BenSira:42

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* Of these things be not thou ashamed , and accept no person to sin thereby : * Of the law of the most High , and his covenant ; and of judgment to justify the ungodly ; * Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers ; or of the gift of the heritage of friends ; * Of exactness of balance and weights ; or of getting much or little ; * And of merchants ' indifferent selling ; of much correction of children ; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed . * Sure keeping is good , where an evil wife is ; and shut up , where many hands are . * Deliver all things in number and weight ; and put all in writing that thou givest out , or receivest in . * Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish , and the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young : thus shalt thou be truly learned , and approved of all men living . * The father waketh for the daughter , when no man knoweth ; and the care for her taketh away sleep : when she is young , lest she pass away the flower of her age ; and being married , lest she should be hated : * In her virginity , lest she should be defiled and gotten with child in her father 's house ; and having an husband , lest she should misbehave herself ; and when she is married , lest she should be barren . * Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter , lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies , and a byword in the city , and a reproach among the people , and make thee ashamed before the multitude . * Behold not every body 's beauty , and sit not in the midst of women . * For from garments cometh a moth , and from women wickedness . * Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman , a woman , I say , which bringeth shame and reproach . * I will now remember the works of the Lord , and declare the things that I have seen : In the words of the Lord are his works . * The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things , and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord . * The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvellous works , which the Almighty Lord firmly settled , that whatsoever is might be established for his glory . * He seeketh out the deep , and the heart , and considereth their crafty devices : for the Lord knoweth all that may be known , and he beholdeth the signs of the world . * He declareth the things that are past , and for to come , and revealeth the steps of hidden things . * No thought escapeth him , neither any word is hidden from him . * He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom , and he is from everlasting to everlasting : unto him may nothing be added , neither can he be diminished , and he hath no need of any counsellor . * Oh how desirable are all his works ! and that a man may see even to a spark . * All these things live and remain for ever for all uses , and they are all obedient . * All things are double one against another : and he hath made nothing imperfect . * One thing establisheth the good or another : and who shall be filled with beholding his glory ?

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