### Douay Rheims Bible

Sirach 9

## The Book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)

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| # Chapter 10
#### 1 | There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels.
#### 11 | All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.
#### 12 | The physician cutteth off it short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.
#### 13 | For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, end beasts, and worms.
#### 14 | The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:
#### 15 | Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: be that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.
#### 16 | Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.
#### 17 | God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.
#### 18 | God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations.
#### 19 | The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation.
#### 20 | He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth.
#### 21 | God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind.
#### 22 | Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women.
#### 23 | That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord.
#### 24 | In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes.
#### 25 | The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor:
#### 26 | Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.
#### 27 | The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God.
#### 28 | They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.
#### 29 | Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress:
#### 30 | Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread.
#### 31 | My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert.
#### 32 | Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul?
#### 33 | The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear: and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth.
#### 34 | But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty.

Sirach 11

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