Bible Heaven/Bible Heaven.iso/apoc9/apoc9_2b.txt

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Sir 8:19
Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with
a shrewd turn.

Sir 9:1
Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not
an evil lesson against thyself.

Sir 9:2
Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy
substance.

Sir 9:3
Meet not with an harlot, lest thou fall into her snares.

Sir 9:4
Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest
thou be taken with her attempts.

Sir 9:5
Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that
are precious in her.

Sir 9:6
Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine
inheritance.

Sir 9:7
Look not round about thee in the streets of the city, neither
wander thou in the solitary place thereof.

Sir 9:8
Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon
another's beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a
woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.

Sir 9:9
Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor sit down with her
in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine;
lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire
thou fall into destruction.

Sir 9:10
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to
him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt
drink it with pleasure.

Sir 9:11
Envy not the glory of a sinner: for thou knowest not what
shall be his end.

Sir 9:12
Delight not in the thing that the ungodly have pleasure in;
but remember they shall not go unpunished unto their grave.

Sir 9:13
Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill; so shalt
thou not doubt the fear of death: and if thou come unto him,
make no fault, lest he take away thy life presently: remember
that thou goest in the midst of snares, and that thou walkest
upon the battlements of the city.

Sir 9:14
As near as thou canst, guess at thy neighbour, and consult
with the wise.

Sir 9:15
Let thy talk be with the wise, and all thy communication in
the law of the most High.

Sir 9:16
And let just men eat and drink with thee; and let thy
glorying be in the fear of the Lord.

Sir 9:17
For the hand of the artificer the work shall be commended:
and the wise ruler of the people for his speech.

Sir 9:18
A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his city; and he that
is rash in his talk shall be hated.

Sir 10:1
A wise judge will instruct his people; and the government of
a prudent man is well ordered.

Sir 10:2
As the judge of the people is himself, so are his officers;
and what manner of man the ruler of the city is, such are all
they that dwell therein.

Sir 10:3
An unwise king destroyeth his people; but through the
prudence of them which are in authority the city shall be
inhabited.

Sir 10:4
The power of the earth is in the hand of the Lord, and in due
time he will set over it one that is profitable.

Sir 10:5
In the hand of God is the prosperity of man: and upon the
person of the scribe shall he lay his honour.

Sir 10:6
Bear not hatred to thy neighbour for every wrong; and do
nothing at all by injurious practices.

Sir 10:7
Pride is hateful before God and man: and by both doth one
commit iniquity.

Sir 10:8
Because of unrighteous dealings, injuries, and riches got by
deceit, the kingdom is translated from one people to another.

Sir 10:9
Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked
thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul
to sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.

Sir 10:10
The physician cutteth off a long disease; and he that is to
day a king to morrow shall die.

Sir 10:11
For when a man is dead, he shall inherit creeping things,
beasts, and worms.

Sir 10:12
The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, and
his heart is turned away from his Maker.

Sir 10:13
For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall
pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them
strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.

Sir 10:14
The Lord hath cast down the thrones of proud princes, and set
up the meek in their stead.

Sir 10:15
The Lord hath plucked up the roots of the proud nations, and
planted the lowly in their place.

Sir 10:16
The Lord overthrew countries of the heathen, and destroyed
them to the foundations of the earth.

Sir 10:17
He took some of them away, and destroyed them, and hath made
their memorial to cease from the earth.

Sir 10:18
Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that
are born of a woman.

Sir 10:19
They that fear the Lord are a sure seed, and they that love
him an honourable plant: they that regard not the law are a
dishonourable seed; they that transgress the commandments are a
deceivable seed.

Sir 10:20
Among brethren he that is chief is honorable; so are they
that fear the Lord in his eyes.

Sir 10:21
The fear of the Lord goeth before the obtaining of authority:
but roughness and pride is the losing thereof.

Sir 10:22
Whether he be rich, noble, or poor, their glory is the fear
of the Lord.

Sir 10:23
It is not meet to despise the poor man that hath
understanding; neither is it convenient to magnify a sinful
man.

Sir 10:24
Great men, and judges, and potentates, shall be honoured; yet
is there none of them greater than he that feareth the Lord.

Sir 10:25
Unto the servant that is wise shall they that are free do
service: and he that hath knowledge will not grudge when he is
reformed.

Sir 10:26
Be not overwise in doing thy business; and boast not thyself
in the time of thy distress.

Sir 10:27
Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things,
than he that boasteth himself, and wanteth bread.

Sir 10:28
My son, glorify thy soul in meekness, and give it honour
according to the dignity thereof.

Sir 10:29
Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and
who will honour him that dishonoureth his own life?

Sir 10:30
The poor man is honoured for his skill, and the rich man is
honoured for his riches.

Sir 10:31
He that is honoured in poverty, how much more in riches? and
he that is dishonourable in riches, how much more in poverty?

Sir 11:1
Wisdom lifteth up the head of him that is of low degree, and
maketh him to sit among great men.

Sir 11:2
Commend not a man for his beauty; neither abhor a man for his
outward appearance.

Sir 11:3
The bee is little among such as fly; but her fruit is the
chief of sweet things.

Sir 11:4
Boast not of thy clothing and raiment, and exalt not thyself
in the day of honour: for the works of the Lord are wonderful,
and his works among men are hidden.

Sir 11:5
Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was
never thought of hath worn the crown.

Sir 11:6
Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the
honourable delivered into other men's hands.

Sir 11:7
Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: understand
first, and then rebuke.

Sir 11:8
Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither
interrupt men in the midst of their talk.

Sir 11:9
Strive not in a matter that concerneth thee not; and sit not
in judgment with sinners.

Sir 11:10
My son, meddle not with many matters: for if thou meddle
much, thou shalt not be innocent; and if thou follow after, thou
shalt not obtain, neither shalt thou escape by fleeing.

Sir 11:11
There is one that laboureth, and taketh pains, and maketh
haste, and is so much the more behind.

Sir 11:12
Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help,
wanting ability, and full of poverty; yet the eye of the Lord
looked upon him for good, and set him up from his low estate,

Sir 11:13
And lifted up his head from misery; so that many that saw
from him is peace over all the

Sir 11:14
Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches,
come of the Lord.

Sir 11:15
Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the law, are of the
Lord: love, and the way of good works, are from him.

Sir 11:16
Error and darkness had their beginning together with sinners:
and evil shall wax old with them that glory therein.

Sir 11:17
The gift of the Lord remaineth with the ungodly, and his
favour bringeth prosperity for ever.

Sir 11:18
There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching, and
this his the portion of his reward:

Sir 11:19
Whereas he saith, I have found rest, and now will eat
continually of my goods; and yet he knoweth not what time shall
come upon him, and that he must leave those things to others,
and die.

Sir 11:20
Be stedfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and
wax old in thy work.

Sir 11:21
Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord,
and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of
the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

Sir 11:22
The blessing of the Lord is in the reward of the godly, and
suddenly he maketh his blessing flourish.

Sir 11:23
Say not, What profit is there of my service? and what good
things shall I have hereafter?

Sir 11:24
Again, say not, I have enough, and possess many things, and
what evil shall I have hereafter?

Sir 11:25
In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of
affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more
remembrance of prosperity.

Sir 11:26
For it is an easy thing unto the Lord in the day of death to
reward a man according to his ways.

Sir 11:27
The affliction of an hour maketh a man forget pleasure: and
in his end his deeds shall be discovered.

Sir 11:28
Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known
in his children.

Sir 11:29
Bring not every man into thine house: for the deceitful man
hath many trains.

Sir 11:30
Like as a partridge taken [and kept] in a cage, so is the
heart of the proud; and like as a spy, watcheth he for thy fall:

Sir 11:31
For he lieth in wait, and turneth good into evil, and in
things worthy praise will lay blame upon thee.

Sir 11:32
Of a spark of fire a heap of coals is kindled: and a sinful
man layeth wait for blood.

Sir 11:33
Take heed of a mischievous man, for he worketh wickedness;
lest he bring upon thee a perpetual blot.

Sir 11:34
Receive a stranger into thine house, and he will disturb
thee, and turn thee out of thine own.

Sir 12:1
When thou wilt do good know to whom thou doest it; so shalt
thou be thanked for thy benefits.

Sir 12:2
Do good to the godly man, and thou shalt find a recompence;
and if not from him, yet from the most High.

Sir 12:3
There can no good come to him that is always occupied in
evil, nor to him that giveth no alms.

Sir 12:4
Give to the godly man, and help not a sinner.

Sir 12:5
Do well unto him that is lowly, but give not to the ungodly:
hold back thy bread, and give it not unto him, lest he
overmaster thee thereby: for [else] thou shalt receive twice as
much evil for all the good thou shalt have done unto him.

Sir 12:6
For the most High hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance
unto the ungodly, and keepeth them against the mighty day of
their punishment.

Sir 12:7
Give unto the good, and help not the sinner.

Sir 12:8
A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot
be hidden in adversity.

Sir 12:9
In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in
his adversity even a friend will depart.

Sir 12:10
Never trust thine enemy: for like as iron rusteth, so is his
wickedness.

Sir 12:11
Though he humble himself, and go crouching, yet take good
heed and beware of him, and thou shalt be unto him as if thou
hadst wiped a lookingglass, and thou shalt know that his rust
hath not been altogether wiped away.

Sir 12:12
Set him not by thee, lest, when he hath overthrown thee, he
stand up in thy place; neither let him sit at thy right hand,
lest he seek to take thy seat, and thou at the last remember my
words, and be pricked therewith.

Sir 12:13
Who will pity a charmer that is bitten with a serpent, or any
such as come nigh wild beasts?

Sir 12:14
So one that goeth to a sinner, and is defiled with him in his
sins, who will pity?

Sir 12:15
For a while he will abide with thee, but if thou begin to
fall, he will not tarry.

Sir 12:16
An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he
imagineth how to throw thee into a pit: he will weep with his
eyes, but if he find opportunity, he will not be satisfied with
blood.

Sir 12:17
If adversity come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first;
and though he pretend to help thee, yet shall he undermine thee.

Sir 12:18
He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much,
and change his countenance.

Sir 13:1
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he
that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him.

Sir 13:2
Burden not thyself above thy power while thou livest; and
have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than
thyself: for how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?
for if the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.

Sir 13:3
The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he threateneth withal:
the poor is wronged, and he must intreat also.

Sir 13:4
If thou be for his profit, he will use thee: but if thou have
nothing, he will forsake thee.

Sir 13:5
If thou have any thing, he will live with thee: yea, he will
make thee bare, and will not be sorry for it.

Sir 13:6
If he have need of thee, he will deceive thee, and smile upon
thee, and put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and say,
What wantest thou?

Sir 13:7
And he will shame thee by his meats, until he have drawn thee
dry twice or thrice, and at the last he will laugh thee to scorn
afterward, when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake
his head at thee.

Sir 13:8
Beware that thou be not deceived and brought down in thy
jollity.

Sir 13:9
If thou be invited of a mighty man, withdraw thyself, and so
much the more will he invite thee.

Sir 13:10
Press thou not upon him, lest thou be put back; stand not far
off, lest thou be forgotten.

Sir 13:11
Affect not to be made equal unto him in talk, and believe not
his many words: for with much communication will he tempt thee,
and smiling upon thee will get out thy secrets:

Sir 13:12
But cruelly he will lay up thy words, and will not spare to
do thee hurt, and to put thee in prison.

Sir 13:13
Observe, and take good heed, for thou walkest in peril of thy
overthrowing: when thou hearest these things, awake in thy
sleep.

Sir 13:14
Love the Lord all thy life, and call upon him for thy
salvation.

Sir 13:15
Every beast loveth his like, and every man loveth his
neighbor.

Sir 13:16
All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave
to his like.

Sir 13:17
What fellowship hath the wolf with the lamb? so the sinner
with the godly.

Sir 13:18
What agreement is there between the hyena and a dog? and what
peace between the rich and the poor?

Sir 13:19
As the wild ass is the lion's prey in the wilderness: so the
rich eat up the poor.

Sir 13:20
As the proud hate humility: so doth the rich abhor the poor.

Sir 13:21
A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a
poor man being down is thrust away by his friends.

Sir 13:22
When a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers: he speaketh
things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man
slipped, and yet they rebuked him too; he spake wisely, and
could have no place.

Sir 13:23
When a rich man speaketh, every man holdeth his tongue, and,
look, what he saith, they extol it to the clouds: but if the
poor man speak, they say, What fellow is this? and if he
stumble, they will help to overthrow him.

Sir 13:24
Riches are good unto him that hath no sin, and poverty is
evil in the mouth of the ungodly.

Sir 13:25
The heart of a man changeth his countenance, whether it be
for good or evil: and a merry heart maketh a cheerful
countenance.

Sir 13:26
A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in
prosperity; and the finding out of parables is a wearisome
labour of the mind.

Sir 14:1
Blessed is the man that hath not slipped with his mouth, and
is not pricked with the multitude of sins.

Sir 14:2
Blessed is he whose conscience hath not condemned him, and
who is not fallen from his hope in the Lord.

Sir 14:3
Riches are not comely for a niggard: and what should an
envious man do with money?

Sir 14:4
He that gathereth by defrauding his own soul gathereth for
others, that shall spend his goods riotously.

Sir 14:5
He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? he shall
not take pleasure in his goods.

Sir 14:6
There is none worse than he that envieth himself; and this is
a recompence of his wickedness.

Sir 14:7
And if he doeth good, he doeth it unwillingly; and at the
last he will declare his wickedness.

Sir 14:8
The envious man hath a wicked eye; he turneth away his face,
and despiseth men.

Sir 14:9
A covetous man's eye is not satisfied with his portion; and
the iniquity of the wicked drieth up his soul.

Sir 14:10
A wicked eye envieth [his] bread, and he is a niggard at his
table.

Sir 14:11
My son, according to thy ability do good to thyself, and give
the Lord his due offering.

Sir 14:12
Remember that death will not be long in coming, and that the
covenant of the grave is not shewed unto thee.

Sir 14:13
Do good unto thy friend before thou die, and according to thy
ability stretch out thy hand and give to him.

Sir 14:14
Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of
a good desire overpass thee.

Sir 14:15
Shalt thou not leave thy travails unto another? and thy
labours to be divided by lot?

Sir 14:16
Give, and take, and sanctify thy soul; for there is no
seeking of dainties in the grave.

Sir 14:17
All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the
beginning is, Thou shalt die the death.

Sir 14:18
As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some
grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an
end, and another is born.

Sir 14:19
Every work rotteth and consumeth away, and the worker thereof
shall go withal.

Sir 14:20
Blessed is the man that doth meditate good things in wisdom,
and that reasoneth of holy things by his understanding. ing.

Sir 14:21
He that considereth her ways in his heart shall also have
understanding in her secrets.

Sir 14:22
Go after her as one that traceth, and lie in wait in her
ways.

Sir 14:23
He that prieth in at her windows shall also hearken at her
doors.

Sir 14:24
He that doth lodge near her house shall also fasten a pin in
her walls.

Sir 14:25
He shall pitch his tent nigh unto her, and shall lodge in a
lodging where good things are.

Sir 14:26
He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge
under her branches.

Sir 14:27
By her he shall be covered from heat, and in her glory shall
he dwell.

Sir 15:1
He that feareth the Lord will do good, and he that hath the
knowledge of the law shall obtain her.

Sir 15:2
And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife
married of a virgin.

Sir 15:3
With the bread of understanding shall she feed him, and give
him the water of wisdom to drink.

Sir 15:4
He shall be stayed upon her, and shall not be moved; and
shall rely upon her, and shall not be confounded.

Sir 15:5
She shall exalt him above his neighbours, and in the midst of
the congregation shall she open his mouth.

Sir 15:6
He shall find joy and a crown of gladness, and she shall
cause him to inherit an everlasting name.

Sir 15:7
But foolish men shall not attain unto her, and sinners shall
not see her.

Sir 15:8
For she is far from pride, and men that are liars cannot
remember her.

Sir 15:9
Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not
sent him of the Lord.

Sir 15:10
For praise shall be uttered in wisdom, and the Lord will
prosper it.

Sir 15:11
Say not thou, It is through the Lord that I fell away: for
thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth.

Sir 15:12
Say not thou, He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need
of the sinful man.

Sir 15:13
The Lord hateth all abomination; and they that fear God love
it not.

Sir 15:14
He himself made man from the beginning, and left him in the
hand of his counsel;

Sir 15:15
If thou wilt, to keep the commandments, and to perform
acceptable faithfulness.

Sir 15:16
He hath set fire and water before thee: stretch forth thy
hand unto whether thou wilt.

Sir 15:17
Before man is life and death; and whether him liketh shall be
given him.

Sir 15:18
For the wisdom of the Lord is great, and he is mighty in
power, and beholdeth all things:

Sir 15:19
And his eyes are upon them that fear him, and he knoweth
every work of man.

Sir 15:20
He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, neither hath he
given any man licence to sin.

Sir 16:1
Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, neither
delight in ungodly sons.

Sir 16:2
Though they multiply, rejoice not in them, except the fear of
the Lord be with them.

Sir 16:3
Trust not thou in their life, neither respect their
multitude: for one that is just is better than a thousand; and
better it is to die without children, than to have them that are
ungodly.

Sir 16:4
For by one that hath understanding shall the city be
replenished: but the kindred of the wicked shall speedily become
desolate.

Sir 16:5
Many such things have I seen with mine eyes, and mine ear
hath heard greater things than these.

Sir 16:6
In the congregation of the ungodly shall a fire be kindled;
and in a rebellious nation wrath is set on fire.

Sir 16:7
He was not pacified toward the old giants, who fell away in
the strength of their foolishness.

Sir 16:8
Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred
them for their pride.

Sir 16:9
He pitied not the people of perdition, who were taken away in
their sins:

Sir 16:10
Nor the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered
together in the hardness of their hearts.

Sir 16:11
And if there be one stiffnecked among the people, it is
marvel if he escape unpunished: for mercy and wrath are with
him; he is mighty to forgive, and to pour out displeasure.

Sir 16:12
As his mercy is great, so is his correction also: he judgeth
a man according to his works

Sir 16:13
The sinner shall not escape with his spoils: and the patience
of the godly shall not be frustrate.

