1<\/sup>Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his marvellous works.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>With such doth he heal [men,] and taketh away their pains.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>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,<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour; and make a fat offering, as not being.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>There is a time when in their hands there is good success.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poor is the curse of the heart.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the last end.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so; yesterday for me, and to day for thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his Spirit is departed from him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>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?<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>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:<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>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:<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>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;<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>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:<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his work.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down:<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>But they will maintain the state of the world, and [all] their desire is in the work of their craft.<\/span> <\/p>\n