21. For grace is not given him from the Lord: because he is deprivd of all wisdom.

22. Another is wife to himself: and the fruits of understanding are commendable in his mouth.

23. A wife man instructeth his people, and the fruits of his understanding fail not.

24. A wise man shall be filled with bleffing, and all they that fee him fhall count him hap

py.

25. The days of the life of man may be numbered: but the days of Ifrael are innumerable.

26. A wife man fhall inherit glory among his people, and his name shall be perpetual.

27. My fon, prove thy foul in thy life, and fee what is evil for it, and give not that un

to it.

28. For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath every foul pleasure in every thing.

29. Be not unfatiable in any dainty thing, nor too greedy upon meats.

30. For excess of meats bringeth fickness, and furfeiting will turn into choler.

31. By furfeiting have many perished; but he that taketh heed, prolongeth his life.

CHAP. XXXVIII.

1. Honour due to the physician, and why. 16. How to weep and mourn for the dead, &c.

ONOUR a phyfician with the honour due

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unto him, for the ufes which you may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. 2. For of the moft High cometh healing and he fhall receive honour of the king.

3. The fkill of the physician fhall lift up his head and in the fight of great men he shall be in admiration.

4. The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wife will not abhor them.

5.

Was not the water made fweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?

6. And he hath given men kill, that he might be honoured in his marvellous works.

7. With fuch doth he heal (men) and taketh away their pains.

8. Of fuch doth the apothecary make a confection;

fection; and of his works there is no end, and from him is peace over all the earth.

9. My fon, in thy fickness be not negligent: but pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.

10. Leave off from fin, and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickednefs.

11. Give a fweet favour, and a memorial of fine flour and make a fat offering, as not being.

12. Then give place to the phyfician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou haft need of him.

13. There is a time when in their hands there is good fuccefs.

14. For they fhall also pray unto the Lord, that he would profper that which they give for cafe and remedy to prolong life.

15. He that finneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician.

16. My fon, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyfelf: and then cover his body according to the cuftom, and neglect not his burial.

17. Weep

17. Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and ufe lamentation as he is worthy, and that a day or two, left thou be evil spoken of: and then comfort thyself for thy heaviness.

18. For of heavinefs cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh ftrength.

19. In affliction alfo forrow remaineth: and the life of the poor is the curfe of the heart. 20. Take no heavinefs to heart: drive it a way, and remember the last end.

21. Forget it not, for there is no turning a gain: thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.

22. Remember my judgment: for thine alfo fhall be fo; yesterday for me, and to day for thee.

23. When the dead is at reft, let his remembrance reft, and be comforted for him, when his fpirit is departed from him.

24. The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leifure: and he that hath little bufinefs fhall become wife.

25. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; and driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whofe talk is of bullocks?

26. He giveth his mind to make furrows, and is diligent to give the kine fodder.

27. So every carpenter and workmafter, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and grave feals, and are diligent to make great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and watch to finish a work.

28. The smith alfo fitting by the anvil, and confidering the iron-work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noife of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look ftill upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he fetteth his, mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly.

29. So doth the potter fitting at his work, and turning the wheel about with his feet, who is always carefully fet at his work: and maketh all his work by number.

30. He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his ftrength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; and is dili gent to make clean the furnace.

31. All thefe trust to their hands and every one is wife in his work.

32. Without thefe cannot a city be inhabited

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