Chapter — Douay-Rheims
Ecclesiasticus 33
1.No evils shall happen to him that feareth the Lord, but in temptation God will keep him and deliver him from evils.
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2.A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.
3.A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law is faithful to him.
4.He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to say, and so having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he shall answer.
5.The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.
6.A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse: he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him.
7.Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun?
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8.By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his commandment.
9.And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at an hour.
10.Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.
11.With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified their ways.
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12.Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned them from their station.
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13.As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it:
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- Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Secundae, On Grace, On the Essence and Division of Grace, On Efficacious Grace, n. 12
- St. Alphonsus, True Spouse, Chapter VII: Interior Mortification, or Abnegation of Self-love—Obedience, ¶ 881
14.All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his judgment.
15.Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most High. Two and two, and one against another.
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16.And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers.
17.In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that gathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress.
18.See that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all that seek discipline.
19.Hear me, ye great men, and all ye people, and hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the church.
20.Give not to son or wife, brother or friend, power over thee while thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest thou repent, and thou entreat for the same.
21.As long as thou livest, and hast breath in thee, let no man change thee.
22.For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children.
23.In all thy works keep the pre-eminence.
24.Let no stain sully thy glory. In the time when thou shalt end the days of thy life, and in the time of thy decease, distribute thy inheritance.
25.Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slave.
26.He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.
27.The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours bow a slave.
28.Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle:
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29.For idleness hath taught much evil.
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- Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, Volume II. On the Precepts of God and of the Church, Part First. On the Precepts of the Theological Virtues, Book Third. On the Precepts of Charity, Question Second. On Charity of Self, Article Third. On the Precept of Laboring, n. 68
- McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology, Volume I, Part II. Special Moral Theology, Question I. The Duties of All Classes of Men, Art. 9. The Sins Against Beneficence, The Commandment of Love of Self, n. 1569
- Tanquerey, Volume I. On Penance, Matrimony, and Holy Orders, On Penance (Volume I), Moral Part — Chapter II: On the Confessor, n. 535
- Tanquerey, Volume II. Fundamental Moral Theology; the Virtues and Precepts, Fundamental Moral Theology (Volume II), On Sins and Vices, n. 564
- Tanquerey, Volume III. On Justice, Contracts, and the Obligations of States of Life, On the Virtue of Justice (Volume III), Part II — Chapter II: On Contracts in Particular, n. 691
- Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis, Volume I, Part I, Tract V. On Sins In General, Chapter VIII. On capital vices, Article VII. On acedia, n. 434
- Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions, VI. Questions Concerning Various Sins to Be Healed in Sacramental Confession (1935), Concerning Various Sins — To Be Healed in Sacramental Confession, Chapter III: Concerning the Capital Sins, Which Are the Cause of Other Sins, Question V: Concerning Acedia, ¶ 5257
- St. Alphonsus, True Spouse, Chapter XVI: Silence, Solitude, and the Presence of God, ¶ 2216
- Spirago, Part II. The Commandments, Vice and Virtue, Perfection, B. GOOD WORKS, VIRTUE, SIN, VICE, VIII. THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL VIRTUES AND THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL VICES, 14. THE OPPOSITE OF ZEAL: SLOTH, ¶ 4
30.Set him to work: for so it is fit for him. And if he be not obedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any one, and do no grievous thing without judgment.
31.If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou hast gotten him.
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- Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, Volume II. On the Precepts of God and of the Church, Part Second. On the Precepts of the Decalogue, Book Fourth. On the Fourth Precept of the Decalogue, Question Second. On Obligations in Domestic Society, Article Third. On the Obligations of Servants and Masters, Section 2. On the Obligations of Masters, n. 303
- Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology, Volume I, Book II. On the Exercise of the Christian Life, or on the Cultivation of the Virtues, Treatise II. On the Cultivation of the Moral Virtues, Dissertation I. On the Precepts of the Decalogue, Part IV. On the Fourth Precept of the Decalogue, Section IV. On the Duties of Household Masters and Domestic Servants, n. 719
- Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910), Third Commentary: On the Fourth Precept of the Decalogue, X. On the Obligations of Masters and Servants, n. 152
- Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology, Volume I (1914), On the Fourth Precept of the Decalogue, V. Obligations of Inferiors and Superiors, n. 693
- Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884), Volume I, Treatise On the Precepts of the Decalogue, On the Fourth Precept of the Decalogue, Chapter IV. On the Obligations of Other Superiors and Inferiors, Article I. On the Obligations of Masters and Servants, § I. On the Obligations of Masters, n. 382
- Tanquerey, Volume III. On Justice, Contracts, and the Obligations of States of Life, On the Obligations of States of Life (Volume III), Chapter I: On the Duties of Laymen, n. 985
- Koch–Preuss, Volume V: Man's Duties to His Fellowmen, Part II: Man’s Duties to his Fellow-Men as a Whole, or to Society, Chapter II: The Christian Family, Section 5: The Mutual Duties of Brothers and Sisters and Other Relatives, and of Masters and Servants, ¶ 9
- Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis, Volume II, Treatise XI. On The Virtue Of Justice And The Opposed Vices, Section II. On the Potential Parts of the Virtue of Justice, Question II. On the Virtues of Piety, Observance, and Obedience, or on the Fourth Precept of the Decalogue, Chapter II. On the Same Virtues as They Must Be Observed by Children, Parents, Etc, Article IV. On the Obligations of Masters and Servants, n. 595
- Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis, Volume II. On the Moral Virtues (1935), Special Moral Theology: On Moral Virtues, Treatise: On the Cardinal Virtue of Justice and on the Annexed Virtues, Fifth Part: On the Virtues Annexed to Justice, Section D: On Piety and Observance, Chapter I: On Piety, Question Three: On the Office of Parents Toward Children, n. 829
- Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology, Volume I (1929), Treatise VI. On the Precepts of the Decalogue, On the Fourth Precept of the Decalogue, Chapter III. On Other Obligations, Article II. On the Obligations of Masters and Servants, n. 259
32.If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away:
33.And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him.