not to their counsels, and let me not fall by them.

Sir 23:2
Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of
wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine
ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:

Sir 23:3
Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my
destruction, and I fall before mine adversaries, and mine enemy
rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.

Sir 23:4
O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look,
but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.

Sir 23:5
Turn away from me vain hopes and concupiscence, and thou
shalt hold him up that is desirous always to serve thee.

Sir 23:6
Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh
take hold of me; and give not over me thy servant into an
impudent mind.

Sir 23:7
Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that
keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.

Sir 23:8
The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil
speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.

Sir 23:9
Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to
the naming of the Holy One.

Sir 23:10
For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be
without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God
continually shall not be faultless.

Sir 23:11
A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity,
and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall
offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his
sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he
shall not be innocent, but his house shall be full of
calamities.

Sir 23:12
There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant
that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such
things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in
their sins.

Sir 23:13
Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the
word of sin.

Sir 23:14
Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among
great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy
custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born,
and curse they day of thy nativity.

Sir 23:15
The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be
reformed all the days of his life.

Sir 23:16
Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring
wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never be
quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his
flesh wi