### Douay Rheims Bible

Sirach 21

## The Book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)

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| # Chapter 22
#### 1 | The sluggard is pelted with a dirty stone, and all men will speak of his disgrace.
#### 2 | The sluggard is pelted with the dung of oxen: and every one that toucheth him will shake his hands.
#### 3 | A son ill taught is the confusion of the father: and a foolish daughter shall be to his loss.
#### 4 | A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that confoundeth, becometh a disgrace to her father.
#### 5 | She that is bold shameth both her father and husband, and will not be inferior to the ungodly: and shall be disgraced by them both.
#### 6 | A tale out of time is like music in mourning: but the stripes and instruction of wisdom are never out of time.
#### 7 | He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd together.
#### 8 | He that telleth a word to him that heareth not, is like one that waketh a man out of a deep sleep.
#### 9 | He speaketh with one that is asleep, who uttereth wisdom to a fool: and in the end of the discourse he saith: Who is this?
#### 10 | Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding faileth.
#### 11 | Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest.
#### 12 | For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.
#### 13 | The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of their life.
#### 14 | Talk not much with a fool, and go not with him that hath no sense.
#### 15 | Keep thyself from him, that thou mayst not have trouble, and thou shalt not be defiled with his sin.
#### 16 | Turn away from him, and thou shalt find rest, and shalt not be wearied out with his folly.
#### 17 | What is heavier than lead? and what other name hath he but fool?
#### 18 | Sand and salt, and a mass of iron is easier to bear, than a man without sense, that is both foolish and wicked.
#### 19 | A frame of wood bound together in the foundation of a building, shall not be loosed: so neither shall the heart that is established by advised counsel.
#### 20 | The thought of him that is wise at all times, shall not be depraved by fear.
#### 21 | As pales set in high places, and plasterings made without cost, will not stand against the face of the wind:
#### 22 | So also a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool shall not resist against the violence of fear.
#### 23 | As a fearful heart in the thought of a fool at all times will not fear, so neither shall he that continueth always in the commandments of God.
#### 24 | He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment.
#### 25 | He that flingeth a stone at birds, shall drive them away: so he that upbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship.
#### 26 | Although thou hast drawn a sword at a friend, despair not: for there may be a returning. To a friend,
#### 27 | If thou hast opened a sad mouth, fear not, for there may be a reconciliation: except upbraiding, and reproach, and pride, and disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for in all these cases a friend will flee away.
#### 28 | Keep fidelity with a friend in his poverty, that in his prosperity also thou mayst rejoice.
#### 29 | In the time of his trouble continue faithful to him, that thou mayst also be heir with him in his inheritance.
#### 30 | As the vapour of a chimney, and the smoke of the fire goeth up before the fire: so also injurious words, and reproaches, and threats, before blood.
#### 31 | I will not be ashamed to salute a friend, neither will I hide myself from his face: and if any evil happen to me by him, I will bear it.
#### 32 | But every one that shall hear it, will beware of him.
#### 33 | Who will set a guard before my mouth, and a sure seal upon my lips, that I fall not by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?

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