BenSira:38

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* Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him : for the Lord hath created him . * For of the most High cometh healing , and he shall receive honour of the king . * The skill of the physician shall lift up his head : and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration . * The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth ; and he that is wise will not abhor them . * Was not the water made sweet with wood , that the virtue thereof might be known ? * And he hath given men skill , that he might be honoured in his marvellous works . * With such doth he heal [men ,] and taketh away their pains . * Of such doth the apothecary make a confection ; and of his works there is no end ; and from him is peace over all the earth , * My son , in thy sickness be not negligent : but pray unto the Lord , and he will make thee whole . * Leave off from sin , and order thine hands aright , and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness . * Give a sweet savour , and a memorial of fine flour ; and make a fat offering , as not being . * Then give place to the physician , for the Lord hath created him : let him not go from thee , for thou hast need of him . * There is a time when in their hands there is good success . * For they shall also pray unto the Lord , that he would prosper that , which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life . * He that sinneth before his Maker , let him fall into the hand of the physician . * My son , let tears fall down over the dead , and begin to lament , as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself ; and then cover his body according to the custom , and neglect not his burial . * Weep bitterly , and make great moan , and use lamentation , as he is worthy , and that a day or two , lest thou be evil spoken of : and then comfort thyself for thy heaviness . * For of heaviness cometh death , and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength . * In affliction also sorrow remaineth : and the life of the poor is the curse of the heart . * Take no heaviness to heart : drive it away , and member the last end . * Forget it not , for there is no turning again : thou shalt not do him good , but hurt thyself . * Remember my judgment : for thine also shall be so ; yesterday for me , and to day for thee . * When the dead is at rest , let his remembrance rest ; and be comforted for him , when his Spirit is departed from him . * The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure : and he that hath little business shall become wise . * How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough , and that glorieth in the goad , that driveth oxen , and is occupied in their labours , and whose talk is of bullocks ? * He giveth his mind to make furrows ; and is diligent to give the kine fodder . * So every carpenter and workmaster , that laboureth 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 : * The smith also sitting by the anvil , and considering the iron work , the vapour of the fire wasteth 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 still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh ; he setteth his mind to finish his work , and watcheth to polish it perfectly : * So doth the potter sitting at his work , and turning the wheel about with his feet , who is alway carefully set at his work , and maketh all his work by number ; * He fashioneth the clay with his arm , and boweth down his strength before his feet ; he applieth himself to lead it over ; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace : * All these trust to their hands : and every one is wise in his work . * Without these cannot a city be inhabited : and they shall not dwell where they will , nor go up and down : * They shall not be sought for in publick counsel , nor sit high in the congregation : 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 . * But they will maintain the state of the world , and [all ] their desire is in the work of their craft .

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