### Douay Rheims Bible

Sirach 10

## The Book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)

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| # Chapter 11
#### 1 | The wisdom of the humble shall exalt his head, and shall make him sit in the midst of great men.
#### 2 | Praise not a man for his beauty, neither despise a man for his look.
#### 3 | The bee is small among flying things, but her fruit hath the chiefest sweetness.
#### 4 | Glory not in apparel at any time, and be not exalted in the day of thy honour: for the works of the Highest only are wonderful, and his works are glorious, and secret, end hidden.
#### 5 | Many tyrants have sat on the throne, and he whom no man would think on, hath worn the crown.
#### 6 | Many mighty men have been greatly brought down, and the glorious have been delivered into the hand of others.
#### 7 | Before thou inquire, blame no man: and when thou hast inquired, reprove justly.
#### 8 | Before thou hear, answer not a word: and interrupt not others in the midst of their discourse.
#### 9 | Strive not in a matter which doth not concern thee, and sit not in judgment with sinners.
#### 10 | My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake: and if thou run before thou shalt not escape.
#### 11 | There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want.
#### 12 | Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty:
#### 13 | Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have wondered at him, and have glorified God.
#### 14 | Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God.
#### 15 | Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with God. Love and the ways of good things are with him
#### 16 | Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory in evil things, grow old in evil.
#### 17 | The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall have success for ever.
#### 18 | There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is the portion of his reward.
#### 19 | In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my goods alone:
#### 20 | And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death approacheth, and that he must leave all to others, and shall die.
#### 21 | Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and grow old in the work of thy commandments.
#### 22 | Abide not in the works of sinners. But trust in God, and stay in thy place.
#### 23 | For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor man rich.
#### 24 | The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a swift hour his blessing beareth fruit.
#### 25 | Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this?
#### 26 | Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this?
#### 27 | In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things:
#### 28 | For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.
#### 29 | The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.
#### 30 | Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.
#### 31 | Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful.
#### 32 | For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour.
#### 33 | For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.
#### 34 | Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.
#### 35 | Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever.
#### 36 | Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own.

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