14. For they also shall beseech the Lord, That he may prosper them in giving relief and in healing for the maintenance of life.
15. He that sins before his Maker, Let him fall into the hands of the physician.
16. My son, let your tears fall over the dead, And as one that suffers grievously begin lamentation; And wind up his body according to his due, And neglect not his burial.
17. Make bitter weeping, and make passionate wailing, And let your mourning be according to his desert, For one day or two, lest you be evil spoken of: And so be comforted for your sorrow.
18. For of sorrow comes death, And sorrow of heart will bow down the strength.
19. In calamity sorrow also remains: And the poor man’s life is grievous to the heart.
20. Give not your heart to sorrow: Put it away, remembering the last end:
21. Forget it not, for there is no returning again: Him you shall not profit, and you will hurt yourself.
22. Remember the sentence upon him; for so also shall your be; Yesterday for me, and today for you.
23. When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; And be comforted for him, when his spirit departs from him.
24. The wisdom of the scribe comes by opportunity of leisure; And he that has little business shall become wise.
25. How shall he become wise that holds the plow, That glories in the shaft of the goad, That drives oxen, and is occupied in their labors, And whose discourse is of the stock of bulls?
26. He will set his heart upon turning his furrows; And his wakefulness is to give his heifers their fodder.
27. So is every artificer and workmaster, That passes his time by night as by day; They that cut gravings of signets, And his diligence is to make great variety; He will set his heart to preserve likeness in his portraiture, And will be wakeful to finish his work.
28. So is the smith sitting by the anvil, And considering the unwrought iron: The vapor of the fire will waste his flesh; And in the heat of the furnace will he wrestle with his work: The noise of the hammer will be ever in his ear, And his eyes are upon the pattern of the vessel; He will set his heart upon perfecting his works, And And he will be wakeful to adorn them perfectly.