1<\/sup>O DEATH, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>O death, thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience!<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>For among the dead there is no accusing of life.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Better is the man that hideth his folly, then the man that hideth his wisdom.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking:<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>Turn not sway thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not.<\/span> <\/p>\n