en_cepher - Sir 22 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ A SLOTHFUL man is compared to a filthy stone, and everyone will hiss him out to his disgrace.

² A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up will shake his hand.

³ An evilnurtured man is the dishonor of his father that begat him: and a foolish daughter is born to his loss.

⁴ A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her man: but she that lives dishonestly is her father's heaviness.

⁵ She that is bold dishonors both her father and her man, but they both shall despise her.

⁶ A tale out of season is as music in mourning: but stripes and correction of wisdom are never out of time.

⁷ Whoso teaches a fool is as one that glues a potsherd together, and as he that wakens one from a sound sleep.

⁸ He that tells a tale to a fool speaks to one in a slumber: when he has told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?

⁹ If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall cover the baseness of their parents.

¹⁰ But children, being haughty, through disdain and want of nurture do stain the nobility of their kindred.

¹¹ Weep for the dead, for he has lost the light: and weep for the fool, for he wants understanding: make little weeping for the dead, for he is at rest: but the life of the fool is worse than death.

¹² Seven days do men mourn for him that is dead; but for a fool and a wicked man all the days of his life.

¹³ Talk not much with a fool, and go not to him that has no understanding: be ware of him, lest you have trouble, and you shall never be defiled with his fooleries: depart from him, and you shall find rest, and never be disquieted with madness.

¹⁴ What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but a fool?

¹⁵ Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, is easier to bear, than a man without understanding.

¹⁶ As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel shall fear at no time.

¹⁷ A heart settled upon a thought of understanding is as a fair plaistering on the wall of a gallery.

¹⁸ Pales set on a high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any fear.

¹⁹ He that pricks the eye will make tears to fall: and he that pricks the heart makes it to show her knowledge.

²⁰ Whoso casts a stone at the birds frays them away: and he that upbraids his friend breaks friendship.

²¹ Though you drew a sword at your friend, yet despair not: for there may be a returning to favor.

²² If you have opened your mouth against your friend, fear not; for there may be a reconciliation: except for upbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for for these things every friend will depart.

²³ Be faithful to your neighbor in his poverty, that you may rejoice in his prosperity: abide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that you may be heir with him in his heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be contemned: nor the rich that is foolish to be had in admiration.

²⁴ As the vapor and smoke of a furnace goes before the fire; so reviling before blood.

²⁵ I will not be ashamed to defend a friend; neither will I hide myself from him.

²⁶ And if any evil happen unto me by him, everyone that hears it will be ware of him.

²⁷ Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seal of wisdom upon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?