Chapter 42

¹ Of these things be not thou ashamed,

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

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³ Of reckoning with thy partners and travelers;

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⁴ Of exactness of balance and weights;

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⁵ And of merchants’ indifferent selling;

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

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⁷ Deliver all things in number and weight;

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⁸ Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish,

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⁹ A daughter is a wakeful care to a father;

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¹⁰ In her virginity, lest she should be defiled

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¹¹ Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter,

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¹² Behold not everybody’s beauty,

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¹³ For from garments cometh a moth,

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¹⁴ Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman,

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¹⁵ I will now remember the works of the Lord,

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¹⁶ The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things,

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¹⁷ The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvelous works,

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¹⁸ He seeketh out the deep, and the heart,

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¹⁹ Declaring the things that are past, and for to come,

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²⁰ No thought escapeth him,

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²¹ He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom,

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²² Oh how desirable are all his works!

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²³ All these things live and remain forever for all uses,

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²⁴ All things are double one against another:

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²⁵ One thing establisheth the good of another:

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