Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiasticus 41:16-20 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

16. A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever.

17. My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?

18. Better is the man that hideth his folly, then the man that hideth his wisdom.

19. Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.

20. For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.