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Sirach
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Unverified edition · Chapter 38
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Sirach 38:1
Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.
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Sirach 38:2
For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king.
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Sirach 38:3
The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.
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Sirach 38:4
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
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Sirach 38:5
Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?
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Sirach 38:6
And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his marvellous works.
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Sirach 38:7
With such doth he heal men, and taketh away their pains.
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Sirach 38:8
Of such doth the apothecary make a confection; and of his works there is no end; and from him is peace over all the earth,
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Sirach 38:9
My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.
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Sirach 38:10
Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness.
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Sirach 38:11
Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour; and make a fat offering, as not being.
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Sirach 38:12
Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.
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Sirach 38:13
There is a time when in their hands there is good success.
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Sirach 38:14
For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life.
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Sirach 38:15
He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician.
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Sirach 38:16
My son, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself; and then cover his body according to the custom, and neglect not his burial.
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Sirach 38:17
Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of: and then comfort thyself for thy heaviness.
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Sirach 38:18
For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.
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Sirach 38:19
In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poor is the curse of the heart.
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Sirach 38:20
Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and remember the last end.
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Sirach 38:21
Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Sirach 38:22
Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so; yesterday for me, and to day for thee.
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Sirach 38:23
When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his Spirit is departed from him.
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Sirach 38:24
The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.
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Sirach 38:25
How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
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Sirach 38:26
He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder.
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Sirach 38:27
So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and watch to finish a work:
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Sirach 38:28
The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly:
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Sirach 38:29
So doth the potter sitting at his work, and turning the wheel about with his feet, who is alway carefully set at his work, and maketh all his work by number;
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Sirach 38:30
He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace:
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Sirach 38:31
All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his work.
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Sirach 38:32
Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down:
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Sirach 38:33
They shall not be sought for in publick counsel, nor sit high in the congregation: they shall not sit on the judges’ seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment: they cannot declare justice and judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.
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Sirach 38:34
But they will maintain the state of the world, and all their desire is in the work of their craft.
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