### Douay Rheims Bible

Sirach 24

## The Book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)

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| # Chapter 25
#### 1 | With three things my spirit is pleased, which are approved before God and men:
#### 2 | The concord of brethren, and the love of neighbours, and mall and wife that agree well together.
#### 3 | Three sorts my soul hateth, and I am greatly grieved at their life:
#### 4 | A poor man that is proud: a rich man that is a liar: an old man that is a fool, and doting.
#### 5 | The things that thou hast not gathered in thy youth, how shalt thou find them in thy old age?
#### 6 | O how comely is judgment for a grey head, and for ancients to know counsel!
#### 7 | O how comely is wisdom for the aged, and understanding and counsel to men of honour!
#### 8 | Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory.
#### 9 | Nine things that are not to be imagined by the heart have I magnified, and the tenth I will utter to men with my tongue.
#### 10 | A man that hath joy of his children: and he that liveth and seeth the fall of his enemies.
#### 11 | Blessed is he. that dwelleth with a wise woman, and that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served such as are unworthy of him.
#### 12 | Blessed is he that findeth a true friend, and that declareth justice to an ear that heareth.
#### 13 | How great is he that findeth wisdom and knowledge! but there is none above him that feareth the Lord.
#### 14 | The fear of God hath set itself above all things:
#### 15 | Blessed is the man, to whom it is given to have the fear of God: he that holdeth it, to whom shall he be likened?
#### 16 | The fear of God is the beginning of his love: and the beginning of faith is to be fast joined unto it.
#### 17 | The sadness of the heart is every plague: and the wickedness of a woman is all evil.
#### 18 | And a man will choose any plague, but the plague of the heart:
#### 19 | And ally wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:
#### 20 | And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate him:
#### 21 | And ally revenge, but the revenge of enemies.
#### 22 | There is no head worse than the head of a serpent:
#### 23 | And there is no anger above the anger of a woman. It will be more agreeable to abide with a lion and a dragon, than to dwell with a wicked woman.
#### 24 | The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth her countenance as a bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst of her neighbours,
#### 25 | Her husband groaned, and hearing he sighed a little.
#### 26 | All malice is shore to the malice of a woman, let the lot of sinners fall upon her.
#### 27 | As the climbing of a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of tongue to a quiet man.
#### 28 | Look not upon a woman's beauty, and desire not a woman for beauty.
#### 29 | A woman's anger, and impudence, and confusion is great.
#### 30 | A woman, if she have superiority, is contrary to her husband.
#### 31 | A wicked woman abateth the courage, and maketh a heavy countenance, and a wounded heart.
#### 32 | Feeble hands, and disjointed knees, a woman that doth not make her husband happy.
#### 33 | From the woman came the beginning of sin, and by her we all die.
#### 34 | Give no issue to thy water, no, not a little: nor to a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.
#### 35 | If she walk not at thy hand, she will confound thee in the sight of thy enemies.
#### 36 | Cut her off from thy flesh, lest she always abuse thee.

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