Ben Sira 42:7

7 Deliver all things by number and weight, and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.

Ben Sira 42:7 In-Context

5 and of merchants' selling without profit, of much correction of children, and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.

6 Safekeeping is good where an evil wife is, and shut up where many hands are.

7 Deliver all things by 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 extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young; thus shalt thou be truly learned, and approved by all men living.

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