Sir 38:1 

Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses 

which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. 

Sir 38:2 

For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive 

honour of the king. 

Sir 38:3 

The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the 

sight of great men he shall be in admiration. 

Sir 38:4 

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that 

is wise will not abhor them. 

Sir 38:5 

Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue 

thereof might be known? 

Sir 38:6 

And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his 

marvellous works. 

Sir 38:7 

With such doth he heal [men,] and taketh away their pains. 

Sir 38:8 

Of such doth the apothecary make a confection; and of his 

works there is no end; and from him is peace over all the earth, 

Sir 38:9 

My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the 

Lord, and he will make thee whole. 

Sir 38:10 

Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse 

thy heart from all wickedness. 

Sir 38:11 

Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour; and make a 

fat offering, as not being. 

Sir 38:12 

Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created 

him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him. 

Sir 38:13 

There is a time when in their hands there is good success. 

Sir 38:14 

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

that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life. 

Sir 38:15 

He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand 

of the physician. 

Sir 38:16 

My son, let 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. 

Sir 38:17 

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. 

Sir 38:18 

For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart 

breaketh strength. 

Sir 38:19 

In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poor 

is the curse of the heart. 

Sir 38:20 

Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the 

last end. 

Sir 38:21 

Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not 

do him good, but hurt thyself. 

Sir 38:22 

Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so; yesterday 

for me, and to day for thee. 

Sir 38:23 

When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be 

comforted for him, when his Spirit is departed from him. 

Sir 38:24 

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: 

and he that hath little business shall become wise. 

Sir 38:25 

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 talk is of bullocks? 

Sir 38:26 

He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give 

the kine fodder. 

Sir 38:27 

So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboureth night and 

day: and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make 

great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and 

watch to finish a work: 

Sir 38:28 

The 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; he setteth his mind to 

finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly: 

Sir 38:29 

So doth the potter sitting at his work, and turning the wheel 

about with his feet, who is alway carefully set at his work, and 

maketh all his work by number; 

Sir 38:30 

He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his 

strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; 

and he is diligent to make clean the furnace: 

Sir 38:31 

All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his 

work. 

Sir 38:32 

Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not 

dwell where they will, nor go up and down: 

Sir 38:33 

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 they shall not be found where parables are 

spoken. 

Sir 38:34 

But they will maintain the state of the world, and [all] 

their desire is in the work of their craft.