Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiasticus 22:5-12 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

5. She that is bold shameth both her father and husband, and will not be inferior to the ungodly: and shall be disgraced by them both.

6. A tale out of time is like music in mourning: but the stripes and instruction of wisdom are never out of time.

7. He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd together.

8. He that telleth a word to him that heareth not, is like one that waketh a man out of a deep sleep.

9. He speaketh with one that is asleep, who uttereth wisdom to a fool: and in the end of the discourse he saith: Who is this?

10. Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding faileth.

11. Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest.

12. For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.