Author Topic: Those Who Are Worthy of Praise (Read 785 times)

Lorenzo · « **on:** June 02, 2008, 10:52:41 AM »

With three things I am delighted,
for they are pleasing to the Lord and to men:
Harmony among brethren, friendship among neighbors and mutual love of husband and wife.

Three things of men I hate;
their manner of life I loath indeed:
a proud pauper, a rich dissembler, and an old man lecherous in his dotage.

What you have not saved in your youth,
how will you acquire in your old age?
How becoming to the gray-haired is judgment,
and knowledge of counsel to those on in years!

How becoming to the aged is wisdom,
understanding and prudence to the venerable!

The crown of old men is wide experience; their glory, the fear of the Lord!

There are NINE who come to my mind as blessed,
a tenth whom my tongue proclaims:
The Man who finds joy in his children, and he who lives to see his enemies' downfall.
Happy is he who dwells with a sensible wife, and he who plows not like a donkey yoked with an ox.
Happy is he who sins not with his tongue, and he who serves not his inferior.
Happy is he who finds a friend and he who speaks to attentive ears.
He who finds wisdom is great indeed,

BUT not greater than he who fears the Lord.

Fear of the Lord surpasses all else,
its possessor is beyond compare.

-Sirach 25: 1-11

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Author Topic: Those Who Are Worthy of Praise (Read 785 times)

Lorenzo

Those Who Are Worthy of Praise