XXXVIII. Honour a physician with the ahonour due unto him for the luses which you may have of him:

bFor the Lord hath created him.

2  For of the most High cometh healing,

And he shall receive * chonour of the king.

3  The skill of the physician shall lift up his head:

And in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.

4  The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth;

And he that is wise will not abhor them.

5  dWas not the water made sweet with wood,

That the virtue thereof might be known?

6  And he hath given men skill,

That he might be honoured in his marvellous works.

7  With such doth he heal men,

And taketh away their pains.

8  Of such doth the apothecary make a econfection;

And of his works there is no end;

And from him is fpeace over all the earth.

9  My son, in thy sickness be not negligent:

But gpray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.

10  hLeave off from sin, and order thine hands aright,

And icleanse thy heart from all wickedness.

11  Give a jsweet savour, and a memorial of jfine flour;

And make a fat offering, * as not being.

12  Then kgive place to the physician, bfor the Lord hath created him:

Let him not go from thee, for thou hast lneed of him.

13  There is a time when in their hands there is mgood success.

14  For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper

That, which they give for fease and * remedy to prolong life.

15  nHe that sinneth before his Maker,

Let him fall into the hand of the physician.

16  My son, olet tears fall down over the dead,

And begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself;

And then cover his body according to the custom,

And neglect not his burial.

17  Weep bitterly, and make great moan,

And use lamentation, as he is worthy,

And that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of:

And then comfort thyself for thy heaviness.

18  For pof heaviness cometh death,

And qthe heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.

19  In raffliction also sorrow remaineth:

And the life of the poor is the curse of the heart.

20  Take no heaviness to heart:

Drive it away, and sremember the last end.

21  Forget it not, for there is no turning again:

Thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.

22  Remember * my judgment: for thine also shall be so;

Yesterday for me, and to day for thee.

23  tWhen the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest;

And be comforted for him, when his spirit is departed from him.

24  The wisdom of a ulearned man cometh by opportunity of leisure:

And he that hath little business shall become wise.

25  How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough,

And that glorieth in the goad,

That driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours,

And whose vtalk is * of bullocks?

26  He giveth his mind to make furrows;

And is diligent to give the kine fodder.

27  So every carpenter and wworkmaster,

That laboureth night and day:

And they that cut and grave seals,

And are diligent to xmake great variety,

And ygive themselves to counterfeit imagery,

And ywatch to finish a work:

28  zThe smith also sitting by the anvil,

And considering the iron work,

The vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh,

And he fighteth with the heat of the furnace:

The noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears,

And his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh;

yHe setteth his mind to finish his work,

And ywatcheth to polish it aperfectly:

29  So doth the potter sitting at his work,

And bturning the wheel about with his feet,

Who is alway carefully set at his work,

And maketh all his work by number;

30  He fashioneth the clay with his arm,

And * boweth down his strength before his feet;

yHe applieth himself to lead it over;

And yhe is diligent to make clean the furnace:

31  All these trust to their hands:

And every one is wise in his work.

32  Without these cannot a city be inhabited:

And they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down:

33  They shall not be sought for in publick counsel,

Nor sit high in the congregation:

They shall not sit on the judges’ seat,

Nor understand the sentence of judgment:

They cannot declare justice and judgment;

And cthey shall not be found where parables are spoken.

34  But they will maintain the state of the world,

And all their desire is in the work of their craft.