f scorning to give and
take;

Sir 41:20
And of silence before them that salute thee; and to look upon
an harlot;

Sir 41:21
And to turn away thy face from thy kinsman; or to take away a
portion or a gift; or to gaze upon another man's wife.

Sir 41:22
Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed;
or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast
given, upbraid not;

Sir 41:23
Or of iterating and speaking again that which thou hast
heard; and of revealing of secrets.

Sir 41:24
So shalt thou be truly shamefaced and find favour before all
men.

Sir 42:1
Of these things be not thou ashamed, and accept no person to
sin thereby:

Sir 42:2
Of the law of the most High, and his covenant; and of
judgment to justify the ungodly;

Sir 42:3
Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift
of the heritage of friends;

Sir 42:4
Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or
little;

Sir 42:5
And of merchants' indifferent selling; of much correction of
children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.

Sir 42:6
Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up,
where many hands are.

Sir 42:7
Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in
writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.

Sir 42:8
Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the
extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus
shalt thou be truly learned, and approved of all men living.

Sir 42:9
The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; and
the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she
pass away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she
should be hated:

Sir 42:10
In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with
child in her father's house; and having an husband, lest she
should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she
should be barren.

Sir 42:11
Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make
thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city,
and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before
the multitude.

Sir 42:12
Behold not every body's beauty, and sit not in the midst of
women.

Sir 42:13
For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness.

Sir 42:14
Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a
woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

Sir 42:15
I will now remember the works of the Lor