11:13. Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have wondered at him, and have glorified God. 11:14. Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God. 11:15. Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with God. Love and the ways of good things are with him. 11:16. Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory in evil things, grow old in evil. 11:17. The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall have success for ever. 11:18. There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is the portion of his reward. 11:19. In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my goods alone: 11:20. And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death approacheth, and that he must leave all to others, and shall die. 11:21. Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and grow old in the work of thy commandments. 11:22. Abide not in the works of sinners. But trust in God, and stay in thy place, 11:23. For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor man rich. 11:24. The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a swift hour his blessing beareth fruit. 11:25. Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this? 11:26. Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this? 11:27. In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things: 11:28. For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways. 11:29. The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works. 11:30. Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children. 11:31. Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful. 11:32. For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour. 11:33. For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot. 11:34. Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood. 11:35. Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever. 11:36. Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own. Ecclesiasticus Chapter 12 We are to be liberal to the just: and not to trust the wicked. 12:1. If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds. 12:2. Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly of the Lord.