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Sirach 10 : 1 - 25
Chapter 10
| 1 | There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels.
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| 2 | All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.
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| 3 | The physician cutteth off it short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.
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| 4 | For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, end beasts, and worms.
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| 5 | The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:
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| 6 | Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: be that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.
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| 7 | Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.
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| 8 | God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.
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| 9 | God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations.
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| 10 | The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation.
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| 11 | He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth.
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| 12 | God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind.
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| 13 | Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women.
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| 14 | That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord.
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| 15 | In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes.
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| 16 | The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor:
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| 17 | Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.
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| 18 | The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God.
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| 19 | They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.
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| 20 | Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress:
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| 21 | Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread.
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| 22 | My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert.
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| 23 | Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul?
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| 24 | The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear: and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth.
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| 25 | But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty.
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