Sirach 42:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.

⁸ Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged I by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living.

⁹ The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful: