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Ben Sira 19:19-20
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

How to Recognize True Wisdom[a]

20 All wisdom is fear of the Lord;
    and in all wisdom, the observance of the Law.[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 19:20–30 True wisdom is contrasted with a dishonest shrewdness.
  2. 19:20

    Other ancient texts read as v. 21:

    The slave who says to his master, “What pleases you I will not do”—

    even if he does it later, provokes the one who feeds him.

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