Ecclesiasticus 38:18

Ecclesiasticus 38:18 Context

¹⁶My sonne, let teares fall downe ouer the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harme thy selfe: and then couer his body according to the custome, & neglect not his buriall. ¹⁷Weepe bitterly, and make great moane, and vse lamentation, as hee is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be euill spoken of: and then comfort thy selfe for thy heauinesse. ¹⁸For of heauinesse commeth death, and the heauinesse of the heart, breaketh strength. ¹⁹In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poore, is the curse of the heart. ²⁰Take no heauines to heart: driue it away, and remember the last end.

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