Sir 41:16 Therefore be shamefaced according to my word: for it is not good to retain all shamefacedness; neither is it altogether approved in every thing.

Sir 41:17 Be ashamed of wh.o.r.edom before father and mother: and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;

Sir 41:18 Of an offence before a judge and ruler; of iniquity before a congregation and people; of unjust dealing before thy partner and friend;

Sir 41:19 And of theft in regard of the place where thou sojournest, and in regard of the truth of G.o.d and his covenant; and to lean with thine elbow upon the meat; and of scorning to give and take;

Sir 41:20 And of silence before them that salute thee; and to look upon an harlot;

Sir 41:21 And to turn away thy face from thy kinsman; or to take away a portion or a gift; or to gaze upon another man's wife.

Sir 41:22 Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed; or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast given, upbraid not;

Sir 41:23 Or of iterating and speaking again that which thou hast heard; and of revealing of secrets.

Sir 41:24 So shalt thou be truly shamefaced and find favour before all men.

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 unG.o.dly;

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 pa.s.s 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 mult.i.tude.

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?

Sir 43:1 The pride of the height, the clear firmament, the beauty of heaven, with his glorious shew;

Sir 43:2 The sun when it appeareth, declaring at his rising a marvellous instrument, the work of the most High:

Sir 43:3 At noon it parcheth the country, and who can abide the burning heat thereof?

Sir 43:4 A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, but the sun burneth the mountains three times more; breathing out fiery vapours, and sending forth bright beams, it dimmeth the eyes.

Sir 43:5 Great is the Lord that made it; and at his commandment runneth hastily.

Sir 43:6 He made the moon also to serve in her season for a declaration of times, and a sign of the world.

Sir 43:7 From the moon is the sign of feasts, a light that decreaseth in her perfection.

Sir 43:8 The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in her changing, being an instrument of the armies above, shining in the firmament of heaven;

Sir 43:9 The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars, an ornament giving light in the highest places of the Lord.

Sir 43:10 At the commandment of the Holy One they will stand in their order, and never faint in their watches.

Sir 43:11 Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.

Sir 43:12 It compa.s.seth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most High have bended it.

Sir 43:13 By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall aplace, and sendeth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.

Sir 43:14 Through this the treasures are opened: and clouds fly forth as fowls.

Sir 43:15 By his great power he maketh the clouds firm, and the hailstones are broken small.

Sir 43:16 At his sight the mountains are shaken, and at his will the south wind bloweth.