Ecclesiasticus 41:18-27 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

18. Better is the man that hideth his folly, then the man that hideth his wisdom.

19. Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.

20. For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.

21. Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:

22. Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:

23. Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,

24. Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking:

25. Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.

26. Turn not sway thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.

27. Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.

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