Sir 16:14
Make way for every work of mercy: for every man shall find
according to his works.

Sir 16:15
The Lord hardened Pharaoh, that he should not know him, that
his powerful works might be known to the world.

Sir 16:16
His mercy is manifest to every creature; and he hath
separated his light from the darkness with an adamant.

Sir 16:17
Say not thou, I will hide myself from the Lord: shall any
remember me from above? I shall not be remembered among so many
people: for what is my soul among such an infinite number of
creatures?

Sir 16:18
Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the deep, and
the earth, and all that therein is, shall be moved when he shall
visit.

Sir 16:19
The mountains also and foundations of the earth be shaken
with trembling, when the Lord looketh upon them.

Sir 16:20
No heart can think upon these things worthily: and who is
able to conceive his ways?

Sir 16:21
It is a tempest which no man can see: for the most part of
his works are hid.

Sir 16:22
Who can declare the works of his justice? or who can endure
them? for his covenant is afar off, and the trial of all things
is in the end.

Sir 16:23
He that wanteth understanding will think upon vain things:
and a foolish man erring imagineth follies.

Sir 16:24
by son, hearken unto me, and learn knowledge, and mark my
words with thy heart.

Sir 16:25
I will shew forth doctrine in weight, and declare his
knowledge exactly.

Sir 16:26
The works of the Lord are done in judgment from the
beginning: and from the time he made them he disposed the parts
thereof.

Sir 16:27
He garnished his works for ever, and in his hand are the
chief of them unto all generations: they neither labour, nor are
weary, nor cease from their works.

Sir 16:28
None of them hindereth another, and they shall never disobey
his word.

Sir 16:29
After this the Lord looked upon the earth, and filled it with
his blessings.

Sir 16:30
With all manner of living things hath he covered the face
thereof; and they shall return into it again.

Sir 17:1
The Lord created man of the earth, and turned him into it
again.

Sir 17:2
He gave them few days, and a short time, and power also over
the things therein.

Sir 17:3
He endued them with strength by themselves, and made them
according to his image,

Sir 17:4
And put the fear of man upon all flesh, and gave him dominion
over beasts and fowls.

Sir 17:5
They received the use of the five operations of the Lord, and
in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the
seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.]

Sir 17:6
Counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, ears, and a heart, gave he
them to understand.

Sir 17:7
Withal he filled them with the knowledge of understanding,
and shewed them good and evil.

Sir 17:8
He set his eye upon their hearts, that he might shew them the
greatness of his works.

Sir 17:9
He gave them to glory in his marvellous acts for ever, that
they might declare his works with understanding.

Sir 17:10
And the elect shall praise his holy name.

Sir 17:11
Beside this he gave them knowledge, and the law of life for
an heritage.

Sir 17:12
He made an everlasting covenant with them, and shewed them
his judgments.

Sir 17:13
Their eyes saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears heard
his glorious voice.

Sir 17:14
And he said unto them, Beware of all unrighteousness; and he
gave every man commandment concerning his neighbour.

Sir 17:15
Their ways are ever before him, and shall not be hid from his
eyes.

Sir 17:16
Every man from his youth is given to evil; neither could they
make to themselves fleshy hearts for stony.

Sir 17:17
For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set
a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord's portion:

Sir 17:18
Whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and
giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him.

Sir 17:19
Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his
eyes are continually upon their ways.

Sir 17:20
None of their unrighteous deeds are hid from him, but all
their sins are before the Lord

Sir 17:21
But the Lord being gracious and knowing his workmanship,
neither left nor forsook them, but spared them.

Sir 17:22
The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and he will keep
the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye, and give
repentance to his sons and daughters.

Sir 17:23
Afterwards he will rise up and reward them, and render their
recompence upon their heads.

Sir 17:24
But unto them that repent, he granted them return, and
comforted those that failed in patience.

Sir 17:25
Return unto the Lord, and forsake thy sins, make thy prayer
before his face, and offend less.

Sir 17:26
Turn again to the most High, and turn away from iniquity: for
he will lead thee out of darkness into the light of health, and
hate thou abomination vehemently.

Sir 17:27
Who shall praise the most High in the grave, instead of them
which live and give thanks?

Sir 17:28
Thanksgiving perisheth from the dead, as from one that is
not: the living and sound in heart shall praise the Lord.

Sir 17:29
How great is the lovingkindness of the Lord our God, and his
compassion unto such as turn unto him in holiness!

Sir 17:30
For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is
not immortal.

Sir 17:31
What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof faileth;
and flesh and blood will imagine evil.

Sir 17:32
He vieweth the power of the height of heaven; and all men are
but earth and ashes.

Sir 18:1
He that liveth for ever Hath created all things in general.

Sir 18:2
The Lord only is righteous, and there is none other but he,

Sir 18:3
Who governeth the world with the palm of his hand, and all
things obey his will: for he is the King of all, by his power
dividing holy things among them from profane.

Sir 18:4
To whom hath he given power to declare his works? and who
shall find out his noble acts?

Sir 18:5
Who shall number the strength of his majesty? and who shall
also tell out his mercies?

Sir 18:6
As for the wondrous works of the Lord, there may nothing be
taken from them, neither may any thing be put unto them, neither
can the ground of them be found out.

Sir 18:7
When a man hath done, then he beginneth; and when he leaveth
off, then he shall be doubtful.

Sir 18:8
What is man, and whereto serveth he? what is his good, and
what is his evil?

Sir 18:9
The number of a man's days at the most are an hundred years.

Sir 18:10
As a drop of water unto the sea, and a gravelstone in
comparison of the sand; so are a thousand years to the days of
eternity.

Sir 18:11
Therefore is God patient with them, and poureth forth his
mercy upon them.

Sir 18:12
He saw and perceived their end to be evil; therefore he
multiplied his compassion.

Sir 18:13
The mercy of man is toward his neighbour; but the mercy of
the Lord is upon all flesh: he reproveth, and nurtureth, and
teacheth and bringeth again, as a shepherd his flock.

Sir 18:14
He hath mercy on them that receive discipline, and that
diligently seek after his judgments.

Sir 18:15
My son, blemish not thy good deeds, neither use uncomfortable
words when thou givest any thing.

Sir 18:16
Shall not the dew asswage the heat? so is a word better than
a gift.

Sir 18:17
Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a
gracious man.

Sir 18:18
A fool will upbraid churlishly, and a gift of the envious
consumeth the eyes.

Sir 18:19
Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be
sick.

Sir 18:20
Before judgment examine thyself, and in the day of visitation
thou shalt find mercy.

Sir 18:21
Humble thyself before thou be sick, and in the time of sins
shew repentance.

Sir 18:22
Let nothing hinder thee to pay thy vow in due time, and defer
not until death to be justified.

Sir 18:23
Before thou prayest, prepare thyself; and be not as one that
tempteth the Lord.

Sir 18:24
Think upon the wrath that shall be at the end, and the time
of vengeance, when he shall turn away his face.

Sir 18:25
When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger: and when
thou art rich, think upon poverty and need.

Sir 18:26
From the morning until the evening the time is changed, and
all things are soon done before the Lord.

Sir 18:27
A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the day of
sinning he will beware of offence: but a fool will not observe
time.

Sir 18:28
Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give
praise unto him that found her.

Sir 18:29
They that were of understanding in sayings became also wise
themselves, and poured forth exquisite parables.

Sir 18:30
Go not after thy lusts, but refrain thyself from thine
appetites.

Sir 18:31
If thou givest thy soul the desires that please her, she will
make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies that malign thee.

Sir 18:32
Take not pleasure in much good cheer, neither be tied to the
expence thereof.

Sir 18:33
Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing, when thou
hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt lie in wait for thine
own life, and be talked on.

Sir 19:1
A labouring man that A is given to drunkenness shall not be
rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little
and little.

Sir 19:2
Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away:
and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.

Sir 19:3
Moths and worms shall have him to heritage, and a bold man
shall be taken away.

Sir 19:4
He that is hasty to give credit is lightminded; and he that
sinneth shall offend against his own soul.

Sir 19:5
Whoso taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned: but
he that resisteth pleasures crowneth his life.

Sir 19:6
He that can rule his tongue shall live without strife; and he
that hateth babbling shall have less evil.

Sir 19:7
Rehearse not unto another that which is told unto thee, and
thou shalt fare never the worse.

Sir 19:8
Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men's
lives; and if thou canst without offence, reveal them not.

Sir 19:9
For he heard and observed thee, and when time cometh he will
hate thee.

Sir 19:10
If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold,
it will not burst thee.

Sir 19:11
A fool travaileth with a word, as a woman in labour of a
child.

Sir 19:12
As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh, so is a word
within a fool's belly.

Sir 19:13
Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it: and if he
have done it, that he do it no more.

Sir 19:14
Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it: and if he
have, that he speak it not again.

Sir 19:15
Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and
believe not every tale.

Sir 19:16
There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his
heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?

Sir 19:17
Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him; and not
being angry, give place to the law of the most High.

Sir 19:18
The fear of the Lord is the first step to be accepted [of
him,] and wisdom obtaineth his love.

Sir 19:19
The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is the doctrine
of life: and they that do things that please him shall receive
the fruit of the tree of immortality.

Sir 19:20
The fear of the Lord is all wisdom; and in all wisdom is the
performance of the law, and the knowledge of his omnipotency.

Sir 19:21
If a servant say to his master, I will not do as it pleaseth
thee; though afterward he do it, he angereth him that nourisheth
him.

Sir 19:22
The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom, neither at any
time the counsel of sinners prudence.

Sir 19:23
There is a wickedness, and the same an abomination; and there
is a fool wanting in wisdom.

Sir 19:24
He that hath small understanding, and feareth God, is better
than one that hath much wisdom, and transgresseth the law of the
most High.

Sir 19:25
There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust; and
there is one that turneth aside to make judgment appear; and
there is a wise man that justifieth in judgment.

Sir 19:26
There is a wicked man that hangeth down his head sadly; but
inwardly he is full of deceit,

Sir 19:27
Casting down his countenance, and making as if he heard not:
where he is not known, he will do thee a mischief before thou be
aware.

Sir 19:28
And if for want of power he be hindered from sinning, yet
when he findeth opportunity he will do evil.

Sir 19:29
A man may be known by his look, and one that hath
understanding by his countenance, when thou meetest him.

Sir 19:30
A man's attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, shew what
he is.

Sir 20:1
There is a reproof that is not comely: again, some man
holdeth his tongue, and he is wise.

Sir 20:2
It is much better to reprove, than to be angry secretly: and
he that confesseth his fault shall be preserved from hurt.

Sir 20:3
How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance!
for so shalt thou escape wilful sin.

Sir 20:4
As is the lust of an eunuch to deflower a virgin; so is he
that executeth judgment with violence.

Sir 20:5
There is one that keepeth silence, and is found wise: and
another by much babbling becometh hateful.

Sir 20:6
Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer:
and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.

Sir 20:7
A wise man will hold his tongue till he see opportunity: but
a babbler and a fool will regard no time.

Sir 20:8
He that useth many words shall be abhorred; and he that
taketh to himself authority therein shall be hated.

Sir 20:9
There is a sinner that hath good success in evil things; and
there is a gain that turneth to loss.

Sir 20:10
There is a gift that shall not profit thee; and there is a
gift whose recompence is double.

Sir 20:11
There is an abasement because of glory; and there is that
lifteth up his head from a low estate.

Sir 20:12
There is that buyeth much for a little, and repayeth it
sevenfold.

Sir 20:13
A wise man by his words maketh him beloved: but the graces of
fools shall be poured out.

Sir 20:14
The gift of a fool shall do thee no good when thou hast it;
neither yet of the envious for his necessity: for he looketh to
receive many things for one.

Sir 20:15
He giveth little, and upbraideth much; he openeth his mouth
like a crier; to day he lendeth, and to morrow will he ask it
again: such an one is to be hated of God and man.

Sir 20:16
The fool saith, I have no friends, I have no thank for all my
good deeds, and they that eat my bread speak evil of me.

Sir 20:17
How oft, and of how many shall he be laughed to scorn! for he
knoweth not aright what it is to have; and it is all one unto
him as if he had it not.

Sir 20:18
To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the
tongue: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.

Sir 20:19
An unseasonable tale will always be in the mouth of the
unwise.

Sir 20:20
A wise sentence shall be rejected when it cometh out of a
fool's mouth; for he will not speak it in due season.

Sir 20:21
There is that is hindered from sinning through want: and when
he taketh rest, he shall not be troubled.

Sir 20:22
There is that destroyeth his own soul through bashfulness,
and by accepting of persons overthroweth himself.

Sir 20:23
There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and
maketh him his enemy for nothing.

Sir 20:24
A lie is a foul blot in a man, yet it is continually in the
mouth of the untaught.

Sir 20:25
A thief is better than a man that is accustomed to lie: but
they both shall have destruction to heritage.

Sir 20:26
The disposition of a liar is dishonourable, and his shame is
ever with him.

Sir 20:27
A wise man shall promote himself to honour with his words:
and he that hath understanding will please great men.

Sir 20:28
He that tilleth his land shall increase his heap: and he that
pleaseth great men shall get pardon for iniquity.

Sir 20:29
Presents and gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and stop up
his mouth that he cannot reprove.

Sir 20:30
Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what
profit is in them both?

Sir 20:31
Better is he that hideth his folly than a man that hideth his
wisdom.

Sir 20:32
Necessary patience in seeking ing the Lord is better than he
that leadeth his life without a guide.

Sir 21:1
My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more, but ask pardon for
thy former sins.

Sir 21:2
Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent: for if thou
comest too near it, it will bite thee: the teeth thereof are as
the teeth of a lion, slaying the souls of men.

Sir 21:3
All iniquity is as a two edged sword, the wounds whereof
cannot be healed.

Sir 21:4
To terrify and do wrong will waste riches: thus the house of
proud men shall be made desolate.

Sir 21:5
A prayer out of a poor man's mouth reacheth to the ears of
God, and his judgment cometh speedily.

Sir 21:6
He that hateth to be reproved is in the way of sinners: but
he that feareth the Lord will repent from his heart.

Sir 21:7
An eloquent man is known far and near; but a man of
understanding knoweth when he slippeth.

Sir 21:8
He that buildeth his house with other men's money is like one
that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.

Sir 21:9
The congregation of the wicked is like tow wrapped together:
and the end of them is a flame of fire to destroy them.

Sir 21:10
The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end
thereof is the pit of hell.

Sir 21:11
He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding
thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.

Sir 21:12
He that is not wise will not be taught: but there is a wisdom
which multiplieth bitterness.

Sir 21:13
The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood: and
his counsel is like a pure fountain of life.

Sir 21:14
The inner parts of a fool are like a broken vessel, and he
will hold no knowledge as long as he liveth.

Sir 21:15
If a skilful man hear a wise word, he will commend it, and
add unto it: but as soon as one of no understanding heareth it,
it displeaseth him, and he casteth it behind his back.

Sir 21:16
The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but grace
shall be found in the lips of the wise.

Sir 21:17
They enquire at the mouth of the wise man in the
congregation, and they shall ponder his words in their heart.

Sir 21:18
As is a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and
the knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense.

Sir 21:19
Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like
manacles on the right hand.

Sir 21:20
A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter; but a wise man
doth scarce smile a little.

Sir 21:21
Learning is unto a wise man as an ornament of gold, and like
a bracelet upon his right arm.

Sir 21:22
A foolish man's foot is soon in his [neighbour's] house: but
a man of experience is ashamed of him.

Sir 21:23
A fool will peep in at the door into the house: but he that
is well nurtured will stand without.

Sir 21:24
It is the rudeness of a man to hearken at the door: but a
wise man will be grieved with the disgrace.

Sir 21:25
The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain
not unto them: but the words of such as have understanding are
weighed in the balance.

Sir 21:26
The heart of fools is in their mouth: but the mouth of the
wise is in their heart.

Sir 21:27
When the ungodly curseth Satan, he curseth his own soul.

Sir 21:28
A whisperer defileth his own soul, and is hated wheresoever
he dwelleth.

Sir 22:1
A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, and every one
will hiss him out to his disgrace.

Sir 22:2
A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every
man that takes it up will shake his hand.

Sir 22:3
An evilnurtured man is the dishonour of his father that begat
him: and a [foolish] daughter is born to his loss.

Sir 22:4
A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband:
but she that liveth dishonestly is her father's heaviness.

Sir 22:5
She that is bold dishonoureth both her father and her
husband, but they both shall despise her.

Sir 22:6
A tale out of season [is as] musick in mourning: but stripes
and correction of wisdom are never out of time.

Sir 22:7
Whoso teacheth a fool is as one that glueth a potsherd
together, and as he that waketh one from a sound sleep.

Sir 22:8
He that telleth a tale to a fool speaketh to one in a
slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the
matter?

Sir 22:9
If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall
cover the baseness of their parents.

Sir 22:10
But children, being haughty, through disdain and want of
nurture do stain the nobility of their kindred.

Sir 22:11
Weep for the dead, for he hath lost the light: and weep for
the fool, for he wanteth understanding: make little weeping for
the dead, for he is at rest: but the life of the fool is worse
than death.

Sir 22:12
Seven days do men mourn for him that is dead; but for a fool
and an ungodly man all the days of his life.

Sir 22:13
Talk not much with a fool, and go not to him that hath no
understanding: beware of him, lest thou have trouble, and thou
shalt never be defiled with his fooleries: depart from him, and
thou shalt find rest, and never be disquieted with madness.

Sir 22:14
What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but
a fool?

Sir 22:15
Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, is easier to bear, than a
man without understanding.

Sir 22:16
As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be
loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised
counsel shall fear at no time.

Sir 22:17
A heart settled upon a thought of understanding is as a fair
plaistering on the wall of a gallery.

Sir 22:18
Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind:
so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand
against any fear.

Sir 22:19
He that pricketh the eye will make tears to fall: and he that
pricketh the heart maketh it to shew her knowledge.

Sir 22:20
Whoso casteth a stone at the birds frayeth them away: and he
that upbraideth his friend breaketh friendship.

Sir 22:21
Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despair not:
for there may be a returning [to favour.]

Sir 22:22
If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, fear not;
for there may be a reconciliation: except for upbraiding, or
pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for for
these things every friend will depart.

