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Sirach 2:4-6
Common English Bible
Sirach 2:4-6
Common English Bible
4 Accept whatever happens to you,
and be patient
when you suffer humiliation,
5 because gold is tested with fire,
and acceptable people are tested
in the furnace of humiliation.[a]
6 Trust him, and he will help you;
make your ways straight,
and hope in him.
Footnotes
- Sirach 2:5 b adds to 2:5 In sickness and in poverty trust in him.
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