38 Honour a physician according to your need with the honours due to him,

for truly the master has created him.

2 Because healing comes from the Most High,

and he shall receive a gift from the king.

3 The skill of the physician will lift up his head.

He will be admired in the sight of great men.

4 The master created medicines out of the earth.

A prudent man will not despise them.

5 Wasn’t water made sweet with wood,

that its power might be known?

6 He gave men skill

that he might be glorified in his marvellous works.

7 With them he heals

and takes away pain.

8 With these, the pharmacist makes a mixture.

God’s works won’t be brought to an end.

From him, peace is upon the face of the earth.

9 My son, in your sickness don’t be negligent,

but pray to the master, and he will heal you.

10 Put away wrong doing, and direct your hands in righteousness.

Cleanse your heart from all sin.

11 Give a sweet savour and a memorial of fine flour,

and pour oil on your offering, according to your means.

12 Then give place to the physician, for truly the master has created him.

Don’t let him leave you, for you need him.

13 There is a time when in recovery is in their hands.

14 Because they also shall ask the master

to prosper them in diagnosis and in healing for the maintenance of life.

15 He who sins before his Maker,

let him fall into the hands of the physician.