Sir 22:23
Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, that thou mayest
rejoice in his prosperity: abide stedfast unto him in the time
of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his
heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be contemned: nor
the rich that is foolish to be had in admiration.

Sir 22:24
As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire;
so reviling before blood.

Sir 22:25
I will not be ashamed to defend a friend; neither will I hide
myself from him.

Sir 22:26
And if any evil happen unto me by him, every one that heareth
it will beware of him.

Sir 22:27
Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seal of wisdom
upon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, and that my
tongue destroy me not?

Sir 23:1
O Lord, Father and Governor of all my whole life, leave me
not to their counsels, and let me not fall by them.

Sir 23:2
Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of
wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine
ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:

Sir 23:3
Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my
destruction, and I fall before mine adversaries, and mine enemy
rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.

Sir 23:4
O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look,
but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.

Sir 23:5
Turn away from me vain hopes and concupiscence, and thou
shalt hold him up that is desirous always to serve thee.

Sir 23:6
Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh
take hold of me; and give not over me thy servant into an
impudent mind.

Sir 23:7
Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that
keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.

Sir 23:8
The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil
speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.

Sir 23:9
Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to
the naming of the Holy One.

Sir 23:10
For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be
without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God
continually shall not be faultless.

Sir 23:11
A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity,
and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall
offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his
sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he
shall not be innocent, but his house shall be full of
calamities.

Sir 23:12
There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant
that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such
things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in
their sins.

Sir 23:13
Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the
word of sin.

Sir 23:14
Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among
great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy
custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born,
and curse they day of thy nativity.

Sir 23:15
The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be
reformed all the days of his life.

Sir 23:16
Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring
wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never be
quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his
flesh will never cease till he hath kindled a fire.

Sir 23:17
All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, he will not leave off
till he die.

Sir 23:18
A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who
seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover
me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High
will not remember my sins:

Sir 23:19
Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that
the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the
sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most
secret parts.

Sir 23:20
He knew all things ere ever they were created; so also after
they were perfected he looked upon them all.

Sir 23:21
This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and
where he suspecteth not he shall be taken.

Sir 23:22
Thus shall it go also with the wife that leaveth her husband,
and bringeth in an heir by another.

Sir 23:23
For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and
secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and
thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, and brought
children by another man.

Sir 23:24
She shall be brought out into the congregation, and
inquisition shall be made of her children.

Sir 23:25
Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall
bring forth no fruit.

Sir 23:26
She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her reproach
shall not be blotted out.

Sir 23:27
And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better
than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter
than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.

Sir 23:28
It is great glory to follow the Lord, and to be received of
him is long life.

Sir 24:1
Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of
her people.

Sir 24:2
In the congregation of the most High shall she open her
mouth, and triumph before his power.

Sir 24:3
I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the
earth as a cloud.

Sir 24:4
I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar.

Sir 24:5
I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the
bottom of the deep.

Sir 24:6
In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every
people and nation, I got a possession.

Sir 24:7
With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall
I abide?

Sir 24:8
So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and he
that made me caused my tabernacle to rest, and said, Let thy
dwelling be in Jacob, and thine inheritance in Israel.

Sir 24:9
He created me from the beginning before the world, and I
shall never fail.

Sir 24:10
In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I
established in Sion.

Sir 24:11
Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in
Jerusalem was my power.

Sir 24:12
And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion
of the Lord's inheritance.

Sir 24:13
I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree
upon the mountains of Hermon.

Sir 24:14
I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose
plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field, and
grew up as a plane tree by the water.

Sir 24:15
I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I
yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and
onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the
tabernacle.

Sir 24:16
As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my
branches are the branches of honour and grace.

Sir 24:17
As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers
are the fruit of honour and riches.

Sir 24:18
I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and
holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my
children which are named of him.

Sir 24:19
Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill
yourselves with my fruits.

Sir 24:20
For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance
than the honeycomb.

Sir 24:21
They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me
shall yet be thirsty.

Sir 24:22
He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that
work by me shall not do amiss.

Sir 24:23
All these things are the book of the covenant of the most
high God, even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage
unto the congregations of Jacob.

Sir 24:24
Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you,
cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside
him there is no other Saviour.

Sir 24:25
He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as
Tigris in the time of the new fruits.

Sir 24:26
He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates, and as
Jordan in the time of the harvest.

Sir 24:27
He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light, and
as Geon in the time of vintage.

Sir 24:28
The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last
find her out.

Sir 24:29
For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels
profounder than the great deep.

Sir 24:30
I also came out as a brook from a river, and as a conduit
into a garden.

Sir 24:31
I said, I will water my best garden, and will water
abundantly my garden bed: and, lo, my brook became a river, and
my river became a sea.

Sir 24:32
I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will
send forth her light afar off.

Sir 24:33
I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and leave it to all
ages for ever.

Sir 24:34
Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all
them that seek wisdom.

Sir 25:1
In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both
before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of
neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.

Sir 25:2
Three sorts of men my soul hateth, and I am greatly offended
at their life: a poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a
liar, and an old adulterer that doateth.

Sir 25:3
If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, how canst thou
find any thing in thine age?

Sir 25:4
O how comely a thing is judgment for gray hairs, and for
ancient men to know counsel!

Sir 25:5
O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and
counsel to men of honour.

Sir 25:6
Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God
is their glory.

Sir 25:7
There be nine things which I have judged in mine heart to be
happy, and the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that
hath joy of his children; and he that liveth to see the fall of
his enemy:

Sir 25:8
Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of understanding, and
that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served
a man more unworthy than himself:

Sir 25:9
Well is him that hath found prudence, and he that speaketh in
the ears of them that will hear:

Sir 25:10
O how great is he that findeth wisdom! yet is there none
above him that feareth the Lord.

Sir 25:11
But the love of the Lord passeth all things for illumination:
he that holdeth it, whereto shall he be likened?

Sir 25:12
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of his love: and faith
is the beginning of cleaving unto him.

Sir 25:13
[Give me] any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any
wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:

Sir 25:14
And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate
me: and any revenge, but the revenge of enemies.

Sir 25:15
There is no head above the head of a serpent; and there is no
wrath above the wrath of an enemy.

Sir 25:16
I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, than to keep
house with a wicked woman.

Sir 25:17
The wickedness of a woman changeth her face, and darkeneth
her countenance like sackcloth.

Sir 25:18
Her husband shall sit among his neighbours; and when he
heareth it shall sigh bitterly.

Sir 25:19
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman:
let the portion of a sinner fall upon her.

Sir 25:20
As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so
is a wife full of words to a quiet man.

Sir 25:21
Stumble not at the beauty of a woman, and desire her not for
pleasure.

Sir 25:22
A woman, if she maintain her husband, is full of anger,
impudence, and much reproach.

Sir 25:23
A wicked woman abateth the courage, maketh an heavy
countenance and a wounded heart: a woman that will not comfort
her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees.

Sir 25:24
Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we
all die.

Sir 25:25
Give the water no passage; neither a wicked woman liberty to
gad abroad.

Sir 25:26
If she go not as thou wouldest have her, cut her off from thy
flesh, and give her a bill of divorce, and let her go.

Sir 26:1
Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number
of his days shall be double.

Sir 26:2
A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and he shall fulfil
the years of his life in peace.

Sir 26:3
A good wife is a good portion, which shall be given in the
portion of them that fear the Lord.

Sir 26:4
Whether a man be rich or poor, if he have a good heart toward
the Lord, he shall at all times rejoice with a cheerful
countenance.

Sir 26:5
There be three things that mine heart feareth; and for the
fourth I was sore afraid: the slander of a city, the gathering
together of an unruly multitude, and a false accusation: all
these are worse than death.

Sir 26:6
But a grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous
over another woman, and a scourge of the tongue which
communicateth with all.

Sir 26:7
An evil wife is a yoke shaken to and fro: he that hath hold
of her is as though he held a scorpion.

Sir 26:8
A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger, and
she will not cover her own shame.

Sir 26:9
The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and
eyelids.

Sir 26:10
If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she
abuse herself through overmuch liberty.

Sir 26:11
Watch over an impudent eye: and marvel not if she trespass
against thee.

Sir 26:12
She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller when he hath
found a fountain, and drink of every water near her: by every
hedge will she sit down, and open her quiver against every
arrow.

Sir 26:13
The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her
discretion will fatten his bones.

Sir 26:14
A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there is
nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.

Sir 26:15
A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her
continent mind cannot be valued.

Sir 26:16
As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the
beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.

Sir 26:17
As the clear light is upon the holy candlestick; so is the
beauty of the face in ripe age.

Sir 26:18
As the golden pillars are upon the sockets of silver; so are
the fair feet with a constant heart.

Sir 26:19
My son, keep the flower of thine age sound; and give not thy
strength to strangers.

Sir 26:20
When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the
field, sow it with thine own seed, trusting in the goodness of
thy stock.

Sir 26:21
So thy race which thou leavest shall be magnified, having the
confidence of their good descent.

Sir 26:22
An harlot shall be accounted as spittle; but a married woman
is a tower against death to her husband.

Sir 26:23
A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man: but a
godly woman is given to him that feareth the Lord.

Sir 26:24
A dishonest woman contemneth shame: but an honest woman will
reverence her husband.

Sir 26:25
A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she that is
shamefaced will fear the Lord.

Sir 26:26
A woman that honoureth her husband shall be judged wise of
all; but she that dishonoureth him in her pride shall be counted
ungodly of all.

Sir 26:27
A loud crying woman and a scold shall be sought out to drive
away the enemies.

Sir 26:28
There be two things that grieve my heart; and the third
maketh me angry: a man of war that suffereth poverty; and men of
understanding that are not set by; and one that returneth from
righteousness to sin; the Lord prepareth such an one for the
sword.

Sir 26:29
A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong; and an
huckster shall not be freed from sin.

Sir 27:1
Many have sinned for a small matter; and he that seeketh for
abundance will turn his eyes away.

Sir 27:2
As a nail sticketh fast between the joinings of the stones;
so doth sin stick close between buying and selling.

Sir 27:3
Unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord,
his house shall soon be overthrown.

Sir 27:4
As when one sifteth with a sieve, the refuse remaineth; so
the filth of man in his talk.

Sir 27:5
The furnace proveth the potter's vessels; so the trial of man
is in his reasoning.

Sir 27:6
The fruit declareth if the tree have been dressed; so is the
utterance of a conceit in the heart of man.

Sir 27:7
Praise no man before thou hearest him speak; for this is the
trial of men.

Sir 27:8
If thou followest righteousness, thou shalt obtain her, and
put her on, as a glorious long robe.

Sir 27:9
The birds will resort unto their like; so will truth return
unto them that practise in her.

Sir 27:10
As the lion lieth in wait for the prey; so sin for them that
work iniquity.

Sir 27:11
The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom; but a
fool changeth as the moon.

Sir 27:12
If thou be among the indiscreet, observe the time; but be
continually among men of understanding.

Sir 27:13
The discourse of fools is irksome, and their sport is the
wantonness of sin.

Sir 27:14
The talk of him that sweareth much maketh the hair stand
upright; and their brawls make one stop his ears.

Sir 27:15
The strife of the proud is bloodshedding, and their revilings
are grievous to the ear.

Sir 27:16
Whoso discovereth secrets loseth his credit; and shall never
find friend to his mind.

Sir 27:17
Love thy friend, and be faithful unto him: but if thou
betrayest his secrets, follow no more after him.

Sir 27:18
For as a man hath destroyed his enemy; so hast thou lost the
love of thy neighbor.

Sir 27:19
As one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou
let thy neighbour go, and shalt not get him again

Sir 27:20
Follow after him no more, for he is too far off; he is as a
roe escaped out of the snare.

Sir 27:21
As for a wound, it may be bound up; and after reviling there
may be reconcilement: but he that betrayeth secrets is without
hope.

Sir 27:22
He that winketh with the eyes worketh evil: and he that
knoweth him will depart from him.

Sir 27:23
When thou art present, he will speak sweetly, and will admire
thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and slander
thy sayings.

Sir 27:24
I have hated many things, but nothing like him; for the Lord
will hate him.

Sir 27:25
Whoso casteth a stone on high casteth it on his own head; and
a deceitful stroke shall make wounds.

Sir 27:26
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that setteth a
trap shall be taken therein.

Sir 27:27
He that worketh mischief, it shall fall upon him, and he
shall not know whence it cometh.

Sir 27:28
Mockery and reproach are from the proud; but vengeance, as a
lion, shall lie in wait for them.

Sir 27:29
They that rejoice at the fall of the righteous shall be taken
in the snare; and anguish shall consume them before they die.

Sir 27:30
Malice and wrath, even these are abominations; and the sinful
man shall have them both.

Sir 28:1
He that revengeth shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he
will surely keep his sins [in remembrance.]

Sir 28:2
Forgive thy neighbour the hurt that he hath done unto thee,
so shall thy sins also be forgiven when thou prayest.

Sir 28:3
One man beareth hatred against another, and doth he seek
pardon from the Lord?

Sir 28:4
He sheweth no mercy to a man, which is like himself: and doth
he ask forgiveness of his own sins?

Sir 28:5
If he that is but flesh nourish hatred, who will intreat for
pardon of his sins?

Sir 28:6
Remember thy end, and let enmity cease; [remember] corruption
and death, and abide in the commandments.

Sir 28:7
Remember the commandments, and bear no malice to thy
neighbour: [remember] the covenant of the Highest, and wink at
ignorance.

Sir 28:8
Abstain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins: for a
furious man will kindle strife,

Sir 28:9
A sinful man disquieteth friends, and maketh debate among
them that be at peace.

Sir 28:10
As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth: and as a man's
strength is, so is his wrath; and according to his riches his
anger riseth; and the stronger they are which contend, the more
they will be inflamed.

Sir 28:11
An hasty contention kindleth a fire: and an hasty fighting
sheddeth blood.

Sir 28:12
If thou blow the spark, it shall burn: if thou spit upon it,
it shall be quenched: and both these come out of thy mouth.

Sir 28:13
Curse the whisperer and doubletongued: for such have
destroyed many that were at peace.

Sir 28:14
A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many, and driven them
from nation to nation: strong cities hath it pulled down, and
overthrown the houses of great men.

Sir 28:15
A backbiting tongue hath cast out virtuous women, and
deprived them of their labours.

Sir 28:16
Whoso hearkeneth unto it shall never find rest, and never
dwell quietly.

Sir 28:17
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the
stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

Sir 28:18
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as
have fallen by the tongue.

Sir 28:19
Well is he that is defended through the venom thereof; who
hath not drawn the yoke thereof, nor hath been bound in her
bands.

Sir 28:20
For the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, and the bands thereof
are bands of brass.

Sir 28:21
The death thereof is an evil death, the grave were better
than it.

Sir 28:22
It shall not have rule over them that fear God, neither shall
they be burned with the flame thereof.

Sir 28:23
Such as forsake the Lord shall fall into it; and it shall
burn in them, and not be quenched; it shall be sent upon them as
a lion, and devour them as a leopard.

Sir 28:24
Look that thou hedge thy possession about with thorns, and
bind up thy silver and gold,

Sir 28:25
And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for
thy mouth.

Sir 28:26
Beware thou slide not by it, lest thou fall before him that
lieth in wait.

Sir 29:1
He that is merciful will lend unto his neighbour; and he that
strengtheneth his hand keepeth the commandments.

Sir 29:2
Lend to thy neighbour in time of his need, and pay thou thy
neighbour again in due season.

Sir 29:3
Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him, and thou shalt
always find the thing that is necessary for thee.

Sir 29:4
Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found,
and put them to trouble that helped them.

Sir 29:5
Till he hath received, he will kiss a man's hand; and for his
neighbour's money he will speak submissly: but when he should
repay, he will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and
complain of the time.

Sir 29:6
If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half, and he will
count as if he had found it: if not, he hath deprived him of his
money, and he hath gotten him an enemy without cause: he payeth
him with cursings and railings; and for honour he will pay him
disgrace.

Sir 29:7
Many therefore have refused to lend for other men's ill
dealing, fearing to be defrauded.

Sir 29:8
Yet have thou patience with a man in poor estate, and delay
not to shew him mercy.

Sir 29:9
Help the poor for the commandment's sake, and turn him not
away because of his poverty.

Sir 29:10
Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend, and let it not
rust under a stone to be lost.

Sir 29:11
Lay up thy treasure according to the commandments of the most
High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold.

Sir 29:12
Shut up alms in thy storehouses: and it shall deliver thee
from all affliction.

Sir 29:13
It shall fight for thee against thine enemies better than a
mighty shield and strong spear.

Sir 29:14
An honest man is surety for his neighbour: but he that is
impudent will forsake him.

Sir 29:15
Forget not the friendship of thy surety, for he hath given
his life for thee.

Sir 29:16
A sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety:

Sir 29:17
And he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him [in
danger] that delivered him.

Sir 29:18
Suretiship hath undone many of good estate, and shaken them
as a wave of the sea: mighty men hath it driven from their
houses, so that they wandered among strange nations.

Sir 29:19
A wicked man transgressing the commandments of the Lord shall
fall into suretiship: and he that undertaketh and followeth
other men's business for gain shall fall into suits.

Sir 29:20
Help thy neighbour according to thy power, and beware that
thou thyself fall not into the same.

Sir 29:21
The chief thing for life is water, and bread, and clothing,
and an house to cover shame.

Sir 29:22
Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than
delicate fare in another man's house.

Sir 29:23
Be it little or much, hold thee contented, that thou hear not
the reproach of thy house.

Sir 29:24
For it is a miserable life to go from house to house: for
where thou art a stranger, thou darest not open thy mouth.

Sir 29:25
Thou shalt entertain, and feast, and have no thanks: moreover
thou shalt hear bitter words:

Sir 29:26
Come, thou stranger, and furnish a table, and feed me of that
thou hast ready.

Sir 29:27
Give place, thou stranger, to an honourable man; my brother
cometh to be lodged, and I have need of mine house.

Sir 29:28
These things are grievous to a man of understanding; the
upbraiding of houseroom, and reproaching of the lender.

Sir 30:1
He that loveth his son causeth him oft to feel the rod, that
he may have joy of him in the end.

