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16 Let reafon go before ple, and his name fhall be every enterprise, and counfel before every action. 17 The countenance is fign of changing of the heart.

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27 ¶ My fon, prove thy foul in thy life, and fee what is evil for it, and give not that unto it.

18 Four manner of things appear: good and evil, life and death: but the tongue ruleth over them continual-in every thing.

28 For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath every foul pleasure

ly.

19 There is one that is wife and teacheth many, and yet is unprofitable to himfelf.

29 Be not unsatiable in any dainty thing, nor too greedy upon meats:

30 For excefs of meats bringeth fickness, and surfeit20 There is one that ing will turn into choler. fheweth wisdom in words, 31 By furfeiting have maand is hated he fhall be de-ny perifhed, but he that taftitute of all food.

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21 For grace is not given life. him from the Lord: because he is deprived of all wisdom. 22 Another is wife to himfelf: and the fruits of understanding are commendable in his mouth.

23 A wife man inftructeth his people, and the fruits of his understanding fail

not.

24 A wife man shall be filled with bleffing, and all they that see him fhall count him happy.

25 The days of the life of man may be numbered: but the days of Ifrael are innumerable.

26 A wife man fhall inherit glory among his peo

CHAP. XXXVIII.

HONOUR

a physician with the honour due unto him, for the uses which you may have of him for the Lord hath created him.

2 For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king.

3 The skill of the phyfician fhall lift up his head: and in the fight of great men he shall be in admiration.

4 The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth ; and he that is wife will not abhor them.

5 Was not the water

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made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?

6 And he hath given men fkill, that he might be honoured in his marvellous works.

7 With fuch doth he heal [men] and taketh away their pains.

8 Of fuch doth the ароthecary make a confection; and of his works there is no end, and from him is peace over all the earth.

9 My fon, in thy ficknefs be not negligent: but pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.

10 Leave off from fin, and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness.

II Give a fweet favour, and a memorial of fine flour: and make a fat offering, as not being.

12 Then give place to the phyfician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou haft need of him.

13 There is a time when in their hands there is good fuccefs:

14 For they fhall alfo pray unto the Lord, that he would profper that which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life.

15 He that finneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the phyfician.

16 My fon, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to lament, as if thouhadft fuffered great harm thyfelf: and then cover his body according to the cuf tom, and neglect not his bu-" rial.

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

18 For of heavinefs cometh death, and the heavinefs of the heart breaketh ftrength.

19 In affliction alfo forrow remaineth and the life of the poor is the curfe of the heart.

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

21 Forget it not, for there is no turning again : thou fhalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.

22 Remember my judgment: for thine alfo fhall be fo; yesterday for me, and to-day for thee.

23 When the dead is at reft, let his remembrance reft, and be comforted for

him, when his spirit is departed from him.

24 The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leifure: and he that hath little bufinefs fhall become wife.

ting at his work, and turning the wheel about with his feet, who is alway carefully fet at his work and maketh all his work by number.

30 He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth

25 How can he get wif-down his ftrength before his dom that holdeth the plough, feet: he applieth himself to and that glorieth in the goad; lead it over; and he is dilithat driveth oxen, and is oc- gent to make clean the furcupied in their labours, and nace. whofe talk is of bullocks ? 31 All these trust to their 26 He giveth his mind to hands and every one is make furrows: and is dili-wife in his work. gent to give the kine fodder.

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

27 So every carpenter and work-mafter that laboureth night and day and 33 They fhall not be they that cut and grave feals, fought for in publick counand are diligent to make fel, nor fit high in the congreat variety, and give gregation: they fhall not fit themselves to counterfeit i-on the judges feat, nor unmagery, and watch to finish a work.

28 The fmith alfo fitting by the anvil, and confidering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wafteth 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. ftill upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he fetteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polifh perfectly.

29 So doth the potter fit

derstand the sentence of judgment: they cannot declare juftice and judgment, and they fhall not be found where parables are fpoken.

34 But they will maintain the ftate of the world, and [all] their defire is in the work of their craft.

CHAP. XXXIX.

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all the ancient, and be occu- his memorial shall not depart pied in prophecies. away, and his name fhall live 2 He will keep the fay- from generation to generaings of the renowned mention. and where fubtile parables are, he will be there also.

3 He will feek out the fecrets of grave fentences, and be converfant in dark parables.

4 He fhall ferve among great men, and appear before princes: he will travel through ftrange countries, for he hath tried the good and the evil among men.

5 He will give his heart to refort early to the Lord that made him, and will pray before the most High, and will open his mouth in prayer, and make fupplication for his fins.

6 When the great Lord will, he fhall be filled with the spirit of understanding: he fhall pour out wife fentences, and give thanks unto the Lord in his prayer.

7 He fhall direct his counfel, and knowledge, and in his fecrets fhall he meditate.

8 He fhall fhew forth that which he hath learned, and fhall glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord.

9 Many fhall commend his understanding, and fo long as the world endureth, it fhall not be blotted out;

Io Nations fhall fhew forth his wifdom, and the congregation fhall declare his praife.

II If he die, he fhall leave a greater name than a thoufand: and if he live, he shall increase it.

12 Yet have I more to fay, which I have thought upon, for I am filled as the moon at the full.

13 Hearken unto me, ye holy children, and bud forth as a rofe growing by the brook of the field:

14 And give ye a sweet favour as frankincenfe, and flourish as a lily, fend forth a fmell, and fing a fong of praife, blefs the Lord in all his works.

15 Magnify his name, and thew forth his praife with the fongs of your lips, and with harps, and in praifing him ye fhall fay after this manner:

16 All the works of the Lord are exceeding good, and whatsoever he commandeth fhall be accomplished in due season.

17 And none may fay, What is this? wherefore is that? for at time convenient

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they fhall all be fought out: at his commandment the waters stood as an heap, and at the words of his mouth the receptacles of waters.

18 At his commandment is done whatsoever pleafeth him, and none can hinder when he will fave.

19 The works of all flesh are before him, and nothing can be hid from his eyes.

20 He feeth from everlafting to everlasting; and there is nothing wonderful before him.

21 A man need not to fay, What is this? wherefore is that? for he hath made all things for their uses.

22 His bleffing covered the dry land as a river, and watered it as a flood.

23 As he hath turned the waters into faltnefs: fo fhall the heathen inherit his wrath. 24 As his ways are plain unto the holy, fo are they ftumbling-blocks unto the wicked.

25 For the good are good things created from the beginning: fo evil things for finners.

26 The principal things for the whole ufe of man's life, are water, fire, iron, and falt, flour of wheat, honey, milk, and the blood of the

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28 There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in their fury lay on fore ftrokes; in the time of deftruction they pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them.

29 Fire and hail, and famine and death, all these were created for vengeance;

30 Teeth of wild beasts, and fcorpions, ferpents, and the fword, punishing the wicked to deftruction.

31 They fhall rejoice in his commandment, and they fhall be ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come they fhall not tranfgrefs his word.

32 Therefore from the beginning I was refolved, and thought upon thefe things, and have left them in writing.

33 All the works of the. Lord are good: and he will give every needful thing in due feafon.

34 So that a man cannot fay, This is worse than that for in time they fhall all be well approved.

35 And therefore praise Oo 3

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