Ben Sira 38:1-6

1 Honor physicians for their services, for the Lord created them;

2 for their gift of healing comes from the Most High, and they are rewarded by the king.

3 The skill of physicians makes them distinguished, and in the presence of the great they are admired.

4 The Lord created medicines out of the earth, and the sensible will not despise them.

5 Was not water made sweet with a tree in order that its power might be known?

6 And he gave skill to human beings that he might be glorified in his marvelous works.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or [his]
• [b]. Or [they]