Sir 30:2
He that chastiseth his son shall have joy in him, and shall
rejoice of him among his acquaintance.

Sir 30:3
He that teacheth his son grieveth the enemy: and before his
friends he shall rejoice of him.

Sir 30:4
Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead:
for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.

Sir 30:5
While he lived, he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died,
he was not sorrowful.

Sir 30:6
He left behind him an avenger against his enemies, and one
that shall requite kindness to his friends.

Sir 30:7
He that maketh too much of his son shall bind up his wounds;
and his bowels will be troubled at every cry.

Sir 30:8
An horse not broken becometh headstrong: and a child left to
himself will be wilful.

Sir 30:9
Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid: play with
him, and he will bring thee to heaviness.

Sir 30:10
Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow with him, and lest
thou gnash thy teeth in the end.

Sir 30:11
Give him no liberty in his youth, and wink not at his
follies.

Sir 30:12
Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat him on the
sides while he is a child, lest he wax stubborn, and be
disobedient unto thee, and so bring sorrow to thine heart.

Sir 30:13
Chastise thy son, and hold him to labour, lest his lewd
behaviour be an offence unto thee.

Sir 30:14
Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution,
than a rich man that is afflicted in his body.

Sir 30:15
Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a
strong body above infinite wealth.

Sir 30:16
There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the
joy of the heart.

Sir 30:17
Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.

Sir 30:18
Delicates poured upon a mouth shut up are as messes of meat
set upon a grave.

Sir 30:19
What good doeth the offering unto an idol? for neither can it
eat nor smell: so is he that is persecuted of the Lord.

Sir 30:20
He seeth with his eyes and groaneth, as an eunuch that
embraceth a virgin and sigheth.

Sir 30:21
Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself
in thine own counsel.

Sir 30:22
The gladness of the heart is the life of man, and the
joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

Sir 30:23
Love thine own soul, and comfort thy heart, remove sorrow far
from thee: for sorrow hath killed many, and there is no profit
therein.

Sir 30:24
Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age
before the time.

Sir 30:25
A cheerful and good heart will have a care of his meat and
diet.

Sir 31:1
Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof
driveth away sleep.

Sir 31:2
Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease
breaketh sleep,

Sir 31:3
The rich hath great labour in gathering riches together; and
when he resteth, he is filled with his delicates.

Sir 31:4
The poor laboureth in his poor estate; and when he leaveth
off, he is still needy.

Sir 31:5
He that loveth gold shall not be justified, and he that
followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.

Sir 31:6
Gold hath been the ruin of many, and their destruction was
present.

Sir 31:7
It is a stumblingblock unto them that sacrifice unto it, and
every fool shall be taken therewith.

Sir 31:8
Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, and hath
not gone after gold.

Sir 31:9
Who is he? and we will call him blessed: for wonderful things
hath he done among his people.

Sir 31:10
Who hath been tried thereby, and found perfect? then let him
glory. Who might offend, and hath not offended? or done evil,
and hath not done it?

Sir 31:11
His goods shall be established, and the congregation shall
declare his alms.

Sir 31:12
If thou sit at a bountiful table, be not greedy upon it, and
say not, There is much meat on it.

Sir 31:13
Remember that a wicked eye is an evil thing: and what is
created more wicked than an eye? therefore it weepeth upon every
occasion.

Sir 31:14
Stretch not thine hand whithersoever it looketh, and thrust
it not with him into the dish.

Sir 31:15
Judge not thy neighbour by thyself: and be discreet in every
point.

Sir 31:16
Eat as it becometh a man, those things which are set before
thee; and devour note, lest thou be hated.

Sir 31:17
Leave off first for manners' sake; and be not unsatiable,
lest thou offend.

Sir 31:18
When thou sittest among many, reach not thine hand out first
of all.

Sir 31:19
A very little is sufficient for a man well nurtured, and he
fetcheth not his wind short upon his bed.

Sir 31:20
Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating: he riseth early, and
his wits are with him: but the pain of watching, and choler, and
pangs of the belly, are with an unsatiable man.

Sir 31:21
And if thou hast been forced to eat, arise, go forth, vomit,
and thou shalt have rest.

Sir 31:22
My son, hear me, and despise me not, and at the last thou
shalt find as I told thee: in all thy works be quick, so shall
there no sickness come unto thee.

Sir 31:23
Whoso is liberal of his meat, men shall speak well of him;
and the report of his good housekeeping will be believed.

Sir 31:24
But against him that is a niggard of his meat the whole city
shall murmur; and the testimonies of his niggardness shall not
be doubted of.

Sir 31:25
Shew not thy valiantness in wine; for wine hath destroyed
many.

Sir 31:26
The furnace proveth the edge by dipping: so doth wine the
hearts of the proud by drunkeness.

Sir 31:27
Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately:
what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made
to make men glad.

Sir 31:28
Wine measurably drunk and in season bringeth gladness of the
heart, and cheerfulness of the mind:

Sir 31:29
But wine drunken with excess maketh bitterness of the mind,
with brawling and quarrelling.

Sir 31:30
Drunkenness increaseth the rage of a fool till he offend: it
diminisheth strength, and maketh wounds.

Sir 31:31
Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in
his mirth: give him no despiteful words, and press not upon him
with urging him [to drink.]

Sir 32:1
If thou be made the master [of a feast,] lift not thyself up,
but be among them as one of the rest; take diligent care for
them, and so sit down.

Sir 32:2
And when thou hast done all thy office, take thy place, that
thou mayest be merry with them, and receive a crown for thy well
ordering of the feast.

Sir 32:3
Speak, thou that art the elder, for it becometh thee, but
with sound judgment; and hinder not musick.

Sir 32:4
Pour not out words where there is a musician, and shew not
forth wisdom out of time.

Sir 32:5
A concert of musick in a banquet of wine is as a signet of
carbuncle set in gold.

Sir 32:6
As a signet of an emerald set in a work of gold, so is the
melody of musick with pleasant wine.

Sir 32:7
Speak, young man, if there be need of thee: and yet scarcely
when thou art twice asked.

Sir 32:8
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be
as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.

Sir 32:9
If thou be among great men, make not thyself equal with them;
and when ancient men are in place, use not many words.

Sir 32:10
Before the thunder goeth lightning; and before a shamefaced
man shall go favour.

Sir 32:11
Rise up betimes, and be not the last; but get thee home
without delay.

Sir 32:12
There take thy pastime, and do what thou wilt: but sin not by
proud speech.

Sir 32:13
And for these things bless him that made thee, and hath
replenished thee with his good things.

Sir 32:14
Whoso feareth the Lord will receive his discipline; and they
that seek him early shall find favour.

Sir 32:15
He that seeketh the law shall be filled therewith: but the
hypocrite will be offended thereat.

Sir 32:16
They that fear the Lord shall find judgment, and shall kindle
justice as a light.

Sir 32:17
A sinful man will not be reproved, but findeth an excuse
according to his will.

Sir 32:18
A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and proud
man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done
without counsel.

Sir 32:19
Do nothing without advice; and when thou hast once done,
repent not.

Sir 32:20
Go not in a way wherein thou mayest fall, and stumble not
among the stones.

Sir 32:21
Be not confident in a plain way.

Sir 32:22
And beware of thine own children.

Sir 32:23
In every good work trust thy own soul; for this is the
keeping of the commandments.

Sir 32:24
He that believeth in the Lord taketh heed to the commandment;
and he that trusteth in him shall fare never the worse.

Sir 33:1
There shall no evil happen unto him that feareth the Lord;
but in temptation even again he will deliver him.

Sir 33:2
A wise man hateth not the law; but he that is an hypocrite
therein is as a ship in a storm.

Sir 33:3
A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is
faithful unto him, as an oracle.

Sir 33:4
Prepare what to say, and so thou shalt be heard: and bind up
instruction, and then make answer.

Sir 33:5
The heart of the foolish is like a cartwheel; and his
thoughts are like a rolling axletree.

Sir 33:6
A stallion horse is as a mocking friend, he neigheth under
every one that sitteth upon him.

Sir 33:7
Why doth one day excel another, when as all the light of
every day in the year is of the sun?

Sir 33:8
By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished: and he
altered seasons and feasts.

Sir 33:9
Some of them hath he made high days, and hallowed them, and
some of them hath he made ordinary days.

Sir 33:10
And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of
earth:

Sir 33:11
In much knowledge the Lord hath divided them, and made their
ways diverse.

Sir 33:12
Some of them hath he blessed and exalted and some of them he
sanctified, and set near himself: but some of them hath he
cursed and brought low, and turned out of their places.

Sir 33:13
As the clay is in the potter's hand, to fashion it at his
pleasure: so man is in the hand of him that made him, to render
to them as liketh him best.

Sir 33:14
Good is set against evil, and life against death: so is the
godly against the sinner, and the sinner against the godly.

Sir 33:15
So look upon all the works of the most High; and there are
two and two, one against another.

Sir 33:16
I awaked up last of all, as one that gathereth after the
grapegatherers: by the blessing of the Lord I profited, and tred
my winepress like a gatherer of grapes.

Sir 33:17
Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all
them that seek learning.

Sir 33:18
Hear me, O ye great men of the people, and hearken with your
ears, ye rulers of the congregation.

Sir 33:19
Give not thy son and wife, thy brother and friend, power over
thee while thou livest, and give not thy goods to another: lest
it repent thee, and thou intreat for the same again.

Sir 33:20
As long as thou livest and hast breath in thee, give not
thyself over to any.

Sir 33:21
For better it is that thy children should seek to thee, than
that thou shouldest stand to their courtesy.

Sir 33:22
In all thy works keep to thyself the preeminence; leave not a
stain in thine honour.

Sir 33:23
At the time when thou shalt end thy days, and finish thy
life, distribute thine inheritance.

Sir 33:24
Fodder, a wand, and burdens, are for the ass; and bread,
correction, and work, for a servant. .

Sir 33:25
If thou set thy servant to labour, thou shalt find rest: but
if thou let him go idle, he shall seek liberty.

Sir 33:26
A yoke and a collar do bow the neck: so are tortures and
torments for an evil servant.

Sir 33:27
Send him to labour, that he be not idle; for idleness
teacheth much evil.

Sir 33:28
Set him to work, as is fit for him: if he be not obedient,
put on more heavy fetters.

Sir 33:29
But be not excessive toward any; and without discretion do
nothing.

Sir 33:30
If thou have a servant, let him be unto thee as thyself,
because thou hast bought him with a price.

Sir 33:31
If thou have a servant, entreat him as a brother: for thou
hast need of him, as of thine own soul: if thou entreat him
evil, and he run from thee, which way wilt thou go to seek him?

Sir 34:1
The hopes of a man void of understanding are vain and false:
and dreams lift up fools.

Sir 34:2
Whoso regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow,
and followeth after the wind.

Sir 34:3
The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to
another, even as the likeness of a face to a face.

Sir 34:4
Of an unclean thing what can be cleansed? and from that thing
which is false what truth can come?

Sir 34:5
Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: and the
heart fancieth, as a woman's heart in travail.

Sir 34:6
If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation, set
not thy heart upon them.

Sir 34:7
For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put
their trust in them.

Sir 34:8
The law shall be found perfect without lies: and wisdom is
perfection to a faithful mouth.

Sir 34:9
A man that hath travelled knoweth many things; and he that
hath much experience will declare wisdom.

Sir 34:10
He that hath no experience knoweth little: but he that hath
travelled is full of prudence.

Sir 34:11
When I travelled, I saw many things; and I understand more
than I can express.

Sir 34:12
I was ofttimes in danger of death: yet I was delivered
because of these things.

Sir 34:13
The spirit of those that fear the Lord shall live; for their
hope is in him that saveth them.

Sir 34:14
Whoso feareth the Lord shall not fear nor be afraid; for he
is his hope.

Sir 34:15
Blessed is the soul of him that feareth the Lord: to whom
doth he look? and who is his strength?

Sir 34:16
For the eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, he is
their mighty protection and strong stay, a defence from heat,
and a cover from the sun at noon, a preservation from stumbling,
and an help from falling.

Sir 34:17
He raiseth up the soul, and lighteneth the eyes: he giveth
health, life, and blessing.

Sir 34:18
He that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, his
offering is ridiculous; and the gifts of unjust men are not
accepted.

Sir 34:19
The most High is not pleased with the offerings of the
wicked; neither is he pacified for sin by the multitude of
sacrifices.

Sir 34:20
Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor doeth as
one that killeth the son before his father's eyes.

Sir 34:21
The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him
thereof is a man of blood.

Sir 34:22
He that taketh away his neighbour's living slayeth him; and
he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.

Sir 34:23
When one buildeth, and another pulleth down, what profit have
they then but labour?

Sir 34:24
When one prayeth, and another curseth, whose voice will the
Lord hear?

Sir 34:25
He that washeth himself after the touching of a dead body, if
he touch it again, what availeth his washing?

Sir 34:26
So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins, and goeth
again, and doeth the same: who will hear his prayer? or what
doth his humbling profit him?

Sir 35:1
He that keepeth the law bringeth offerings enough: he that
taketh heed to the commandment offereth a peace offering.

Sir 35:2
He that requiteth a goodturn offereth fine flour; and he that
giveth alms sacrificeth praise.

Sir 35:3
To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord;
and to forsake unrighteousness is a propitiation.

Sir 35:4
Thou shalt not appear empty before the Lord.

Sir 35:5
For all these things [are to be done] because of the
commandment.

Sir 35:6
The offering of the righteous maketh the altar fat, and the
sweet savour thereof is before the most High.

Sir 35:7
The sacrifice of a just man is acceptable. and the memorial
thereof shall never be forgotten.

Sir 35:8
Give the Lord his honour with a good eye, and diminish not
the firstfruits of thine hands.

Sir 35:9
In all thy gifts shew a cheerful countenance, and dedicate
thy tithes with gladness.

Sir 35:10
Give unto the most High according as he hath enriched thee;
and as thou hast gotten, give with a cheerful eye.

Sir 35:11
For the Lord recompenseth, and will give thee seven times as
much.

Sir 35:12
Do not think to corrupt with gifts; for such he will not
receive: and trust not to unrighteous sacrifices; for the Lord
is judge, and with him is no respect of persons.

Sir 35:13
He will not accept any person against a poor man, but will
hear the prayer of the oppressed.

Sir 35:14
He will not despise the supplication of the fatherless; nor
the widow, when she poureth out her complaint.

Sir 35:15
Do not the tears run down the widow's cheeks? and is not her
cry against him that causeth them to fall?

Sir 35:16
He that serveth the Lord shall be accepted with favour, and
his prayer shall reach unto the clouds.

Sir 35:17
The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds: and till it
come nigh, he will not be comforted; and will not depart, till
the most High shall behold to judge righteously, and execute
judgment.

Sir 35:18
For the Lord will not be slack, neither will the Mighty be
patient toward them, till he have smitten in sunder the loins of
the unmerciful, and repayed vengeance to the heathen; till he
have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the
sceptre of the unrighteous;

Sir 35:19
Till he have rendered to every man according to his deeds,
and to the works of men according to their devices; till he have
judged the cause of his people, and made them to rejoice in his
mercy.

Sir 35:20
Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of
rain in the time of drought.

Sir 36:1
Have mercy upon us, O Lord God of all, and behold us:

Sir 36:2
And send thy fear upon all the nations that seek not after
thee.

Sir 36:3
Lift up thy hand against the strange nations, and let them
see thy power.

Sir 36:4
As thou wast sanctified in us before them: so be thou
magnified among them before us.

Sir 36:5
And let them know thee, as we have known thee, that there is
no God but only thou, O God.

Sir 36:6
Shew new signs, and make other strange wonders: glorify thy
hand and thy right arm, that they may set forth thy wondrous
works.

Sir 36:7
Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath: take away the
adversary, and destroy the enemy.

Sir 36:8
Sake the time short, remember the covenant, and let them
declare thy wonderful works.

Sir 36:9
Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire;
and let them perish that oppress the people.

Sir 36:10
Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, that
say, There is none other but we.

Sir 36:11
Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, and inherit thou
them, as from the beginning.

Sir 36:12
O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by thy
name, and upon Israel, whom thou hast named thy firstborn.

Sir 36:13
O be merciful unto Jerusalem, thy holy city, the place of thy
rest.

Sir 36:14
Fill Sion with thine unspeakable oracles, and thy people with
thy glory:

Sir 36:15
Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the
beginning, and raise up prophets that have been in thy name.

Sir 36:16
Reward them that wait for thee, and let thy prophets be found
faithful.

Sir 36:17
O Lord, hear the prayer of thy servants, according to the
blessing of Aaron over thy people, that all they which dwell
upon the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the eternal God.

Sir 36:18
The belly devoureth all meats, yet is one meat better than
another.

Sir 36:19
As the palate tasteth divers kinds of venison: so doth an
heart of understanding false speeches.

Sir 36:20
A froward heart causeth heaviness: but a man of experience
will recompense him.

Sir 36:21
A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better
than another.

Sir 36:22
The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance, and a man
loveth nothing better.

Sir 36:23
If there be kindness, meekness, and comfort, in her tongue,
then is not her husband like other men.

Sir 36:24
He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like
unto himself, and a pillar of rest.

Sir 36:25
Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he
that hath no wife will wander up and down mourning.

Sir 36:26
Who will trust a thief well appointed, that skippeth from
city to city? so [who will believe] a man that hath no house,
and lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him?

Sir 37:1
Every friend saith, I am his friend also: but there is a
friend, which is only a friend in name.

Sir 37:2
Is it not a grief unto death, when a companion and friend is
turned to an enemy?

Sir 37:3
O wicked imagination, whence camest thou in to cover the
earth with deceit?

Sir 37:4
There is a companion, which rejoiceth in the prosperity of a
friend, but in the time of trouble will be against him.

Sir 37:5
There is a companion, which helpeth his friend for the belly,
and taketh up the buckler against the enemy.

Sir 37:6
Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of
him in thy riches.

Sir 37:7
Every counsellor extolleth counsel; but there is some that
counselleth for himself.

Sir 37:8
Beware of a counsellor, and know before what need he hath;
for he will counsel for himself; lest he cast the lot upon thee,

Sir 37:9
And say unto thee, Thy way is good: and afterward he stand on
the other side, to see what shall befall thee.

