Fathers & daughters.  Sir.42.9-14

⁹A daughter keeps her father secretly wakeful,
and worry over her robs him of sleep;
when she is young, lest she do not marry,
or if married, lest she be hated;
¹⁰while a virgin, lest she be defiled
or become pregnant in her father's house;
or having a husband, lest she prove unfaithful,
or, though married, lest she be barren.
¹¹Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter,
lest she make you a laughingstock to your enemies,
a byword in the city and notorious among the people,
and put you to shame before the great multitude.
¹²Do not look upon any one for beauty,
and do not sit in the midst of women;
¹³for from garments comes the moth,
and from a woman comes woman's wickedness.
¹⁴Better is the wickedness of a man than a woman who does good;
and it is a woman who brings shame and disgrace.

The glory of God in nature.  Sir.42.15-43.33

¹⁵I will now call to mind the works of the Lord,
and will declare what I have seen.
By the words of the Lord his works are done.
¹⁶The sun looks down on everything with its light,
and the work of the Lord is full of his glory.
¹⁷The Lord has not enabled his holy ones
to recount all his marvelous works,
which the Lord the Almighty has established
that the universe may stand firm in his glory.
¹⁸He searches out the abyss, and the hearts of men,
and considers their crafty devices.
For the Most High knows all that may be known,
and he looks into the signs of the age.
¹⁹He declares what has been and what is to be,
and he reveals the tracks of hidden things.
²⁰No thought escapes him,
and not one word is hidden from him.
²¹He has ordained the splendours of his wisdom,
and he is from everlasting and to everlasting.
Nothing can be added or taken away,
and he needs no one to be his counselor.
²²How greatly to be desired are all his works,
and how sparkling they are to see!
²³All these things live and remain for ever
for every need, and are all obedient.
²⁴All things are twofold, one opposite the other,
and he has made nothing incomplete.
²⁵One confirms the good things of the other,
and who can have enough of beholding his glory?