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1  1:1. All wisdom is from the Lord God, and hath been always with him, and is before all time.
2 …nd of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of the world? Who hath measured the height of h…
4 …1:4. Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlastin…
5  1:5. The word of God on high is the fountain of wisdom, and her ways are everlasting commandments.
6  1:6. To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed, and who hath known her wise counsels?
7 …1:7. To whom hath the discipline of wisdom been revealed and made manifest? and who hath understoo…
8 …e is one most high Creator Almighty, and a powerful king, and greatly to be feared, who sitteth up…
9  1:9. He created her in the Holy Ghost, and saw her, and numbered her, and measured her.
10 …1:10. And he poured her out upon all his works, and upon all flesh according to his gift, and hath…
11  1:11. The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and a crown of joy.
12 …1:12. The fear of the Lord shall delight the heart, and shall give joy, and gladness, and length o…
13 …1:13. With him that feareth the Lord, it shall go well in the latter end, and in the day of his de…
15 …1:15. And they to whom she shall shew herself love her by the sight, and by the knowledge of her g…
16 …e beginning of wisdom, and was created with the faithful in the womb, it walketh with chosen women…
18  1:18. Religiousness shall keep and justify the heart, it shall give joy and gladness.
19 …1:19. It shall go well with him that feareth the Lord, and in the days of his end he shall be bles…
20  1:20. To fear God is the fulness of wisdom, and fulness is from the fruits thereof.
21  1:21. She shall fill all her house with her increase, and the storehouses with her treasures.
22  1:22. The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, filling up peace and the fruit of salvation:
23  1:23. And it hath seen, and numbered her: but both are the gifts of God.
24 …1:24. Wisdom shall distribute knowledge, and understanding of prudence: and exalteth the glory of …
25  1:25. The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord: and the branches thereof are long-lived.
26 …1:26. In the treasures of wisdom is understanding, and religiousness of knowledge: but to sinners …
29  1:29. A patient man shall bear for a time, and afterwards joy shall be restored to him.
30 …1:30. A good understanding will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his …
33  1:33. Son, if thou desire wisdom, keep justice, and God will give her to thee.
34  1:34. For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and discipline: and that which is agreeable to him,
35  1:35. Is faith, and meekness: and he will fill up his treasures.
36  1:36. Be not incredulous to the fear of the Lord: and come not to him with a double heart.
37  1:37. Be not a hypocrite in the sight of men, and let not thy lips be a stumblingblock to thee.
38  1:38. Watch over them, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul,
39  1:39. And God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation.
40  1:40. Because thou camest to the Lord wickedly, and thy heart is full of guile and deceit.
41 …2:1. Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy so…
42 …2:2. Humble thy heart, and endure: incline thy ear, and receive the words of understanding: and ma…
43 …2:3. Wait on God with patience: join thyself to God, and endure, that thy life may be increased in…
44 …2:4. Take all that shall be brought upon thee: and in thy sorrow endure, and in thy humiliation ke…
45  2:5. For gold and silver are tried in the fire, but acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.
46 …2:6. Believe God, and he will recover thee: and direct thy way, and trust in him. Keep his fear, a…
47  2:7. Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy: and go not aside from him lest ye fall.
48  2:8. Ye that fear the Lord, believe him: and your reward shall not be made void.
49  2:9. Ye that fear the Lord hope in him, and mercy shall come to you for your delight.
50  2:10. Ye that fear the Lord, love him, and your hearts shall be enlightened.
51 …2:11. My children behold the generations of men: and know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord, a…
52 …:12. For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath called upon hi…
53 …2:13. For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and …
54 …2:14. Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, an…
55 …2:15. Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be prot…
56 …2:16. Woe to them that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the right ways, and have gone as…
58 …2:18. They that fear the Lord, will not be incredulous to his word: and they that love him, will k…
59 …2:19. They that fear the Lord, will seek after the things that are well pleasing to him: and they …
60 …2:20. They that fear the Lord, will prepare their hearts, and in his sight will sanctify their sou…
61 …2:21. They that fear the Lord, keep his commandments, and will have patience even until his visita…
62 …2:22. Saying: If we do not penance, we shall fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the han…
64  3:1. The sons of wisdom are the church of the just: and their generation, obedience and love.
65  3:2. Children, hear the judgment of your father, and so do that you may be saved.
66 …3:3. For God hath made the father honourable to the children: and seeking the judgment of the moth…
67 …loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer, and shall refrain himself from them, and s…
69 …3:6. He that honoureth his father shall have joy in his own children, and in the day of his prayer…
70 …3:7. He that honoureth his father shall enjoy a long life: and he that obeyeth the father, shall b…
71 …3:8. He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, and will serve them as his masters that brou…
72  3:9. Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience,
73  3:10. That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end.
76 …3:13. For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father, and a father without honour is the …
77  3:14. Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his life;
78 …3:15. And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in …
80 …3:17. And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered…
81 …3:18. Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh his father: and he is cursed of God that angereth …
82  3:19. My son, do thy works in meekness, and thou shalt be beloved above the glory of men.
83 …3:20. The greater thou art, the more humble thyself in all things, and thou shalt find grace befor…
84  3:21. For great is the power of God alone, and he is honoured by the humble.
85 …oo high for thee, and search not into things above thy ability: but the things that God hath comma…
87 …3:24. In unnecessary matters be not over curious, and in many of his works thou shalt not be inqui…
89  3:26. And the suspicion of them hath deceived many, and hath detained their minds in vanity.
90  3:27. A hard heart shall fear evil at the last: and he that loveth danger shall perish in it.
91 …3:28. A heart that goeth two ways shall not have success, and the perverse of heart shall be scand…
92  3:29. A wicked heart shall be laden with sorrows, and the sinner will add sin to sin.
93 … shall not be healed: for the plant of wickedness shall take root in them, and it shall not be per…
94 …3:31. The heart of the wise is understood in wisdom, and a good ear will hear wisdom with all desi…
95 …3:32. A wise heart, and which hath understanding, will abstain from sins, and in the works of just…
96  3:33. Water quencheth a flaming fire, and alms resisteth sins:
97 …3:34. And God provideth for him that sheweth favour: he remembereth him afterwards, and in the tim…
98  4:1. Son, defraud not the poor of alms, and turn not away thy eyes from the poor.
99  4:2. Despise not the hungry soul: and provoke not the poor in his want.
100  4:3. Afflict not the heart of the needy, and defer not to gibe to him that is in distress.
101  4:4. Reject not the petition of the afflicted: and turn not away thy face from the needy.
102 …4:5. Turn not away thy eyes from the poor for fear of anger: and leave not to them that ask of the…
104 …4:7. Make thyself affable to the congregation of the poor, and humble thy soul to the ancient, and…
105 …4:8. Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest, and answer him peaceable wo…
106 …4:9. Deliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and be not fainthearted in thy…
107  4:10. In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a husband to their mother.
108 …4:11. And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he will have mercy on thee more …
109 …4:12. Wisdom inspireth life into her children, and protecteth them that seek after her, and will g…
110 …4:13. And he that loveth her, loveth life: and they that watch for her, shall embrace her sweetnes…
111 …4:14. They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a…
112  4:15. They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her.
113 …4:16. He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain s…
114  4:17. If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.
115  4:18. For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.
116 …ng upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipli…
117  4:20. Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,
118 …4:21. And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and unde…
119  4:22. But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy.
120  4:23. Son, observe the time, and fly from evil.
122  4:25. For there is a shame that bringeth sin, and there is a shame that bringeth glory and grace.
126 …For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and understanding, and knowledge, and learning by the word …
129  4:32. Resist not against the face of the mighty, and do not strive against the stream of the river.
130 …4:33. Strive for justice for thy soul, and even unto death fight for justice, and God will overthr…
131  4:34. Be not hasty in thy tongue: and slack and remiss in thy works.
132 …4:35. Be not as a lion in thy house, terrifying them of thy household, and oppressing them that ar…
133  4:36. Let not thy hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldst give.
134 …rt upon unjust possessions, and say not: I have enough to live on: for it shall be of no service i…
136 …5:3. And say not: How mighty am I? and who shall bring me under for my deeds? for God will surely …
137 …5:4. Say not: I have sinned, and what harm hath befallen me? for the most High is a patient reward…
138  5:5. Be not without fear about sin forgiven, and add not sin upon sin:
140  5:7. For mercy and wrath quickly come from him, and his wrath looketh upon sinners.
141  5:8. Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and defer it not from day to day.
142  5:9. For his wrath shall come on a sudden, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy thee.
143 …xious for goods unjustly gotten: for they shall not profit thee in the day of calamity and revenge.
144 …5:11. Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way: for so is every sinner proved by a do…
145 …e steadfast in the way of the Lord, and in the truth of thy judgment, and in knowledge, and let th…
146  5:13. Be meek to hear the word, that thou mayst understand: and return a true answer with wisdom.
147 …ot, let thy hand be upon thy mouth, lest thou be surprised in an unskilful word, and be confounded.
148  5:15. Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his ruin.
149  5:16. Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded.
150 … confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the double tongued, b…
151  5:18. Justify alike the small and the great.
152 …neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious…
154 …6:3. And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilder…
155 …4. For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies, an…
156 …6:5. A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man …
158  6:7. If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.
159  6:8. For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.
160 …nd there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and s…
161  6:10. And there is a friend a companion at the table, and he will not abide in the day of distress.
162 …6:11. A friend if he continue steadfast, shall be to thee as thyself, and shall act with confidenc…
163 …6:12. If he humble himself before thee, and hide himself from thy face, thou shalt have unanimous …
164  6:13. Separate thyself from thy enemies, and take heed of thy friends.
165  6:14. A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found him, hath found a treasure.
166 …6:15. Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of gold and silver is able to co…
167 …6:16. A faithful friend is the medicine of life and immortality: and they that fear the Lord, shal…
169 …6:18. My son, from thy youth up receive instruction, and even to thy grey hairs thou shalt find wi…
170  6:19. Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her good fruits:
171  6:20. For in working about her thou shalt labour a little, and shalt quickly eat of her fruits.
