Sirach 38
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| 1 | Honour a Phisitian with the honour due vnto him, for the vses which you may haue of him: for the Lord hath created him. |
| 2 | For of the most High commeth healing, and he shall receiue honour of the King. |
| 3 | The skill of the Phisitian shall lift vp his head: and in the sight of great men he shalbe in admiration. |
| 4 | The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhorre them. |
| 5 | Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the vertue thereof might be knowen? |
| 6 | And he hath giuen men skill, that hee might be honoured in his marueilous workes. |
| 7 | With such doeth he heale and taketh away their paines. |
| 8 | Of such doeth the Apothecarie make a confection; and of his workes there is no end, and from him is peace ouer all the earth. |
| 9 | My sonne, in thy sickenesse be not negligent: but pray vnto the Lord, and he will make thee whole. |
| 10 | Leaue off from sinne, and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickednesse. |
| 11 | Giue a sweet sauour, and a memoriall of fine flowre: and make a fat offering, as not being. |
| 12 | Then giue place to the phisitian, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him. |
| 13 | There is a time when in their hands there is good successe. |
| 14 | For they shall also pray vnto the Lord, that hee would prosper that, which they giue, for ease and remedy to prolong life. |
| 15 | He that sinneth before his maker, let him fal into the hand of the Phisitian. |
| 16 | My sonne, let teares fall downe ouer the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harme thy selfe: and then couer his body according to the custome, & neglect not his buriall. |
| 17 | Weepe bitterly, and make great moane, and vse lamentation, as hee is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be euill spoken of: and then comfort thy selfe for thy heauinesse. |
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| 18 | For of heauinesse commeth death, and the heauinesse of the heart, breaketh strength. |
| 19 | In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poore, is the curse of the heart. |
| 20 | Take no heauines to heart: driue it away, and remember the last end. |
| 21 | Forget it not, for there is no turning againe: thou shalt not doe him good, but hurt thy selfe. |
| 22 | Remember my iudgement: for thine also shall be so; yesterday for me, and to day for thee. |
| 23 | When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, & be comforted for him, when his spirit is departed from him. |
| 24 | The wisedome of a learned man cōmeth by opportunitie of leasure: & he that hath litle busines shal become wise. |
| 25 | How can he get wisdome that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driueth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talke is of bullocks? |
| 26 | He giueth his minde to make furrowes: and is diligent to giue the kine fodder. |
| 27 | So euery carpenter, and workemaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and graue seales, and are diligent to make great variety, and giue themselues to counterfait imagerie, and watch to finish a worke. |
| 28 | The smith also sitting by the anuill, & considering the iron worke; the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer & the anuill is euer in his eares, and his eies looke still vpon the patterne of the thing that he maketh, he setteth his mind to finish his worke, & watcheth to polish it perfitly. |
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| 29 | So doeth the potter sitting at his worke, and turning the wheele about with his feet, who is alway carefully set at his worke: and maketh all his worke by number. |
| 30 | He fashioneth the clay with his arme, and boweth downe his strength before his feet: he applieth himselfe to lead it ouer; and he is diligent to make cleane the furnace. |
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| 31 | All these trust to their hands: and euery one is wise in his worke. |
| 32 | Without these cannot a citie be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor goe vp and downe. |
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| 33 | They shall not be sought for in publike counsaile; nor sit high in the congregation: they shal not sit on the Iudges seate, nor vnderstand the sentence of iudgement: they cannot declare iustice, and iudgement, and they shall not be found where parables are spoken. |
| 34 | But they will maintaine the state of the world, and their desire is in the worke of their craft. |