Sirach 15:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹Praise is unseemly on the lips of a sinner,
for it has not been sent from the Lord.
¹⁰For in wisdom must praise be uttered,
and the Lord will make it prosper.

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¹¹Do not say, “It was the Lord’s doing that I fell away”;
for he does not do^[a] what he hates.

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Sirach 15:11 Heb: Gk you ought not to do

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