### Douay Rheims Bible

Sirach 40

## The Book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)

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| # Chapter 41
#### 1 | The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.
#### 11 | Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord.
#### 12 | And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.
#### 13 | All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.
#### 14 | The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out.
#### 15 | Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.
#### 16 | A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever.
#### 17 | My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?
#### 18 | Better is the man that hideth his folly, then the man that hideth his wisdom.
#### 19 | Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.
#### 20 | For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.
#### 21 | Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:
#### 22 | Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:
#### 23 | Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,
#### 24 | Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking:
#### 25 | Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.
#### 26 | Turn not sway thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.
#### 27 | Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.
#### 28 | Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not.

Sirach 42

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