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Concerning Physicians and Health

38Honour 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 marvellous works.
⁷ By them the physician^* heals and takes away pain;
⁸   the pharmacist makes a mixture from them.
God’s^* works will never be finished;
   and from him health^* spreads over all the earth.