, and Ezechias and Josias, all committed sin. + +49:6. For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the most High, and +despised the fear of God. + +49:7. So they gave their kingdom to others, and their glory to a strange +nation, + +49:8. They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets +thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias. + +49:9. For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his +mother's womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build +again, and renew. + +49:10. It was Ezechiel that saw the glorious vision, which was shewn him +upon the chariot of cherubims. + +49:11. For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of rain, and +of doing good to them that shewed right ways. + +49:12. And may the bones of the twelve prophets spring up out of their +place: for they strengthened Jacob, and redeemed themselves by strong +faith. + +49:13. How shall we magnify Zorobabel? for he was as a signet on the +right hand; + +49:14. In like manner Jesus the son of Josedec who in their days built +the house, and set up a holy temple to the Lord, prepared for +everlasting glory. + +49:15. And let Nehemias be a long time remembered, who raised up for us +our walls that were cast down, and set up the gates and the bars, who +rebuilt our houses. + +49:16. No man was born upon earth like Henoch: for he also was taken up +from the earth. + +49:17. Nor as Joseph, who was a man born prince of his brethren, the +support of his family, the ruler of his brethren, the stay of the +people: + +49:18. And his bones were visited, and after death they prophesied. + +They prophesied... That is, by their being carried out of Egypt they +verified the prophetic prediction of Joseph. Gen. 50. + +49:19. Seth and Sem obtained glory among men: and above every soul Adam +in the beginning, + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 50 + +The praises of Simon the high priest. The conclusion. + +50:1. Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped +up the house, and in his days fortified the temple. + +50:2. By him also the height of the temple was founded, the double +building and the high walls of the temple. + +50:3. In his days the wells of water flowed out, and they were filled as +the sea above measure. + +50:4. He took care of his nation, and delivered it from destruction. + +50:5. He prevailed to enlarge the city, and obtained glory in his +conversation with the people: and enlarged the entrance of the house and +the court. + +50:6. He shone in his days as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, +and as the moon at the full. + +50:7. And as the sun when it shineth, so did he shine in the temple of +God. + +50:8. And as the rainbow giving light in bright clouds, and as the +flower of roses in the days of the spring, and as the lilies that are on +the brink of the water, and as the sweet smelling frankincense in the +time of summer. + +50:9. As a bright fire, and frankincense burning in the fire. + +50:10. As a massy vessel of gold, adorned with every precious stone. + +50:11. As an olive tree budding forth, and a cypress tree rearing itself +on high, when he put on the robe of glory, and was clothed with the +perfection of power. + +Clothed with the perfection of power... That is, with all the vestments +denoting his dignity and authority. + +50:12. When he went up to the holy altar, he honoured the vesture of +holiness. + +50:13. And when he took the portions out of the hands of the priests, he +himself stood by the altar. And about him was the ring of his brethren: +and as the cedar planted in mount Libanus, + +50:14. And as branches of palm trees, they stood round about him, and +all the sons of Aaron in their glory. + +50:15. And the oblation of the Lord was in their hands, before all the +congregation of Israel: and finishing his service, on the altar, to +honour the offering of the most high King, + +50:16. He stretched forth his hand to make a libation, and offered of +the blood of the grape. + +50:17. He poured out at the foot of the altar a divine odour to the most +high Prince. + +50:18. Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded with beaten +trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before +God. + +50:19. Then all the people together made haste, and fell down to the +earth upon their faces, to adore the Lord their God, and to pray to the +Almighty God the most High. + +50:20. And the singers lifted up their voices, and in the great house +the sound of sweet melody was increased. + +50:21. And the people in prayer besought the Lord the most High, until +the worship of the Lord was perfected, and they had finished their +office. + +50:22. Then coming down, he lifted up his hands over all the +congregation of the children of Israel, to give glory to God with his +lips, and to glory in his name: + +50:23. And he repeated his prayer, willing to shew the power of God. + +50:24. And now pray ye to the God of all, who hath done great things in +all the earth, who hath increased our days from our mother's womb, and +hath done with us according to his mercy. + +50:25. May he grant us joyfulness of heart, and that there be peace in +our days in