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PREFACE: Many are the important truths conveyed to us by the law, by the prophets and by those other writers who have followed them. Israel must be given credit for its own philosophical tradition, suited not only to instruct those who talk its language, but to reach, in spoken or written form, the outside world too, and bring it great enlightenment. No wonder if my own grandfather, Jesus, who had devoted himself to the careful study of the law, the prophets, and our other ancestral records, had a mind to put something in writing himself that should bear on this philosophical tradition, to claim the attention of eager students who had already mastered it, and to encourage their observance of the law. I must beg its readers to come well-disposed to their task, and to follow me closely, making allowances for me wherever I seem to have failed in the right marshalling of words, as I pass on wisdom at second hand. Hebrew words lose their force when they are translated into another language; moreover, when the Hebrews read out the law, the prophets, and the other books among themselves, they read them out in a greatly different form. It was in my thirty-eighth year,✻ in the reign of Euergetes, that I went to Egypt and spent some time there. When I found writings preserved there which were of high doctrinal value, it seemed to me right and fitting that I, too, should be at some pains; I would set about translating this book. Learning I gave to the task and long labour, and so brought it to an end; and so I offer the book to all who are ready to apply their minds to it, and learn how a man must frame his conduct if he would live by the divine law. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 0)
One hour of misery, how it can efface in the memory long years of ease! Only a man’s death-bed brings the full history of his fortunes to light. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 29)
man, too, should have his allotted toll of years, his season of maturity, and should have power over all else on earth; (Ecclesiasticus 17, 3)
What is his span of life? Like a drop in the ocean, like a pebble on the beach, seem those few years of his, a hundred at the most, matched with eternity. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 8)
A wife industrious is the joy of her husband, and crowns all his years with peace. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 2)
Inure thy son to the rod, as thou lovest him; so shalt thou have comfort of him✻ in thy later years, nor go about knocking softly at thy neighbour’s doors. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 1)
a merry heart is the true life of man, is an unfailing store of holiness; length of years is measured by rejoicing. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 23)
Why is it that one day which dawns, one year, takes precedence of another, when all come of the same sun? (Ecclesiasticus 33, 7)
yearman about year’s end, idle servant about great undertakings; but all the advice they give thee heed thou never. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 14)
Never fear death’s doom; bethink thee of the years that went before thee, and must come after thee. One sentence the Lord has for all living things. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 5)
What the will of the most High has in store for thee, none can tell; what matter, whether it be ten years, or a hundred, or a thousand? (Ecclesiasticus 41, 6)
Once thou art dead, thou wilt take no grudging count of the years. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 7)