Sir 37:10
Consult not with one that suspecteth thee: and hide thy
counsel from such as envy thee.

Sir 37:11
Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is
jealous; neither with a coward in matters of war; nor with a
merchant concerning exchange; nor with a buyer of selling; nor
with an envious man of thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man
touching kindness; nor with the slothful for any work; nor with
an hireling for a year of finishing work; nor with an idle
servant of much business: hearken not unto these in any matter
of counsel.

Sir 37:12
But be continually with a godly man, whom thou knowest to keep
the commandments of the Lord, whose, mind is according to thy
mind, and will sorrow with thee, if thou shalt miscarry.

Sir 37:13
And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no
man more faithful unto thee than it.

Sir 37:14
For a man's mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven
watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.

Sir 37:15
And above all this pray to the most High, that he will direct
thy way in truth.

Sir 37:16
Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before
every action.

Sir 37:17
The countenance is a sign of changing of the heart.

Sir 37:18
Four manner of things appear: good and evil, life and death:
but the tongue ruleth over them continually.

Sir 37:19
There is one that is wise and teacheth many, and yet is
unprofitable to himself.

Sir 37:20
There is one that sheweth wisdom in words, and is hated: he
shall be destitute of all food.

Sir 37:21
For grace is not given, him from the Lord, because he is
deprived of all wisdom.

Sir 37:22
Another is wise to himself; and the fruits of understanding
are commendable in his mouth.

Sir 37:23
A wise man instructeth his people; and the fruits of his
understanding fail not.

Sir 37:24
A wise man shall be filled with blessing; and all they that
see him shall count him happy.

Sir 37:25
The days of the life of man may be numbered: but the days of
Israel are innumerable.

Sir 37:26
A wise man shall inherit glory among his people, and his name
shall be perpetual.

Sir 37:27
My son, prove thy soul in thy life, and see what is evil for
it, and give not that unto it.

Sir 37:28
For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath
every soul pleasure in every thing.

Sir 37:29
Be not unsatiable in any dainty thing, nor too greedy upon
meats:

Sir 37:30
For excess of meats bringeth sickness, and surfeiting will
turn into choler.

Sir 37:31
By surfeiting have many perished; but he that taketh heed
prolongeth his life.

Sir 38:1
Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses
which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

Sir 38:2
For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive
honour of the king.

Sir 38:3
The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the
sight of great men he shall be in admiration.

Sir 38:4
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that
is wise will not abhor them.

Sir 38:5
Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue
thereof might be known?

Sir 38:6
And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his
marvellous works.

Sir 38:7
With such doth he heal [men,] and taketh away their pains.

Sir 38:8
Of such doth the apothecary make a confection; and of his
works there is no end; and from him is peace over all the earth,

Sir 38:9
My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the
Lord, and he will make thee whole.

Sir 38:10
Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse
thy heart from all wickedness.

Sir 38:11
Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour; and make a
fat offering, as not being.

Sir 38:12
Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created
him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.

Sir 38:13
There is a time when in their hands there is good success.

Sir 38:14
For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper
that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life.

Sir 38:15
He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand
of the physician.

Sir 38:16
My son, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to
lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself; and then
cover his body according to the custom, and neglect not his
burial.

Sir 38:17
Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as
he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken
of: and then comfort thyself for thy heaviness.

Sir 38:18
For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart
breaketh strength.

Sir 38:19
In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poor
is the curse of the heart.

Sir 38:20
Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the
last end.

Sir 38:21
Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not
do him good, but hurt thyself.

Sir 38:22
Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so; yesterday
for me, and to day for thee.

Sir 38:23
When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be
comforted for him, when his Spirit is departed from him.

Sir 38:24
The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure:
and he that hath little business shall become wise.

Sir 38:25
How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that
glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in
their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?

Sir 38:26
He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give
the kine fodder.

Sir 38:27
So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboureth night and
day: and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make
great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and
watch to finish a work:

Sir 38:28
The smith also 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: the noise of the hammer and the
anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the
pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to
finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly:

Sir 38:29
So doth the potter sitting at his work, and turning the wheel
about with his feet, who is alway carefully set at his work, and
maketh all his work by number;

Sir 38:30
He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his
strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over;
and he is diligent to make clean the furnace:

Sir 38:31
All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his
work.

Sir 38:32
Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not
dwell where they will, nor go up and down:

Sir 38:33
They shall not be sought for in publick counsel, nor sit high
in the congregation: they shall not sit on the judges' seat, nor
understand the sentence of judgment: they cannot declare justice
and judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are
spoken.

Sir 38:34
But they will maintain the state of the world, and [all]
their desire is in the work of their craft.

Sir 39:1
But he that giveth his mind to the law of the most High, and
is occupied in the meditation thereof, will seek out the wisdom
of all the ancient, and be occupied in prophecies.

Sir 39:2
He will keep the sayings of the renowned men: and where
subtil parables are, he will be there also.

Sir 39:3
He will seek out the secrets of grave sentences, and be
conversant in dark parables.

Sir 39:4
He shall serve among great men, and appear before princes: he
will travel through strange countries; for he hath tried the
good and the evil among men.

Sir 39:5
He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made
him, and will pray before the most High, and will open his mouth
in prayer, and make supplication for his sins.

Sir 39:6
When the great Lord will, he shall be filled with the spirit
of understanding: he shall pour out wise sentences, and give
thanks unto the Lord in his prayer.

Sir 39:7
He shall direct his counsel and knowledge, and in his secrets
shall he meditate.

Sir 39:8
He shall shew forth that which he hath learned, and shall
glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord.

Sir 39:9
Many shall commend his understanding; and so long as the
world endureth, it shall not be blotted out; his memorial shall
not depart away, and his name shall live from generation to
generation.

Sir 39:10
Nations shall shew forth his wisdom, and the congregation
shall declare his praise.

Sir 39:11
If he die, he shall leave a greater name than a thousand: and
if he live, he shall increase it.

Sir 39:12
Yet have I more to say, which I have thought upon; for I am
filled as the moon at the full.

Sir 39:13
Hearken unto me, ye holy children, and bud forth as a rose
growing by the brook of the field:

Sir 39:14
And give ye a sweet savour as frankincense, and flourish as a
lily, send forth a smell, and sing a song of praise, bless the
Lord in all his works.

Sir 39:15
Magnify his name, and shew forth his praise with the songs of
your lips, and with harps, and in praising him ye shall say
after this manner:

Sir 39:16
All the works of the Lord are exceeding good, and whatsoever
he commandeth shall be accomplished in due season.

Sir 39:17
And none may say, What is this? wherefore is that? for at
time convenient they shall all be sought out: at his commandment
the waters stood as an heap, and at the words of his mouth the
receptacles of waters.

Sir 39:18
At his commandment is done whatsoever pleaseth him; and none
can hinder, when he will save.

Sir 39:19
The works of all flesh are before him, and nothing can be hid
from his eyes.

Sir 39:20
He seeth from everlasting to everlasting; and there is
nothing wonderful before him.

Sir 39:21
A man need not to say, What is this? wherefore is that? for
he hath made all things for their uses.

Sir 39:22
His blessing covered the dry land as a river, and watered it
as a flood.

Sir 39:23
As he hath turned the waters into saltness: so shall the
heathen inherit his wrath.

Sir 39:24
As his ways are plain unto the holy; so are they
stumblingblocks unto the wicked.

Sir 39:25
For the good are good things created from the beginning: so
evil things for sinners.

Sir 39:26
The principal things for the whole use of man's life are
water, fire, iron, and salt, flour of wheat, honey, milk, and
the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

Sir 39:27
All these things are for good to the godly: so to the sinners
they are turned into evil.

Sir 39:28
There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in
their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they
pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made
them.

Sir 39:29
Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created
for vengeance;

Sir 39:30
Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword
punishing the wicked to destruction.

Sir 39:31
They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be
ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come,
they shall not transgress his word.

Sir 39:32
Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought upon
these things, and have left them in writing.

Sir 39:33
All the works of the Lord are good: and he will give every
needful thing in due season.

Sir 39:34
So that a man cannot say, This is worse than that: for in
time they shall all be well approved.

Sir 39:35
And therefore praise ye the Lord with the whole heart and
mouth, and bless the name of the Lord.

Sir 40:1
Great travail is created for every man, and an heavy yoke is
upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their
mother's womb, till the day that they return to the mother of
all things.

Sir 40:2
Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death,
[trouble] their thoughts, and [cause] fear of heart;

Sir 40:3
From him that sitteth on a throne of glory, unto him that is
humbled in earth and ashes;

Sir 40:4
From him that weareth purple and a crown, unto him that is
clothed with a linen frock.

Sir 40:5
Wrath, and envy, trouble, and unquietness, fear of death, and
anger, and strife, and in the time of rest upon his bed his
night sleep, do change his knowledge.

Sir 40:6
A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his
sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of
his heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.

Sir 40:7
When all is safe, he awaketh, and marvelleth that the fear
was nothing.

Sir 40:8
[Such things happen] unto all flesh, both man and beast, and
that is sevenfold more upon sinners.

Sir 40:9
Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, calamities, famine,
tribulation, and the scourge;

Sir 40:10
These things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes
came the flood.

Sir 40:11
All things that are of the earth shall turn to the earth
again: and that which is of the waters doth return into the sea.

Sir 40:12
All bribery and injustice shall be blotted out: but true
dealing shall endure for ever.

Sir 40:13
The goods of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and
shall vanish with noise, like a great thunder in rain.

Sir 40:14
While he openeth his hand he shall rejoice: so shall
transgressors come to nought.

Sir 40:15
The children of the ungodly shall not bring forth many
branches: but are as unclean roots upon a hard rock.

Sir 40:16
The weed growing upon every water and bank of a river shall
be pulled up before all grass.

Sir 40:17
Bountifulness is as a most fruitful garden, and mercifulness
endureth for ever.

Sir 40:18
To labour, and to be content with that a man hath, is a sweet
life: but he that findeth a treasure is above them both.

Sir 40:19
Children and the building of a city continue a man's name:
but a blameless wife is counted above them both.

Sir 40:20
Wine and musick rejoice the heart: but the love of wisdom is
above them both.

Sir 40:21
The pipe and the psaltery make sweet melody: but a pleasant
tongue is above them both.

Sir 40:22
Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both corn
while it is green.

Sir 40:23
A friend and companion never meet amiss: but above both is a
wife with her husband.

Sir 40:24
Brethren and help are against time of trouble: but alms shall
deliver more than them both.

Sir 40:25
Gold and silver make the foot stand sure: but counsel is
esteemed above them both.

Sir 40:26
Riches and strength lift up the heart: but the fear of the
Lord is above them both: there is no want in the fear of the
Lord, and it needeth not to seek help.

Sir 40:27
The fear of the Lord is a fruitful garden, and covereth him
above all glory.

Sir 40:28
My son, lead not a beggar's life; for better it is to die
than to beg.

Sir 40:29
The life of him that dependeth on another man's table is not
to be counted for a life; for he polluteth himself with other
men's meat: but a wise man well nurtured will beware thereof.

Sir 40:30
Begging is sweet in the mouth of the shameless: but in his
belly there shall burn a fire.

Sir 41:1
O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that
liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath
nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea,
unto him that is yet able to receive meat!

Sir 41:2
O death, acceptable is thy sentence unto the needy, and unto
him whose strength faileth, that is now in the last age, and is
vexed with all things, and to him that despaireth, and hath lost
patience!

Sir 41:3
Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been
before thee, and that come after; for this is the sentence of
the Lord over all flesh.

Sir 41:4
And why art thou against the pleasure of the most High? there
is no inquisition in the grave, whether thou have lived ten, or
an hundred, or a thousand years.

Sir 41:5
The children of sinners are abominable children, and they
that are conversant in the dwelling of the ungodly.

Sir 41:6
The inheritance of sinners' children shall perish, and their
posterity shall have a perpetual reproach.

Sir 41:7
The children will complain of an ungodly father, because they
shall be reproached for his sake.

Sir 41:8
Woe be unto you, ungodly men, which have forsaken the law of
the most high God! for if ye increase, it shall be to your
destruction:

Sir 41:9
And if ye be born, ye shall be born to a curse: and if ye
die, a curse shall be your portion.

Sir 41:10
All that are of the earth shall turn to earth again: so the
ungodly shall go from a curse to destruction.

Sir 41:11
The mourning of men is about their bodies: but an ill name of
sinners shall be blotted out.

Sir 41:12
Have regard to thy name; for that shall continue with thee
above a thousand great treasures of gold.

Sir 41:13
A good life hath but few days: but a good name endureth for
ever.

Sir 41:14
My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is
hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is in them
both?

Sir 41:15
A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that
hideth his wisdom.

Sir 41:16
Therefore be shamefaced according to my word: for it is not
good to retain all shamefacedness; neither is it altogether
approved in every thing.

Sir 41:17
Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: and of a lie
before a prince and a mighty man;

Sir 41:18
Of an offence before a judge and ruler; of iniquity before a
congregation and people; of unjust dealing before thy partner
and friend;

Sir 41:19
And of theft in regard of the place where thou sojournest,
and in regard of the truth of God and his covenant; and to lean
with thine elbow upon the meat; and of scorning to give and
take;

Sir 41:20
And of silence before them that salute thee; and to look upon
an harlot;

Sir 41:21
And to turn away thy face from thy kinsman; or to take away a
portion or a gift; or to gaze upon another man's wife.

Sir 41:22
Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed;
or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast
given, upbraid not;

Sir 41:23
Or of iterating and speaking again that which thou hast
heard; and of revealing of secrets.

Sir 41:24
So shalt thou be truly shamefaced and find favour before all
men.

Sir 42:1
Of these things be not thou ashamed, and accept no person to
sin thereby:

Sir 42:2
Of the law of the most High, and his covenant; and of
judgment to justify the ungodly;

Sir 42:3
Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift
of the heritage of friends;

Sir 42:4
Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or
little;

Sir 42:5
And of merchants' indifferent selling; of much correction of
children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.

Sir 42:6
Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up,
where many hands are.

Sir 42:7
Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in
writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.

Sir 42:8
Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the
extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus
shalt thou be truly learned, and approved of all men living.

Sir 42:9
The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; and
the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she
pass away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she
should be hated:

Sir 42:10
In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with
child in her father's house; and having an husband, lest she
should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she
should be barren.

Sir 42:11
Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make
thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city,
and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before
the multitude.

Sir 42:12
Behold not every body's beauty, and sit not in the midst of
women.

Sir 42:13
For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness.

Sir 42:14
Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a
woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

Sir 42:15
I will now remember the works of the Lord, and declare the
things that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works.

Sir 42:16
The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the
work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.

Sir 42:17
The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all
his marvellous works, which the Almighty Lord firmly settled,
that whatsoever is might be established for his glory.

Sir 42:18
He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth their
crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and
he beholdeth the signs of the world.

Sir 42:19
He declareth the things that are past, and for to come, and
revealeth the steps of hidden things.

Sir 42:20
No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him.

Sir 42:21
He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom, and he
is from everlasting to everlasting: unto him may nothing be
added, neither can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any
counsellor.

Sir 42:22
Oh how desirable are all his works! and that a man may see
even to a spark.

Sir 42:23
All these things live and remain for ever for all uses, and
they are all obedient.

Sir 42:24
All things are double one against another: and he hath made
nothing imperfect.

Sir 42:25
One thing establisheth the good or another: and who shall be
filled with beholding his glory?

Sir 43:1
The pride of the height, the clear firmament, the beauty of
heaven, with his glorious shew;

Sir 43:2
The sun when it appeareth, declaring at his rising a
marvellous instrument, the work of the most High:

Sir 43:3
At noon it parcheth the country, and who can abide the
burning heat thereof?

Sir 43:4
A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, but the sun
burneth the mountains three times more; breathing out fiery
vapours, and sending forth bright beams, it dimmeth the eyes.

Sir 43:5
Great is the Lord that made it; and at his commandment
runneth hastily.

Sir 43:6
He made the moon also to serve in her season for a
declaration of times, and a sign of the world.

Sir 43:7
From the moon is the sign of feasts, a light that decreaseth
in her perfection.

Sir 43:8
The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in
her changing, being an instrument of the armies above, shining
in the firmament of heaven;

Sir 43:9
The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars, an ornament
giving light in the highest places of the Lord.

Sir 43:10
At the commandment of the Holy One they will stand in their
order, and never faint in their watches.

Sir 43:11
Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; very
beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.

Sir 43:12
It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and
the hands of the most High have bended it.

Sir 43:13
By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall aplace, and
sendeth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.

Sir 43:14
Through this the treasures are opened: and clouds fly forth
as fowls.

Sir 43:15
By his great power he maketh the clouds firm, and the
hailstones are broken small.

Sir 43:16
At his sight the mountains are shaken, and at his will the
south wind bloweth.

Sir 43:17
The noise of the thunder maketh the earth to tremble: so doth
the northern storm and the whirlwind: as birds flying he
scattereth the snow, and the falling down thereof is as the
lighting of grasshoppers:

Sir 43:18
The eye marvelleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof,
and the heart is astonished at the raining of it.

Sir 43:19
The hoarfrost also as salt he poureth on the earth, and being
congealed, it lieth on the top of sharp stakes.

Sir 43:20
When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed
into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and
clotheth the water as with a breastplate.

Sir 43:21
It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and
consumeth the grass as fire.

Sir 43:22
A present remedy of all is a mist coming speedily, a dew
coming after heat refresheth.

Sir 43:23
By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, and planteth islands
therein.

Sir 43:24
They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and
when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.

Sir 43:25
For therein be strange and wondrous works, variety of all
kinds of beasts and whales created.

Sir 43:26
By him the end of them hath prosperous success, and by his
word all things consist.

Sir 43:27
We may speak much, and yet come short: wherefore in sum, he
is all.

Sir 43:28
How shall we be able to magnify him? for he is great above
all his works.

Sir 43:29
The Lord is terrible and very great, and marvellous is his
power.

Sir 43:30
When ye glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as ye can; for
even yet will he far exceed: and when ye exalt him, put forth
all your strength, and be not weary; for ye can never go far
enough.

Sir 43:31
Who hath seen him, that he might tell us? and who can magnify
him as he is?

Sir 43:32
There are yet hid greater things than these be, for we have
seen but a few of his works.

