Sirach 22
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| 1 | A slouthful man is compared to a filthy stone, and euery one will hisse him out to his disgrace. |
| 2 | A slouthfull man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: euery man that takes it vp, will shake his hand. |
| 3 | An euill nurtured sonne is the dishonour of his father that begate him: and a daughter is borne to his losse. |
| 4 | A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but shee that liueth dishonestly, is her fathers heauinesse. |
| 5 | Shee that is bold, dishonoureth both her father and her husband, but they both shall despise her. |
| 6 | A tale out of season musick in mourning: but stripes and correction of wisedome are neuer out of time. |
| 7 | Who so teacheth a foole, is as one that gleweth a potsheard together, and as hee that waketh one from a sound sleepe. |
| 8 | Hee that telleth a tale to a foole, speaketh to one in a slumber: when hee hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter? |
| 9 | If children liue honestly, and haue wherwithall, they shall couer the basenesse of their parents. |
| 10 | But children being haughtie through disdaine, and want of nurture, doe staine the nobilitie of their kinred. |
| 11 | Weepe for the dead, for hee hath lost the light: and weepe for the foole, for he wanteth vnderstanding: make litle weeping for the dead, for hee is at rest: but the life of the foole is worse then death. |
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| 12 | Seuen dayes doe men mourne for him that is dead; but for a foole, and an vngodly man, all the dayes of his life. |
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| 13 | Talke not much with a foole, and goe not to him that hath no vnderstanding, beware of him lest thou haue trouble, and thou shalt neuer be defiled with his fooleries: depart from him, and thou shalt find rest, and neuer bee disquieted with madnesse. |
| 14 | What is heauier then lead? and what is the name thereof, but a foole? |
| 15 | Sand, and salt, and a masse of yron is easier to beare then a man without vnderstanding. |
| 16 | As timber girt and bound together in a building, cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by aduised counsel, shal feare at no time. |
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| 17 | A heart setled vpon a thought of vnderstanding, is as a faire plaistering on the wall of a gallerie. |
| 18 | Pales set on an high place will neuer stand against the wind: so a feareful heart in the imagination of a foole, can not stand against any feare. |
| 19 | He that pricketh the eye, wil make teares to fall: and he that pricketh the heart, maketh it to shewe her knowledge. |
| 20 | Who so casteth a stone at the birds, frayeth them away, and he that vpbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship. |
| 21 | Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despaire not, for there way be a returning (to fauour.) |
| 22 | If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, feare not, for there may be a reconciliation: except for vpbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound, for, for these things euery friend will depart. |
| 23 | Be faithfull to thy neighbour in his pouertie, that thou mayest reioyce in his prosperitie: abide stedfast vnto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest bee heire with him in his heritage: for a meane estate is not alwayes to be contemned, nor the rich that is foolish, to be had in admiration. |
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| 24 | As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire: so reuiling before blood. |
| 25 | I will not be ashamed to defend a friend: neither will I hide my selfe from him. |
| 26 | And if any euill happen vnto me by him, euery one that heareth it will beware of him. |
| 27 | Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seale of wisedome vpon my lippes, that I fall not suddenly by them, & that my tongue destroy me not? |