172  6:21. How very unpleasant is wisdom to the unlearned, and the unwise will not continue with her.
173 …6:22. She shall be to them as a mighty stone of trial, and they will cast her from them before it …
174 …6:23. For the wisdom of doctrine is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many, but …
175  6:24. Give ear, my son, and take wise counsel, and cast not away my advice.
176  6:25. Put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chains:
177  6:26. Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be not grieved with her bands.
178  6:27. Come to her with all thy mind, and keep her ways with all thy power.
179 …6:28. Search for her, and she shall be made known to thee, and when thou hast gotten her, let her …
180  6:29. For in the latter end thou shalt find rest in her, and she shall be turned to thy joy.
181 …6:30. Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a firm foundation, and her chain a …
182  6:31. For in her is the beauty of life, and her bands are a healthful binding.
183  6:32. Thou shalt put her on as a robe of glory, and thou shalt set her upon thee as a crown of joy.
184 …6:33. My son, if thou wilt attend to me, thou shalt learn: and if thou wilt apply thy mind, thou s…
185 …6:34. If thou wilt incline thy ear, thou shalt receive instruction: and if thou love to hear, thou…
186 … of ancients that are wise, and join thyself from thy heart to their wisdom, that thou mayst hear …
187 …6:36. And if thou see a man of understanding, go to him early in the morning, and let thy foot wea…
188 …oughts be upon the precepts of God, and meditate continually on his commandments: and he will give…
189  7:1. Do no evils, and no evils shall lay hold of thee.
190  7:2. Depart from the unjust, and evils shall depart from thee.
191  7:3. My son, sow not evils in the furrows of injustice, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold.
193 …7:5. Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise befor…
194 …enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingbloc…
198  7:10. Neglect not to pray, and to give alms.
199 …7:11. Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and when I offer to the most hi…
200 …7:12. Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exal…
203  7:15. Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer.
207  7:19. Humble thy spirit very much: for the vengeance on the flesh of the ungodly is fire and worms.
209 …7:21. Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou hast gotten in the fear of the Lord: for the…
212  7:24. Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy profit, keep them with thee.
213  7:25. Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from their childhood.
214 …7:26. Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thy countenance gay towards the…
215  7:27. Marry thy daughter well, and thou shalt do a great work, and give her to a wise man.
216 …7:28. If thou hast a wife according to thy soul, cast her not off: and to her that is hateful, tru…
217  7:29. Honour thy father, and forget not the groanings of thy mother:
218 …7:30. Remember that thou hadst not been born but through them: and make a return to them as they h…
219  7:31. With all thy soul fear the Lord, and reverence his priests.
220  7:32. With all thy strength love him that made thee: and forsake not his ministers.
221 …7:33. Honour God with all thy soul and give honour to the priests, and purify thyself with thy arm…
222 …them their portion, as it is commanded thee, of the firstfruits and of purifications: and for thy …
223 …7:35. Offer to the Lord the gift of thy shoulders, and the sacrifice of sanctification, and the fi…
224  7:36. And stretch out thy hand to the poor, that thy expiation and thy blessing may be perfected.
225  7:37. A gift hath grace in the sight of all the living, and restrain not grace from the dead.
226  7:38. Be not wanting in comforting them that weep, and walk with them that mourn.
228  7:40. In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.
231 …8:3. For gold and silver hath destroyed many, and hath reached even to the heart of kings, and per…
232  8:4. Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire.
236 …8:8. Rejoice not at the death of thy enemy; knowing that we all die, and are not willing that othe…
237 …8:9. Despise not the discourse of them that are ancient and wise, but acquaint thyself with their …
238 …8:10. For of them thou shalt learn wisdom, and instruction of understanding, and to serve great me…
240  8:12. For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need.
243  8:15. Lend not to a man that is mightier than thyself: and if thou lendest, count it as lost.
244  8:16. Be not surety above thy power: and if thou be surety, think as if thou wert to pay it.
246 …est he burden thee with his evils: for he goeth according to his own will, and thou shalt perish t…
247 …uarrel not with a passionate man, and go not into the desert with a bold man: for blood is as noth…
250 …8:22. Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil turn, and speak reproachful…
252 …9:2. Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be conf…
254 …9:4. Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not to her, lest thou perish by…
256  9:6. Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance.
257 …9:7. Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets ther…
258  9:8. Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty.
259  9:9. For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire.
263 …9:13. And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou …
265  9:15. A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
266  9:16. Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be.
270 …9:20. Know it to be a communication with death: for thou art going in the midst of snares, and wal…
271  9:21. According to thy power beware of thy neighbour, and treat with the wise and prudent.
272  9:22. Let just men be thy guests, and let thy glory be in the fear of God.
273 …9:23. And let the thought of God be in thy mind, and all thy discourse on the commandments of the …
274 …9:24. Works shall be praised for the hand of the artificers, and the prince of the people for the …
275 …9:25. A man full of tongue is terrible in his city, and he that is rash in his word shall be hatef…
276  10:1. A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady.
277 …10:2. As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the…
278 …10:3. An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the pr…
279 …10:4. The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he will raise up a profitable …
280 …10:5. The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay …
281  10:6. Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of injury.
282  10:7. Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable.
283 …translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers…
284  10:9. But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud?
287 …10:12. The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shal…
288  10:13. For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.
290 …ginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him i…
291 …10:16. Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed …
292  10:17. God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.
293 …10:18. God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these na…
294 …10:19. The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the fou…
295 …10:20. He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory…
296 …10:21. God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are …
300  10:25. The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor.
301  10:26. Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.
302 …10:27. The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than h…
303 …ll serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur whe…
304  10:29. Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress;
305 …10:30. Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and…
306  10:31. My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert.
307 …10:32. Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishon…
308 …10:33. The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear, and there is a man that is honoured f…
309 …10:34. But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in w…
310 …11:1. The wisdom of the humble shall exalt his head, and shall make him sit in the midst of great …
313 …y time, and be not exalted in the day of thy honour: for the works of the Highest only are wonderf…
314  11:5. Many tyrants have sat on the throne, and he whom no man would think on, hath worn the crown.
315 …11:6. Many mighty men have been greatly brought down, and the glorious have been delivered into th…
316  11:7. Before thou inquire, blame no man: and when thou hast inquired, reprove justly.
317 …11:8. Before thou hear, answer not a word: and interrupt not others in the midst of their discours…
318  11:9. Strive not in a matter which doth not concern thee, and sit not in judgment with sinners.
319 …not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue af…
320 …11:11. There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much …
321 …11:12. Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of pov…
322 …oked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and…
323  11:14. Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God.
324 …11:15. Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with God. Love and the ways of good…
325 …11:16. Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory in evil things, grow old i…
326  11:17. The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall have success for ever.
327  11:18. There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is the portion of his reward.
328  11:19. In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my goods alone:
329 … And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death approacheth, and that he must leave all t…
330 …11:21. Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and grow old in the work of thy co…
331  11:22. Abide not in the works of sinners. But trust in God, and stay in thy place,
333 …11:24. The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a swift hour his blessing beare…
334  11:25. Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this?
335  11:26. Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this?
336 …11:27. In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindf…
338 …11:29. The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the …
341 … stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so…
342  11:33. For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.
343 …11:34. Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lie…
345 …11:36. Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee ou…
346 …12:1. If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deed…
347 …12:2. Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly of t…
348 …good for him that is always occupied in evil, and that giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinn…
349 …12:4. Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay vengeance to the ungodly and …
350  12:5. Give to the good, and receive not a sinner.
351 …12:6. Do good to the humble, and give not to the ungodly: hold back thy bread, and give it not to …
352 …the good thou shalt have done to him: for the Highest also hateth sinners, and will repay vengeanc…
353  12:8. A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity.
354  12:9. In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are grieved: and a friend is known in his adversity.
356  12:11. Though he humble himself and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him.
357 …ight hand, lest he turn into thy place, and seek to take thy seat and at the last thou acknowledge…
358 …ear wild beasts? so is it with him that keepeth company with a wicked man, and is involved in his …
363 …12:18. An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while he pretendeth to help thee, will undermine thy f…
364  12:19. He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and change his countenance.
365 …13:1. He that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled with it: and he that hath fellowship with the proud…
368 …13:4. The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he will fume: but the poor is wronged and must hold hi…
369  13:5. If thou give, he will make use of thee: and if thou have nothing, he will forsake thee.
370 …13:6. If thou have any thing, he will live with thee, and will make thee bare, and he will not be …
371 …have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon thee will put thee in hope; he will speak…
372 …wn thee dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when he seeth thee, …
373  13:9. Humble thyself to God, and wait for his hands.
374  13:10. Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled.
377 …13:13. Be not troublesome to him, lest thou be put back: and keep not far from him, lest thou be f…
378 …ffect not to speak with him as an equal, and believe not his many words: for by much talk he will …
379 …13:15. His cruel mind will lay up thy words: and he will not spare to do thee hurt, and to cast th…
380 …13:16. Take heed to thyself, and attend diligently to what thou hearest: for thou walkest in dange…
381  13:17. When thou hearest those things, see as it were in sleep, and thou shalt awake.
382  13:18. Love God all thy life, and call upon him for thy salvation.
384 …13:20. All flesh shall consort with the like to itself, and every man shall associate himself to h…
390 …13:26. When a rich man hath been deceived, he hath many helpers: he hath spoken proud things, and …
391 …13:27. The poor man was deceived, and he is rebuked also: he hath spoken wisely, and could have no…
392 …13:28. The rich man spoke, and all held their peace, and what he said they extol even to the cloud…
393  13:29. The poor man spoke, and they say: Who is this? and if he stumble, they will overthrow him.
