Sirach 42:1–8

¹Of these things be not thou ashamed, and accept no person to sin thereby: ²Of the law of the most High, and his covenant; and of judgment to justify the ungodly; ³Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift of the heritage of friends; ⁴Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or little; ⁵And of merchants’ indifferent selling; of much correction of children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed. ⁶Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are. ⁷Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in. ⁸Be 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.