THE WISDOME OF Iesus the sonne of Sirach, Or Ecclesiasticus. Chapter 41

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CHAP. XLI.

1 The remembrance of Death. 3 Death is not to be feared. 5 The vngodly shall be accursed. 11 Of an euill and a good name. 14 Wisedome is to be vttered. 16 Of what things we should be ashamed.

¹O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions, vnto the man that hath nothing to vexe him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea vnto him that is yet able to receiue meate?

²O death, acceptable is thy sentence vnto the needy, and vnto him whose strength faileth, that is now in the last age, and is vexed with all things, and to him that despaireth and hath lost patience.²

³Feare not the sentence of death, remember them that haue beene before thee, and that come after, for this is the sentence of the Lord ouer all flesh.

⁴And why art thou against the pleasure of the most High? there is no inquisition in the graue, whether thou haue liued ten, or a hundred, or a thousand yeeres.

⁵The children of sinners, are abhominable children: and they that are conuersant in the dwelling of the vngodly.

⁶The inheritance of sinners children shal perish, and their posterity shal haue a perpetuall reproch.

⁷The children will complaine of an vngodly father, because they shall be reproched for his sake.

⁸Woe be vnto you vngodly men which haue forsaken the law of the most high God: for if you encrease, it shall be to your destruction.

⁹And if you be borne, you shall be borne to a curse: and if you die, a curse shall be your portion.

¹⁰All that are of the earth shall turne to earth againe: so the vngodly shall goe from a curse to destruction.¹⁰

¹¹The mourning of men is about their bodies: but an ill name of sinners shall be blotted out.

¹²Haue regard to thy name: for that shall continue with thee aboue a thousand great treasures of gold.