394 …13:30. Riches are good to him that hath no sin in his conscience: and poverty is very wicked in th…
396  13:32. The token of a good heart, and a good countenance thou shalt hardly find, and with labour.
397 …14:1. Blessed is the man that hath not slipped by a word out of his mouth, and is not pricked with…
398  14:2. Happy is he that hath had no sadness of his mind, and who is not fallen from his hope.
399 …14:3. Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do wi…
400 …14:4. He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for others, and another will …
401 …14:5. He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? and he shall not take pleasure in his g…
402  14:6. There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the reward of his wickedness:
403 …14:7. And if he do good, he doth it ignorantly, and unwillingly: and at the last he discovereth hi…
404  14:8. The eye of the envious is wicked: and he turneth away his face, and despiseth his own soul.
406 …14:10. An evil eye is towards evil things: and he shall not have his fill of bread, but shall be n…
407  14:11. My son, if thou have any thing, do good to thyself, and offer to God worthy offerings.
408 …14:12. Remember that death is not slow, and that the covenant of hell hath been shewn to thee: for…
409 …14:13. Do good to thy friend before thou die, and according to thy ability, stretching out thy han…
410  14:14. Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a good gift overpass thee.
411  14:15. Shalt thou not leave to others to divide by lot thy sorrows and labours?
412  14:16. Give and take, and justify thy soul.
414  14:18. All flesh shall fade as grass, and as the leaf that springeth out on a green tree.
415 …14:19. Some grow, and some fall off: so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end…
416 …14:20. Every work that is corruptible shall fail in the end: and the worker thereof shall go with …
417 …14:21. And every excellent work shall be justified: and the worker thereof shall be honoured there…
418 …:22. Blessed is the man that shall continue in wisdom, and that shall meditate in his justice, and…
419 …considereth her ways in his heart, and hath understanding in her secrets, who goeth after her as o…
420  14:24. He who looketh in at her windows, and hearkeneth at her door.
421 …14:25. He that lodgeth near her house, and fastening a pin in her walls shall set up his tent high…
422  14:26. He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge under her branches:
423  14:27. He shall be protected under her covering from the heat, and shall rest in her glory.
424  15:1. He that feareth God, will do good: and he that possesseth justice, shall lay hold on her,
425 …15:2. And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive him as a wife married of a v…
426 …d of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and give him the water of wholesome wisdom to dri…
427 …15:4. And she shall hold him fast, and he shall not be confounded: and she shall exalt him among h…
428 …st of the church she shall open his mouth, and shall fill him with the spirit of wisdom and unders…
429 …15:6. She shall heap upon him a treasure of joy and gladness, and shall cause him to inherit an ev…
430 …olish men shall not obtain her, and wise men shall meet her, foolish men shall not see her: for sh…
431 …15:8. Lying men shall be mindful of her: but men that speak truth shall be found with her, and sha…
433 …h from God: for praise shall be with the wisdom of God, and shall abound in a faithful mouth, and …
436  15:13. The Lord hateth all abomination of error, and they that fear him shall not love it.
437  15:14. God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his own counsel.
438  15:15. He added his commandments and precepts.
439 …15:16. If thou wilt keep the commandments and perform acceptable fidelity for ever, they shall pre…
440  15:17. He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand to which thou wilt.
441  15:18. Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall choose shall be given him:
442  15:19. For the wisdom of God is great, and he is strong in power, seeing all men without ceasing.
443  15:20. The eyes of the Lord are towards them that fear him, and he knoweth al the work of man.
444  15:21. He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, and he hath given no man license to sin;
445  15:22. For he desireth not a multitude of faithless and unprofitable children.
447  16:2. Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours.
451  16:6. Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard.
452 …16:7. In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath s…
456 …ousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been sti…
457  16:12. For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation:
459 …16:14. The sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of him that sheweth mercy shal…
460 …16:15. All mercy shall make a place for every man according to the merit of his works, and accordi…
461  16:16. Say not: I shall be hidden from God, and who shall remember me from on high?
463 …16:18. Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things …
464 …16:19. The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look up…
465  16:20. And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him.
466  16:21. And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man shall see?
467 …ho shall declare? or who shall endure? for the testament is far from some, and the examination of …
468 …16:23. He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things, and the foolish, and erring man, thinke…
469 …16:24. Hearken to me, my son, and learn the discipline of understanding, and attend to my words in…
470 …and will seek to declare wisdom: and attend to my words in thy heart, whilst with equity of spirit…
471 … God are done in judgment from the beginning, and from the making of them he distinguished their p…
472 …16:27. He beautified their works for ever, they have neither hungered, nor laboured, and they have…
475  16:30. After this God looked upon the earth, and filled it with his goods.
476 …16:31. The soul of every living thing hath shewn forth before the face thereof, and into it they r…
477  17:1. God created man of the earth, and made him after his own image.
478  17:2. And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength according to himself.
479 …17:3. He gave him the number of his days and time, and gave him power over all things that are upo…
480  17:4. He put the fear of him upon all flesh, and he had dominion over beasts and fowls.
481 …lpmate like to himself, he gave them counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, and ears, and a heart to dev…
482 …em the science of the spirit, he fired their heart with wisdom, and shewed them both good and evil.
484 …17:8. That they might praise the name which he hath sanctified: and glory in his wondrous act that…
485  17:9. Moreover he gave them instructions, and the law of life for an inheritance.
486  17:10. He made an everlasting covenant with them, and he shewed them his justice and judgments.
487 …17:11. And their eye saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears heard his glorious voice, and he…
492 …17:16. And all their works are as the sun in the sight of God: and his eyes are continually upon t…
493 …17:17. Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their iniquities are in the sight o…
494 …17:18. The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the app…
495 …17:19. And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their reward, to every one upon their…
496 … penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he hath strengthened them that were fainting in pa…
497  17:21. Turn to the Lord, and forsake thy sins:
498  17:22. Make thy prayer before the face of the Lord, and offend less.
499  17:23. Return to the Lord, and turn away from thy injustice, and greatly hate abomination.
500 …17:24. And know the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the lot set before thee, and …
501  17:25. Go to the side of the holy age, with them that live and give praise to God.
503 …hilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt prais…
504  17:28. How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them that turn to him!
505 …17:29. For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delig…
506 …all be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this sh…
507  17:31. He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.
508 …18:1. He that liveth for ever created all things together. God only shall be justified, and he rem…
513  18:6. When a man hath done, then shall he begin: and when he leaveth off, he shall be at a loss.
514  18:7. What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what is his evil?
515 …most are a hundred years, as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the …
516  18:9. Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them.
517 …18:10. He hath seen the presumption of their heart that it is wicked, and hath known their end tha…
518 …18:11. Therefore hath he filled up his mercy in their favour, and hath shewn them the way of justi…
520  18:13. He hath mercy, and teacheth, and correcteth, as a shepherd doth his flock.
521 …18:14. He hath mercy on him that receiveth the discipline of mercy, and that maketh haste in his j…
522 …18:15. My son, in thy good deeds, make no complaint, and when thou givest any thing, add not grief…
525  18:18. A fool will upbraid bitterly: and a gift of one ill taught consumeth the eyes.
526  18:19. Before judgment prepare thee justice, and learn before thou speak.
527 …18:20. Before sickness take a medicine, and before judgment examine thyself, and thou shalt find m…
528  18:21. Humble thyself before thou art sick, and in the time of sickness shew thy conversation.
529 …18:22. Let nothing hinder thee from praying always, and be not afraid to be justified even to deat…
530  18:23. Before prayer prepare thy soul: and be not as a man that tempteth God.
531 …18:24. Remember the wrath that shall be at the last day, and the time of repaying when he shall tu…
532 …18:25. Remember poverty in the time of abundance, and the necessities of poverty in the day of ric…
533 …18:26. From the morning until the evening the time shall be changed, and all these are swift in th…
534  18:27. A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the days of sins will beware of sloth.
535  18:28. Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give praise to him that findeth her.
536 …ords, have also done wisely themselves: and have understood truth and justice, and have poured for…
541 …workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by l…
542  19:2. Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent:
543 …harlots, will be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a g…
544 …19:4. He that is hasty to give credit, is light of heart, and shall be lessened: and he that sinne…
545 …that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be censured, and he that hateth chastisement, shall have less li…
546 …19:6. He that sinneth against his own soul, shall repent: and he that is delighted with wickedness…
547  19:7. Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh word, and thou shalt not fare the worse.
548  19:8. Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with thee, disclose it not.
549 …19:9. For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will h…
553 …19:13. Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, …
554 …19:14. Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he m…
558 …he fear of the most High: for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the d…
559  19:19. But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence.
560 …19:20. There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolis…
561 … a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that abound…
562  19:22. There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust.
563 …exact word telling the truth. There is one that humbleth himself wickedly, and his interior is ful…
564 …teth himself exceedingly with a great lowliness: and there is one that casteth down his countenanc…
566 …19:26. A man is known by his look, and a wise man, when thou meetest him, is known by his countena…
567 …19:27. The attire of the body, and the laughter of the teeth, and the gait of the man, shew what h…
568 …lying rebuke in the anger of an injurious man: and there is a judgment that is not allowed to be g…
569 …20:1. How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in…
573 …20:5. There is one that holdeth his peace, that is found wise: and there is another that is hatefu…
574 …20:6. There is one that holdeth his peace, because he knoweth not what to say: and there is anothe…
575 …20:7. A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity: but a babbler, and a fool, will rega…
576 …20:8. He that useth many words shall hurt his own soul: and he that taketh authority to himself un…
577 …20:9. There is success in evil things to a man without discipline, and there is a finding that tur…
578 …20:10. There is a gift that is not profitable: and there is a gift, the recompense of which is dou…
579 …20:11. There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that shall lift up his head from a…
580  20:12. There is that buyeth much for a small price, and restoreth the same sevenfold.
583 …20:15. He will give a few things, and upbraid much: and the opening of his mouth is the kindling o…
584  20:16. To day a man lendeth, and to morrow he asketh it again: such a man as this is hateful.
