Jesus ben Sirach
c. 220–c. 175 BCE · Ancient Israel
“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.”
Famous Quotes
“He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him.”
“A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear the Lord shall find him.”
“And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.”
“To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and it was created with the faithful in the womb.”
About Jesus ben Sirach
Jewish scribe and sage in Jerusalem whose wisdom book, known as Ecclesiasticus or Sirach, is one of the longest in the Apocrypha. One of the few biblical authors whose name and approximate dates are known from the text itself.