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Sirach 19:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Sirach 19:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 for someone may have heard you and watched you
and in time will hate you.
10 Have you heard something? Let it die with you.
Be brave; it will not make you burst!(A)
11 Having heard something, the fool suffers birth pangs
like a woman in labor with a child.
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