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CHAPTER 33.
NO evils shall happen to him that feareth the Lord, but in temptation
God will keep him, and deliver him from evils.
2 A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices,
and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.
3 A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God,
and the law is faithful to him.
4 He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to
say, and so having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and
then he shall answer.
5 The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his
thoughts are like a rolling axletree.
6 A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse:
he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him.
7 Why doth one day excel another, and one light
another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun?
8 By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished,
the sun being made, and keeping his commandment.
9 And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and
in them they celebrated festivals at an hour.
10 Some of them God made high and great days, and some
of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground,
and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.
11 With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and
diversified their ways.
12 Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some
of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he
cursed and brought low, end turned them from their station.
13 As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and
order it:
14 All his ways are according to his ordering: so man
is in the hand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his
judgment.
15 Good is set against evil, and life against death: so
also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the
most High. Two and two, and one against another.
16 And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth
after the grapegatherers.
17 In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one
that gathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress.
18 See that I have not laboured for myself only, but
for all that seek discipline.
19 Hear me, ye great men, and all ye people, and
hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the church.
20 Give not to son or wife, brother or friend, power
over thee while thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest then
repent, and thou entreat for the same.
21 As long as thou livest, and hast breath in thee, let
no man change thee.
22 For it is better that thy children should ask of
thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children.
23 In all thy works keep the pre-eminence.
24 Let no stain sully thy glory. In the time when thou
shalt end the days of thy life, and in the time of thy decease, distribute thy
inheritance.
25 Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass:
bread, and correction, and work for a slave.
26 He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest:
let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.
27 The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and
continual labours bow a slave.
28 Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send
him to work, that he be not idle:
29 For idleness hath taught much evil.
30 Set him to work: for so it is fit for him. And if he
be not obedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any
one: and do no grievous thing without judgment.
31 If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee
as thy own soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou
hast gotten him.
32 If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away:
33 And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom
to ask, and in what way to seek him.
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