585  20:17. A fool shall have no friend, and there shall be no thanks for his good deeds.
586 …20:18. For they that eat his bread, are of a false tongue. How often, and how many will laugh him …
591  20:23. There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked.
592 …l destroy his own soul through shamefacedness, and by occasion of an unwise person he will destroy…
593  20:25. There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh him his enemy for nothing.
594 …20:26. A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it will be continually in the mouth of men without d…
596 …20:28. The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confusion is with them without ceasi…
597 …20:29. A wise man shall advance himself with his words, and a prudent man shall please the great o…
598 …at tilleth his land shall make a high heap of corn: and he that worketh justice shall be exalted: …
599 …20:31. Presents and gifts blind the eyes of judges, and make them dumb in the mouth, so that they …
600  20:32. O Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is not seen: what profit is there in them both?
606 …21:5. Injuries and wrongs will waste riches: and the house that is very rich shall be brought to n…
607 …21:6. The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of God, and judgment shall come…
608 …21:7. He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will…
611 …21:10. The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the end of them is a flame of …
612 …21:11. The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end is hell, and darkness, and p…
614  21:13. The perfection of the fear of God is wisdom and understanding.
616 …21:15. But there is a wisdom that aboundeth in evil: and there is no understanding where there is …
617 …21:16. The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood, and his counsel continueth like a fo…
618  21:17. The heart of a fool is like a broken vessel, and no wisdom at all shall it hold.
619 …ery wise word he shall hear, and will apply it to himself: the luxurious man hath heard it, and it…
621 …21:20. The mouth of the prudent is sought after in the church, and they will think upon his words …
622 …21:21. As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as…
623  21:22. Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.
625  21:24. Learning to the prudent is as an ornament of gold, and like a bracelet upon his right arm.
628 …21:27. It is the folly of a man to hearken at the door: and a wise man will be grieved with the di…
630  21:29. The heart of fools is in their mouth: and the mouth of wise men is in their heart.
632 …er shall defile his own soul, and shall be hated by all: and he that shall abide with him shall be…
633  22:1. The sluggard is pelted with a dirty stone, and all men will speak of his disgrace.
634 …22:2. The sluggard is pelted with the dung of oxen: and every one that toucheth him will shake his…
635  22:3. A son ill taught is the confusion of the father: and a foolish daughter shall be to his loss.
637 …22:5. She that is bold shameth both her father and husband, and will not be inferior to the ungodl…
638 …22:6. A tale out of time is like music in mourning: but the stripes and instruction of wisdom are …
641 …22:9. He speaketh with one that is asleep, who uttereth wisdom to a fool: and in the end of the di…
642 …22:10. Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding …
645 …22:13. The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of …
646  22:14. Talk not much with a fool and go not with him that hath no sense.
647 …22:15. Keep thyself from him, that thou mayst not have trouble, and thou shalt not be defiled with…
648  22:16. Turn away from him, and thou shalt find rest, and shalt not be wearied out with his folly.
649  22:17. What is heavier than lead? and what other name hath he but fool?
650 …22:18. Sand and salt, and a mass of iron is easier to bear, than a man without sense, that is both…
653 …22:21. As pales set in high places, and plasterings made without cost, will not stand against the …
656 …22:24. He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth fort…
659 …ar not, for there may be a reconciliation: except upbraiding, and reproach, and pride, and disclos…
662 …As the vapour of a chimney, and the smoke of the fire goeth up before the fire: so also injurious …
663 …22:31. I will not be ashamed to salute a friend, neither will I hide myself from his face: and if …
665 …22:33. Who will set a guard before my mouth, and a sure seal upon my lips, that I fall not by them…
666 …23:1. O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer me…
667 …set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not …
668 …3. Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall befo…
669  23:4. O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices.
670  23:5. Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting.
671 …e the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not…
672 …23:7. Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth, and he that will keep it shall not perish …
673  23:8. A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby.
675 …23:10. And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle not with the names of saint…
676 …to the question, is never without a blue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not b…
677 …23:12. A man that sweareth much, shall be filled with iniquity, and a scourge shall not depart fro…
678 …23:13. And if he make it void, his sin shall be upon him, and if he dissemble it, he offendeth dou…
681 …23:16. For from the merciful all these things shall be taken away, and they shall not wallow in si…
683  23:18. Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the midst of great men:
684 … thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish th…
686  23:21. Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction.
690  23:25. Every man that passeth beyond his own bed, despising his own soul, and saying: Who seeth me?
691 …23:26. Darkness compasseth me about, and the walls cover me, and no man seeth me: whom do I fear? …
692 … seeth all things, for such a man's fear driveth him from the fear of God, and the eyes of men fea…
693 …ter than the sun, beholding round about all the ways of men, and the bottom of the deep, and looki…
695 …0. This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and he shall be chased as a colt: and wh…
697  23:32. So every woman also that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another:
698 … the law of the most High: and secondly, she hath offended against her husband: thirdly, she hath …
699 …23:34. This woman shall be brought into the assembly, and inquisition shall be made of her childre…
700  23:35. Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit.
701  23:36. She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her infamy shall not be blotted out.
702 …23:37. And they that remain shall know, that there is nothing better than the fear of God: and tha…
704 …24:1. Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst…
705 …24:2. And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the …
706 …24:3. And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy as…
707 …24:4. And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be …
709 …24:6. I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I cove…
710  24:7. I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud.
711 …:8. I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven, and have penetrated into the bottom of the deep,…
712  24:9. And have stood in all the earth: and in every people,
714 …have trodden under my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and…
715 …24:12. Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my…
716 …24:13. And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take ro…
717 …24:14. From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall…
718 …24:15. And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was …
719 …24:16. And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and …
720  24:17. I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion.
721  24:18. I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho:
722 …24:19. As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I …
723 …24:20. I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the b…
724 …1. And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincens…
725 …24:22. I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and …
726 …23. As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and …
727  24:24. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope.
728  24:25. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.
729  24:26. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits.
730  24:27. For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb.
732  24:29. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.
733  24:30. He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.
735 …24:32. All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge…
736 …3. Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, an…
737 …24:34. He appointed to David his servant to raise up of him a most mighty king, and sitting on the…
738  24:35. Who filleth up wisdom as the Phison, and as the Tigris in the days of the new fruits.
740  24:37. Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and riseth up as Gehon in the time of the vintage.
741  24:38. Who first hath perfect knowledge of her, and a weaker shall not search her out.
742 …24:39. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocea…
744 …24:41. I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty water; I, like a channel of a river, and like an…
745 …24:42. I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water abundantly the fruits of my mead…
746  24:43. And behold my brook became a great river, and my river came near to a sea:
747 …24:44. For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar …
748 …24:45. I will penetrate to all the lower parts of the earth, and will behold all that sleep, and w…
749 …24:46. I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to them that seek wisdom, and w…
751  25:1. With three things my spirit is pleased, which are approved before God and men:
752 …25:2. The concord of brethren, and the love of neighbours, and man and wife that agree well togeth…
753  25:3. Three sorts my soul hateth, and I am greatly grieved at their life:
754  25:4. A poor man that is proud: a rich man that is a liar: an old man that is a fool, and doting.
756  25:6. O how comely is judgment for a grey head, and for ancients to know counsel!
757  25:7. O how comely is wisdom for the aged, and understanding and counsel to men of honour!
758  25:8. Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory.
759 …25:9. Nine things that are not to be imagined by the heart have I magnified, and the tenth I will …
760  25:10. A man that hath joy of his children: and he that liveth and seeth the fall of his enemies.
761 …5:11. Blessed is he that dwelleth with a wise woman, and that hath not slipped with his tongue, an…
762  25:12. Blessed is he that findeth a true friend, and that declareth justice to an ear that heareth.
763 …25:13. How great is he that findeth wisdom and knowledge! but there is none above him that feareth…
766 …25:16. The fear of God is the beginning of his love: and the beginning of faith is to be fast join…
767  25:17. The sadness of the heart is every plague: and the wickedness of a woman is all evil.
773 …above the anger of a woman. It will be more agreeable to abide with a lion and a dragon, than to d…
774 …25:24. The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth her countenance as a bear: a…
775  25:25. Her husband groaned, and hearing he sighed a little.
778  25:28. Look not upon a woman's beauty, and desire not a woman for beauty.
779  25:29. A woman's anger, and impudence, and confusion is great.
781  25:31. A wicked woman abateth the courage, and maketh a heavy countenance, and a wounded heart.
782  25:32. Feeble hands, and disjointed knees, a woman that doth not make her husband happy.
783  25:33. From the woman came the beginning of sin, and by her we all die.
788  26:2. A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and shall fulfil the years of his life in peace.
791  26:5. Of three things my heart hath been afraid, and at the fourth my face hath trembled:
792  26:6. The accusation of a city, and the gathering together of the people:
794  26:8. A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.
796 …26:10. As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of…
797  26:11. A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.
798  26:12. The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of her eyes and by her eyelids.
800  26:14. Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee.
801 … a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by…
802  26:16. The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones.
804 …26:18. Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much worth as a well instructed so…
805  26:19. A holy and shamefaced woman is grace upon grace.
811  26:25. At two things my heart is grieved, and the third bringeth anger upon me.
812  26:26. A man of war fainting through poverty, and a man of sense despised:
814 …wo sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from neglig…
815  27:1. Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.
816 …ast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall s…
820  27:6. The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of affliction just men.
823 …halt obtain her: and shalt put her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and…
828  27:14. The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the pleasures of sin.
829 …27:15. The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreve…
830 …27:16. In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous heari…
831 …27:17. He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend …
832  27:18. Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.
835 …27:21. And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and t…
839  27:25. He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off:
840 … of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe …
841  27:27. I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate him.
