Ben Sira 51:26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
26 Take her yoke upon your neck;
that your mind may receive her teaching.
For she is close to those who seek her,
and the one who is in earnest finds her.(A)
Jeremiah 6:16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 Thus says the Lord:
Stand by the earliest roads,
ask the pathways of old,[a]
“Which is the way to good?” and walk it;
thus you will find rest for yourselves.
But they said, “We will not walk it.”(A)
Footnotes
- 6:16 Pathways of old: history and the lessons to be learned from it.
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