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| [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. |
[1]Honour the phisition, honour him with that honour that is due vnto him, because of necessitie: for God hath created him. |
| [2]For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. |
[2]For of the highest commeth medicine, and he shall receaue giftes of the king. |
| [3]The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration. |
[3]The wysdome of the phisition bringeth him to great worship, and in the sight of the great men of this worlde he shalbe honourably taken. |
| [4]The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. |
[4]The Lorde hath created medicine of the earth: and he that is wyse, wyll not abhorre it. |
| [5]Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? |
[5]Was not the bitter water made sweete with a tree, that men might learne to knowe the vertue thereof. |
| [6]And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his marvellous works. |
[6]The Lord hath geuen men wysdome and vnderstanding, that he might be honoured in his wonderous workes. |
| [7]With such doth he heal [men,] and taketh away their pains. |
[7]With such doth he heale men, and taketh away their paynes: |
| [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, |
[8]Of such doth the pothecarie make a confection, yet can no man perfourme al his workes: for of the Lorde commeth prosperous wealth ouer all the earth. |
| [9]My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole. |
[9]My sonne, despise not this in thy sickenes: but pray vnto the Lorde, and he shall make thee whole. |
| [10]Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness. |
[10]Leaue of from sinne, and order thy handes a right, clense thyne heart from all wickednesse. |
| [11]Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour; and make a fat offering, as not being. |
[11]Geue a sweete sauoured offering, and the fine floure for a token of remembraunce: make the offering fat, as one that geueth the first fruites, |
| [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. |
[12]And geue roome to the phisition, for the Lorde hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast neede of him. |
| [13]There is a time when in their hands there is good success. |
[13]The houre may come, that the sicke may be helped through them, |
| [14]For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life. |
[14]When they pray vnto the Lorde, that he may recouer and get health to lyue longer. |
| [15]He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician. |
[15]He that sinneth before his maker, shall fall into the handes of the phisition. |
| [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. |
[16]My sonne, bring foorth thy teares ouer the dead, and beginne to mourne as if thou haddest suffered great harme thy selfe: and then couer his body after a conuenient maner, and despise not his buriall. |
| [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. |
[17]Enforce thy selfe to weepe, & prouoke thy selfe to mourne, and make lamentation expediently, and be earnest in mourning, and vse lamentation as he is worthie, and that a day or two, lest thou be euill spoken of: and then comfort thy selfe, because of the heauines. |
| [18]For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength. |
[18]For of heauines commeth death, the heauines of the heart breaketh stregth. |
| [19]In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poor is the curse of the heart. |
[19]Heauines and pouertie, greeueth the heart in temptation and offence. |
| [20]Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the last end. |
[20]Take no heauines to heart, driue it away, and remember the last thinges. |
| [21]Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself. |
[21]Forget it not, for there is no turning againe, thou shalt do him no good, but hurt thy selfe. |
| [22]Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so; yesterday for me, and to day for thee. |
[22]Remember his iudgement, thyne also shalbe lykewyse: vnto me yesterday, vnto thee to day. |
| [23]When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his Spirit is departed from him. |
[23]Let the remembraunce of the dead ceasse in his rest, & comfort thee againe ouer him, seing his spirite is departed from him. |
| [24]The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. |
[24]The wysdome of the scribe is at conuenient time of rest: and he that ceasseth from exercises and labour, shalbe wyse. |
| [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? |
[25]How can he get wysdome that holdeth the plough, and he that hath pleasure in the goade and in driuing the oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and his talke is but of the breeding of bullockes? |
| [26]He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder. |
[26]He setteth his heart to make forowes, and is diligent to geue the kine fodder. |
| [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: |
[27]So is euery carpenter also and workmaister, that laboureth still night and day: he carueth, graueth, cutteth out, & his desire is insundry cunning thinges, his heart imagineth how he may cunningly cast an image, his diligence also and watching perfourmeth the worke. |
| [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: |
[28]The iron smith in lyke maner bydeth by his stithie, and doth his diligence to labour the iron: the vapour of the fyre brenneth his fleshe, and he must fight with the heate of the fornace: the noyse of the hammer euer soundeth in his eares, and his eyes loke still vpon the thing that he maketh: he hath set his minde thereupon that he wyll make out his worke, & therefore he watcheth how he may set it out, and bring it to an ende. |
| [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; |
[29]So doth the potter set by his worke: he turneth the wheele about with his feete, he is diligent and carefull in all doinges, and maketh his worke in number. |
| [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: |
[30]He fashioneth the clay with his arme, and with his feete he tempereth it: his heart imagineth howe he may make it pleasaunt, and his diligence is to clense the ouen. |
| [31]All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his work. |
[31]All these hope in their handes, & euery one thinketh to be cunning in his worke. |
| [32]Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down: |
[32]Without these may not the cities be mayntayned, inhabited, nor occupied: |
| [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. |
[33]Yet come they not hye in the congregation, neither sit they vpon the iudgement seates: they vnderstand not the couenaunt of the lawe, they can not declare equitie and iudgement, they can not finde out the darke sentences. |
| [34]But they will maintain the state of the world, and [all] their desire is in the work of their craft. |
[34]But through them shall the creature of the worlde be maintayned, their desire concerneth onely the worke and labour of cunning. |