842 …27:28. If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and the deceitful stroke will …
843 …that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that setteth a stone for his neighbour, shall stumb…
844 …27:30. A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author, and he shall not know from when…
845  27:31. Mockery and reproach are of the proud, and vengeance as a lion shall lie in wait for him.
846 …27:32. They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall…
847  27:33. Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man shall be subject to them.
848 …28:1. He that seeketh to revenge himself, shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely k…
849 …28:2. Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt thee: and then shall thy sins be forgiven to thee when…
850  28:3. Man to man reserveth anger, and doth he seek remedy of God?
851  28:4. He hath no mercy on a man like himself, and doth he entreat for his own sins?
852 …28:5. He that is but flesh, nourisheth anger, and doth he ask forgiveness of God? who shall obtain…
853  28:6. Remember thy last things, and let enmity cease:
854  28:7. For corruption and death hang over in his commandments.
855  28:8. Remember the fear of God, and be not angry with thy neighbour.
856  28:9. Remember the covenant of the most High, and overlook the ignorance of thy neighbour.
857  28:10. Refrain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins.
858 …28:11. For a passionate man kindleth strife, and a sinful man will trouble his friends, and bring …
859 … the wood of the forest is, so the fire burneth, and as a man's strength is, so shall his anger be…
860 …28:13. A hasty contention kindleth a fire and a hasty quarrel sheddeth blood and a tongue that bea…
861 …28:14. If thou blow the spark, it shall burn as a fire: and if thou spit upon it, it shall be quen…
862 …28:15. The whisperer and the double tongue is accursed: for he hath troubled many that were at pea…
863  28:16. The tongue of a third person hath disquieted many, and scattered them from nation to nation.
864 …28:17. It hath destroyed the strong cities of the rich, and hath overthrown the houses of great me…
865  28:18. It hath cut in pieces the forces of people, and undone strong nations.
866 …28:19. The tongue of a third person hath cast out valiant women, and deprived them of their labour…
870 … tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, an…
871  28:24. For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass.
872  28:25. The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it.
873 …shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not …
874 …ke God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be s…
875 …28:28. Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear not a wicked tongue, and make doors and bars to thy mou…
876 …28:29. Melt down thy gold and silver, and make a balance for thy words, and a just bridle for thy …
877 … take heed lest thou slip with thy tongue, and fall in the sight of thy enemies who lie in wait fo…
878 …29:1. He that sheweth mercy, lendeth to his neighbour: and he that is stronger in hand, keepeth th…
879  29:2. Lend to thy neighbour in the time of his need, and pay thou thy neighbour again in due time.
880 …29:3. Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him: and thou shalt always find that which is necess…
881 …29:4. Many have looked upon a thing lent as a thing found, and have given trouble to them that hel…
882 …29:5. Till they receive, they kiss the hands of the lender, and in promises they humble their voic…
883 …:6. But when they should repay, they will ask time, and will return tedious and murmuring words, a…
884 …29:7. And if he be able to pay, he will stand off, he will scarce pay one half, and will count it …
885 …29:8. But if not, he will defraud him of his money, and he shall get him for an enemy without caus…
886 …29:9. And he will pay him with reproaches and curses, and instead of honour and good turn will rep…
888  29:11. But yet towards the poor be thou more hearty, and delay not to shew him mercy.
889 …29:12. Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away empty handed because of his…
890  29:13. Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend: and hide it not under a stone to be lost.
891 …29:14. Place thy treasure in the commandments of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profi…
892  29:15. Shut up alms in the heart of the poor, and it shall obtain help for thee against all evil.
893  29:16. Better than the shield of the mighty, and better than the spear:
895 …29:18. A good man is surety for his neighbour: and he that hath lost shame, will leave him to hims…
897  29:20. The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety.
898 …29:21. A sinner attributeth to himself the goods of his surety: and he that is of an unthankful mi…
899  29:22. A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake him.
900  29:23. Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.
901 …29:24. It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in …
902 …sgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh…
903  29:26. Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to thyself that thou fall not.
904  29:27. The chief thing for man's life is water and bread, and clothing, and a house to cover shame.
906 …29:29. Be contented with little instead of much, and thou shalt not hear the reproach of going abr…
908 …29:31. He shall entertain and feed, and give drink to the unthankful, and moreover he shall hear b…
909  29:32. Go, stranger, and furnish the table, and give others to eat what thou hast in thy hand.
911 …29:34. These things are grievous to a man of understanding: the upbraiding of houseroom, and the r…
912 …his son, frequently chastiseth him, that he may rejoice in his latter end, and not grope after the…
913 …30:2. He that instructeth his son shall be praised in him, and shall glory in him in the midst of …
914 …30:3. He that teacheth his son, maketh his enemy jealous, and in the midst of his friends he shall…
915 …30:4. His father is dead, and he is as if he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that i…
916 …30:5. While he lived he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died he was not sorrowful, neither wa…
917 …30:6. For he left behind him a defender of his house against his enemies, and one that will requit…
918 …30:7. For the souls of his sons he shall bind up his wounds, and at every cry his bowels shall be …
919  30:8. A horse not broken becometh stubborn, and a child left to himself will become headstrong.
920 …30:9. Give thy son his way, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he shall make thee s…
921  30:10. Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow, and at the last thy teeth be set on edge.
922  30:11. Give him not liberty in his youth, and wink not at his devices.
923 …down his neck while he is young, and beat his sides while he is a child, lest he grow stubborn, an…
924  30:13. Instruct thy son, and labour about him, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence to thee.
925 …30:14. Better is a poor man who is sound, and strong of constitution, than a rich man who is weak …
926 …30:15. Health of the soul in holiness of justice, is better than all gold and silver: and a sound …
927 …30:16. There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body: and there is no pleasure abo…
928  30:17. Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than continual sickness.
932  30:21. He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing.
933  30:22. Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel.
934 …3. The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness: an…
935 …:24. Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his holi…
936  30:25. For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it.
937  30:26. Envy and anger shorten a man's days, and pensiveness will bring old age before the time.
938  30:27. A cheerful and good heart is always feasting: for his banquets are prepared with diligence.
939  31:1. Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the thought thereof driveth away sleep.
940 …31:2. The thinking beforehand turneth away the understanding, and a grievous sickness maketh the s…
941 …31:3. The rich man hath laboured in gathering riches together, and when he resteth he shall be fil…
942  31:4. The poor man hath laboured in his low way of life, and in the end he is still poor.
943 …31:5. He that loveth gold, shall not be justified: and he that followeth after corruption, shall b…
944  31:6. Many have been brought to fall for gold, and the beauty thereof hath been their ruin.
945 …ck to them that sacrifice to it: woe to them that eagerly follow after it, and every fool shall pe…
946 …31:8. Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, no…
947  31:9. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life.
948 …reby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath…
949 …31:11. Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall dec…
958  31:20. Leave off first, for manners' sake: and exceed not, lest thou offend.
959 …31:21. And if thou sittest among many, reach not thy hand out first of all, and be not the first t…
960 …ufficient is a little wine for a man well taught, and in sleeping thou shalt not be uneasy with it…
961  31:23. Watching, and choler, and gripes, are with an intemperate man:
962 …31:24. Sound and wholesome sleep with a moderate man: he shall sleep till morning, and his soul sh…
963 …nd if thou hast been forced to eat much, arise, go out, and vomit: and it shall refresh thee, and …
964  31:26. Hear me, my son, and despise me not: and in the end thou shalt find my words.
965  31:27. In all thy works be quick, and no infirmity shall come to thee.
966 …31:28. The lips of many shall bless him that is liberal of his bread, and the testimony of his tru…
967 …31:29. Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, and the testimony of his …
973  31:35. Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful, and not to make them drunk.
974  31:36. Wine drunken with moderation is the joy of the soul and the heart.
975  31:37. Sober drinking is health to soul and body.
976  31:38. Wine drunken with excess raiseth quarrels, and wrath, and many ruins.
978 …31:40. The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool, lessening strength and causing w…
979  31:41. Rebuke not thy neighbour in a banquet of wine: and despise him not in his mirth.
980  31:42. Speak not to him words of reproach: and press him not in demanding again.
982 …32:2. Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, …
983 …32:3. That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an ornament of grace, and get the h…
985  32:5. To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not music.
986 …32:6. Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy w…
988 …32:8. As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and mod…
989  32:9. Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.
992  32:12. In many things be as if thou wert ignorant, and hear in silence and withal seeking.
993 …32:13. In the company of great men take not upon thee: and when the ancients are present, speak no…
994 …32:14. Before a storm goeth lightning: and before shamefacedness goeth favour: and for thy reveren…
995 … rising be not slack: but be first to run home to thy house, and there withdraw thyself, and there…
997 …32:17. And for all these things bless the Lord, that made thee, and that replenisheth thee with al…
998 …32:18. He that feareth the Lord, will receive his discipline: and they that will seek him early, s…
999 …32:19. He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall me…
1000  32:20. They that fear the Lord, shall find just judgment, and shall kindle justice as a light.
1001  32:21. A sinful man will flee reproof, and will find an excuse according to his will.
1002 …32:22. A man of counsel will not neglect understanding, a strange and proud man will not dread fea…
1004  32:24. My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done.
1005 …32:25. Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself…
1006  32:26. And beware of thy own children, and take heed of them of thy household.
1008 …32:28. He that believeth God, taketh heed to the commandments: and he that trusteth in him, shall …
1009 …33:1. No evils shall happen to him that feareth the Lord, but in temptation God will keep him and …
1010 …33:2. A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as…
1011  33:3. A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law is faithful to him.
1012 …p a question, shall prepare what to say, and so having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep di…
1013  33:5. The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.
1015 …33:7. Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all c…
1016 …33:8. By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his co…
1017 …33:9. And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at a…
1018 …of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And …
1019  33:11. With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified their ways.
1020 …h he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of …
1021  33:13. As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it:
1022 …33:14. All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand of him that made him, and…
1023 …inst evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all …
1024  33:16. And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers.
