Sirach 10
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1A Wise iudge wil instruct his people with discretion: the gouernance of a prudent man is wel ordered. 2As the iudge of the people is him self, so are his officers, and what maner of man the ruler of the citie is , suche are all they that dwell therein. 3An vnwise King destroieth his people, but where they that be in autoritie, are men of vnderstanding, there the citie prospereth. 4The gouernement of the earth is in the hand of the Lord, [and all iniquitie of the nacions is to be abhorred, ] and when time is ,he wil set vp a profitable ruler ouer it. 5In the hand of God is the prosperitie of man , and vpon the scribes wil he laye his honour. 6Be not angrie for any wrong,with thy neighbour , and do nothing by iniurious practises. 7Pride is hateful before God and man,& by bothe doeth one commit iniquitie. 8Because of vnrighteous dealing and wrongs and riches gotten by deceit , the kingdome is translated from one people to another. 9There is nothing worse then a couetous man : [why art thou proude , ô earth and ashes ? there is not a more wicked thing, then to loue money:] for suche one wolde euen sel his soule, & for his life euerie one is compelled to pul out his owne bowels. 10[All tyrannie is of smale indurance,and the disease that is hard to heale , is grieuous to the physicion.] 11The physicion cutteth of the sore disease,& he that is to day a King,to morow is dead. 12Why is earth & ashes proude, seing that when a man dyeth, he is the heire of serpents,beastes and wormes? 13The beginning of mans pride , is to fall away from God,& to turne away his heart from his maker. 14For pride is the original of sinne, and he that hathe it,shal powre out abominacion, til at last he be ouerthrowen : therefore the Lord bringeth the persuasious [of the wicked] to dishonour, and destroieth them in the end. 15The Lord hathe cast downe the thrones of the [proude] princes,& set vp the meke in their steade. 16The Lord plucketh vp the rootes of the [proude] nacions,and planteth the lowlie with glorie among them. 17The Lord ouerthroweth the lands of the heathen, and destroieth them vnto the fundacions of the earth : he causeth them to wither away,& destroieth them,and maketh their memorial to cease out of the earth. 18[God destroieth the memorial of the proude,& leaueth the remembrance of the humble.] 19Pride was not created in men,nether wrath in the generacion of women. 20There is a sede of man,which is an honorable sede: the honorable sede are they that feare the Lord: there is a sede of man, which is without honour:the sede without honour, are they that transgresse the commandements of the Lord : it is a sede that remaineth which feareth the Lord,& a faire plant,that loue him : but they are a sede without honour, that despise the Law,& a deceiueable sede that breake the commandements. 21He that is the chief among brethren,is honorable:so are they that feare the Lord in his sight. 22The feare of the Lord causeth that the kingdome faileth not , but the kingdome is lost by crueltie and pride. 23The feare of the Lord is the glorie aswel of the riche & the noble,as of the poore. 25The great man and the iudge & the man of autoritie , are honorable , yet is there none of them greater , then he that feareth the Lord. 26Vnto the seruant that is wise , shal they that are free, do seruice:he that hathe knowledge,wil not grudge when he is reformed, [& the ignorant shal not come to honor.] 27Seke not excuses when thou shuldest do thy worke , nether be ashamed thereof through pride in the time of aduersitie. 28Better is he that laboreth & hathe plenteousnes of all things , then he that is gorgeous, and wanteth bread. 29My sonne,get thy self praise by mekenes, and esteme thy self as thou deseruest. 30Who wil counte him iust that sinneth against him self?or honour him, that dishonoreth his owne soule? 31The poore is honored for his knowledge [and his feare, ] but the riche is had in reputacion because of his goods. 32He that is honorable in pouertie , how muche more shal he be when he is riche?& he that is vnhonest being riche,how muche more wil he be so when he is in pouertie?
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