Sir 43:33
For the Lord hath made all things; and to the godly hath he
given wisdom.

Sir 44:1
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

Sir 44:2
The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great
power from the beginning.

Sir 44:3
Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for
their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and
declaring prophecies:

Sir 44:4
Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their
knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent are
their instructions:

Sir 44:5
Such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses in
writing:

Sir 44:6
Rich men furnished with ability, living peaceably in their
habitations:

Sir 44:7
All these were honoured in their generations, and were the
glory of their times.

Sir 44:8
There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that
their praises might be reported.

Sir 44:9
And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished,
as though they had never been; and are become as though they had
never been born; and their children after them.

Sir 44:10
But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not
been forgotten.

Sir 44:11
With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance,
and their children are within the covenant.

Sir 44:12
Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes.

Sir 44:13
Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not
be blotted out.

Sir 44:14
Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for
evermore.

Sir 44:15
The people will tell of their wisdom, and the congregation
will shew forth their praise.

Sir 44:16
Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated, being an example
of repentance to all generations.

Sir 44:17
Noah was found perfect and righteous; in the time of wrath he
was taken in exchange [for the world;] therefore was he left as
a remnant unto the earth, when the flood came.

Sir 44:18
An everlasting covenant was made with him, that all flesh
should perish no more by the flood.

Sir 44:19
Abraham was a great father of many people: in glory was there
none like unto him;

Sir 44:20
Who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with
him: he established the covenant in his flesh; and when he was
proved, he was found faithful.

Sir 44:21
Therefore he assured him by an oath, that he would bless the
nations in his seed, and that he would multiply him as the dust
of the earth, and exalt his seed as the stars, and cause them to
inherit from sea to sea, and from the river unto the utmost part
of the land.

Sir 44:22
With Isaac did he establish likewise [for Abraham his
father's sake] the blessing of all men, and the covenant, And
made it rest upon the head of Jacob. He acknowledged him in his
blessing, and gave him an heritage, and divided his portions;
among the twelve tribes did he part them.

Sir 45:1
And he brought out of him a merciful man, which found favour
in the sight of all flesh, even Moses, beloved of God and men,
whose memorial is blessed.

Sir 45:2
He made him like to the glorious saints, and magnified him,
so that his enemies stood in fear of him.

Sir 45:3
By his words he caused the wonders to cease, and he made him
glorious in the sight of kings, and gave him a commandment for
his people, and shewed him part of his glory.

Sir 45:4
He sanctified him in his faithfuless and meekness, and chose
him out of all men.

Sir 45:5
He made him to hear his voice, and brought him into the dark
cloud, and gave him commandments before his face, even the law
of life and knowledge, that he might teach Jacob his covenants,
and Israel his judgments.

Sir 45:6
He exalted Aaron, an holy man like unto him, even his
brother, of the tribe of Levi.

Sir 45:7
An everlasting covenant he made with him and gave him the
priesthood among the people; he beautified him with comely
ornaments, and clothed him with a robe of glory.

Sir 45:8
He put upon him perfect glory; and strengthened him with rich
garments, with breeches, with a long robe, and the ephod.

Sir 45:9
And he compassed him with pomegranates, and with many golden
bells round about, 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;

Sir 45:10
With an holy garment, with gold, and blue silk, and purple,
the work of the embroidere, with a breastplate of judgment, and
with Urim and Thummim;

Sir 45:11
With twisted scarlet, the work of the cunning workman, with
precious stones graven like seals, and set in gold, the work of
the jeweller, with a writing engraved for a memorial, after the
number of the tribes of Israel.

Sir 45:12
He set a crown of gold upon the mitre, wherein was engraved
Holiness, an ornament of honour, a costly work, the desires of
the eyes, goodly and beautiful.

Sir 45:13
Before him there were none such, neither did ever any
stranger put them on, but only his children and his children's
children perpetually.

Sir 45:14
Their sacrifices shall be wholly consumed every day twice
continually.

Sir 45:15
Moses consecrated him, and anointed him with holy oil: this
was appointed unto him by an everlasting covenant, and to his
seed, so long as the heavens should remain, that they should
minister unto him, and execute the office of the priesthood, and
bless the people in his name.

Sir 45:16
He chose him out of all men living to offer sacrifices to the
Lord, incense, and a sweet savour, for a memorial, to make
reconciliation for his people.

Sir 45:17
He gave unto him his commandments, and authority in the
statutes of judgments, that he should teach Jacob the
testimonies, and inform Israel in his laws.

Sir 45:18
Strangers conspired together against him, and maligned him in
the wilderness, even the men that were of Dathan's and Abiron's
side, and the congregation of Core, with fury and wrath.

Sir 45:19
This the Lord saw, and it displeased him, and in his wrathful
indignation were they consumed: he did wonders upon them, to
consume them with the fiery flame.

Sir 45:20
But he made Aaron more honourable, and gave him an heritage,
and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase; especially
he prepared bread in abundance:

Sir 45:21
For they eat of the sacrifices of the Lord, which he gave
unto him and his seed.

Sir 45:22
Howbeit in the land of the people he had no inheritance,
neither had he any portion among the people: for the Lord
himself is his portion and inheritance.

Sir 45:23
The third in glory is Phinees the son of Eleazar, because he
had zeal in the fear of the Lord, and stood up with good courage
of heart: when the people were turned back, and made
reconciliation for Israel.

Sir 45:24
Therefore was there a covenant of peace made with him, that
he should be the chief of the sanctuary and of his people, and
that he and his posterity should have the dignity of the
priesthood for ever:

Sir 45:25
According to the covenant made with David son of Jesse, of
the tribe of Juda, that the inheritance of the king should be to
his posterity alone: so the inheritance of Aaron should also be
unto his seed.

Sir 45:26
God give you wisdom in your heart to judge his people in
righteousness, that their good things be not abolished, and that
their glory may endure for ever.

Sir 46:1
Jesus the son a Nave was valiant in the wars, and was the
successor of Moses in prophecies, who according to his name was
made great for the saving of the elect of God, and taking
vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them, that he
might set Israel in their inheritance.

Sir 46:2
How great glory gat he, when he did lift up his hands, and
stretched out his sword against the cities!

Sir 46:3
Who before him so stood to it? for the Lord himself brought
his enemies unto him.

Sir 46:4
Did not the sun go back by his means? and was not one day as
long as two?

Sir 46:5
He called upon the most high Lord, when the enemies pressed
upon him on every side; and the great Lord heard him.

Sir 46:6
And with hailstones of mighty power he made the battle to
fall violently upon the nations, and in the descent [of
Beth-horon] he destroyed them that resisted, that the nations
might know all their strength, because he fought in the sight of
the Lord, and he followed the Mighty One.

Sir 46:7
In the time of Moses also he did a work of mercy, he and
Caleb the son of Jephunne, in that they withstood the
congregation, and withheld the people from sin, and appeased the
wicked murmuring.

Sir 46:8
And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two were
preserved to bring them in to the heritage, even unto the land
that floweth with milk and honey.

Sir 46:9
The Lord gave strength also unto Caleb, which remained with
him unto his old age: so that he entered upon the high places of
the land, and his seed obtained it for an heritage:

Sir 46:10
That all the children of Israel might see that it is good to
follow the Lord.

Sir 46:11
And concerning the judges, every one by name, whose heart
went not a whoring, nor departed from the Lord, let their memory
be blessed.

Sir 46:12
Let their bones flourish out of their place, and let the name
of them that were honoured be continued upon their children.

Sir 46:13
Samuel, the prophet of the Lord, beloved of his Lord,
established a kingdom, and anointed princes over his people.

Sir 46:14
By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the
Lord had respect unto Jacob.

Sir 46:15
By his faithfulness he was found a true prophet, and by his
word he was known to be faithful in vision.

Sir 46:16
He called upon the mighty Lord, when his enemies pressed upon
him on every side, when he offered the sucking lamb.

Sir 46:17
And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise
made his voice to be heard.

Sir 46:18
And he destroyed the rulers of the Tyrians, and all the
princes cf the Philistines.

Sir 46:19
And before his long sleep he made protestations in the sight
of the Lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man's goods,
so much as a shoe: and no man did accuse him.

Sir 46:20
And after his death he prophesied, and shewed the king his
end, and lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy, to blot
out the wickedness of the people.

Sir 47:1
And after him rose up Nathan to prophesy in the time of
David.

Sir 47:2
As is the fat taken away from the peace offering, so was
David chosen out of the children of Israel.

Sir 47:3
He played with lions as with kids, and with bears as with
lambs.

Sir 47:4
Slew he not a giant, when he was yet but young? and did he
not take away reproach from the people, when he lifted up his
hand with the stone in the sling, and beat down the boasting of
Goliath?

Sir 47:5
For he called upon the most high Lord; and he gave him
strength in his right hand to slay that mighty warrior, and set
up the horn of his people.

Sir 47:6
So the people honoured him with ten thousands, and praised
him in the blessings of the Lord, in that he gave him a crown of
glory.

Sir 47:7
For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and brought to
nought the Philistines his adversaries, and brake their horn in
sunder unto this day.

Sir 47:8
In all his works he praised the Holy One most high with words
of glory; with his whole heart he sung songs, and loved him that
made him.

Sir 47:9
He set singers also before the altar, that by their voices
they might make sweet melody, and daily sing praises in their
songs.

Sir 47:10
He beautified their feasts, and set in order the solemn times
until the end, that they might praise his holy name, and that
the temple might sound from morning.

Sir 47:11
The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his horn for ever:
he gave him a covenant of kings, and a throne of glory in
Israel.

Sir 47:12
After him rose up a wise son, and for his sake he dwelt at
large.

Sir 47:13
Solomon reigned in a peaceable time, and was honoured; for
God made all quiet round about him, that he might build an house
in his name, and prepare his sanctuary for ever.

Sir 47:14
How wise wast thou in thy youth and, as a flood, filled with
understanding!

Sir 47:15
Thy soul covered the whole earth, and thou filledst it with
dark parables.

Sir 47:16
Thy name went far unto the islands; and for thy peace thou
wast beloved.

Sir 47:17
The countries marvelled at thee for thy songs, and proverbs,
and parables, and interpretations.

Sir 47:18
By the name of the Lord God, which is called the Lord God of
Israel, thou didst gather gold as tin and didst multiply silver
as lead.

Sir 47:19
Thou didst bow thy loins unto women, and by thy body thou
wast brought into subjection.

Sir 47:20
Thou didst stain thy honour, and pollute thy seed: so that
thou broughtest wrath upon thy children, and wast grieved for
thy folly.

Sir 47:21
So the kingdom was divided, and out of Ephraim ruled a
rebellious kingdom.

Sir 47:22
But the Lord will never leave off his mercy, neither shall
any of his works perish, neither will he abolish the posterity
of his elect, and the seed of him that loveth him he will not
take away: wherefore he gave a remnant unto Jacob, and out of
him a root unto David.

Sir 47:23
Thus rested Solomon with his fathers, and of his seed he left
behind him Roboam, even the foolishness of the people, and one
that had no understanding, who turned away the people through
his counsel. There was also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin:

Sir 47:24
And their sins were multiplied exceedingly, that they were
driven out of the land.

Sir 47:25
For they sought out all wickedness, till the vengeance came
upon them.

Sir 48:1
Then stood up Elias the prophet as fire, and his word burned
like a lamp.

Sir 48:2
He brought a sore famine upon them, and by his zeal he
diminished their number.

Sir 48:3
By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and also three
times brought down fire.

Sir 48:4
O Elias, how wast thou honoured in thy wondrous deeds! and
who may glory like unto thee!

Sir 48:5
Who didst raise up a dead man from death, and his soul from
the place of the dead, by the word of the most High:

Sir 48:6
Who broughtest kings to destruction, and honorable men from
their bed:

Sir 48:7
Who heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sinai, and in Horeb
the judgment of vengeance:

Sir 48:8
Who annointedst kings to take revenge, and prophets to
succeed after him:

Sir 48:9
Who was taken up in a whirlwind of fire, and in a chariot of
fiery horses:

Sir 48:10
Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the
wrath of the Lord's judgment, before it brake forth into fury,
and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore
the tribes of Jacob.

Sir 48:11
Blessed are they that saw thee, and slept in love; for we
shall surely live.

Sir 48:12
Elias it was, who was covered with a whirlwind: and Eliseus
was filled with his spirit: whilst he lived, he was not moved
with the presence of any prince, neither could any bring him
into subjection.

Sir 48:13
No word could overcome him; and after his death his body
prophesied.

Sir 48:14
He did wonders in his life, and at his death were his works
marvellous.

Sir 48:15
For all this the people repented not, neither departed they
from their sins, till they were spoiled and carried out of their
land, and were scattered through all the earth: yet there
remained a small people, and a ruler in the house of David:

Sir 48:16
Of whom some did that which was pleasing to God, and some
multiplied sins.

Sir 48:17
Ezekias fortified his city, and brought in water into the
midst thereof: he digged the hard rock with iron, and made wells
for waters.

Sir 48:18
In his time Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and
lifted up his hand against Sion, and boasted proudly.

Sir 48:19
Then trembled their hearts and hands, and they were in pain,
as women in travail.

Sir 48:20
But they called upon the Lord which is merciful, and
stretched out their hands toward him: and immediately the Holy
One heard them out of heaven, and delivered them by the ministry
of Esay.

Sir 48:21
He smote the host of the Assyrians, and his angel destroyed
them.

Sir 48:22
For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was
strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who
was great and faithful in his vision, had commanded him.

Sir 48:23
In his time the sun went backward, and he lengthened the
king's life.

Sir 48:24
He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at the
last, and he comforted them that mourned in Sion.

Sir 48:25
He shewed what should come to pass for ever, and secret
things or ever they came.

Sir 49:1
The remembrance of Josias is like the composition of the
perfume that is made by the art of the apothecary: it is sweet
as honey in all mouths, and as musick at a banquet of wine.

Sir 49:2
He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people,
and took away the abominations of iniquity.

Sir 49:3
He directed his heart unto the Lord, and in the time of the
ungodly he established the worship of God.

Sir 49:4
All, except David and Ezekias and Josias, were defective: for
they forsook the law of the most High, even the kings of Juda
failed.

Sir 49:5
Therefore he gave their power unto others, and their glory to
a strange nation.

Sir 49:6
They burnt the chosen city of the sanctuary, and made the
streets desolate, according to the prophecy of Jeremias.

Sir 49:7
For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was a prophet,
sanctified in his mother's womb, that he might root out, and
afflict, and destroy; and that he might build up also, and
plant.

Sir 49:8
It was Ezekiel who saw the glorious vision, which was shewed
him upon the chariot of the cherubims.

Sir 49:9
For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of the
rain, and directed them that went right.

Sir 49:10
And of the twelve prophets let the memorial be blessed, and
let their bones flourish again out of their place: for they
comforted Jacob, and delivered them by assured hope.

Sir 49:11
How shall we magnify Zorobabel? even he was as a signet on
the right hand:

Sir 49:12
So was Jesus the son of Josedec: who in their time builded
the house, and set up an holy temple to the Lord, which was
prepared for everlasting glory.

Sir 49:13
And among the elect was Neemias, whose renown is great, who
raised up for us the walls that were fallen, and set up the
gates and the bars, and raised up our ruins again.

Sir 49:14
But upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was
taken from the earth.

Sir 49:15
Neither was there a young man born like Joseph, a governor of
his brethren, a stay of the people, whose bones were regarded of
the Lord.

Sir 49:16
Sem and Seth were in great honour among men, and so was Adam
above every living thing in creation.

Sir 50:1
Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life
repaired the house again, and in his days fortified the temple:

Sir 50:2
And by him was built from the foundation the double height,
the high fortress of the wall about the temple:

Sir 50:3
In his days the cistern to receive water, being in compass as
the sea, was covered with plates of brass:

Sir 50:4
He took care of the temple that it should not fall, and
fortified the city against besieging:

Sir 50:5
How was he honoured in the midst of the people in his coming
out of the sanctuary!

Sir 50:6
He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as
the moon at the full:

Sir 50:7
As the sun shining upon the temple of the most High, and as
the rainbow giving light in the bright clouds:

Sir 50:8
And as the flower of roses in the spring of the year, as
lilies by the rivers of waters, and as the branches of the
frankincense tree in the time of summer:

Sir 50:9
As fire and incense in the censer, and as a vessel of beaten
gold set with all manner of precious stones:

Sir 50:10
And as a fair olive tree budding forth fruit, and as a
cypress tree which groweth up to the clouds.

Sir 50:11
When he put on the robe of honour, and was clothed with the
perfection of glory, when he went up to the holy altar, he made
the garment of holiness honourable.

Sir 50:12
When he took the portions out of the priests' hands, he
himself stood by the hearth of the altar, compassed about, as a
young cedar in Libanus; and as palm trees compassed they him
round about.

Sir 50:13
So were all the sons of Aaron in their glory, and the
oblations of the Lord in their hands, before all the
congregation of Israel.

Sir 50:14
And finishing the service at the altar, that he might adorn
the offering of the most high Almighty,

Sir 50:15
He stretched out his hand to the cup, and poured of the blood
of the grape, he poured out at the foot of the altar a
sweetsmelling savour unto the most high King of all.

Sir 50:16
Then shouted the sons of Aaron, and sounded the silver
trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard, for a remembrance
before the most High.

Sir 50:17
Then all the people together hasted, and fell down to the
earth upon their faces to worship their Lord God Almighty, the
most High.

Sir 50:18
The singers also sang praises with their voices, with great
variety of sounds was there made sweet melody.

Sir 50:19
And the people besought the Lord, the most High, by prayer
before him that is merciful, till the solemnity of the Lord was
ended, and they had finished his service.

Sir 50:20
Then he went down, and lifted up his hands over the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, to give the blessing of
the Lord with his lips, and to rejoice in his name.

Sir 50:21
And they bowed themselves down to worship the second time,
that they might receive a blessing from the most High.

Sir 50:22
Now therefore bless ye the God of all, which only doeth
wondrous things every where, which exalteth our days from the
womb, and dealeth with us according to his mercy.

Sir 50:23
He grant us joyfulness of heart, and that peace may be in our
days in Israel for ever:

Sir 50:24
That he would confirm his mercy with us, and deliver us at
his time!

