ECCLESIASTICUS CHAPTER 38 (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV)

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CHAP. XXXVIII.

1 Honour due to the Phisitian, and why. 16 How to weepe and mourne for the dead. 24 The wisedome of the learned man, and of the Labourer and Artificer: with the vse of them both.

¹ Honour a Phisitian with the honour due vnto him, for the vses which you may haue of him: for the Lord hath created him.

² For of the most High commeth healing, and he shall receiue honour of the King.²

³ The skill of the Phisitian shall lift vp his head: and in the sight of great men he shalbe in admiration.

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

⁵ Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the vertue thereof might be knowen?⁵

⁶ And he hath giuen men skill, that hee might be honoured in his marueilous workes.

⁷ With such doeth he heale [men,] and taketh away their paines.

⁸ Of such doeth the Apothecarie make a confection; and of his workes there is no end, and from him is peace ouer all the earth.

⁹ My sonne, in thy sickenesse be not negligent: but pray vnto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.⁹

¹⁰ Leaue off from sinne, and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickednesse.

¹¹ Giue a sweet sauour, and a memoriall of fine flowre: and make a fat offering, as not being.¹¹

¹² Then giue place to the phisitian, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.

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

¹⁴ For they shall also pray vnto the Lord, that hee would prosper that, which they giue, for ease and remedy to prolong life.¹⁴

¹⁵ He that sinneth before his maker, let him fal into the hand of the Phisitian.

¹⁶ My sonne, let teares fall downe ouer the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harme thy selfe: and then couer his body according to the custome, & neglect not his buriall.

¹⁷ Weepe bitterly, and make great moane, and vse lamentation, as hee is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be euill spoken of: and then comfort thy selfe for thy heauinesse.

¹⁸ For of heauinesse commeth death, and the heauinesse of the heart, breaketh strength.¹⁸

¹⁹ In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poore, is the curse of the heart.

²⁰ Take no heauines to heart: driue it away, and remember the last end.

²¹ Forget it not, for there is no turning againe: thou shalt not doe him good, but hurt thy selfe.

²² Remember my iudgement: for thine also shall be so; yesterday for me, and to day for thee.²²

²³ When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, & be comforted for him, when his spirit is departed from him.²³

²⁴ The wisedome of a learned man cōmeth by opportunitie of leasure: & he that hath litle busines shal become wise.

²⁵ How can he get wisdome that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driueth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talke is of bullocks?²⁵

²⁶ He giueth his minde to make furrowes: and is diligent to giue the kine fodder.

²⁷ So euery carpenter, and workemaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and graue seales, and are diligent to make great variety, and giue themselues to counterfait imagerie, and watch to finish a worke.

²⁸ The smith also sitting by the anuill, & considering the iron worke; the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer & the anuill is euer in his eares, and his eies looke still vpon the patterne of the thing that he maketh, he setteth his mind to finish his worke, & watcheth to polish it perfitly.

²⁹ So doeth the potter sitting at his worke, and turning the wheele about with his feet, who is alway carefully set at his worke: and maketh all his worke by number.

³⁰ He fashioneth the clay with his arme, and boweth downe his strength before his feet: he applieth himselfe to lead it ouer; and he is diligent to make cleane the furnace.³⁰

³¹ All these trust to their hands: and euery one is wise in his worke.

³² Without these cannot a citie be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor goe vp and downe.

³³ They shall not be sought for in publike counsaile; nor sit high in the congregation: they shal not sit on the Iudges seate, nor vnderstand the sentence of iudgement: they cannot declare iustice, and iudgement, and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.

³⁴ But they will maintaine the state of the world, and [all] their desire is in the worke of their craft.

Ecclesiasticus Chapter 38 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible)

² Or, a gift
⁵ Exod. 15. 25.
⁹ Esay.38.2.
¹¹ Or, as a deadman.
¹⁴ Or, curing.
¹⁸ Prou.15. 13. and 17. 22.
²² Or, the sentence vpon him.
²³ 2.Sam.12. 20.
²⁵ Greeke, of the breed of bullocks.
³⁰ Or, tempereth it with his feet.

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