Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiasticus 26:15-21 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

15. She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail.

16. The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones.

17. Her discipline is the gift of God.

18. Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much worth as a well instructed soul.

19. A holy and shamefaced woman is grace upon grace.

20. And no price is worthy of a continent soul.

21. As the sun when it riseth to the world in the high places of God, so is the beauty of a good wife for the ornament of her house.