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Sirach 38:29 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Sirach 38:29

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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.

30 He will fashion the clay with his arm and will bend its strength in front of his feet. He will apply his heart to finish the glazing. He will be careful to clean the kiln.

31 All these put their trust in their hands. Each becomes skillful in his own work.

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Wisdom 15:7

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"For a potter, kneading soft earth, laboriously molds each article for our service. He fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort, all in like manner. What shall be the use of each article of either sort, the potter is the judge."

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Jeremiah 18:3

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"Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels."

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Isaiah 45:9

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"Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?"

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Sirach 33:13

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"As the clay of the potter in his hand, all his ways are according to his good pleasure, so men are in the hand of him who made them, to give to them according to his judgment."

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Romans 9:21

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"Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?"

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Isaiah 30:14

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"He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”"

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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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