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True insight wisdom has in her treasure-house, and the piety that comes of knowledge; no wonder if sinners hate the name of her. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 26)
Hidden in wisdom’s treasure-house is the secret of all discernment; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 31)
What is the buttress of a man’s house? A father’s blessing. What tears up the foundations of it? A mother’s curse. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 11)
Lion if thou must be, let not thy own house feel the brunt of it, thy own servants harried, thy own slaves beaten to the earth. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 35)
Do not keep thy house open to every comer; knaves have many shifts. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 31)
Totters the lordly house, it has friends to sustain it; the poor man in his ruin is driven from familiar doors. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 25)
by her house takes up his abode, driving his nail into the walls of it, so as to build his cabin at her very side, cabin that shall remain for ever a home of blessing! (Ecclesiasticus 14, 25)
Wouldst thou build thy fortunes on earnings that are none of thine? As well mightest thou lay in stones for winter fuel. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 9)
With sand or salt or iron bars burden thyself, not with rash and godless company, not with a fool. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 18)
Underpin the foundations with timber balks, thy house shall withstand all shock; nor less shall he, whose heart stands resolved in the counsels of prudence; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 19)
Make right-doing thy quest, and thou wilt not miss the mark; this shall be a robe of honour to clothe thee, a welcome guest in thy house, to watch over thee continually, and to be thy stronghold at the hour when all is made known. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 9)
A wretched life it is, passing on from house to house to find a welcome; that welcome found, thou wilt lack all confidence, and sit there mumchance. (Ecclesiasticus 29, 31)
