Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 Every friend will say, I also am his friend: But there is a friend, which is only a friend in name. 2 Is there not a grief in it even to death, When a companion and friend is turned to enmity? 3 O wicked imagination, whence came you rolling in To cover the dry […]

1 Honor a physician according to your needof himwith the honors due to him: For verily the Lord has created him. 2 For from the Most High comes healing; And from the king he shall receive a gift. 3 The skill of the physician shall lift up his head; And in the sight of great […]

1 Not so he that has applied his soul, And meditateth in the law of the Most High; He will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, And will be occupied in prophecies. 2 He will keep the discourse of the men of renown, And will enter in amidst the subtilties of parables. 3 […]

1 Great travail is created for every man, And a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, From the day of their coming forth from their mother’s womb, Until the day for their burial in the mother of all things. 2 The expectation of things to come, and the day of death, Troubletheir thoughts, […]

1 O death, how bitter is the remembrance of you to a man that is at peace in his possessions, To the man that has nothing to distract him, and has prosperity in all things, And that still has strength to receive meat! 2 O death, acceptable is your sentence to a man that is […]

1 Of these things be not ashamed, And accept no man’s person to sinthereby: 2 Of the law of the Most High, and his covenant; And of judgement to do justice to the ungodly; 3 Of reckoning with a partner and with travellers; And of a gift from the heritage of friends; 4 Of exactness […]

1 The pride of the height is the firmamentin its clearness, The appearance of heaven, in the spectacle of its glory. 2 The sun when he appears, bringing tidings as he goes forth, Is a marvelous instrument, the work of the Most High: 3 At his noon he dries up the country, And who shall […]

1 Let us now praise famous men, And our fathers that became the father of us. 2 The Lordmanifestedin themgreat glory, Evenhis mighty power from the beginning. 3 Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, And were men renowned for their power, Giving counsel by their understanding, Such as have brought tidings in prophecies: […]

1 And he brought out of him a man of mercy, Which found favor in the sight of all flesh; A man beloved of God and men, even Moses, Whose memorial is blessed. 2 He made him like to the glory of the saints, And magnified him in the fears of his enemies. 3 By […]

1 Joshua the son ofNun was valiant in war, And was the successor of Moses in prophecies: Who according to his name was made great For the saving ofGod’s elect, To take vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them, That he might give Israel their inheritance. 2 How was he glorified in the […]