Sirach 38:10–18
10Put away wrong doing, and direct your hands in righteousness. Cleanse your heart from all sin.↗
11Give a sweet savor and a memorial of fine flour, and pour oil on your offering, according to your means.↗
12Then give place to the physician, for truly the Lord has created him. Don’t let him leave you, for you need him.↗
13There is a time when recovery is in their hands.↗
14For they also shall ask the Lord to prosper them in diagnosis and in healing for the maintenance of life.↗
15He who sins before his Maker, let him fall into the hands of the physician.↗
16My son, let your tears fall over the dead, and as one who suffers grievously, begin lamentation. Wind up his body with due honor. Don’t neglect his burial.↗
17Make bitter weeping and make passionate wailing. Let your mourning be according to his merit, for one day or two, lest you be spoken evil of; and so be comforted for your sorrow.↗
18For from sorrow comes death. Sorrow of heart saps one’s strength.↗
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