Israel for ever: + +50:26. That Israel may believe that the mercy of God is with us, to +deliver us in his days. + +50:27. There are two nations which my soul abhorreth: and the third is +no nation: which I hate: + +Abhorreth... Viz., with a holy indignation, as enemies of God and +persecutors of his people. Such were then the Edomites who abode in +mount Seir, the Philistines, and the Samaritans who dwelt in Sichem, and +had their schismatical temple in that neighbourhood. + +50:28. They that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish +people that dwell in Sichem. + +50:29. Jesus the son of Sirach, of Jerusalem, hath written in this book +the doctrine of wisdom and instruction, who renewed wisdom from his +heart. + +50:30. Blessed is he that is conversant in these good things and he that +layeth them up in his heart, shall be wise always. + +50:31. For if he do them, he shall be strong to do all things: because +the light of God guideth his steps. + +Ecclesiasticus Chapter 51 + +A prayer of praise and thanksgiving. + +51:1. A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach. I will give glory to thee, O +Lord, O King, and I will praise thee, O God my Saviour. + +51:2. I will give glory to thy name: for thou hast been a helper and +protector to me. + +51:3. And hast preserved my body from destruction, from the snare of an +unjust tongue, and from the lips of them that forge lies, and in the +sight of them that stood by, thou hast been my helper. + +51:4. And thou hast delivered me, according to the multitude of the +mercy of thy name, from them that did roar, prepared to devour. + +51:5. Out of the hands of them that sought my life, and from the gates +of afflictions, which compassed me about: + +51:6. From the oppression of the flame which surrounded me, and in the +midst of the fire I was not burnt. + +51:7. From the depth of the belly of hell, and from an unclean tongue, +and from lying words, from an unjust king, and from a slanderous tongue: + +51:8. My soul shall praise the Lord even to death. + +51:9. And my life was drawing near to hell beneath. + +51:10. They compassed me on every side, and there was no one that would +help me. I looked for the succour of men, and there was none. + +51:11. I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and thy works, which are from the +beginning of the world. + +51:12. How thou deliverest them that wait for thee, O Lord, and savest +them out of the hands of the nations. + +51:13. Thou hast exalted my dwelling place upon the earth and I have +prayed for death to pass away. + +51:14. I called upon the Lord, the father of my Lord, that he would not +leave me in the day of my trouble, and in the time of the proud without +help. + +51:15. I will praise thy name continually, and will praise it with +thanksgiving, and my prayer was heard. + +51:16. And thou hast saved me from destruction, and hast delivered me +from the evil time. + +51:17. Therefore I will give thanks, and praise thee, and bless the name +of the Lord. + +51:18. When I was yet young, before I wandered about, I sought for +wisdom openly in my prayer. + +51:19. I prayed for her before the temple, and unto the very end I will +seek after her, and she flourished as a grape soon ripe. + +51:20. My heart delighted in her, my foot walked in the right way, from +my youth up I sought after her. + +51:21. I bowed down my ear a little, and received her. + +51:22. I found much wisdom in myself, and profited much therein. + +51:23. To him that giveth me wisdom, will I give glory. + +51:24. For I have determined to follow her: I have had a zeal for good, +and shall not be confounded. + +51:25. My soul hath wrestled for her, and in doing it I have been +confirmed. + +51:26. I stretched forth my hands on high, and I bewailed my ignorance +of her. + +51:27. I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge I found her. + +51:28. I possessed my heart with her from the beginning: therefore I +shall not be forsaken. + +51:29. My entrails were troubled in seeking her: therefore shall I +possess a good possession. + +51:30. The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward: and with it I will +praise him. + +51:31. Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather yourselves together +into the hours of discipline. + +51:32. Why are ye slow and what do you say of these things? your souls +are exceeding thirsty. + +51:33. I have opened my mouth, and have spoken: buy her for yourselves +without silver, + +51:34. And submit your neck to the yoke, and let your soul receive +discipline: for she is near at hand to be found. + +51:35. Behold with your eyes how I have laboured a little, and have +found much rest to myself. + +51:36. Receive ye discipline as a great sum of money, and possess +abundance of gold by her. + +51:37. Let your soul rejoice in his mercy and you shall not be +confounded in his praise. + +51:38. Work your work before the time, and he will give you your reward +in his time. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 26 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8326.txt or 8326.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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