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Sirach 38:27 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" So is every craftsman and master artisan who passes his time by night as by day, those who cut engravings of signets. His diligence is to make great variety. He sets his heart to preserve likeness in his portraiture, and is careful to finish his work. "

Sirach 38:27

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25 How could he become wise who holds the plow, who glories in the shaft of the goad, who drives oxen and is occupied in their labors, and who mostly talks about bulls?

26 He will set his heart upon turning his furrows. His lack of sleep is to give his heifers their fodder.

27 So is every craftsman and master artisan who passes his time by night as by day, those who cut engravings of signets. His diligence is to make great variety. He sets his heart to preserve likeness in his portraiture, and is careful to finish his work.

28 So too is the smith sitting by the anvil and considering the unwrought iron. The smoke of the fire will waste his flesh. He toils in the heat of the furnace. The noise of the hammer deafens his ear. His eyes are upon the pattern of the object. He will set his heart upon perfecting his works. He will be careful to adorn them perfectly.

29 So is the potter sitting at his work and turning the wheel around with his feet, who is always anxiously set at his work. He produces his handiwork in quantity.

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Exodus 35:35

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"He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works."

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Isaiah 41:7

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"So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter."

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Wisdom 15:9

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"However he has anxious care, not because his powers must fail, nor because his span of life is short; But he compares himself with goldsmiths and silversmiths, and he imitates molders in brass, and considers it great that he molds counterfeit gods."

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Wisdom 13:13

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"Taking a discarded scrap which served no purpose, a crooked piece of wood and full of knots, he carves it with the diligence of his idleness, and shapes it by the skill of his idleness. He shapes it in the image of a man,"

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Psalms 33:15

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"he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works."

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Exodus 35:33

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"in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship."

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Sirach 38:1

"Honor a physician according to your need with the honors due to him, for truly the Lord has created him."

Sirach 38:2

"For healing comes from the Most High, and he shall receive a gift from the king."

Sirach 38:3

"The skill of the physician will lift up his head. He will be admired in the sight of great men."

Sirach 38:4

"The Lord created medicines out of the earth. A prudent man will not despise them."

Sirach 38:5

"Wasn’t water made sweet with wood, that its power might be known?"

Sirach 38:6

"He gave men skill that he might be glorified in his marvelous works."

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