16:27. He beautified their works for ever, they have neither hungered, nor laboured, and they have not ceased from their works.
16:28. Nor shall any of them straiten his neighbour at any time.
16:29. Be not thou incredulous to his word.
16:30. After this God looked upon the earth, and filled it with his goods.
16:31. The soul of every living thing hath shewn forth before the face thereof, and into it they return again.
Shewn forth.... Viz., the glory and power of God upon the earth.
Ecclesiasticus Chapter 17
The creation and favour of God to man. An exhortation to turn to God.
17:1. God created man of the earth, and made him after his own image.
17:2. And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength according to himself.