Sir 42:1 Of these things be not thou ashamed,
and accept no person to sin thereby:
Sir 42:2 Of the law of the most High, and his covenant; and of judgment to
justify the ungodly;
Sir 42:3 Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift of
the heritage of friends;
Sir 42:4 Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or little;
Sir 42:5 And of merchants' indifferent selling; of much correction of
children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.
Sir 42:6 Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where
many hands are.
Sir 42:7 Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in writing
that thou givest out, or receivest in.
Sir 42:8 Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme
aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus shalt thou be truly
learned, and approved of all men living.
Sir 42:9 The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; and the
care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass away the
flower of her age; and being married, lest she should be hated:
Sir 42:10 In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with child
in her father's house; and having an husband, lest she should misbehave
herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren.
Sir 42:11 Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a
laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach
among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.
Sir 42:12 Behold not every body's beauty, and sit not in the midst of women.
Sir 42:13 For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness.
Sir 42:14 Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a
woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.
Sir 42:15 I will now remember the works of the Lord, and declare the things
that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works.
Sir 42:16 The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work
thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.
Sir 42:17 The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his
marvellous works, which the Almighty Lord firmly settled, that whatsoever is
might be established for his glory.
Sir 42:18 He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth their
crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and he beholdeth
the signs of the world.
Sir 42:19 He declareth the things that are past, and for to come, and
revealeth the steps of hidden things.
Sir 42:20 No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him.
Sir 42:21 He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom, and he is
from everlasting to everlasting: unto him may nothing be added, neither can
he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor.
Sir 42:22 Oh how desirable are all his works! and that a man may see even to
a spark.
Sir 42:23 All these things live and remain for ever for all uses, and they
are all obedient.
Sir 42:24 All things are double one against another: and he hath made
nothing imperfect.
Sir 42:25 One thing establisheth the good or another: and who shall be
filled with beholding his glory?