1025 …33:17. In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that gathereth grapes, have I filled t…
1027 …33:19. Hear me, ye great men, and all ye people, and hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the chur…
1028 …r or friend, power over thee while thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest thou repe…
1029  33:21. As long as thou livest, and hast breath in thee, let no man change thee.
1032 …33:24. Let no stain sully thy glory. In the time when thou shalt end the days of thy life, and in …
1033 …33:25. Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slav…
1034 …33:26. He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh lib…
1035  33:27. The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours bow a slave.
1036  33:28. Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle:
1038 …edient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any one, and do no grievous thin…
1041  33:33. And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him.
1042 …34:1. The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up …
1043 …34:2. The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and fol…
1045  34:4. What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?
1046  34:5. Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:
1048  34:7. For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.
1049 …34:8. The word of the law shall be fulfilled without a lie, and wisdom shall be made plain in the …
1050 …t been tried? A man that hath much experience, shall think of many things: and he that hath learne…
1051 …34:10. He that hath no experience, knoweth little: and he that hath been experienced in many thing…
1053  34:12. I have seen many things by travelling, and many customs of things.
1054 …34:13. Sometimes I have been in danger of death for these things, and I have been delivered by the…
1055  34:14. The spirit of those that fear God, is sought after, and by his regard shall be blessed.
1056  34:15. For their hope is on him that saveth them, and the eyes of God are upon them that love him.
1057 …34:16. He that feareth the Lord shall tremble at nothing, and shall not be afraid: for he is his h…
1059  34:18. To whom doth he look, and who is his strength?
1060 …n them that fear him, he is their powerful protector, and strong stay, a defence from the heat, an…
1061 …ation from stumbling, and a help from falling: he raiseth up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes, …
1062 …34:21. The offering of him that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, is stained, and the mock…
1063  34:22. The Lord is only for them that wait upon him in the way of truth and justice.
1068  34:27. He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire, are brothers.
1069  34:28. When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have they but the labour?
1070  34:29. When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God hear?
1072 …34:31. So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again, what doth his humbling himself…
1074 …35:2. It is a wholesome sacrifice to take heed to the commandments, and to depart from all iniquit…
1075 …35:3. And to depart from injustice, is to offer a propitiatory sacrifice for injustices, and a beg…
1076  35:4. He shall return thanks, that offereth fine flour: and he that doth mercy, offereth sacrifice.
1077 …35:5. To depart from iniquity is that which pleaseth the Lord, and to depart from injustice, is an…
1080 …35:8. The oblation of the just maketh the altar fat, and is an odour of sweetness in the sight of …
1081  35:9. The sacrifice of the just is acceptable, and the Lord will not forget the memorial thereof.
1082  35:10. Give glory to God with a good heart: and diminish not the firstfruits of thy hands.
1083  35:11. In every gift shew a cheerful countenance, and sanctify thy tithes with joy.
1084 …35:12. Give to the most High according to what he hath given to thee, and with a good eye do accor…
1085  35:13. For the Lord maketh recompense, and will give thee seven times as much.
1087 …35:15. And look not upon an unjust sacrifice, for the Lord is judge, and there is not with him res…
1088 …35:16. The Lord will not accept any person against a poor man, and he will hear the prayer of him …
1090 …35:18. Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to f…
1091 …35:19. For from the cheek they go up even to heaven, and the Lord that heareth will not be delight…
1092 …35:20. He that adoreth God with joy, shall be accepted, and his prayer shall approach even to the …
1093 …im that humbleth himself, shall pierce the clouds: and till it come nigh he will not be comforted:…
1094 …35:22. And the Lord will not be slack, but will judge for the just, and will do judgment: and the …
1095 …eance to the Gentiles, till he have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptres…
1096 …. Till he have rendered to men according to their deeds: and according to the works of Adam, and a…
1097  35:25. Till he have judged the cause of his people, and he shall delight the just with his mercy.
1099  36:1. Have mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold us, and shew us the light of thy mercies:
1100 …ot sought after thee: that they may know that there is no God beside thee, and that they may shew …
1104  36:6. Renew thy signs, and work new miracles.
1105  36:7. Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm.
1106  36:8. Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath.
1107  36:9. Take away the adversary, and crush the enemy.
1108  36:10. Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works.
1109 …36:11. Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress…
1111 …Jacob: that they may know that there no God besides thee, and may declare thy great works: and tho…
1112 …36:14. Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou hast ra…
1114  36:16. Fill Sion with thy unspeakable words, and thy people with thy glory.
1115 …36:17. Give testimony to them that are thy creatures from the beginning, and raise up the propheci…
1116 …36:18. Reward them that patiently wait for thee, that thy prophets may be found faithful: and hear…
1117 …9. According to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, and direct us into the way of justice, and …
1119  36:21. The palate tasteth venison and the wise heart false speeches.
1120  36:22. A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will resist it.
1122 …36:24. The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband, and a man desireth nothing m…
1123 …36:25. If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is no…
1124 …36:26. He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and …
1125 …36:27. Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mo…
1126 …36:28. Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him, as…
1128  37:2. But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy.
1129 …37:3. O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulne…
1131 …37:5. There is a companion who condoleth with his friend for his belly's sake, and he will take up…
1132  37:6. Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of him in thy riches.
1133 …37:7. Consult not with him that layeth a snare for thee, and hide thy counsel from them that envy …
1136  37:10. Lest he thrust a stake into the ground, and say to thee:
1137  37:11. Thy way is good; and then stand on the other side to see what shall befall thee.
1142 …37:16. Whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou shalt stumble in the dark, will…
1146  37:20. In all thy works let the true word go before thee, and steady counsel before every action.
1147 …rise, good and evil, life and death: and the tongue is continually the ruler of them. There is a m…
1148  37:22. A skilful man hath taught many, and is sweet to his own soul.
1151 …37:25. There is a wise man that is wise to his own soul: and the fruit of his understanding is com…
1152  37:26. A wise man instructeth his own people, and the fruits of his understanding are faithful.
1153  37:27. A wise man shall be filled with blessings, and they that see shall praise him.
1155  37:29. A wise man shall inherit honour among his people, and his name shall live for ever.
1156  37:30. My son, prove thy soul in thy life: and if it be wicked, give it no power:
1157  37:31. For all things are not expedient for all, and every kind pleaseth not every soul.
1158  37:32. Be not greedy in any feasting, and pour not out thyself upon any meat:
1159  37:33. For in many meats there will be sickness, and greediness will turn to choler.
1162  38:2. For all healing is from God, and he shall receive gifts of the king.
1163 …38:3. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head, and in the sight of great men he shall be…
1164  38:4. The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
1166 …38:6. The virtue of these things is come to the knowledge of men, and the most High hath given kno…
1167 … shall cure and shall allay their pains, and of these the apothecary shall make sweet confections,…
1169  38:9. My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but pray to the Lord, and he shall heal thee.
1170  38:10. Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
1171 …38:11. Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give p…
1172  38:12. For the Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, for his works are necessary.
1174 …38:14. And they shall beseech the Lord, that he would prosper what they give for ease and remedy, …
1176 … tears over the dead, and begin to lament as if thou hadst suffered some great harm, and according…
1177 …38:17. And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in th…
1179 …38:19. For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart …
1180 …38:20. In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his he…
1181  38:21. Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
1182 …38:22. Forget it not: for there is no returning, and thou shalt do him no good, and shalt hurt thy…
1183  38:23. Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so: yesterday for me, and to day for thee.
1184 …38:24. When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, and comfort him in the departing of his…
1185 …38:25. The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall …
1186 … that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth the oxen therewith, and is o…
1187  38:27. He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.
1188 …and workmaster that laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual dili…
1189 …o doth the smith sitting by the anvil and considering the iron work. The vapour of the fire wastet…
1190 …38:30. The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vesse…
1191  38:31. He setteth his mind to finish his work, and his watching to polish them to perfection.
1192 …ng the wheel about with his feet, who is always carefully set to his work, and maketh all his work…
1193  38:33. He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet:
1194  38:34. He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.
1195  38:35. All these trust to their hands, and every one is wise in his own art.
1197 …38:37. And they shall not dwell, nor walk about therein, and they shall not go up into the assembl…
1198 …they shall not sit, and the ordinance of judgment they shall not understand, neither shall they de…
1199 …l strengthen the state of the world, and their prayer shall be in the work of their craft, applyin…
1200 …39:1. The wise man will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, and will be occupied in the proph…
1201 …39:2. He will keep the sayings of renowned men, and will enter withal into the subtilties of parab…
1202 …39:3. He will search out the hidden meanings of proverbs, and will be conversant in the secrets of…
1203  39:4. He shall serve among great men, and appear before the governor.
1204  39:5. He shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and evil among men.
1205 …39:6. He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and he will pray in the si…
1206  39:7. He will open his mouth in prayer, and will make supplication for his sins.
1208 …39:9. And he will pour forth the words of his wisdom as showers, and in his prayer he will confess…
1209  39:10. And he shall direct his counsel, and his knowledge, and in his secrets shall he meditate.
1210 …39:11. He shall shew forth the discipline he hath learned, and shall glory in the law of the coven…
1211  39:12. Many shall praise his wisdom, and it shall never be forgotten.
1212 …39:13. The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be in request from generation t…
1213  39:14. Nations shall declare his wisdom, and the church shall shew forth his praise.
1214 …39:15. If he continue, he shall leave a name above a thousand: and if he rest, it shall be to his …
1216 …39:17. By a voice he saith: Hear me, ye divine offspring, and bud forth as the rose planted by the…
1218 …. Send forth flowers, as the lily, and yield a smell, and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise …
1219 …20. Magnify his name, and give glory to him with the voice of your lips, and with the canticles of…
1221 …39:22. At his word the waters stood as a heap: and at the words of his mouth the receptacles of wa…
1222  39:23. For at his commandment favour is shewn, and there is no diminishing of his salvation.
1223  39:24. The works of all flesh are before him, and there is nothing hid from his eyes.
