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and do not become an enemy instead of a friend;
for a bad name incurs shame and reproach:
    so fares the double-tongued sinner.

Do not exalt yourself through your soul’s counsel,
    lest your soul be torn in pieces like a bull.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 6:2 The meaning of the Greek of this verse is obscure

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