Sir 50:25
There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth, and
the third is no nation:

Sir 50:26
They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria, and they that
dwell among the Philistines, and that foolish people that dwell
in Sichem.

Sir 50:27
Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem hath written in this
book the instruction of understanding and knowledge, who out of
his heart poured forth wisdom.

Sir 50:28
Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things; and he
that layeth them up in his heart shall become wise.

Sir 50:29
For if he do them, he shall be strong to all things: for the
light of the Lord leadeth him, who giveth wisdom to the godly.
Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever. Amen, Amen.

[A Prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach.]

Sir 51:1
I will thank thee, O Lord and King, and praise thee, O God my
Saviour: I do give praise unto thy name:

Sir 51:2
For thou art my defender and helper, and has preserved my
body from destruction, and from the snare of the slanderous
tongue, and from the lips that forge lies, and has been mine
helper against mine adversaries:

Sir 51:3
And hast delivered me, according to the multitude of they
mercies and greatness of thy name, from the teeth of them that
were ready to devour me, and out of the hands of such as sought
after my life, and from the manifold afflictions which I had;

Sir 51:4
From the choking of fire on every side, and from the midst of
the fire which I kindled not;

Sir 51:5
From the depth of the belly of hell, from an unclean tongue,
and from lying words.

Sir 51:6
By an accusation to the king from an unrighteous tongue my
soul drew near even unto death, my life was near to the hell
beneath.

Sir 51:7
They compassed me on every side, and there was no man to help
me: I looked for the succour of men, but there was none.

Sir 51:8
Then thought I upon thy mercy, O Lord, and upon thy acts of
old, how thou deliverest such as wait for thee, and savest them
out of the hands of the enemies.

Sir 51:9
Then lifted I up my supplications from the earth, and prayed
for deliverance from death.

Sir 51:10
I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, that he would
not leave me in the days of my trouble, and in the time of the
proud, when there was no help.

Sir 51:11
I will praise thy name continually, and will sing praises
with thanksgiving; and so my prayer was heard:

Sir 51:12
For thou savedst me from destruction, and deliveredst me from
the evil time: therefore will I give thanks, and praise thee,
and bless they name, O Lord.

Sir 51:13
When I was yet young, or ever I went abroad, I desired wisdom
openly in my prayer.

Sir 51:14
I prayed for her before the temple, and will seek her out
even to the end.

Sir 51:15
Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart
delighted in her: my foot went the right way, from my youth up
sought I after her.

Sir 51:16
I bowed down mine ear a little, and received her, and gat
much learning.

Sir 51:17
I profited therein, therefore will I ascribe glory unto him
that giveth me wisdom.

Sir 51:18
For I purposed to do after her, and earnestly I followed that
which is good; so shall I not be confounded.

Sir 51:19
My soul hath wrestled with her, and in my doings I was exact:
I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above,
and bewailed my ignorances of her.

Sir 51:20
I directed my soul unto her, and I found her in pureness:
I have had my heart joined with her from the beginning,
therefore shall I not be foresaken.

Sir 51:21
My heart was troubled in seeking her: therefore have I gotten
a good possession.

Sir 51:22
The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward,
and I will praise him therewith.

Sir 51:23
Draw near unto me, ye unlearned, and dwell in the house of learning.

Sir 51:24
Wherefore are ye slow, and what say ye to these things,
seeing your souls are very thirsty?

Sir 51:25
I opened my mouth, and said, Buy her for yourselves without money.

Sir 51:26
Put your neck under the yoke, and let your soul receive
instruction: she is hard at hand to find.

Sir 51:27
Behold with your eyes, how that I have but little labour, and
have gotten unto me much rest.

Sir 51:28
Get learning with a great sum of money, and get much gold by her.

Sir 51:29
Let your soul rejoice in his mercy, and be not ashamed of his praise.

Sir 51:30
Work your work betimes, and in his time he will give you your reward.




The Book of Baruch



Bar 1:1
And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of
Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of
Asadias, the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon,

Bar 1:2
In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what
time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.

Bar 1:3
And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of
Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda, and in the ears of
all the people that came to hear the book,

Bar 1:4
And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and
in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the
lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon
by the river Sud.

Bar 1:5
Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

Bar 1:6
They made also a collection of money according to every man's
power:

Bar 1:7
And they sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the high priest,
the son of Chelcias, son of Salom, and to the priests, and to
all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,

Bar 1:8
At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of
the Lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them
into the land of Juda, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely,
silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Jada
had made,

Bar 1:9
After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away
Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty
men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought
them unto Babylon.

Bar 1:10
And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you
burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye
manna, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;

Bar 1:11
And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and
for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon
earth as the days of heaven:

Bar 1:12
And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and
we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall
serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.

Bar 1:13
Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned
against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord
and his wrath is not turned from us.

Bar 1:14
And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to
make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and
solemn days.

Bar 1:15
And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongeth
righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come
to pass this day, unto them of Juda, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem,

Bar 1:16
And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and
to our prophets, and to our fathers:

Bar 1:17
For we have sinned before the Lord,

Bar 1:18
And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of
the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us
openly:

Bar 1:19
Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of
the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been
disobedient unto the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in
not hearing his voice.

Bar 1:20
Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the
Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought
our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that
floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.

Bar 1:21
Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord
our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he
sent unto us:

Bar 1:22
But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked
heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the
Lord our God.

Bar 2:1
Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he
pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged
Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and
against the men of Israel and Juda,

Bar 2:2
To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under
the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to
the things that were written in the law of Moses;

Bar 2:3
That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh
of his own daughter.

Bar 2:4
Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all
the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and
desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath
scattered them.

Bar 2:5
Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have
sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been obedient unto
his voice.

Bar 2:6
To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness: but unto us
and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day.

Bar 2:7
For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord hath
pronounced against us

Bar 2:8
Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn
every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.

Bar 2:9
Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord
hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his
works which he hath commanded us.

Bar 2:10
Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the
commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.

Bar 2:11
And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people
out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and
with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast
gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day:

Bar 2:12
O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have
dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances.

Bar 2:13
Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among
the heathen, where thou hast scattered us.

Bar 2:14
Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us
for thine own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them
which have led us away:

Bar 2:15
That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God,
because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name.

Bar 2:16
O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us: bow
down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us.

Bar 2:17
Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the
graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto
the Lord neither praise nor righteousness:

Bar 2:18
But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and
feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give
thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.

Bar 2:19
Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee,
O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our
kings.

Bar 2:20
For thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us, as
thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets, saying,

Bar 2:21
Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the
king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto
your fathers.

Bar 2:22
But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the
king of Babylon,

Bar 2:23
I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah, and from
without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the
whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants.

Bar 2:24
But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of
Babylon: therefore hast thou made good the words that thou
spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of
our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of
their place.

Bar 2:25
And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the
frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine,
by sword, and by pestilence.

Bar 2:26
And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid
waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the wickedness of the
house of Israel and the house of Juda.

Bar 2:27
O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy
goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine,

Bar 2:28
As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou
didst command him to write the law before the children of
Israel, saying,

Bar 2:29
If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great
multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations,
where I will scatter them.

Bar 2:30
For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a
stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they
shall remember themselves.

Bar 2:31
And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give
them an heart, and ears to hear:

Bar 2:32
And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and
think upon my name,

Bar 2:33
And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked
deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which
sinned before the Lord.

Bar 2:34
And I will bring them again into the land which I promised
with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and
they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they
shall not be diminished.

Bar 2:35
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their
God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my
people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.

Bar 3:1
O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the
troubled spirit, crieth unto thee.

Bar 3:2
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; ar thou art merciful: and have
pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee.

Bar 3:3
For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly.

Bar 3:4
O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of
the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned
before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God:
for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us.

Bar 3:5
Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think
upon thy power and thy name now at this time.

Bar 3:6
For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we
praise.

Bar 3:7
And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to
the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in
our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of
our forefathers, that sinned before thee.

Bar 3:8
Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast
scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to
payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which
departed from the Lord our God.

Bar 3:9
Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to
understand wisdom.

Bar 3:10
How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies'
land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou
art defiled with the dead,

Bar 3:11
That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?

Bar 3:12
Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.

Bar 3:13
For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest
have dwelled in peace for ever.

Bar 3:14
Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is
understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of
days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.

Bar 3:15
Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her
treasures ?

Bar 3:16
Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as
ruled the beasts upon the earth;

Bar 3:17
They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and
they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and
made no end of their getting?

Bar 3:18
For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and
whose works are unsearchable,

Bar 3:19
They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are
come up in their steads.

Bar 3:20
Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the
way of knowledge have they not known,

Bar 3:21
Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their
children were far off from that way.

Bar 3:22
It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been
seen in Theman.

Bar 3:23
The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of
Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of
understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or
remember her paths.

Bar 3:24
O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the
place of his possession!

Bar 3:25
Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.

Bar 3:26
There were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of
so great stature, and so expert in war.

Bar 3:27
Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of
knowledge unto them:

Bar 3:28
But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and
perished through their own foolishness.

Bar 3:29
Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her
down from the clouds?

Bar 3:30
Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her
for pure gold?

Bar 3:31
No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path.

Bar 3:32
But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found
her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for
evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts:

Bar 3:33
He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again,
and it obeyeth him with fear.

Bar 3:34
The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he
calleth them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness
they shewed light unto him that made them.

Bar 3:35
This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of
in comparison of him

Bar 3:36
He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it
unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.

Bar 3:37
Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with
men.

Bar 4:1
This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that
endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but
such as leave it shall die.

Bar 4:2
Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence
of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.

Bar 4:3
Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are
profitable unto thee to a strange nation.

Bar 4:4
O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God
are made known unto us.

Bar 4:5
Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.

Bar 4:6
Ye were sold to the nations, not for [your] destruction: but
because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the
enemies.

Bar 4:7
For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils,
and not to God.

Bar 4:8
Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up;
and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.

Bar 4:9
For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said,
Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me
great mourning;

Bar 4:10
For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the
Everlasting brought upon them.

Bar 4:11
With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping
and mourning.

Bar 4:12
Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many,
who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they
departed from the law of God.

Bar 4:13
They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his
commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his
righteousness.

Bar 4:14
Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the
captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath
brought upon them.

Bar 4:15
For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless
nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old
man, nor pitied child.

Bar 4:16
These have carried away the dear beloved children of the
widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.

Bar 4:17
But what can I help you?

Bar 4:18
For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you
from the hands of your enemies.

Bar 4:19
Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left
desolate.

Bar 4:20
I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the
sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry unto the Everlasting in my
days.

Bar 4:21
Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the Lord, and he
will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.

Bar 4:22
For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and
joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy
which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour.

Bar 4:23
For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will
give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.

Bar 4:24
Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity:
so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which
shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the
Everlasting.

Bar 4:25
My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you
from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou
shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.

Bar 4:26
My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as
a flock caught of the enemies.

Bar 4:27
Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye
shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you.

Bar 4:28
For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being
returned, seek him ten times more.

Bar 4:29
For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring
you everlasting joy with your salvation.

Bar 4:30
Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that
name will comfort thee.

Bar 4:31
Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy
fall.

Bar 4:32
Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable
is she that received thy sons.

Bar 4:33
For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so
shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

Bar 4:34
For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude,
and her pride shall be turned into mourning.

Bar 4:35
For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to
endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.

Bar 4:36
O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the
joy that cometh unto thee from God.

Bar 4:37
Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered
together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One,
rejoicing in the glory of God.

Bar 5:1
Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and
affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh
from God for ever.

Bar 5:2
Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which
cometh from God; and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of
the Everlasting.

Bar 5:3
For God will shew thy brightness unto every country under
heaven.

Bar 5:4
For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of
righteousness, and The glory of God's worship.

Bar 5:5
Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward
the east, and behold thy children gathered from the west unto
the east by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the
remembrance of God.

Bar 5:6
For they departed from thee on foot, and were led away of
their enemies: but God bringeth them unto thee exalted with
glory, as children of the kingdom.

Bar 5:7
For God hath appointed that every high hill, and banks of
long continuance, should be cast down, and valleys filled up, to
make even the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of
God,

Bar 5:8
Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall
overshadow Israel by the commandment of God.

Bar 5:9
For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory
with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him.




The Epistle [or Letter] of Jeremiah [Jeremy]
[The Epistle of Jeremy [sometimes Chapter Six of Baruch]]


EpJer 6:1
A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto them which were
to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians,
to certify them, as it was commanded him of God.

EpJer 6:2
Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye
shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king
of the Babylonians.

EpJer 6:3
So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many
years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and
after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

EpJer 6:4
Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and
of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.

EpJer 6:5
Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers,
neither be ye and of them, when ye see the multitude before them
and behind them, worshipping them.

EpJer 6:6
But say ye in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship thee.

EpJer 6:7
For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your
souls.

EpJer 6:8
As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they
themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they
but false, and cannot speak.

EpJer 6:9
And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go
gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.

EpJer 6:10
Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and
silver, and bestow it upon themselves.

EpJer 6:11
Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck
them as men with garments, [being] gods of silver, and gods of
gold, and wood.

EpJer 6:12
Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth,
though they be covered with purple raiment.

EpJer 6:13
They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, when
there is much upon them.

EpJer 6:14
And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him
holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country.

EpJer 6:15
He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an ax: but cannot
deliver himself from war and thieves.

EpJer 6:16
Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them
not.

EpJer 6:17
For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when
it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up
in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of
them that come in.

EpJer 6:18
And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that
offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: even so
the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and
bars, lest their gods be spoiled with robbers.

EpJer 6:19
They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves,
whereof they cannot see one.

EpJer 6:20
They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say
their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the
earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it
not.

EpJer 6:21
Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of
the temple.

EpJer 6:22
Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds,
and the cats also.

EpJer 6:23
By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear
them not.

EpJer 6:24
Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them
beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine:
for neither when they were molten did they feel it.

EpJer 6:25
The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most
high price.

EpJer 6:26
They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they
declare unto men that they be nothing worth.

EpJer 6:27
They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to
the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves:
neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves:
neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves
straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men.

EpJer 6:28
As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their
priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part
thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give
nothing of it.

EpJer 6:29
Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices:
by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them
not.

EpJer 6:30
For how can they be called gods? because women set meat
before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

EpJer 6:31
And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes
rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their
heads.

EpJer 6:32
They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast
when one is dead.

EpJer 6:33
The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their
wives and children.

EpJer 6:34
Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they
are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king,
nor put him down.

EpJer 6:35
In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money:
though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will
not require it.

EpJer 6:36
They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak
from the mighty.

EpJer 6:37
They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any
man in his distress.

EpJer 6:38
They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the
fatherless.

EpJer 6:39
Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and
silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain:
they that worship them shall be confounded.

EpJer 6:40
How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when
even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?

EpJer 6:41
Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring
him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able
to understand.

EpJer 6:42
Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them:
for they have no knowledge.

EpJer 6:43
The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways,
burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that
passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she
was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.

EpJer 6:44
Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be
thought or said that they are gods?

EpJer 6:45
They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be
nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

EpJer 6:46
And they themselves that made them can never continue long;
how should then the things that are made of them be gods?

EpJer 6:47
For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.

EpJer 6:48
For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the
priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with
them.

EpJer 6:49
How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can
neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?

EpJer 6:50
For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and
gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:

EpJer 6:51
And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that
they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, and that there
is no work of God in them.

EpJer 6:52
Who then may not know that they are no gods?

EpJer 6:53
For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain
unto men.

EpJer 6:54
Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong,
being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

EpJer 6:55
Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood,
or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away,
and escape; but they themselves shall be burned asunder like
beams.

EpJer 6:56
Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can
it then be thought or said that they be gods?

EpJer 6:57
Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or
gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

EpJer 6:58
Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are
clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither
are they able to help themselves.

EpJer 6:59
Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power,
or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall
have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house,
to keep such things therein, than such false gods. or a pillar
of wood in a a palace, than such false gods.

EpJer 6:60
For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their
offices, are obedient.

EpJer 6:61
In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy
to be seen; and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every
country.

EpJer 6:62
And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole
world, they do as they are bidden.

EpJer 6:63
And the fire sent from above to consume hills and woods doeth
as it is commanded: but these are like unto them neither in shew
nor power.

EpJer 6:64
Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are
gods, seeing, they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do
good unto men.

EpJer 6:65
Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not,

EpJer 6:66
For they can neither curse nor bless kings:

EpJer 6:67
Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen,
nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.

EpJer 6:68
The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a
cover and help themselves.

EpJer 6:69
It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods:
therefore fear them not.

EpJer 6:70
For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing:
so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.

EpJer 6:71
And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver
and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every
bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is east into the
dark.

EpJer 6:72
And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple
that rotteth upon then1: and they themselves afterward shall be
eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.

EpJer 6:73
Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he
shall be far from reproach.




The Book of Susanna  [in Daniel]
[The History of Susanna [in Daniel]]

Set apart from the beginning of Daniel, because it is not in
the Hebrew, as neither the Narration of Bel and the Dragon.


Sus 1:1
There dwelt a man in Babylon, called Joacim:

Sus 1:2
And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of
Chelcias, a very fair woman, and one that feared the Lord.

Sus 1:3
Her parents also were righteous, and taught their daughter
according to the law of Moses.

Sus 1:4
Now Joacim was a great rich man, and had a fair garden
joining unto his house: and to him resorted the Jews; because he
was more honourable than all others.

Sus 1:5
The same year were appointed two of the ancients of the
people to be judges, such as the Lord spake of, that wickedness
came from Babylon from ancient judges, who seemed to govern the
people.

Sus 1:6
These kept much at Joacim's house: and all that had any suits
in law came unto them.

Sus 1:7
Now when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went into
her husband's garden to walk.

Sus 1:8
And the two elders saw her going in every day, and walking;
so that their lust was inflamed toward her.

Sus 1:9
And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their
eyes, that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just
judgments.

Sus 1:10
And albeit they both were wounded with her love, yet durst
not one shew another his grief.

Sus 1:11
For they were ashamed to declare their lust, that they
desired to have to do with her.

Sus 1:12
Yet they watched diligently from day to day to see her.