1224  39:25. He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing wonderful before him.
1228 …39:29. Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was made dry: and his ways were…
1229 …39:30. Good things were created for the good from the beginning, so for the wicked, good and evil …
1230 …ife of men, are water, fire, and iron, salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey, and the cluster …
1231 …39:32. All these things shall be for good to the holy, so to the sinners and the ungodly they shal…
1232 …39:33. There are spirits that are created for vengeance, and in their fury they lay on grievous to…
1233 …39:34. In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and they shall appease the wrat…
1234  39:35. Fire, hail, famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance.
1235 …39:36. The teeth of beasts, and scorpions, and serpents, and the sword taking vengeance upon the u…
1236 …39:37. In his commandments they shall feast, and they shall be ready upon earth when need is, and …
1237 …:38. Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and I have meditated, and thought on these thing…
1238  39:39. All the works of the Lord are good, and he will furnish every work in due time.
1240  39:41. Now therefore with the whole heart and mouth praise ye him, and bless the name of the Lord.
1241 …40:1. Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the …
1242 …40:2. Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of …
1243  40:3. From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:
1244 …e, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unqu…
1246  40:6. A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch.
1247 …he had escaped in the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and wondereth that ther…
1248  40:8. Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon sinners are sevenfold more.
1249 …40:9. Moreover, death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, oppressions, famine, and affliction, and …
1250  40:10. All these things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes came the flood.
1251 …40:11. All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall ret…
1252  40:12. All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for ever.
1253 …40:13. The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise l…
1255 …40:15. The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as uncle…
1256 …40:16. The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before …
1257  40:17. Grace is like a paradise in blessings, and mercy remaineth for ever.
1258 …40:18. The life of a laborer that is content with what he hath, shall be sweet, and in it thou sha…
1259 …40:19. Children, and the building of a city shall establish a name, but a blameless wife shall be …
1260  40:20. Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both.
1261  40:21. The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
1262  40:22. Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green sown fields.
1263 …40:23. A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them both is a wife with her h…
1265  40:25. Gold and silver make the feet stand sure: but wise counsel is above them both.
1266  40:26. Riches and strength lift up the heart: but above these is the fear of the Lord.
1267  40:27. There is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek for help.
1268 …40:28. The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they have covered it above all glo…
1271  40:31. But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself.
1274 …41:2. To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able …
1275 …41:3. O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength failet…
1276 …41:4. Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that …
1277 …41:5. Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall c…
1280 …41:8. The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the hou…
1281 …41:9. The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a…
1284 …41:12. And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall …
1287 … a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.
1289 …41:17. My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not s…
1292 …41:20. For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opin…
1293 …41:21. Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a ma…
1294  41:22. Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:
1295  41:23. Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,
1296 …41:24. Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, a…
1297 …41:25. Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy …
1298  41:26. Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.
1299 …41:27. Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach n…
1300  41:28. Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not.
1301 …and disclose not the thing that is secret; so shalt thou be truly without confusion, and shalt fin…
1302  42:2. Of the law of the most High, and of his covenant, and of judgment to justify the ungodly:
1303  42:3. Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of the inheritance of friends:
1304  42:4. Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little:
1305 …42:5. Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to ma…
1307 …42:7. Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put a…
1308 … to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be w…
1309 … when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass…
1310 …0. In her virginity, lest she should be corrupted, and be found with child in her father's house: …
1311 … thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the pe…
1312  42:12. Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not among women.
1313  42:13. For from garments cometh a moth, and from a woman the iniquity of a man.
1314 …er is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproa…
1315 …42:15. I will now remember the works of the Lord, and I will declare the things I have seen. By th…
1316 …42:16. The sun giving light hath looked upon all things, and full of the glory of the Lord is his …
1318  42:18. He hath searched out the deep, and the heart of men: and considered their crafty devices.
1319 …eth all knowledge, and hath beheld the signs of the world, he declareth the things that are past, …
1320  42:20. No thought escapeth him, and no word can hide itself from him.
1321 …1. He hath beautified the glorious works of his wisdom: and he is from eternity to eternity, and t…
1322  42:22. Nor can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor.
1323  42:23. O how desirable are all his works, and what we can know is but as a spark!
1324  42:24. All these things live, and remain for ever, and for every use all things obey him.
1325  42:25. All things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective.
1329 …43:3. At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat? As one keeping a furnace i…
1330 …43:4. The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining…
1331  43:5. Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course.
1332  43:6. And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world.
1337  43:11. By the words of the holy one they stand in judgment, and shall never fall in their watches.
1338  43:12. Look upon the rainbow, and bless him that made it: it is very beautiful in its brightness.
1340 …43:14. By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnin…
1341  43:15. Through this are the treasures opened, and the clouds fly out like birds.
1342  43:16. By his greatness he hath fixed the clouds, and the hailstones are broken.
1343  43:17. At his sight shall the mountains be shaken, and at his will the south wind shall blow.
1344 …43:18. The noise of his thunder shall strike the earth, so doth the northern storm, and the whirlw…
1345 …43:19. And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is a…
1346 …43:20. The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the…
1347 …43:21. He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the …
1348 …e cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into crystal; upon every gathering together …
1349 …43:23. And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green a…
1350 …43:24. A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the …
1351 …43:25. At his word the wind is still, and with his thought he appeaseth the deep, and the Lord hat…
1352 …43:26. Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and when we hear with our ears, we…
1353 …43:27. There are great and wonderful works: a variety of beasts, and of all living things, and the…
1354 …43:28. Through him is established the end of their journey, and by his word all things are regulat…
1355  43:29. We shall say much, and yet shall want words: but the sum of our words is, He is all.
1357  43:31. The Lord is terrible, and exceeding great, and his power is admirable.
1358 …43:32. Glorify the Lord as much as ever you can, for he will yet far exceed, and his magnificence …
1360 …43:34. When you exalt him put forth all your strength, and be not weary: for you can never go far …
1361  43:35. Who shall see him, and declare him? and who shall magnify him as he is from the beginning?
1363  43:37. But the Lord hath made all things, and to the godly he hath given wisdom.
1364  44:1. Let us now praise men of renown and our fathers in their generation.
1366 …44:3. Such as have borne rule in their dominions, men of great power, and endued with their wisdom…
1367 …44:4. And ruling over the present people, and by the strength of wisdom instructing the people in …
1368  44:5. Such as by their skill sought out musical tunes, and published canticles of the scriptures.
1370  44:7. All these have gained glory in their generations, and were praised in their days.
1372 …rial: who are perished, as if they had never been: and are become as if they had never been born, …
1375  44:12. Their posterity are a holy inheritance, and their seed hath stood in the covenants.
1376 …44:13. And their children for their sakes remain for ever: their seed and their glory shall not be…
1377  44:14. Their bodies are buried in peace, and their name liveth unto generation and generation.
1378  44:15. Let the people shew forth their wisdom, and the church declare their praise.
1379 …44:16. Henoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he may give repentance to the na…
1380  44:17. Noe was found perfect, just, and in the time of wrath he was made a reconciliation.
1383 …ther of a multitude of nations, and there was not found the like to him in glory, who kept the law…
1384  44:21. In his flesh he established the covenant, and in temptation he was found faithful.
1386 …44:23. And that he would exalt his seed as the stars, and they should inherit from sea to sea, and…
1388 …44:25. The Lord gave him the blessing of all nations, and confirmed his covenant upon the head of …
1389 …44:26. He acknowledged him in his blessings, and gave him an inheritance, and divided him his port…
1391  45:1. Moses was beloved of God, and men: whose memory is in benediction.
1392 …45:2. He made him like the saints in glory, and magnified him in the fear of his enemies, and with…
1393 …45:3. He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments in the sight of his people…
1394  45:4. He sanctified him in his faith, and meekness, and chose him out of all flesh.
1395  45:5. For he heard him, and his voice, and brought him into a cloud.
1396 …ve him commandments before his face, and a law of life and instruction, that he might teach Jacob …
1397  45:7. He exalted Aaron his brother, and like to himself of the tribe of Levi:
1398 …45:8. He made an everlasting covenant with him, and gave him the priesthood of the nation, and mad…
1399 …45:9. And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and cr…
1400 …45:10. He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him wit…
1401 …45:11. That as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple,…
1402 …5:12. He gave him a holy robe of gold, and blue, and purple, a woven work of a wise man, endued wi…
1403 …45:13. Of twisted scarlet the work of an artist, with precious stones cut and set in gold, and gra…
1404 …tre wherein was engraved Holiness, an ornament of honour: a work of power, and delightful to the e…
1406 …45:16. No stranger was ever clothed with them, but only his children alone, and his grandchildren …
1408  45:18. Moses filled his hands and anointed him with holy oil.
1409 …n everlasting testament, and to his seed as the days of heaven, to execute the office of the pries…
1410 …45:20. He chose him out of all men living, to offer sacrifice to God, incense, and a good savour, …
1411 …he covenants of his judgments, that he should teach Jacob his testimonies, and give light to Israe…
1412 …ers stood up against him, and through envy the men that were with Dathan and Abiron, compassed him…
1413  45:23. The Lord God saw and it pleased him not, and they were consumed in his wrathful indignation.
1414  45:24. He wrought wonders upon them, and consumed them with a flame of fire.
1415 …45:25. And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and divided unto him the firstfru…
1416 …fulness: for the sacrifices also of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave to him, and to his seed.
1417 … inherit among the people in the land, and he hath no portion among the people: for he himself is …
1419 …45:29. And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the goodness and readiness of his so…
1420 …eace, to be the prince of the sanctuary, and of his people, that the dignity of priesthood should …
1421 …o him and to his seed, that he might give wisdom into our heart to judge his people in justice, th…
1424 …46:3. How great glory did he gain when he lifted up his hands, and stretched out swords against th…
1426  46:5. Was not the sun stopped in his anger, and one day made as two?
