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Chapter 51 27 Behold with your eyes, how that I have but little labour, and have gotten unto me much rest.28 Get learning with a great sum of money, and get much gold by her.29 Let your soul rejoice in his mercy, and be not ashamed of his praise.30 Work your work betimes, and in his time he will give you your reward.
The Wisdom of Sirach is a collection of ethical teachings. Thus Ecclesiasticus closely resembles Proverbs, except that, unlike the latter, it is presented as the work of a single author, not an anthology of maxims drawn from various sources, presented in verse form. The question of which apothegms actually originated with Sirach is open to debate, although scholars tend to regard him as a compiler or anthologist.
The teachings are applicable to all conditions of life: to parents and children, to husbands and wives, to the young, to masters, to friends, to the rich, and to the poor. Many of them are rules of courtesy and politeness; and a still greater number contain advice and instruction as to the duties of man toward himself and others, especially the poor, as well as toward society and the state, and most of all toward God.
Psalms
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, no...
Book of Sirach
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Jeremiah
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in...
Acts
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus bega...