Of these things be not ashamed,

2 Of the law of the Most High, and his covenant;

3 Of reckoning with a partner and with travelers;

4 Of exactness of balance and weights;

5 Of indifferent selling of merchants;

6 Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is;

7 Whatsoever thou handest over, let it be by number and weight;

8 Be not ashamed to instruct the unwise and foolish,

9 A daughter is a secret cause of wakefulness to a father;

10 In her virginity, lest she should be defiled

11 Keep a strict watch over a headstrong daughter,

12 Look not upon every body in regard of beauty,

13 For from garments cometh a moth,

14 Better is the wickedness of a man than a pleasant-dealing woman,

15 I will make mention now of the works of the Lord,

16 The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things;

17 The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvelous works;

18 He searcheth out the deep, and the heart,

19 Declaring the things that are past, and the things that shall be,

20 No thought escapeth him;

21 The mighty works of his wisdom he hath ordered,

22 How desirable are all his works!

23 All these things live and remain forever in all manner of uses,

24 All things are double one against another:

25 One thing establisheth the good things of another: