en_cepher - Sir 29 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ HE that is merciful will lend unto his neighbor; and he that strengthens his hand keeps the commandments.

² Lend to your neighbor in time of his need, and pay your neighbor again in due season.

³ Keep your word, and deal faithfully with him, and you shall always find the thing that is necessary for you.

⁴ Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, and put them to trouble that helped them.

⁵ Till he has received, he will kiss a man's hand; and for his neighbor's money he will speak submissively: but when he should repay, he will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and complain of the time.

⁶ If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half, and he will count as if he had found it: if not, he has deprived him of his money, and he has gotten him an enemy without cause: he pays him with cursings and railings; and for honor he will pay him disgrace.

⁷ Many therefore have refused to lend for other men's ill dealing, fearing to be defrauded.

⁸ Yet have you patience with a man in poor estate, and delay not to show him mercy.

⁹ Help the poor for the commandment's sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.

¹⁰ Lose your money for your brother and your friend, and let it not rust under a stone to be lost.

¹¹ Lay up your treasure according to the commandments of El Elyon, and it shall bring you more profit than gold.

¹² Shut up alms in your storehouses: and it shall deliver you from all affliction.

¹³ It shall fight for you against your enemies better than a mighty shield and strong spear.

¹⁴ An honest man is surety for his neighbor: but he that is impudent will forsake him.

¹⁵ Forget not the friendship of your surety, for he has given his life for you.

¹⁶ A sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety:

¹⁷ And he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him in danger that delivered him.

¹⁸ Suretiship has undone many of good estate, and shaken them as a wave of the sea: mighty men has it driven from their houses, so that they wandered among strange nations.

¹⁹ A wicked man transgressing the commandments of Yahuah shall fall into suretiship: and he that undertakes and follows other men's business for gain shall fall into suits.

²⁰ Help your neighbor according to your power, and beware that you yourself fall not into the same.

²¹ The chief thing for life is water, and bread, and clothing, and a house to cover shame.

²² Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man's house.

²³ Be it little or much, hold you contented, that you hear not the reproach of your house.

²⁴ For it is a miserable life to go from house to house: for where you are a stranger, you dare not open your mouth.

²⁵ You shall entertain, and feast, and have no thanks: moreover you shall hear bitter words:

²⁶ Come, you stranger, and furnish a table, and feed me of that you have ready.

²⁷ Give place, you stranger, to an honorable man; my brother comes to be lodged, and I have need of my house.

²⁸ These things are grievous to a man of understanding; the upbraiding of houseroom, and reproaching of the lender.