Ecclesiasticus 4:6-11 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the bitterness of his soul, shall be heard, for he that made him will hear him.

7. Make thyself affable to the congregation of the poor, and humble thy soul to the ancient, and bow thy head to a great man.

8. Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest, and answer him peaceable words with mildness.

9. Deliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and be not fainthearted in thy soul.

10. In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a husband to their mother.

11. And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he will have mercy on thee more than a mother.

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