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Consult, if thou wilt,✻ unbeliever about holiness, knave about justice, woman about her rival, dastard about war, merchant about value, buyer about price, cynic about gratitude, (Ecclesiasticus 37, 12)
scoffer about piety, rogue about honesty, farm labourer about work to be done, (Ecclesiasticus 37, 13)
yearman about year’s end, idle servant about great undertakings; but all the advice they give thee heed thou never. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 14)
there are times when a man of piety sees truth clearer than seven sentinels high in a watch-tower. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 18)
But there is wisdom that befriends the owner of it, earning high meed of praise; (Ecclesiasticus 37, 25)
much feasting breeds infirmity, gluttony the bile, (Ecclesiasticus 37, 33)
Medicines the most High has made for us out of earth’s bounty, and shall prudence shrink from the use of them? (Ecclesiasticus 38, 4)
Thus it is that the physician cures our pain, and the apothecary makes, not only perfumes to charm the sense, but unguents remedial; so inexhaustible is God’s creation, (Ecclesiasticus 38, 7)
But grief will but hasten thy own death, will be the grave of thy own strength; where heart goes sad, back goes bowed. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 19)
So long as thou withdrawest thyself, sad thy heart will be; and what patrimony but heart’s mirth is left to the poor? (Ecclesiasticus 38, 20)
Why then, do not give thyself over to regrets; put them away from thee, and bethink thee rather of thy own end. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 21)
So it is with every workman and master-workman, that must turn night into day. Here is one that cuts graven seals; how he busies himself with devising some new pattern! How the model he works from claims his attention, while he sits late over his craft! (Ecclesiasticus 38, 28)
