Ecclesiasticus 22:1 A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, and every one will hiss him out to his disgrace.
Ecclesiasticus 22:2 A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up, will shake his hand.
Ecclesiasticus 22:3 An evil nurtured son is the dishonor of his father that begat him: and a foolish daughter is born to his loss.
Ecclesiasticus 22:4 A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that liveth dishonestly, is her fathers heaviness.
Ecclesiasticus 22:5 She that is bold, dishonoreth both her father and her husband, but they both shall despise her.
Ecclesiasticus 22:6 A tale out of season is as music in mourning: but stripes and correction of wisdom are never out of time.
Ecclesiasticus 22:7 Who so teacheth a fool, is as one that gleweth a potsheard together, and as he that waketh one from a sound sleep.
Ecclesiasticus 22:8 He that telleth a tale to a fool, speaketh to one in a slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?
Ecclesiasticus 22:9 If children live honestly, and have wherwithall, they shall cover the basenesse of their parents.
Ecclesiasticus 22:10 But children being haughty through disdain, and want of nurture, do stain the nobility of their kindred.
Ecclesiasticus 22:11 Weep for the dead, for he hath lost the light: and weep for the fool, for he wanteth understanding: make little weeping for the dead, for he is at rest: but the life of the fool is worse than death.
Ecclesiasticus 22:12 Seven days do men mourn for him that is dead; but for a fool, and an ungodly man, all the days of his life.
Ecclesiasticus 22:13 Talk not much with a fool, and go not to him that hath no understanding, beware of him lest thou have trouble, and thou shalt never be defiled with his fooleries: depart from him, and thou shalt find rest, and never be disquieted with madness.
Ecclesiasticus 22:14 What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but a fool?
Ecclesiasticus 22:15 Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron is easier to bear than a man without understanding.
Ecclesiasticus 22:16 As timber girt and bound together in a building, cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel, shall fear at no time.
Ecclesiasticus 22:17 A heart settled upon a thought of understanding, is as a fair plaistering on the wall of a gallery.
Ecclesiasticus 22:18 Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool, can not stand against any fear.
Ecclesiasticus 22:19 He that pricketh the eye, will make tears to fall: and he that pricketh the heart, maketh it to shew her knowledge.
Ecclesiasticus 22:20 Who so casteth a stone at the birds, frayeth them away, and he that upbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship.
Ecclesiasticus 22:21 Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despair not, for there way be a returning (to favor.)
Ecclesiasticus 22:22 If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, fear not, for there may be a reconciliation: except for upbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound, for, for these things every friend will depart.
Ecclesiasticus 22:23 Be faithful to thy neighbor in his poverty, that thou mayest rejoice in his prosperity: abide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be contemned, nor the rich that is foolish, to be had in admiration.
Ecclesiasticus 22:24 As the vapor and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire: so reviling before blood.
Ecclesiasticus 22:25 I will not be ashamed to defend a friend: neither will I hide my self from him.
Ecclesiasticus 22:26 And if any evil happen unto me by him, every one that heareth it will beware of him.
Ecclesiasticus 22:27 Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seal of wisdom upon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?