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When someone is doing well that person's enemies are sad, when someone is doing badly, even a friend will keep at a distance. (Ecclesiasticus 12, 9)
Do not waste many words on the stupid, do not go near a dolt. Beware of him, or you will have trouble and be soiled by contact with him; keep away from him, and you will have peace of mind and not be exasperated by his folly. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 13)
Keep a headstrong daughter under firm control, or, feeling free, she will take advantage of it. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 10)
Keep a strict watch on her shameless eye, do not be surprised if she disgraces you. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 11)
Come to your neighbour's help as far as you can, but take care not to fall into the same plight. (Ecclesiasticus 29, 20)
The worries of the daytime prevent you from sleeping, like a serious illness, they keep sleep at bay. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 2)
He uses these for healing and relieving pain; the druggist makes up a mixture from them. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 7)
Flute and harp add sweetness to a song; better than either, a melodious voice. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 21)
of saying disagreeable things to friends -- do not follow up a gift with a taunt- (Ecclesiasticus 41, 25)
Your daughter is headstrong? Keep a sharp look-out that she does not make you the laughing-stock of your enemies, the talk of the town, the object of common gossip, and put you to public shame. (Ecclesiasticus 42, 11)
he gave him the commandments face to face, the law of life and knowledge, to teach Jacob his ordinances and Israel his decrees. He raised up Aaron, a holy man like Moses, his brother, of the tribe of Levi. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 6)
as Jeremiah had predicted; for they had ill-treated him, though consecrated a prophet in his mother's womb, to tear up and afflict and destroy, but also to build up and to plant. (Ecclesiasticus 49, 7)
