Sirach 22:7-8

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Wisdom and Folly

⁷He who teaches a fool is like one who glues potsherds together,
or who rouses a sleeper from deep slumber.
⁸He who tells a story to a fool tells it to a drowsy man;
and at the end he will say, “What is it?”^[a]

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Footnotes

Sirach 22:8 Other authorities add ⁹Children who are brought up in a good life, conceal the lowly birth of their parents. ¹⁰Children who are disdainfully and boorishly haughty stain the nobility of their kindred.

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