### Douay Rheims Bible

Sirach 25

## The Book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)

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| # Chapter 26
#### 1 | Happy is the husband of a good wife: for the number of his years is double.
#### 2 | A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband: and shall fulfil the years of his life in peace.
#### 3 | A good wife is a good portion, she shall be given in the portion of them that fear God, to a man for his good deeds.
#### 4 | Rich or poor, if his heart is good, his countenance shall be cheerful at all times.
#### 5 | Of three things my heart hath been afraid, and at the fourth my face hath trembled:
#### 6 | The accusation of a city, and the gathering together of the people:
#### 7 | And a false calumny, all are more grievous than death.
#### 8 | A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.
#### 9 | With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.
#### 10 | As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.
#### 11 | A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.
#### 12 | The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of her eyes, and by her eyelids.
#### 13 | On a daughter that turneth not away herself, set a strict watch: lest finding an opportunity she abuse herself.
#### 14 | Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee.
#### 15 | She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail.
#### 16 | The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones.
#### 17 | Her discipline is the gift of God.
#### 18 | Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much worth as a well instructed soul.
#### 19 | A holy and shamefaced woman is grace upon grace.
#### 20 | And no price is worthy of a continent soul.
#### 21 | As the sun when it riseth to the world in the high places of God, so is the beauty of a good wife for the ornament of her house.
#### 22 | As the lamp shining upon the holy candlestick, so is the beauty of the face in a ripe age.
#### 23 | As golden pillars upon bases of silver, so are the firm feet upon the soles of a steady woman.
#### 24 | As everlasting foundations upon a solid rock, so the commandments of God In the heart of a holy woman.
#### 25 | At two things my heart is grieved, and the third bringeth anger upon me:
#### 26 | A man of was fainting through poverty: and a man of sense despised:
#### 27 | And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword.
#### 28 | Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips.

Sirach 27

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