### Douay Rheims Bible

Sirach 16

## The Book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)

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| # Chapter 17
#### 1 | God created man of the earth, and made him after his own image.
#### 2 | And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength according to himself.
#### 3 | He gave him the number of his days and time, and gave him power over all things that are upon the earth.
#### 4 | He put the fear of him upon all flesh, and he had dominion over beasts and fowls.
#### 5 | He created of him a helpmate like to himself: he gave them counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, and ears, and a heart to devise: and he filled them with the knowledge of understanding.
#### 6 | He created in them the science of the spirit, he filled their heart with wisdom, and shewed them both good and evil.
#### 7 | He set his eye upon their hearts to shew them the greatness of his works:
#### 8 | That they might praise the name which he hath sanctified: and glory in his wondrous acts, that they might declare the glorious things of his works.
#### 9 | Moreover he gave them instructions, and the law of life for an inheritance.
#### 10 | He made an everlasting covenant with them, and he shewed them his justice and judgments.
#### 11 | And their eye saw the majesty of his glory. and their ears heard his glorious voice, and he said to them: Beware of all iniquity.
#### 12 | And he gave to every one of them commandment concerning his neighbour.
#### 13 | Their ways are always before him, they are not hidden from his eyes.
#### 14 | Over every nation he set a ruler.
#### 15 | And Israel was made the manifest portion of God.
#### 16 | And all their works are as the sun in the sight of God: and his eyes are continually upon their ways.
#### 17 | Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their iniquities are in the sight of God.
#### 18 | The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye:
#### 19 | And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their reward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into the bowels of the earth.
#### 20 | But to the penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he hath strengthened them that were fainting in patience, and hath appointed to them the lot of truth.
#### 21 | Turn to the Lord, and forsake thy sins:
#### 22 | Make thy prayer before the face of the Lord, and offend less.
#### 23 | Return to the Lord, and turn away from thy injustice, and greatly hate abomination.
#### 24 | And know the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the lot set before thee, and in prayer to the most high God.
#### 25 | Go to the side of the holy age, with them that live and give praise to God.
#### 26 | Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give glory before death. Praise perisheth from the dead as nothing.
#### 27 | Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in his mercies.
#### 28 | How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them that turn to him I
#### 29 | For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil.
#### 30 | What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this shall be reproved.
#### 31 | He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.

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