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Wisdom of Sirach 42

ΣΟΦΙΑ ΣΕΙΡΑΧ · 42

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25 Brenton verses

Brenton 42:1

Of these things be not thou ashamed, and accept no person to sin thereby:

Brenton 42:2

of the law of the most High, and his covenant; and of judgment to justify the ungodly;

Brenton 42:3

of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift of the heritage of friends;

Brenton 42:4

of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or little;

Brenton 42:5

and of merchants' indifferent selling; of much correction of children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.

Brenton 42:6

Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and locked up, where many hands are.

Brenton 42:7

Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.

Brenton 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.

Brenton 42:9

A daughter is a wakeful care to a father; 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:

Brenton 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.

Brenton 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.

Brenton 42:12

Behold not everybody's beauty, and sit not in the midst of women.

Brenton 42:13

For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness.

Brenton 42:14

Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

Brenton 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.

Brenton 42:16

The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.

Brenton 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.

Brenton 42:18

He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth their crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that can be known, and he beholdeth the signs of the world,

Brenton 42:19

declaring the things that are past, and for to come, and revealing the steps of hidden things.

Brenton 42:20

No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him.

Brenton 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.

Brenton 42:22

Oh how desirable are all his works! and that a man may see even to a spark.

Brenton 42:23

All these things live and remain for ever for all uses, and they are all obedient.

Brenton 42:24

All things are double one against another: and he hath made nothing imperfect.

Brenton 42:25

One thing establisheth the good of another: and who shall be filled with beholding his glory?

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