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But there are men more wretched yet, men who repose all their confidence in a world of shadows. They give the name of god to what is made by human art, gold and silver that human workmanship has turned into the likeness of living things, blocks of senseless stone that human hands have carved, long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
So, unawares, the world was caught in the ambush; under the stress, now of bereavement, now of royal policy, men imparted to stocks and stones the incommunicable name of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 21)
honest men are assailed, kindnesses forgotten, souls defiled, breeds confused, marriages unsettled; adultery reigns and wantonness. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 26)
In Egypt, snow and ice had resisted the fire, never melting; plain it was that this fire, which shone out amid the hailstones and the rain, was in alliance with them to burn up and destroy the enemy’s harvest. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 22)
A peerless champion they found, in Aaron, that quickly took up the shield of his appointed ministry; the power of intercession that was his, and the atoning incense, held thy wrath in check, and brought the calamity to an end; none could doubt now he was the man of thy choice! (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 21)
No fire burns so high but water may quench it; almsgiving was ever sin’s atoning. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 33)
Wisdom still needs a tongue to disclose it; no discernment or knowledge or shrewd counsel but waits on the apt word; how else should men be encouraged in well doing? (Ecclesiasticus 4, 29)
A glib tongue, and hands that hang down idle; such be not thine. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 34)
If discernment thou hast, give thy neighbour his answer; if none, tongue held is best, or some ill-advised word will shame thee; (Ecclesiasticus 5, 14)
Never win the name of back-biter, by thy own tongue entrapped into shame. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 16)
moreover, thou must open thy hand to the poor; so thy atonement shall be perfect, and perfect thy blessing. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 36)
Never turn to look at the wanton, that would catch thee in her snare, (Ecclesiasticus 9, 3)
