Ecclesiasticus 38:26

Ecclesiasticus 38:26 Context

²⁴The wisedome of a learned man cōmeth by opportunitie of leasure: & he that hath litle busines shal become wise. ²⁵How can he get wisdome that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driueth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talke is of bullocks? ²⁶He giueth his minde to make furrowes: and is diligent to giue the kine fodder. ²⁷So euery carpenter, and workemaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and graue seales, and are diligent to make great variety, and giue themselues to counterfait imagerie, and watch to finish a worke. ²⁸The smith also sitting by the anuill, & considering the iron worke; the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer & the anuill is euer in his eares, and his eies looke still vpon the patterne of the thing that he maketh, he setteth his mind to finish his worke, & watcheth to polish it perfitly.

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