Sirach 42 — UBES
42Verse 1Of these things be not thou ashamed,
And accept no person to sin thereby:
Verse 2Of the law of the most High, and his covenant;
And of judgment to justify the ungodly;
Verse 3Of reckoning with thy partners and travelers;
Or of the gift of the heritage of friends;
Verse 4Of exactness of balance and weights;
Or of getting much or little;
Verse 5And of merchants’ indifferent selling;
Of much correction of children;
And to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.Verse 6Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is;
And locked up, where many hands are.
Verse 7Deliver all things in number and weight;
And put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.
Verse 8Be 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.Verse 9A daughter is a wakeful care to a father;
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:
Verse 10In her virginity, lest she should be defiled
And gotten with child in her father’s house;
And having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself;
And when she is married, lest she should be barren.
Verse 11Keep 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.
Verse 12Behold not everybody’s beauty,
And sit not in the midst of women.
Verse 13For from garments cometh a moth,
And from women wickedness.
Verse 14Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman,
A woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.Verse 15I 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.
Verse 16The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things,
And the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.Verse 17The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvelous works,
Which the Almighty Lord firmly settled,
That whatsoever is might be established for his glory.
Verse 18He seeketh out the deep, and the heart,
And considereth their crafty devices:
For the Lord knoweth all that can be known,
And he beholdeth the signs of the world,
Verse 19Declaring the things that are past, and for to come,
And revealing the steps of hidden things.
Verse 20No thought escapeth him,
Neither any word is hidden from him.Verse 21He 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 counselor.
Verse 22Oh how desirable are all his works!
And that a man may see even to a spark.
Verse 23All these things live and remain forever for all uses,
And they are all obedient.
Verse 24All things are double one against another:
And he hath made nothing imperfect.
Verse 25One thing establisheth the good of another:
And who shall be filled with beholding his glory?
And accept no person to sin thereby:
Verse 2Of the law of the most High, and his covenant;
And of judgment to justify the ungodly;
Verse 3Of reckoning with thy partners and travelers;
Or of the gift of the heritage of friends;
Verse 4Of exactness of balance and weights;
Or of getting much or little;
Verse 5And of merchants’ indifferent selling;
Of much correction of children;
And to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.Verse 6Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is;
And locked up, where many hands are.
Verse 7Deliver all things in number and weight;
And put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.
Verse 8Be 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.Verse 9A daughter is a wakeful care to a father;
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:
Verse 10In her virginity, lest she should be defiled
And gotten with child in her father’s house;
And having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself;
And when she is married, lest she should be barren.
Verse 11Keep 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.
Verse 12Behold not everybody’s beauty,
And sit not in the midst of women.
Verse 13For from garments cometh a moth,
And from women wickedness.
Verse 14Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman,
A woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.Verse 15I 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.
Verse 16The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things,
And the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.Verse 17The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvelous works,
Which the Almighty Lord firmly settled,
That whatsoever is might be established for his glory.
Verse 18He seeketh out the deep, and the heart,
And considereth their crafty devices:
For the Lord knoweth all that can be known,
And he beholdeth the signs of the world,
Verse 19Declaring the things that are past, and for to come,
And revealing the steps of hidden things.
Verse 20No thought escapeth him,
Neither any word is hidden from him.Verse 21He 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 counselor.
Verse 22Oh how desirable are all his works!
And that a man may see even to a spark.
Verse 23All these things live and remain forever for all uses,
And they are all obedient.
Verse 24All things are double one against another:
And he hath made nothing imperfect.
Verse 25One thing establisheth the good of another:
And who shall be filled with beholding his glory?