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¹ My son, defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.

² Make not an hungry soul sorrowful; neither provoke a man in his distress.

³ Add not more trouble to an heart that is vexed; and defer not to give to him that is in need.

⁴ Reject not the supplication of the afflicted; neither turn away thy face from a poor man.

⁵ Turn not away thine eye from the needy, and give him none occasion to curse thee:

⁶ For if he curse thee in the bitterness of his soul, his prayer shall be heard of him that made him.

⁷ Get thyself the love of the congregation, and bow thy head to a great man.

⁸ Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, and give him a friendly answer with meekness.

⁹ Deliver him that suffereth wrong from the hand of the oppressor; and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgment.

¹⁰ Be as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of an husband unto their mother: so shalt thou be as the son of the most High, and he shall love thee more than thy mother doth.

¹¹ Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.

¹² He that loveth her loveth life; and they that seek to her early shall be filled with joy.

¹³ He that holdeth her fast shall inherit glory; and wheresoever she entereth, the Lord will bless.

¹⁴ They that serve her shall minister to the Holy One: and them that love her the Lord doth love.

¹⁵ Whoso giveth ear unto her shall judge the nations: and he that attendeth unto her shall dwell securely.

¹⁶ If a man commit himself unto her, he shall inherit her; and his generation shall hold her in possession.

¹⁷ For at the first she will walk with him by crooked ways, and bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her laws.

¹⁸ Then will she return the straight way unto him, and comfort him, and shew him her secrets.

¹⁹ But if he go wrong, she will forsake him, and give him over to his own ruin.

²⁰ Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil; and be not ashamed when it concerneth thy soul.

²¹ For there is a shame that bringeth sin; and there is a shame which is glory and grace.

²² Accept no person against thy soul, and let not the reverence of any man cause thee to fall.

²³ And refrain not to speak, when there is occasion to do good, and hide not thy wisdom in her beauty.

²⁴ For by speech wisdom shall be known: and learning by the word of the tongue.

²⁵ In no wise speak against the truth; but be abashed of the error of thine ignorance.

²⁶ Be not ashamed to confess thy sins; and force not the course of the river.

²⁷ Make not thyself an underling to a foolish man; neither accept the person of the mighty.

²⁸ Strive for the truth unto death, and the Lord shall fight for thee.

²⁹ Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds slack and remiss.

³⁰ Be not as a lion in thy house, nor frantick among thy servants.

³¹ Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldest repay.

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T Levis's Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4 comment on 1/06/2023, 7:17am...

It brings me GODly fear

As we see the numbers of precious people falling into more poverty than we ourselves are increasing in number all around in cities & countries, it's powerful to think GOD does not overlook a single poor person nor does he overlook our actions towards them. Matthew 25:31-46

Gerald's Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4 comment on 12/21/2022, 5:01am...

The Spirit of wisdom is the Holy Spirit .

Who was in the beginning and mentioned in Genesis chapter 1.

It is of no profit to anyone to take one verse and build a mountain upon it .

For if you try and reason all of scripture by the one verse you will fall into error .

But rather we are to see one verse in the light of all the scriptures .

The devil tempted eve by giving only half truth ,land adding to the Word of God;"not" and thus changed the truth into a lie .

" thou shalt not surely die"

The devil tempting Jesus in the wilderness took also the scriptures and left stuff out or out of context .Thus the devil uses the scriptures to tempt the people of God .

Which is why God in his infinite wisdom has given not on,y the body of truth ,the scriptures but also the Spirit of truth to " lead us into all truth ".

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of wisdom ,the Spirit of truth . The Spirit of Christ , The fear of God , and three other. "The seven spirits of God " Not that God has seven Spirits . But even as the 7 branched oil lamp in the tabernacle was made of one piece of gold and having seven branches it was nevertheless one .

When he Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost , " IT" meaning one , fell on them all as separate flames as of tongues.

Not that the Holy Spirit is an ' it' or impersonal something or other . For all of scripture teaches that He is a Person and one of The Trinity of God three or persons but ONE God .

We do not need additions to the Holy Bible nor indeed do we need others who have added ,subtracted and mistranslated .

For the scriptures teach " The Word of God is the seed "

A seed has this characteristic . It is not the tree or the fruit . But it does have everything that is needed and nothing that is not needed to reproduce the fruit .

You can indeed mix a horse with a donkey and you will get a mule . But a mule cannot reproduce itself .

You can indeed mix truth with error and you will get something . But it too will produce not

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