Sirach · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Sirach 42 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
Sirach is not in RV1909.
1 Of these things be not thou ashamed, And accept no person to sin thereby:
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2 Of the law of the most High, and his covenant; And of judgment to justify the ungodly;
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3 Of reckoning with thy partners and travelers; Or of the gift of the heritage of friends;
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4 Of exactness of balance and weights; Or of getting much or little;
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5 And of merchants’ indifferent selling; Of much correction of children; And to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.
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6 Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; And locked up, where many hands are.
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7 Deliver all things in number and weight; And put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.
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8 Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, And the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: Thus shalt thou be truly learned, And approved of all men living.
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9 A daughter is a wakeful care to a father; And the care for her taketh away sleep: When she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; And being married, lest she should be hated:
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10 In her virginity, lest she should be defiled And gotten with child in her father’s house; And having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself; And when she is married, lest she should be barren.
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11 Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, Lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, And a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, And make thee ashamed before the multitude.
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12 Behold not everybody’s beauty, And sit not in the midst of women.
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13 For from garments cometh a moth, And from women wickedness.
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14 Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, A woman, [I say], which bringeth shame and reproach.
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15 I will now remember the works of the Lord, And declare the things that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works.
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16 The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, And the work thereof [is] full of the glory of the Lord.
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17 The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvelous works, Which the Almighty Lord firmly settled, That whatsoever is might be established for his glory.
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18 He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, And considereth their crafty devices: For the Lord knoweth all that can be known, And he beholdeth the signs of the world,
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19 Declaring the things that are past, and for to come, And revealing the steps of hidden things.
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20 No thought escapeth him, Neither any word is hidden from him.
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21 He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom, And he is from everlasting to everlasting: Unto him may nothing be added, neither can he be diminished, And he hath no need of any counselor.
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22 Oh how desirable are all his works! And that a man may see even to a spark.
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23 All these things live and remain forever for all uses, And they are all obedient.
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24 All things are double one against another: And he hath made nothing imperfect.
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25 One thing establisheth the good of another: And who shall be filled with beholding his glory?
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