Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiasticus 32:4-11 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

4. Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee,

5. To speak the first word with care knowledge, and hinder not music.

6. Where there is no hearing, pour out words, and be not lifted up out season with thy wisdom.

7. A concert of music in a banquet wine is as a carbuncle set in gold.

8. As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.

9. Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.

10. Young man, scarcely speak in thy own cause.

11. If thou be asked twice, let thy answer be short.