XLII. aOf these things be not thou ashamed,

And baccept no person to sin thereby:

2  cOf the law of the most High, and his covenant;

And of judgment to justify the ungodly;

3  * Of reckoning with thy partners and * travellers;

Or * of the gift of the heritage of friends;

4  dOf exactness of balance and weights;

Or eof getting much or little;

5  And of merchants’ * indifferent selling;

Of much fcorrection of children;

And gto make the side of an evil servant to bleed.

6  Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is;

And shut up, where many hands are.

7  hDeliver all things in number and weight;

And put all in writing that thou * givest out, or receivest in.

8  iBe not ashamed to * inform the unwise and foolish,

And kthe extreme aged * that contendeth with those that are young:

Thus shalt thou be truly learned,

And approved of all men living.

9  lThe father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth;

And the care for her taketh away sleep:

When she is young, lest she mpass away the flower of her age;

And being married, lest she should be hated;

10  In her virginity, nlest she should be defiled

And gotten with child in her father’s house;

And having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself;

And when she is married, lest she should be barren.

11  oKeep a sure watch over a shameless daughter,

Lest she make thee a laughing-stock to thine enemies,

And a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people,

And make thee ashamed before the multitude.

12  Behold not every body’s beauty,

And psit not in the midst of women.

13  For from garments cometh a moth,

And qfrom women wickedness.

14  Better is the * churlishness of a man than a rcourteous woman,

A woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

15  I will now remember the works of the Lord,

And declare the things that I have seen;

sIn the words of the Lord are his works.

16  The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things,

And the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.

17  tThe Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvellous works,

Which the uAlmighty Lord firmly settled,

That whatsoever is might be established for his glory.

18  He seeketh out the deep, and the heart,

And considereth their vcrafty devices;

For * the Lord knoweth all that may be known,

And he beholdeth wthe signs of the world.

19  xHe declareth the things that are past, and for to come,

And revealeth the steps of hidden things.

20  yNo thought escapeth him,

Neither any word is hidden from him.

21  zHe hath garnished zthe excellent works of his wisdom,

And he is from everlasting to everlasting:

aUnto him may nothing be added, neither can he be diminished,

And bhe hath no need of any counseller.

22  O how desirable are all his works!

And that a man may see even to a spark.

23  All these things live and remain for ever

For all uses, and cthey are all obedient.

24  dAll things are double one against another:

And he hath made nothing unperfect.

25  One thing establisheth the good or another:

And who shall be filled with beholding his glory?