1427 …e most high Sovereign when the enemies assaulted him on every side, and the great and holy God hea…
1428 …46:7. He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed…
1430 … did a work of mercy, he and Caleb the son of Jephone, in standing against the enemy, and withhold…
1431 … men on foot, to bring them into their inheritance, into the land that floweth with milk and honey.
1432 … strength also to Caleb, and his strength continued even to his old age, so that he went up to the…
1435  46:14. That their memory might be blessed, and their bones spring up out of their place,
1437 …f the Lord, the beloved of the Lord his God, established a new government, and anointed princes ov…
1438 …46:17. By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the God of Jacob beheld, and by his …
1441  46:20. And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise made his voice to be heard.
1442  46:21. And he crushed the princes of the Tyrians, and all the lords of the Philistines:
1443 …he protested before the Lord, and his anointed: money, or any thing else, even to a shoe, he had n…
1444 …46:23. And after this he slept, and he made known to the king, and shewed him the end of his life,…
1447 …47:3. He played with lions as with lambs: and with bears he did in like manner as with the lambs o…
1448  47:4. Did not he kill the giant, and take away reproach from his people?
1450 …he called upon the Lord the Almighty, and he gave strength in his right hand, to take away the mig…
1451 …47:7. So in ten thousand did he glorify him, and praised him in the blessings of the Lord, in offe…
1452 …47:8. For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and extirpated the Philistines the adversaries u…
1453  47:9. In all his works he gave thanks to the holy one, and to the most High, with words of glory.
1454 …47:10. With his whole heart he praised the Lord, and loved God that made him: and he gave him powe…
1455  47:11. And he set singers before the altar, and by their voices he made sweet melody.
1456 … he added beauty, and set in order the solemn times even to the end of his life, that they should …
1457 …47:13. The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his horn for ever: and he gave him a covenant of t…
1458  47:14. After him arose up a wise son, and for his sake he cast down all the power of the enemies.
1459 …olomon reigned in days of peace, and God brought all his enemies under him, that he might build a …
1460  47:16. And thou wast filled as a river with wisdom, and thy soul covered the earth.
1461 …multiply riddles in parables: thy name went abroad to the islands far off, and thou wast beloved i…
1462 …47:18. The countries wondered at thee for thy canticles, and proverbs, and parables, and interpret…
1464  47:20. Thou didst gather gold as copper, and didst multiply silver as lead,
1465  47:21. And thou didst bow thyself to women: and by thy body thou wast brought under subjection.
1466 …47:22. Thou hast stained thy glory, and defiled thy seed so as to bring wrath upon thy children, a…
1467 …47:23. That thou shouldst make the kingdom to be divided, and out of Ephraim a rebellious kingdom …
1468 …e off his mercy, and he will not destroy, nor abolish his own works, neither will he cut up by the…
1469  47:25. Wherefore he gave a remnant to Jacob, and to David of the same stock.
1473 …And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin, and th…
1475 …47:31. And they sought out all iniquities, till vengeance came upon them, and put an end to all th…
1476  48:1. And Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like a torch.
1477 …48:2. He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked him in their envy, were reduced to a s…
1478  48:3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and he brought down fire from heaven thrice.
1481 …48:6. Who broughtest down kings to destruction, and brokest easily their power in pieces, and the …
1482  48:7. Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the judgments of vengeance.
1483  48:8. Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets successors after thee.
1485 …se the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the trib…
1486  48:11. Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship.
1488 …indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spirit was filled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared …
1489  48:14. No word could overcome him, and after death his body prophesied.
1490  48:15. In his life he did great wonders, and in death he wrought miracles.
1491 …her did they depart from their sins till they were cast out of their land, and were scattered thro…
1492  48:17. And there was left but a small people, and a prince in the house of David.
1494 …48:19. Ezechias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst thereof, and he digged a r…
1495 …ays Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and lifted up his hand against them, and he stretched …
1496  48:21. Then their hearts and hands trembled, and they were in pain as women in travail.
1497 …nd they called upon the Lord who is merciful, and spreading their hands, they lifted them up to he…
1499  48:24. He overthrew the army of the Assyrians, and the angel of the Lord destroyed them.
1500 …ias did that which pleased God, and walked valiantly in the way of David his father, which Isaias,…
1501  48:26. In his days the sun wen backward, and he lengthened the king's life.
1502 …48:27. With a great spirit he saw the things that are to come to pass at last, and comforted the m…
1503  48:28. He showed what should come to pass for ever, and secret things before they came.
1505  49:2. His remembrance shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, and as music at a banquet of wine.
1506 …49:3. He was directed by God unto the repentance of the nation, and he took away the abominations …
1507 …49:4. And he directed his heart towards the Lord, and in the days of sinners he strengthened godli…
1508  49:5. Except David, and Ezechias and Josias, all committed sin.
1509  49:6. For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the most High, and despised the fear of God.
1510  49:7. So they gave their kingdom to others, and their glory to a strange nation,
1511 …49:8. They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to t…
1512 …ed a prophet from his mother's womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build again, …
1514 …49:11. For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of rain, and of doing good to them that…
1515 …twelve prophets spring up out of their place: for they strengthened Jacob, and redeemed themselves…
1517 …49:14. In like manner Jesus the son of Josedec who in their days built the house, and set up a hol…
1518 …remembered, who raised up for us our walls that were cast down, and set up the gates and the bars,…
1521  49:18. And his bones were visited, and after death they prophesied.
1522  49:19. Seth and Sem obtained glory among men: and above every soul Adam in the beginning,
1523 …50:1. Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped up the house, and in his da…
1524 …50:2. By him also the height of the temple was founded, the double building and the high walls of …
1525  50:3. In his days the wells of water flowed out, and they were filled as the sea above measure.
1526  50:4. He took care of his nation, and delivered it from destruction.
1527 …ailed to enlarge the city, and obtained glory in his conversation with the people: and enlarged th…
1528 …50:6. He shone in his days as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as the moon at the ful…
1530 …ht in bright clouds, and as the flower of roses in the days of the spring, and as the lilies that …
1531  50:9. As a bright fire, and frankincense burning in the fire.
1533 …11. As an olive tree budding forth, and a cypress tree rearing itself on high, when he put on the …
1535 …he himself stood by the altar. And about him was the ring of his brethren: and as the cedar plante…
1536 …50:14. And as branches of palm trees, they stood round about him, and all the sons of Aaron in the…
1537 …50:15. And the oblation of the Lord was in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel: and…
1538  50:16. He stretched forth his hand to make a libation, and offered of the blood of the grape.
1540 …50:18. Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded with beaten trumpets, and made a great noise t…
1541 …n all the people together made haste, and fell down to the earth upon their faces, to adore the Lo…
1542 …50:20. And the singers lifted up their voices, and in the great house the sound of sweet melody wa…
1543 …ought the Lord the most High, until the worship of the Lord was perfected, and they had finished t…
1544 …ongregation of the children of Israel, to give glory to God with his lips, and to glory in his nam…
1546 …ings in all the earth, who hath increased our days from our mother's womb, and hath done with us a…
1547  50:25. May he grant us joyfulness of heart, and that there be peace in our days in Israel for ever:
1549  50:27. There are two nations which my soul abhorreth: and the third is no nation: which I hate:
1550 …50:28. They that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Sich…
1551 …50:29. Jesus the son of Sirach, of Jerusalem, hath written in this book the doctrine of wisdom and…
1552 …50:30. Blessed is he that is conversant in these good things and he that layeth them up in his hea…
1554 …51:1. A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach. I will give glory to thee, O Lord, O King, and I will p…
1555  51:2. I will give glory to thy name: for thou hast been a helper and protector to me.
1556 …rom destruction, from the snare of an unjust tongue, and from the lips of them that forge lies, an…
1558 …51:5. Out of the hands of them that sought my life, and from the gates of afflictions, which compa…
1559 …51:6. From the oppression of the flame which surrounded me, and in the midst of the fire I was not…
1560 …. From the depth of the belly of hell, and from an unclean tongue, and from lying words, from an u…
1563 …:10. They compassed me on every side, and there was no one that would help me. I looked for the su…
1564  51:11. I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and thy works, which are from the beginning of the world.
1565 …51:12. How thou deliverest them that wait for thee, O Lord, and savest them out of the hands of th…
1566  51:13. Thou hast exalted my dwelling place upon the earth and I have prayed for death to pass away.
1567 …he father of my Lord, that he would not leave me in the day of my trouble, and in the time of the …
1568 …51:15. I will praise thy name continually, and will praise it with thanksgiving, and my prayer was…
1569  51:16. And thou hast saved me from destruction, and hast delivered me from the evil time.
1570  51:17. Therefore I will give thanks, and praise thee, and bless the name of the Lord.
1572 …51:19. I prayed for her before the temple, and unto the very end I will seek after her, and she fl…
1574  51:21. I bowed down my ear a little, and received her.
1575  51:22. I found much wisdom in myself, and profited much therein.
1577 …51:24. For I have determined to follow her: I have had a zeal for good, and shall not be confounde…
1578  51:25. My soul hath wrestled for her, and in doing it I have been confirmed.
1579  51:26. I stretched forth my hands on high, and I bewailed my ignorance of her.
1580  51:27. I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge I found her.
1583  51:30. The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward: and with it I will praise him.
1584  51:31. Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather yourselves together into the hours of discipline.
1585  51:32. Why are ye slow and what do you say of these things? your souls are exceeding thirsty.
1586  51:33. I have opened my mouth, and have spoken: buy her for yourselves without silver,
1587 …51:34. And submit your neck to the yoke, and let your soul receive discipline: for she is near at …
1588  51:35. Behold with your eyes how I have laboured a little, and have found much rest to myself.
1589  51:36. Receive ye discipline as a great sum of money, and possess abundance of gold by her.
1590  51:37. Let your soul rejoice in his mercy and you shall not be confounded in his praise.
1591  51:38. Work your work before the time, and he will give you your reward in his time.