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Sirach 32:9-11
Wycliffe Bible
Sirach 32:9-11
Wycliffe Bible
9 And presume thou not to speak in the midst of great men; and where eld men be, speak thou not much. [To speak in the middle of great men not before take thou; and where be old men, not much speak thou.]
10 Lightning shall go before hail, and grace shall go before shamefastness, and good grace shall come to thee for reverence. [Before hail shall go lightning, and before shamefastness shall go grace, and for reverence shall fall to thee good grace.]
11 And in the hour of rising, trifle thee not, that is, make thee no tarrying in arraying, either trifling of hairs, as women do; forsooth run thou before first into thine house, and there call thou thee to answer [or and there be thou called to], and there play thou.
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