THE WISDOME OF Iesus the sonne of Sirach, Or Ecclesiasticus. Chapter 15

(Original 1611 KJV Book of Ecclesiasticus)

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CHAP. XV.

2 Wisedome embraceth those that feare God. 7 The wicked shall not get her. 11 We may not charge God with our faults: 14 For he made, and left vs to our selues.

¹He that feareth the Lord will doe good, and he that hath the knowledge of the Law shal obtaine her.

²And as a mother shall she meet him, and receiue him as a wife maried of a virgin.

³With the bread of vnderstanding shall she feed him, and giue him the water of wisedome to drinke.

⁴Hee shall be stayed vpon her, and shall not be moued, and shall rely vpon her, and shall not be confounded.

⁵Shee shall exalt him aboue his neighbours, and in the midst of the congregation shall she open his mouth.

⁶He shall finde ioy, and a crowne of gladnesse, and she shall cause him to inherit an euerlasting name.

⁷But foolish men shall not attaine vnto her, and sinners shall not see her.

⁸For she is farre from pride, and men that are liers cannot remember her.

⁹Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord:⁹

¹⁰For praise shalbe vttered in wisdome, and the Lord wil prosper it.¹⁰

¹¹Say not thou, It is through the Lord, that I fell away, for thou oughtest not to doe the things that he hateth.

¹²Say not thou, He hath caused mee to erre, for hee hath no need of the sinfull man.

¹³The Lord hateth all abomination, and they that feare God loue it not.

¹⁴Hee himselfe made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his counsell,¹⁴

¹⁵If thou wilt, to keepe the Commandements, and to performe acceptable faithfulnesse.

¹⁶He hath set fire and water before thee: stretch forth thy hand vnto whether thou wilt.

¹⁷Before man is life and death, and whether him liketh shalbe giuen him.¹⁷

¹⁸For the wisedome of the Lord is great, and he is mighty in power, and beholdeth all things,

¹⁹And his eyes are vpon them that feare him, & hee knoweth euery worke of man.¹⁹

²⁰Hee hath commanded no man to do wickedly, neither hath he giuen any man license to sinne.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Ecclesiasticus Chapter 15

⁹ Or, a parable. , Or, he was not sent of, &c.
¹⁰ Or, rather a parable.
¹⁴ Gene.1. 20.
¹⁷ Iere.21.8.
¹⁹ Psal.33. 16.

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