lost patience!
[3] Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been before thee, and that come after; for this is the sentence of the Lord over all flesh.
[4] And why art thou against the pleasure of the most High? there is no inquisition in the grave, whether thou have lived ten, or an hundred, or a thousand years.
[5] The children of sinners are abominable children, and they that are conversant in the dwelling of the ungodly.
[6] The inheritance of sinners' children shall perish, and their posterity shall have a perpetual reproach.
[7] The children will complain of an ungodly father, because they shall be reproached for his sake.
[8] Woe be unto you, ungodly men, which have forsaken the law of the most high God! for if ye increase, it shall be to your destruction:
[9] And if ye be born, ye shall be born to a curse: and if ye die, a curse shall be your portion.
[10] All that are of the earth shall turn to earth again: so the ungodly shall go from a curse to destruction.
[11] The mourning of men is about their bodies: but an ill name of sinners shall be blotted out.
[12] Have regard to thy name; for that shall continue with thee above a thousand great treasures of gold.
[13] A good life hath but few days: but a good name endureth for ever.
[14] My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is in them both?
[15] A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that hideth his wisdom.
[16] Therefore be shamefaced according to my word: for it is not good to retain all shamefacedness; neither is it altogether approved in every thing.
[17] Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;
[18] Of an offence before a judge and ruler; of iniquity before a congregation and people; of unjust dealing before thy partner and friend;
[19] And of theft in regard of the place where thou sojournest, and in regard of the truth of God and his covenant; and to lean with thine elbow upon the meat; and of scorning to give and take;
[20] And of silence before them that salute thee; and to look upon an harlot;
[21] And to turn away thy face from thy kinsman; or to take away a portion or a gift; or to gaze upon another man's wife.
[22] Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed; or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast given, upbraid not;
[23] Or of iterating and speaking again that which thou hast heard; and of revealing of secrets.
[24] So shalt thou be truly shamefaced and find favour before all men.

Sir.42

[1] Of these things be not thou ashamed, and accept no person to sin thereby:
[2] Of the law of the most High, and his covenant; and of judgment to justify the ungodly;
[3] Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift of the heritage of friends;
[4] Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or little;
[5] And of merchants' indifferent selling; of much correction of children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.
[6] Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are.
[7] Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.
[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.
[9] The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; 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:
[10] In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with child in her father's house; and having an husband, lest she should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren.
[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.
[12] Behold not every body's beauty, and sit not in the midst of women.
[13] For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness.
[14] Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.
[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.
[16] The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.
[17] The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvellous works, which the Almighty Lord firmly settled, that whatsoever is might be established for his glory.
[18] He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth their crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and he beholdeth the signs of the world.
[19] He declareth the things that are past, and for to come, and revealeth the steps of hidden things.
[20] No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him.
[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 counsellor.
[22] Oh how desirable are all his works! and that