1 A wise judge will instruct his people. The government of a man of understanding will be well ordered. (WEB) 2 As is the judge of his people, so are his officials. As the city’s ruler is, so are all those who dwell in it. (WEB) 3 An undisciplined king will destroy his people. A city will be established through the understanding of the powerful. (WEB) 4 The government of the earth is in the Lord’s hand. In due time, he will raise up over it the right person at the right time. (WEB) 5 A man’s prosperity is in the Lord’s hand. He will lay his honor upon the person of the scribe. (WEB) 6 Don’t be angry with your neighbor for every wrong. Do nothing by works of violence. (WEB) 7 Pride is hateful before the Lord and men. Arrogance is abhorrent in the judgment of both. (WEB) 8 Sovereignty is transferred from nation to nation because of injustice, violence, and greed for money. (WEB) 9 Why are dirt and ashes proud? Because in life, my body decays. (WEB) 10 A long disease mocks the physician. The king of today will die tomorrow. (WEB) 11 For when a man is dead, he will inherit maggots, vermin, and worms. (WEB) 12 It is the beginning of pride when a man departs from the Lord. His heart has departed from him who made him. (WEB) 13 For the beginning of pride is sin. He who keeps it will pour out abomination. For this cause the Lord brought upon them strange calamities and utterly overthrew them. (WEB) 14 The Lord cast down the thrones of rulers and set the lowly in their place. (WEB) 15 The Lord plucked up the roots of nations and planted the lowly in their place. (WEB) 16 The Lord overthrew the lands of nations and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth. (WEB) 17 He took some of them away and destroyed them, and made their memory to cease from the earth. (WEB) 18 Pride has not been created for men, nor wrathful anger for the offspring of women. (WEB) 19 Whose offspring has honor? Human offspring who fear the Lord. Whose offspring has no honor? Human offspring who break the commandments. (WEB) 20 In the midst of kindred he who rules them has honor. Those who fear the Lord have honor in his eyes. (WEB) 21 The fear of the Lord goeth before the obtaining of authority: but roughness and pride is the losing thereof. (KJV) 22 The rich man, the honorable, and the poor all glory in the fear of the Lord. (WEB) 23 It is not right to dishonor a poor man who has understanding. It is not fitting to glorify a man who is a sinner. (WEB) 24 The prince, the judge, and the mighty man will be honored. There is not one of them greater than he who fears the Lord. (WEB) 25 Free men will minister to a wise servant. A man who has knowledge will not complain. (WEB) 26 Don’t flaunt your wisdom in doing your work. Don’t boast in the time of your distress. (WEB) 27 Better is he who labors and abounds in all things, than he who boast… (WEB)
Sirach 10:1–31
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