Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiasticus 29:22-26 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

22. A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake him.

23. Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.

24. It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries.

25. A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall fall into judgment.

26. Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to thyself that thou fall not.