Sus 1:13
And the one said to the other, Let us now go home: for it is
dinner time.

Sus 1:14
So when they were gone out, they parted the one from the
other, and turning back again they came to the same place; and
after that they had asked one another the cause, they
acknowledged their lust: then appointed they a time both
together, when they might find her alone.

Sus 1:15
And it fell out, as they watched a fit time, she went in as
before with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself
in the garden: for it was hot.

Sus 1:16
And there was no body there save the two elders, that had hid
themselves, and watched her.

Sus 1:17
Then she said to her maids, Bring me oil and washing balls,
and shut the garden doors, that I may wash me.

Sus 1:18
And they did as she bade them, and shut the garden doors, and
went out themselves at privy doors to fetch the things that she
had commanded them: but they saw not the elders, because they
were hid.

Sus 1:19
Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders rose up,
and ran unto her, saying,

Sus 1:20
Behold, the garden doors are shut, that no man can see us,
and we are in love with thee; therefore consent unto us, and lie
with us.

Sus 1:21
If thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a
young man was with thee: and therefore thou didst send away thy
maids from thee.

Sus 1:22
Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side:
for if I do this thing, it is death unto me: and if I do it not
I cannot escape your hands.

Sus 1:23
It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it,
than to sin in the sight of the Lord.

Sus 1:24
With that Susanna cried with a loud voice: and the two elders
cried out against her.

Sus 1:25
Then ran the one, and opened the garden door.

Sus 1:26
So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the
garden, they rushed in at the privy door, to see what was done
unto her.

Sus 1:27
But when the elders had declared their matter, the servants
were greatly ashamed: for there was never such a report made of
Susanna.

Sus 1:28
And it came to pass the next day, when the people were
assembled to her husband Joacim, the two elders came also full
of mischievous imagination against Susanna to put her to death;

Sus 1:29
And said before the people, Send for Susanna, the daughter of
Chelcias, Joacim's wife. And so they sent.

Sus 1:30
So she came with her father and mother, her children, and all
her kindred.

Sus 1:31
Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to
behold.

Sus 1:32
And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face, (for she
was covered) that they might be filled with her beauty.

Sus 1:33
Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept.

Sus 1:34
Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people, and
laid their hands upon her head.

Sus 1:35
And she weeping looked up toward heaven: for her heart
trusted in the Lord.

Sus 1:36
And the elders said, As we walked in the garden alone, this
woman came in with two maids, and shut the garden doors, and
sent the maids away.

Sus 1:37
Then a young man, who there was hid, came unto her, and lay
with her.

Sus 1:38
Then we that stood in a corner of the garden, seeing this
wickedness, ran unto them.

Sus 1:39
And when we saw them together, the man we could not hold: for
he was stronger than we, and opened the door, and leaped out.

Sus 1:40
But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was,
but she would not tell us: these things do we testify.

Sus 1:41
Then the assembly believed them as those that were the elders
and judges of the people: so they condemned her to death.

Sus 1:42
Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, O
everlasting God, that knowest the secrets, and knowest all
things before they be:

Sus 1:43
Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me,
and, behold, I must die; whereas I never did such things as
these men have maliciously invented against me.

Sus 1:44
And the Lord heard her voice.

Sus 1:45
Therefore when she was led to be put to death, the Lord
raised up the holy spirit of a young youth whose name was
Daniel:

Sus 1:46
Who cried with a loud voice, I am clear from the blood of
this woman.

Sus 1:47
Then all the people turned them toward him, and said, What
mean these words that thou hast spoken?

Sus 1:48
So he standing in the midst of them said, Are ye such fools,
ye sons of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the
truth ye have condemned a daughter of Israel?

Sus 1:49
Return again to the place of judgment: for they have borne
false witness against her.

Sus 1:50
Wherefore all the people turned again in haste, and the
elders said unto him, Come, sit down among us, and shew it us,
seeing God hath given thee the honour of an elder.

Sus 1:51
Then said Daniel unto them, Put these two aside one far from
another, and I will examine them.

Sus 1:52
So when they were put asunder one from another, he called one
of them, and said unto him, O thou that art waxen old in
wickedness, now thy sins which thou hast committed aforetime are
come to light.

Sus 1:53
For thou hast pronounced false judgment and hast condemned
the innocent and hast let the guilty go free; albeit the Lord
saith, The innocent and righteous shalt thou not slay.

Sus 1:54
Now then, if thou hast seen her, tell me, Under what tree
sawest thou them companying together? Who answered, Under a
mastick tree.

Sus 1:55
And Daniel said, Very well; thou hast lied against thine own
head; for even now the angel of God hath received the sentence
of God to cut thee in two.

Sus 1:56
So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the other, and
said unto him, O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty
hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thine heart.

Sus 1:57
Thus have ye dealt with the daughters of Israel, and they for
fear companied with you: but the daughter of Juda would not
abide your wickedness.

Sus 1:58
Now therefore tell me, Under what tree didst thou take them
companying together? Who answered, Under an holm tree.

Sus 1:59
Then said Daniel unto him, Well; thou hast also lied against
thine own head: for the angel of God waiteth with the sword to
cut thee in two, that he may destroy you.

Sus 1:60
With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and
praised God, who saveth them that trust in him.

Sus 1:61
And they arose against the two elders, for Daniel had
convicted them of false witness by their own mouth:

Sus 1:62
And according to the law of Moses they did unto them in such
sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbour: and
they put them to death. Thus the innocent blood was saved the
same day.

Sus 1:63
Therefore Chelcias and his wife praised God for their
daughter Susanna, with Joacim her husband, and all the kindred,
because there was no dishonesty found in her.

Sus 1:64
From that day forth was Daniel had in great reputation in the
sight of the people.




The Prayer of Azariah



PrAzar 1
And they walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and
blessing the Lord.

PrAzar 2
Then Azarias stood up, and prayed on this manner; and opening
his mouth in the midst of the fire said,

PrAzar 3
Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: thy name is
worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore:

PrAzar 4
For thou art righteous in all the things that thou hast done
to us: yea, true are all thy works, thy ways are right, and all
thy judgments truth.

PrAzar 5
In all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon
the holy city of our fathers, even Jerusalem, thou hast executed
true judgment: for according to truth and judgment didst thou
bring all these things upon us because of our sins.

PrAzar 6
For we have sinned and committed iniquity, departing from
thee.

PrAzar 7
In all things have we trespassed, and not obeyed thy
commandments, nor kept them, neither done as thou hast commanded
us, that it might go well with us.

PrAzar 8
Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing
that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment.

PrAzar 9
And thou didst deliver us into the hands of lawless enemies,
most hateful forsakers of God, and to an unjust king, and the
most wicked in all the world.

PrAzar 10
And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and
reproach to thy servants; and to them that worship thee.

PrAzar 11
Yet deliver us not up wholly, for thy name's sake, neither
disannul thou thy covenant:

PrAzar 12
And cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved
Abraham's sake, for thy servant Issac's sake, and for thy holy
Israel's sake;

PrAzar 13
To whom thou hast spoken and promised, that thou wouldest
multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that
lieth upon the seashore.

PrAzar 14
For we, O Lord, are become less than any nation, and be kept
under this day in all the world because of our sins.

PrAzar 15
Neither is there at this time prince, or prophet, or leader,
or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or
place to sacrifice before thee, and to find mercy.

PrAzar 16
Nevertheless in a contrite heart and an humble spirit let us
be accepted.

PrAzar 17
Like as in the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like
as in ten thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be in thy
sight this day, and grant that we may wholly go after thee: for
they shall not be confounded that put their trust in thee.

PrAzar 18
And now we follow thee with all our heart, we fear thee, and
seek thy face.

PrAzar 19
Put us not to shame: but deal with us after thy
lovingkindness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.

PrAzar 20
Deliver us also according to thy marvellous works, and give
glory to thy name, O Lord: and let all them that do thy servants
hurt be ashamed;

PrAzar 21
And let them be confounded in all their power and might, and
let their strength be broken;

PrAzar 22
And let them know that thou art God, the only God, and
glorious over the whole world.

PrAzar 23
And the king's servants, that put them in, ceased not to make
the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;

PrAzar 24
So that the flame streamed forth above the furnace forty and
nine cubits.

PrAzar 25
And it passed through, and burned those Chaldeans it found
about the furnace.

PrAzar 26
But the angel of the Lord came down into the oven together
with Azarias and his fellows, and smote the flame of the fire
out of the oven;

PrAzar 27
And made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist
whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all,
neither hurt nor troubled them.

PrAzar 28
Then the three, as out of one mouth, praised, glorified, and
blessed, God in the furnace, saying,

PrAzar 29
Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: and to be
praised and exalted above all for ever.

PrAzar 30
And blessed is thy glorious and holy name: and to be praised
and exalted above all for ever.

PrAzar 31
Blessed art thou in the temple of thine holy glory: and to be
praised and glorified above all for ever.

PrAzar 32
Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon
the cherubims: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

PrAzar 33
Blessed art thou on the glorious throne of thy kingdom: and
to be praised and glorified above all for ever.

PrAzar 34
Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and above ail to
be praised and glorified for ever.

PrAzar 35
O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord : praise and
exalt him above all for ever,

PrAzar 36
O ye heavens, bless ye the Lord : praise and exalt him above
all for ever.

PrAzar 37
O ye angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

PrAzar 38
O all ye waters that be above the heaven, bless ye the Lord:
praise and exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 39
O all ye powers of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 40
O ye sun and moon, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

PrAzar 41
O ye stars of heaven, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

PrAzar 42
O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

PrAzar 43
O all ye winds, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above
all for ever,

PrAzar 44
O ye fire and heat, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

PrAzar 45
O ye winter and summer, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

PrAzar 46
0 ye dews and storms of snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 47
O ye nights and days, bless ye the Lord: bless and exalt him
above all for ever.

PrAzar 48
O ye light and darkness, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

PrAzar 49
O ye ice and cold, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

PrAzar 50
O ye frost and snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

PrAzar 51
O ye lightnings and clouds, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 52
O let the earth bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above
all for ever.

PrAzar 53
O ye mountains and little hills, bless ye the Lord: praise
and exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 54
O all ye things that grow in the earth, bless ye the Lord:
praise and exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 55
O ye mountains, bless ye the Lord: Praise and exalt him above
all for ever.

PrAzar 56
O ye seas and rivers, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

PrAzar 57
O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless ye the
Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 58
O all ye fowls of the air, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 59
O all ye beasts and cattle, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 60
O ye children of men, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

PrAzar 61
O Israel, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all
for ever.

PrAzar 62
O ye priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

PrAzar 63
O ye servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 64
O ye spirits and souls of the righteous, bless ye the Lord:
praise and exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 65
O ye holy and humble men of heart, bless ye the Lord: praise
and exalt him above all for ever.

PrAzar 66
O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever: far he hath delivered us from
hell, and saved us from the hand of death, and delivered us out
of the midst of the furnace and burning flame: even out of the
midst of the fire hath he delivered us.

PrAzar 67
O give thanks unto the Lord, because he is gracious: for his
mercy endureth for ever.

PrAzar 68
O all ye that worship the Lord, bless the God of gods, praise
him, and give him thanks: for his mercy endureth for ever.




The Prayer of Manasseh
[The Prayer of Manasses King of Judah]



PrMan 1
O Lord, Almighty God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and of their righteous seed; who hast made heaven and
earth, with all the ornament thereof; who hast bound the sea by
the word of thy commandment; who hast shut up the deep, and
sealed it by thy terrible and glorious name; whom all men fear,
and tremble before thy power; for the majesty of thy glory
cannot be borne, and thine angry threatening toward sinners is
importable: but thy merciful promise is unmeasurable and
unsearchable; for thou art the most high Lord, of great
compassion, longsuffering, very merciful, and repentest of the
evils of men. Thou, O Lord, according to thy great goodness hast
promised repentance and forgiveness to them that have sinned
against thee: and of thine infinite mercies hast appointed
repentance unto sinners, that they may be saved. Thou therefore,
O Lord, that art the God of the just, hast not appointed
repentance to the just, as to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,
which have not sinned against thee; but thou hast appointed
repentance unto me that am a sinner: for I have sinned above the
number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions, O Lord, are
multiplied: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not
worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude
of mine iniquities. I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I
cannot life up mine head, neither have any release: for I have
provoked thy wrath, and done evil before thee: I did not thy
will, neither kept I thy commandments: I have set up
abominations, and have multiplied offences. Now therefore I bow
the knee of mine heart, beseeching thee of grace. I have sinned,
O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge mine iniquities:
wherefore, I humbly beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive
me, and destroy me not with mine iniquites. Be not angry with me
for ever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me to the
lower parts of the earth. For thou art the God, even the God of
them that repent; and in me thou wilt shew all thy goodness: for
thou wilt save me, that am unworthy, according to thy great
mercy. Therefore I will praise thee for ever all the days of my
life: for all the powers of the heavens do praise thee, and
thine is the glory for ever and ever. Amen.



The Book of Bel and the Dragon [in Daniel]
[The History of the Destruction of Bel and the Dragon]

The History of the Destruction of Bel and the Dragon,
Cut off from the end of Daniel.


Bel 1:1
And king Astyages was gathered to his fathers, and Cyrus of
Persia received his kingdom.

Bel 1:2
And Daniel conversed with the king, and was honoured above
all his friends.

Bel 1:3
Now the Babylons had an idol, called Bel, and there were
spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour,
and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.

Bel 1:4
And the king worshipped it and went daily to adore it: but
Daniel worshipped his own God. And the king said unto him, Why
dost not thou worship Bel?

Bel 1:5
Who answered and said, Because I may not worship idols made
with hands, but the living God, who hath created the heaven and
the earth, and hath sovereignty over all flesh.

Bel 1:6
Then said the king unto him, Thinkest thou not that Bel is a
living God? seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every
day?

Bel 1:7
Then Daniel smiled, and said, O king, be not deceived: for
this is but clay within, and brass without, and did never eat or
drink any thing.

Bel 1:8
So the king was wroth, and called for his priests, and said
unto them, If ye tell me not who this is that devoureth these
expences, ye shall die.

Bel 1:9
But if ye can certify me that Bel devoureth them, then
Daniel shall die: for he hath spoken blasphemy against Bel. And
Daniel said unto the king, Let it be according to thy word.

Bel 1:10
Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten, beside
their wives and children. And the king went with Daniel into the
temple of Bel.

Bel 1:11
So Bel's priests said, Lo, we go out: but thou, O king, set
on the meat, and make ready the wine, and shut the door fast and
seal it with thine own signet;

Bel 1:12
And to morrow when thou comest in, if thou findest not that

Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel,
that speaketh falsely against us.

Bel 1:13
And they little regarded it: for under the table they had
made a privy entrance, whereby they entered in continually, and
consumed those things.

Bel 1:14
So when they were gone forth, the king set meats before
Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes, and
those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of
the king alone: then went they out, and shut the door, and
sealed it with the king's signet, and so departed.

Bel 1:15
Now in the night came the priests with their wives and
children, as they were wont to do, and did eat and drinck up
all.

Bel 1:16
In the morning betime the king arose, and Daniel with him.

Bel 1:17
And the king said, Daniel, are the seals whole? And he
said, Yea, O king, they be whole.

Bel 1:18
And as soon as he had opened the dour, the king looked upon
the table, and cried with a loud voice, Great art thou, O Bel,
and with thee is no deceit at all.

Bel 1:19
Then laughed Daniel, and held the king that he should not
go in, and said, Behold now the pavement, and mark well whose
footsteps are these.

Bel 1:20
And the king said, I see the footsteps of men, women, and
children. And then the king was angry,

Bel 1:21
And took the priests with their wives and children, who
shewed him the privy doors, where they came in, and consumed
such things as were upon the table.

Bel 1:22
Therefore the king slew them, and delivered Bel into
Daniel's power, who destroyed him and his temple.

Bel 1:23
And in that same place there was a great dragon, which they
of Babylon worshipped.

Bel 1:24
And the king said unto Daniel, Wilt thou also say that this
is of brass? lo, he liveth, he eateth and drinketh; thou canst
not say that he is no living god: therefore worship him.

Bel 1:25
Then said Daniel unto the king, I will worship the Lord my
God: for he is the living God.

Bel 1:26
But give me leave, O king, and I shall slay this dragon
without sword or staff. The king said, I give thee leave.

Bel 1:27
Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe
them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the
dragon's mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder : and Daniel
said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.

Bel 1:28
When they of Babylon heard that, they took great
indignation, and conspired against the king, saying, The king is
become a Jew, and he hath destroyed Bel, he hath slain the
dragon, and put the priests to death.

Bel 1:29
So they came to the king, and said, Deliver us Daniel, or
else we will destroy thee and thine house.

Bel 1:30
Now when the king saw that they pressed him sore, being
constrained, he delivered Daniel unto them:

Bel 1:31
Who cast him into the lions' den: where he was six days.

Bel 1:32
And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given
them every day two carcases, and two sheep: which then were not
given to them, to the intent they might devour Daniel.

Bel 1:33
Now there was in Jewry a prophet, called Habbacuc, who had
made pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl, and was going into
the field, for to bring it to the reapers.

Bel 1:34
But the angel of the Lord said unto Habbacuc, Go, carry the
dinner that thou hast into Babylon unto Daniel, who is in the
lions' den.

Bel 1:35
And Habbacuc said, Lord, I never saw Babylon; neither do I
know where the den is.

Bel 1:36
Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown, and bare
him by the hair of his head, and through the vehemency of his
spirit set him in Babylon over the den.

Bel 1:37
And Habbacuc cried, saying, O Daniel, Daniel, take the
dinner which God hath sent thee.

Bel 1:38
And Daniel said, Thou hast remembered me, O God: neither
hast thou forsaken them that seek thee and love thee.

Bel 1:39
So Daniel arose, and did eat: and the angel of the Lord set
Habbacuc in his own place again immediately.

Bel 1:40
Upon the seventh day the king went to bewail Daniel:
and when he came to the den, he looked in, and behold,
Daniel was sitting.

Bel 1:41
Then cried the king with a loud voice, saying, Great art
Lord God of Daniel, and there is none other beside thee.

Bel 1:42
And he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of
his destruction into the den: and they were devoured
in a moment before his face.





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