5:2. Follow not in thy strength the desires of thy heart: 5:3. And say not: How mighty am I? and who shall bring me under for my deeds? for God will surely take revenge. 5:4. Say not: I have sinned, and what harm hath befallen me? for the most High is a patient rewarder. 5:5. Be not without fear about sin forgiven, and add not sin upon sin: 5:6. And say not: The mercy of the Lord is great, he will have mercy on the multitude of my sins. 5:7. For mercy and wrath quickly come from him, and his wrath looketh upon sinners. 5:8. Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and defer it not from day to day. 5:9. For his wrath shall come on a sudden, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy thee. 5:10. Be not anxious for goods unjustly gotten: for they shall not profit thee in the day of calamity and revenge. 5:11. Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way: for so is every sinner proved by a double tongue. 5:12. Be steadfast in the way of the Lord, and in the truth of thy judgment, and in knowledge, and let the word of peace and justice keep with thee. 5:13. Be meek to hear the word, that thou mayst understand: and return a true answer with wisdom. 5:14. If thou have understanding, answer thy neighbour: but if not, let thy hand be upon thy mouth, lest thou be surprised in an unskilful word, and be confounded. 5:15. Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his ruin. 5:16. Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded. 5:17. For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and enmity, and reproach. 5:18. Justify alike the small and the great. Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6 Of true and false friends: and of the of the fruits of wisdom. 6:1. Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious and double tongued. 6:2. Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly, 6:3. And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness. 6:4. For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked. 6:5. A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth. 6:6. Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor. 6:7. If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily. 6:8. For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble. 6:9. And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches. 6:10. And there is a friend a companion at the table, and he will not abide in the day of distress.