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Self-controlz[a]

30 Don’t go after your desires,
    and restrain yourself
    from your appetites.
31 If you cater to your desires,
    you will become a laughingstock
    to your enemies.
32 Don’t be glad for great luxury,
    and don’t be made needy
    by an encounter with it.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 18:30 The title appears in Gk manuscripts.

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