re, iron, and salt, flour of wheat, honey, milk, and
the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.
Sir 39:27
All these things are for good to the godly: so to the sinners
they are turned into evil.
Sir 39:28
There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in
their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they
pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made
them.
Sir 39:29
Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created
for vengeance;
Sir 39:30
Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword
punishing the wicked to destruction.
Sir 39:31
They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be
ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come,
they shall not transgress his word.
Sir 39:32
Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought upon
these things, and have left them in writing.
Sir 39:33
All the works of the Lord are good: and he will give every
needful thing in due season.
Sir 39:34
So that a man cannot say, This is worse than that: for in
time they shall all be well approved.
Sir 39:35
And therefore praise ye the Lord with the whole heart and
mouth, and bless the name of the Lord.
Sir 40:1
Great travail is created for every man, and an heavy yoke is
upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their
mother's womb, till the day that they return to the mother of
all things.
Sir 40:2
Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death,
[trouble] their thoughts, and [cause] fear of heart;
Sir 40:3
From him that sitteth on a throne of glory, unto him that is
humbled in earth and ashes;
Sir 40:4
From him that weareth purple and a crown, unto him that is
clothed with a linen frock.
Sir 40:5
Wrath, and envy, trouble, and unquietness, fear of death, and
anger, and strife, and in the time of rest upon his bed his
night sleep, do change his knowledge.
Sir 40:6
A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his
sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of
his heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.
Sir 40:7
When all is safe, he awaketh, and marvelleth that the fear
was nothing.
Sir 40:8
[Such things happen] unto all flesh, both man and beast, and
that is sevenfold more upon sinners.
Sir 40:9
Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, calamities, famine,
tribulation, and the scourge;
Sir 40:10
These things are created for the wicked, an
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