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

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Ecclesiasticus Chapter 41 Original 1611 Bible Scan

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.

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13A good life hath but few daies: but a good name endureth for euer.

14My children, keepe discipline in peace: for wisedome that is hid, and a treasure that is not seene, what profit is in them both?

15A man that hideth his foolishnesse is better then a man that hideth his wisedome.

16Therefore be shamefast according to my word: for it is not good to retaine all shamefastnesse, neither is it altogether approoued in euery thing.

17Be ashamed of whoredome before father and mother, and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man:

18Of an offence before a iudge and ruler, of iniquitie before a congregation and people, of vniust dealing before thy partner and friend:

19And of theft in regard of the place where thou soiournest, and in regard of the trueth of God and his couenant, and to leane with thine elbow vpon the meate, and of scorning to giue and take:

20And of silence before them that salute thee, and to look vpon an harlot:

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21And to turne away thy face from thy kinsman, or to take away a portion or a gift, or to gaze vpon another mans wife,

22Or to bee ouerbusie with his maide, and come not neere her bed, or of vpbraiding speaches before friends; and after thou hast giuen, vpbraide not:

23Or of iterating and speaking againe that which thou hast heard, and of reuealing of secrets.

24So shalt thou be truely shamefast, and finde fauour before all men.



Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Ecclesiasticus Chapter 41

2 Or, to whom euery thing is troublesome.
10 Chap. 40. 11.


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