en_cepher - Sir 38 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ HONOR a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for Yahuah has created him.

² For of El Elyon comes healing, and he shall receive honor of the king.

³ The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.

⁴ Yahuah has created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.

⁵ Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?

⁶ And he has given men skill, that he might be honored in his marvellous works.

⁷ With such he heals men, and takes away their pains.

⁸ Of such the apothecary makes a confection; and of his works there is no end; and from him is peace over all the earth,

⁹ My son, in your sickness be not negligent: but pray unto Yahuah, and he will make you whole.

¹⁰ Leave off from sin, and order your hands aright, and cleanse your heart from all wickedness.

¹¹ Give a sweet savor, and a memorial of fine flour; and make a fat offering, as not being.

¹² Then give place to the physician, for Yahuah has created him: let him not go from you, for you have need of him.

¹³ There is a time when in their hands there is good success.

¹⁴ For they shall also pray unto Yahuah, that he would prosper that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life.

¹⁵ He that sins before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician.

¹⁶ My son, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to lament, as if you had suffered great harm yourself; and then cover his body according to the custom, and neglect not his burial.

¹⁷ Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest you be evil spoken of: and then comfort yourself for your heaviness.

¹⁸ For of heaviness comes death, and the heaviness of the heart breaks strength.

¹⁹ In affliction also sorrow remains: and the life of the poor is the curse of the heart.

²⁰ Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and remember the last end.

²¹ Forget it not, for there is no turning again: you shall not do him good, but hurt yourself.

²² Remember my judgment: for you also shall be so; yesterday for me, and today for you.

²³ When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his ruach is departed from him.

²⁴ The wisdom of a learned man comes by opportunity of leisure: and he that has little business shall become wise.

²⁵ How can he get wisdom that holds the plow, and that glories in the goad, that drives oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks?

²⁶ He gives his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder.

²⁷ So every carpenter and workmaster, that labors 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:

²⁸ The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapor of the fire wastes his flesh, and he fights 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 makes; he sets his mind to finish his work, and watches to polish it perfectly:

²⁹ So does the potter sitting at his work, and turning the wheel about with his feet, who is always carefully set at his work, and makes all his work by number;

³⁰ He fashions the clay with his arm, and bows down his strength before his feet; he applies himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace:

³¹ All these trust to their hands: and everyone is wise in his work.

³² Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down:

³³ They shall not be sought for in public counsel, nor sit high in the assembly: 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.

³⁴ But they will maintain the state of the world, and all their desire is in the work of their craft.