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13 Wise people make themselves
dearly loved by means of words,[a]
    but fools pour out gifts.
14 Gifts from senseless people
won’t profit you,[b]
    because they look for a lot
    rather than a little in return.[c]
15 They will give a little and reproach a lot,
    and they will open their mouths
    like a town crier.
    Today they will lend
    and tomorrow ask for it back;
    such people are hateful.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 20:13 Heb a few things
  2. Sirach 20:14 LXXb adds and neither will the gift of a grudging person who’s forced to give.
  3. Sirach 20:14 LXX for their eyes are many rather than one

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