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Sirach 11:28-30
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Sirach 11:28-30
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
28 Call no one happy before his death;
by how he ends, a person becomes known.[a]
Care in Choosing Friends
29 Do not invite everyone into your home,
for many are the tricks of the crafty.
30 Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the mind of the proud,
and like spies they observe your weakness;[b]
Footnotes
- Sirach 11:28 Heb: Gk and through his children a person becomes known
- Sirach 11:30 Heb: Gk downfall
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
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